REGIMENTAL     LOSSES 


IN 


THE    AMERICAN    CIVIL    WAR 


1861-1865 


A  TREATISE   ON   THE   EXTENT  AND    NATURE    OF    THE   MORTUARY   LOSSES   IN   THE 

UNION    REGIMENTS,   WITH   FULL  AND    EXHAUSTIVE   STATISTICS  COMPILED 

FROM    THE    OFFICIAL    RECORDS    ON    FILE   IN    THE    STATE 

MILITARY   BUREAUS  AND  AT  WASHINGTON. 


BY  WILLIAM   F.  FOX,  LT.  COL.,  U.  S.  V. 

PRESIDENT  OF  THE  SOCIETY  OF  THE  TWELFTH  ARMY  CORPS;    LATE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  IO7TH  N.  Y.  VKTEKAN 
VOLUNTEERS'  ASSOCIATION;   AND  MEMBER  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY. 


••• 


ALBANY,  N.  Y. 

ALBANY    PUBLISHING    COMPANY 
1889 


COPYRIGHT  BY 

WILLIAM    F.    FOX 

1889 


I 


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BRANDOW  PRINTING  COMPANY 
ALBANY,  N.  Y. 


PREFACE. 


some  it  may  appear  that  the  publication  of  a  work  like  this  belongs  properly  within  the 
province  of  the  General  Government,  and  that  a  citizen  in  private  life  should  not 
presume  to  offer  information  on  official  matters.  In  reply  it  should  be  stated  that  this  work 
is  offered  only  as  a  convenient  digest  of  official  publications  already  issued  by  the  General 
Government,  or  State  Military  Bureaus,  to  which  have  been  added  some  original  exhibits 
deduced  from  official  statistics  heretofore  published  and  unpublished. 

The  Adjutant-General's  office  at  Washington  has  been  engaged  for  several  years  on  the 
publication  of  the  Official  Records  of  the  Union  and  Confederate  Armies.  The  work  is 
admirably  done,  but  it  is  of  surprising  magnitude,  and  cannot  be  completed  for  many  years. 
It  already  fills  so  many  large  volumes  that  it  is  too  bulky  and  costly  for  the  ordinary  student. 
Then,  again,  there  are  peculiar  and  interesting  deductions  which  do  not  come  within  the  scope 
of  the  Government  work,  but  which  find  a  proper  place  within  these  pages. 

The  present  volume'  has  been  undertaken  with  the  belief  that  a  convenient  and  accurate 
summary  of  the  official  statistics  would  be  an  acceptable  addition  to  the  history  of  the  war. 
Some  details  of  minor  importance  have  been  omitted,  as  the  work  is  designed  for  the  benefit 
of  advanced  students,  and  it  is  assumed  that  the  reader  is  already  familiar  with  the  more 
important  points  in  the  history  of  the  events  alluded  to. 

There  has  been  a  dearth  of  official  information  regarding  a  certain  class  of  regimental 
statistics  which  are  essential  to  the  history  of  the  war,  and  are  of  interest,  not  only  to  the 
surviving  participants,  but  to  all  who  are  interested  in  the  story.  Regimental  affaire  are  of 
more  importance  to  the  average  soldier  than  Corps  or  Army  matters  ;  and,  so,  an  effort  has 
been  made  to  supply  within  these  pages  certain  facts  regarding  regimental  losses  which  are 
outside  the  province  of  the  Government  publications. 

It  is  with  pleasure  that  acknowledgment  is  made  of  courtesies  extended  by  the 
Adjutant-Generals  of  the  various  State  Military  Bureaus,  and  the  Adjutant-General's  office 
at  Washington.  Without  their  kindly  assistance  the  work  could  not  have  been  completed. 

No  statistics  are  given  here  that  are  not  warranted  by  the  official  records.  The  work 
represents  the  patient  and  conscientious  labor  of  years.  Days,  and  often  weeks,  have  been 
spent  on  the  figures  of  each  regiment.  It  is  hoped  that  before  disputing  any  essential  fact, 
a  like  careful  examination  of  the  records  will  be  made.  Having  done  that,  if  any  fail  to 
reconcile  facts  and  statements,  they  will  confer  a  favor  by  addressing  a  communication  on 
the  matter,  so  that  an  opportunity  may  be  afforded  to  explain  the  seeming  discrepancy,  or, 
if  an  error,  to  correct  it  in  a  subsequent  edition. 

ALBANY,  N.  Y. ,  May  1,  1888.  THE  AUTHOR. 


219121 


CONTENTS. 


CHAPTER  I. 

PA«B. 

THE  CASUALTIES  OF  WAR  —  MAXIMUM  OP  KILLED  IN  UNION  REGIMENTS -- MAXIMUM 
OF  PERCENTAGES 1 

CHAPTER  II. 

MAXIMUM  OF  REGIMENTAL  Loss  IN  KILLED,  IN  ANY  ONE  BATTLE — PROPORTION  OF 
WOUNDED  TO  KILLED 16 

CHAPTER  III. 

PERCENTAGE  OF  KILLED  IN  REGIMENTS,  IN  PARTICULAR  BATTLES  —  COMPARISON  OF 
SUCH  LOSSES  WITH  THOSE  OF  EUROPEAN  REGIMENTS 20 

CHAPTER  IV. 
Loss  IN  OFFICERS — LIST  OF  GENERALS  KILLED  —  SURGEONS  AND  CHAPLAINS  KILLED  ..      38 

CHAPTER  V. 

AGGREGATE  CASUALTIES  COMPARED  WITH  THOSE  OF  FOREIGN  WARS — Loss  IN  EACH 
ARM  OF  THE  SERVICE -- DEATHS  FROM  DISEASE — CLASSIFICATION  OF  DEATHS  BY 
CAUSES 46 

CHAPTER  VI. 

THE  COLORED  TROOPS — HISTORY  OF  THEIR  ORGANIZATION  —  THEIR  LOSSES  IN  BATTLE 

AND  BY  DISEASE 52 

CHAPTER  VII. 
MUSTER-OUT  ROLLS  —  ANTHROPOLOGICAL  STATISTICS 

CHAPTER  VIII. 

THE  CORPS  ORGANIZATIONS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES— A  HISTORY  OF  EACH.  64 


vi  CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER  IX. 

PAGE. 

FAMOUS  DIVISIONS  AND  BRIGADES - ----    H4 

CHAPTER  X. 

THREE   HUNDRED   FIGHTING   REGIMENTS  —  STATISTICS   AND    HISTORICAL   SKETCH   OF 

EACH.-.. 122 

CHAPTER  XI. 

COMPLETE  LIST  OF  BATTLES,  WITH  REGIMENTS  SUSTAINING  GREATEST  Loss  IN  EACH, 

AND  THEIR   CASUALTIES -  -  - 424 

CHAPTER  XII. 

COMPLETE  LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  AND  BATTERIES  IN  THE  UNION  ARMY,  WITH  MORTUARY 
Loss  IN  EACH-  -THE  NUMBER  KILLED  AND  THE  DEATHS  FROM  DISEASE,  OR  OTHER 
CAUSES 465 

CHAPTER  XIII. 

AGGREGATE  OF  DEATHS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  BY  STATES — TOTAL  ENLISTMENT,  BY 
STATES — PERCENTAGES  OF  MILITARY  POPULATION  FURNISHED,  AND  PERCENTAGES  OF 
Loss— STRENGTH  OF  THE  ARMY  AT  VARIOUS  DATES — CASUALTIES  IN  THE  NAVY.  ..  525 

CHAPTER  XIV. 

» 

THE  GREATEST  BATTLES  OF  THE  WAR — LIST  OF  VICTORIES  AND  DEFEATS — CHRONOLOG 
ICAL  LIST  OF  BATTLES  WITH  Loss  IN  EACH,  UNION  AND  CONFEDERATE 540 

CHAPTER  XV. 

CONFEDERATE  LOSSES  —  STRENGTH  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  ARMIES — CASUALTIES  IN 
CONFEDERATE  REGIMENTS— LIST  OF  CONFEDERATE  .GENERALS  KILLED— LOSSES  IN 
THE  CONFEDERATE  NAVY  — IN  CONCLUSION  552 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES 


IN 


THE    AMERICAN   CIVIL   WAR, 

1861-5. 


CHAPTER  I. 


THE  CASUALTIES   OF  WAR --MAXIMUM  OF  KILLED  IN  UNION  REGIMENTS  - 

MAXIMUM  OF  PERCENTAGES. 

V\7"A.RS  and  battles  are  considered  great  in  proportion  to  the  loss  of  life  resulting  from 
them.  Bloodless  battles  excite  no  interest.  A  campaign  of  manoeuvres  is  accorded 
but  a  small  place  in  history.  There  have  been  battles  as  decisive  as  Waterloo  and  Gettysburg  ; 
but  they  cost  few  lives  and  never  became  historic.  Great  as  were  the  results,  Waterloo  and 
Gettysburg  would  receive  but  little  mention  were  it  not  for  the  terrible  cost  at  which  the 
results  were  obtained. 

Still,  it  is  difficult  to  comprehend  fully  what  is  implied  by  the  figures  which  represent 
the  loss  of  life  in  a  great  battle  or  a  war.  As  the  numbers  become  great,  they  convey  no 
different  idea,  whether  they  be  doubled  or  trebled.  It  is  only  when  the  losses  are  considered 
in  detail — by  regiments,  for  instance — that  they  can  be  definitely  understood.  The  regiment 
is  the  unit  of  organization.  It  is  to  the  army  what  a  family  is  to  the  city.  It  has  a  well 
known  limit  of  size,  and  its  losses  are  intelligible  ;  just  as  a  loss  in  a  family  am  l>e  understood, 
while  the  greater  figures  of  the  city's  mortuary  statistics  leave  no  impression  on  the  mind. 

The  history  of  a  battle  or  a  war  should  always  l>e  studied  in  connection  with  the  figures 
which  show  the  losses.  By  overlooking  them  an  indefinite,  and  often  erroneous,  idea  is 
obtained.  By  neglecting  them,  many  historians  fail  to  develop  the  important  points  of  the 
contest.  They  use  the  same  rhetorical  description  for  different  attacks,  whether  the  pressure 
was  strong  or  weak  ;  the  loss,  great  or  small  ;  the  fight,  bloody  or  harmless. 

To  properly  understand  the  relative  importance  of  the  various  movements  on  a  battle 
lit -Id,  the  student  must  know  the  loss  of  life  at  the  different  points  of  the  line.  He  will  then 
see  where  the  points  of  contact  really  were  ;  where  the  pressure  was  greatest ;  where  the 
scenes  of  valor  and  heroism  occurred.  There  is  no  better  way  of  doing  this  than  by  noting 
the  place  in  the  line  held  by  the  various  regiments  and  ascertaining  the  loss  of  life  in  each. 

There  were  over  two  thousand  regiments  in  the  Union  Armies.  On  some  of  these  the 
brunt  of  battle  frll  much  heavier  than  on  others.  \Vhile  some  were  exempted  from  the 


2  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

dangers  of  active  service,  others  were  continually  at  the  front.  While  some  were  seldom 
called  upon  to  face  the  enemy's  fire,  others  were  repeatedly  ordered  into  the  thickest  of  the 
fight.  While  in  some  regiments  the  number  of  killed  was  small,  in  others  the  Roll  of  Honor 
was  unequaled  in  the  records  of  modern  wars.  Who  were  these  men  who  fought  so  well  in 
defense  of  their  flag  ?  What  were  the  names  and  numbers  of  their  regiments  ?  What  were 
the  losses  in  these  regiments  ?  What  limit  is  there  to  the  toll  of  blood  exacted  from  a 
regimental  thousand  during  a  long  and  bloody  war  ? 

The  one  regiment,  in.  all  the  Union  Armies,  which  sustained  the  greatest  loss  in  battle, 
during  the  American  Civil  War,  was  the  Fifth  New  Hampshire  Infantry.*  It  lost  295  men, 
killed  or  mortally  wounded  in  action,  during  its  four  years  of  service,  from  1861  to  1865.  It 
served  in  the  First  Division,  Second  Corps.  This  division  was  commanded,  successively,  by 
Generals  Richardson,  Hancock,  Caldwell,  Barlow,  and  Miles  ;  and  any  regiment  that  followed 
the  fortunes  of  these  men  was  sure  to  find  plenty  of  bloody  work  cut  out  for  it.  The  losses 
of  the  Fifth  New  Hampshire  occurred  entirely  in  aggressive,  hard,  stand-up  fighting  ;  none  of 
it  happened  in  routs  or  through  blunders.  Its  loss  includes  eighteen  officers  killed,  a  number 
far  in  excess  of  the  usual  proportion,  and  indicates  that  the  men  were  bravely  led.  Its 
percentage  of  killed  is  also  very  large,  especially  as  based  on  the  original  enrollment.  The 
exact  percentage  of  the  total  enrollment  cannot  be  definitely  ascertained,  as  the  rolls  were 
loaded  down  in  1864  with  the  names  of  a  large  number  of  conscripts  and  bounty  men  who 
never  joined  the  regiment. 

The  second  highest  in  the  list  of  infantry  regiments  having  the  greatest  number  killed  in 
battle,  is  the  Eighty-third  Pennsylvania,  which  lost  282  officers  and  men  who  died  while 
fighting  for  the  Union.  This  was  a  Fifth  Corps  regiment,  serving  in  MorelPs— afterwards 
Griffin's— First  Division.  Two  of  its  Colonels  were  killed,  and  a  third  was  badly  wounded 
and  crippled  for  life.  It  was  a  splendid  regiment,  well  officered  and  well  drilled.  It  suffered 
a  severe  loss  in  killed,  by  percentage,  as  well  as  in  numbers. 

The  next  regiment  on  the  list  is  the  Seventh  Wisconsin  Infantry,  of  the  famous  Iron 
Brigade,  Wadsworth's  (First)  Division,  First  Corps.  This  gallant  regiment  stands  high  in 
the  list,  Because  of  its  many  battles  and  the  persistency  with  which  it  would  hold  its  ground 
in  the  face  of  the  deadliest  musketry.  By  glancing  at  the  table  of  percentages,  it  will  be 
seen  that  the  Seventh  occupies  an  honorable  place  in  that  list  also. 

Next,  among  the  regiments  sustaining  the  greatest  loss  in  action,  stands  the  Fifth 
Michigan,  of  the  Third  Corps,  in  which  263  were  killed  ;  and  next,  comes  the  Twentieth 
Massachusetts,  of  the  Second  Corps,  with  a  credit  of  260  killed  in  battle. 

The  following  table  will  show  clearly  the  relative  position  of  the  leading  infantry 
regiments  in  point  of  numerical  loss.  It  embraces  every  infantry  regiment  in  the  Union 
Annies  which  lost  over  200  men,  killed  or  mortally  wounded  in  action,  during  the  war.  In 
all,  there  are  forty -five  : 


«h,.  2ritay%&™^&™*  th°  "ORVy  ArtU1Cry' WWch-  °Win"  t0  their  larffer  form  of  organization,  will  be  considered  separately  from 


M  \\IMIM     LosSKS    IN     KlU,KI>. 


KILLKD 


DIED  OF  Woi'NDS. 


Regiment, 

5th  New  H;nnpshiro 
83d     Pennsylvania 

Ttli   Wisconsin 

5th  Mi«-bigan 
'20th  Massachusetts 
69th  New  York 
28th  Massiichusetts 
16th  Michigan 
105th  Pennsylvania 

6th  Wisconsin 
15th  Massachusetts 
15th  New  Jersey 

2cl     Wisconsin 
40th  New  York 
Gist   Pennsylvania 
llth  Pennsylvania 
48th  New  York 
45th  Pennsylvania 
121st   New  York 
27th  Michigan 

2d    Michigan 
100th  Pennsylvania 

8th  Michigan 

2d     Vermont 
lllth  New  York 
18th  U.  S.  Infantry 

9th  Illinois 
22d     Massachusetts 

5th  Vermont 
148th  Pennsylvania 

9th  Massachusetts 
81st  Pennsylvania 

7th  Michigan 
55th  Pennsylvania 
17th  Maine 

3d    Vermont 
145th  Pennsylvania 
14th  Connecticut 
36th  Illinois 

6th  Vermont 
4'.»th  Ohio 
51st   New  York 
•_;<>th  Indiana 
57th  Massachusetts 
53d     Pennsylvania 


Division- 

Barlow's 

Griffin's 

Wads  worth's 

Birney's 

Gibbon's 

Barlow's 

Barlow's 

Griffin's 

Birney's 

Wads  worth's 

Gibbon's 

Wright's 

Wadsworth's 

Birney's 

Getty's 

Robinson's 

Terry's 

Potter's 

Wright's 

Willcox's 

Willcox's 

Stevenson's 

Willcox's 

Getty's 

Hays's(Alex.) 

Johnson's 

Dodge's 

Griffin's 

Getty's 

Bai -low's 

Griffin's 

Barlow's 

Gibbon's 

Ames's 

Birney's 

Getty's 

Barlow's 

Gibbon's 

Shendan's 

Getty's 

Wood's  (Thos.  J.) 

Potter's 

Birney's 

Stevenson's 

Barlow's 


Ctrpt. 

Officers. 

Second 

18 

Fifth 

11 

First 

in 

Third 

16 

Second 

17 

Second 

13 

Second 

15 

Fifth 

12 

Third 

14 

First 

15 

Second 

14 

Sixth 

S 

First 

10 

Third 

9 

Sixth 

L9 

First 

12 

Tenth 

18 

Ninth 

13 

Sixth 

13 

Ninth 

10 

Ninth 

11 

Ninth 

16 

Ninth 

11 

Sixth 

6 

Second 

8 

Fourteenth 

9 

Sixteenth 

5 

Fifth 

9 

Sixth 

11 

Second 

12 

Fifth 

15 

Second 

18 

Second 

11 

Tenth 

7 

Third 

12 

Sixth 

5 

Second 

18 

Second 

17 

Fourth 

11 

Sixth 

12 

Fourth 

14 

Ninth 

9 

Third 

14 

Ninth 

10 

Second 

5 

MfM. 

277 

271 

271 

247 

243 

24G 

2.35 

235 

231 

229 

227 

232 

228 

229 

218 

224 

218 

214 

213 

215 

214 

208 

212 

215 

212' 

209 

211 

207 

202 

198 

194 

190 

197 

201 

195 

201 

187 

188 

193 

191 

188 

193 

187 

191 

195 


295 

282 

281 

2(53 

260 

259 

25(> 

247 

245 

244 

241 

240 

238 

238 

237 

236 

236 

227 

226 

225 

225 

224 

223 

221 

220 

218 

216 

216 

213 

210 

209 

208 

208 

208 

207 

20(J 

205 

205 

204 

203 

202 

202 

201 

201 

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4  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  state  here  that  on  the  records  of  the  War  Department  some  of 
these  regiments  are  not  credited  with  quite  so  many  men  killed  ;  and,  that  if  a  tabulation 
were  to  be  made  from  the  official  figures  at  Washington,  the  relative  positions  of  some  of 
these  regiments  would  have  to  be  slightly  changed.  In  the  first  five  regiments  the  Seventh 
Wisconsin  would  head  the  list,  and  the  Fifth  New  Hampshire  would  stand  third  instead  of 
first ;  while  the  Eighty-third  Pennsylvania,  the  Fifth  Michigan  and  the  Twentieth  Massa 
chusetts  would  still  hold,  respectively,  the  second,  fourth  and  fifth  places,  as  before.  The 
records  of  the  War  Department  show  as  follows  : 

7th  Wisconsin  .  280  killed  or  died  of  wounds. 

83d    Pennsylvania  .  278     "  "     " 

5th  New  Hampshire  277     "  "     "      "        " 

5th  Michigan  ....     262     "               "      "         " 

20th  Massachusetts  257     "  "     "      "        " 

This  difference  arises  from  the  fact  that  in  each  regiment  there  were  men  borne  on  the 
muster-out  rolls  as  "missing  in  action,"  whose  fate  had  not  been  determined  at  the  close  of 
the  war,  at  which  time  these  rolls  were  made  out.  But,  since  then,  many  of  the  States  have 
made  strenuous  efforts  to  ascertain  the  fate  of  these  men.  New  Hampshire,  for  instance, 
published  a  supplement  to  its  printed  muster-out  rolls,  m  which  it  accounts  definitely  for  most 
of  its  missing,  the  State  Adjutant-General  having  obtained,  from  various  sources,  satisfactory 
evidence  that  these  men  were  killed.  But  the  War  Department  declines — and  very  properly— 
to  account  for  missing  men  as  killed  until  they  receive  official  information  to  that  effect.  The 
official  channels,  through  which  such  information  must  come,  are  the  original  records  of 
the  muster-out  rolls  ;  the  final  statements,  as  they  are  technically  termed  ;  and  the  affidavits 
vvhich  may  accompany  a  pension  claim. 

Now,  the  State  of  New  Hampshire,  and  other  States  as  well,  have  ascertained  definitely 
that  many  of  their  missing  men  were  killed,  and  have  revised  their  records  accordingly;*  but, 
if  these  missing  men  have  no  heirs  to  prosecute  their  claims  at  the  Pension  Office,  the  records 
at  Washington  will  remain  unchanged,  and  the  men  will  still  be  recorded  there,  not  among 
the  killed,  but  as  missing.  The  mortuary  statistics  in  these  pages  are  compiled  largely  from 
State  records  ;  hence,  the  figures  in  many  cases  will  exceed  those  of  the  War  Office.  The 
variation,  however,  is  not  important  enough  to  warrant  this  digression  were  it  not  for  the 
honest  endeavor  to  arrive  at  exactness,  and  to  forestall  any  possible  misunderstanding  or 
controversy. 

In  treating  here  of  the  matter  of  losses  in  battle,  or  otherwise,  each  regiment  will  be 
considered  by  itself.  Hence,  it  is  important  that  the  student  before  going  further  should 
understand  thoroughly  the  size  and  formation  of  a  regiment,  in  order  to  comprehend  the 
extent  and  nature  of  the  loss.  Otherwise,  the  figures  would  have  little  or  no  meaning. 

The  infantry  regiments,  which  formed  the  bulk  of  the  army,  had  a  maximum  of 
organization  beyond  which  recruiting  was  not  allowed.  There  was,  also,  a  minimum  of 
strength  which  must  be  obtained  before  a  regiment  could  be  accepted.  An  infantry  command 
consisted  of  ten  companies  of  foot,  and  the  Field  and  Staff  :  the  latter  were  mounted,  and 
consisted  of  the  Colonel  and  such  officers  as  were  not  attached  to  the  company  formations. 
The  maximum  formation  was  as  follows  ; 


*  Xew  Hampshire- :  Adjutant-General's  Kuport,  1806  :  Vol.  I. 


Kt>UM  \TIMN     AND 


|      \     K'|.«;|MKNT. 


Fit  til  di»!  ,S7»///'. 

1  Colonel. 

i  Lieutenant  Colonel 

1  Major. 

1  Adjutant. 

1  Quartermaster. 

1  Surgeon  (Rank  of  Major). 

L'  Asst.  Sur-vons. 

1  Chaplain. 

1  Sergeant-Major. 

1  Quartermaster's  Sergeant. 

1  Commissary-Sergeant. 

1  Hospital  Steward. 

2  Principal  Musicians. 


15 


Company  Formation. 

1  Captain. 

1  First  Lieutenant 

1  Second  Lieutenant. 

1  First  Sergeant. 
4  Sergeants. 

8  Corporals. 

2  Musicians. 
1  Wagoner. 

82  Privates. 


101 


Ten  companies,  101  each 
Field  and  Staff 


1010 

15 

Total  102:1 


In  the  minimum  organization  the  formation,  and  number  of  officers,  was  the  same ;  but 
the  number  of  privates  was  placed  at  64,  making  the  total  of  the  minimum,  845.  The 
newly  recruited  regiments,  accordingly,  ranged  in  numbers  from  845  to  1025.  The  most  of 
them  left  their  rendezvous  with  full  ranks,  especially  those  which  were  raised  under  the 
second  call  for  troops,  in  1862.  As  their  numbers  became  reduced  by  disease  and  wounds, 
fresh  recruits  were  added,  so  that  the  total  enrollment  of  a  regiment  was  often  increased 
several  hundred  before  its  term  of  service  expired.  Nominally,  an  infantry  regiment  consisted 
of  one  thousand  men,  less  the  depletion  incidental  to  its  service,  the  actual  nunnVr  of 
effectives  being  far  below  the  nominal  one. 

In  addition  to  the  infantry,  there  were  32  regiments  of  heavy  artillery  in  the  volunteer 
service.  It  would  be  unnecessary  to  mention  these  were  it  not  that  the  heaviest  loss  in 
battle,  of  any  regimental  organization,  occurred  in  two  of  these  regiments,  each  of  which  lost 
more  men  killed  than  the  Fifth  New  Hampshire.  But,  owing  to  their  larger  organization  and 
different  formation,  they  must  be  considered  secondly,  and  in  a  class  by  themselves.  A 
regiment  of  heavy  artillery  contained  1800  men,  divided  into  12  companies  of  150  ;  attached 
to  each  company  were  five  line  officers — a  captain  and  four  lieutenants.  The  regiment  was 
divided  into  three  battalions  of  four  companies,  with  each  battalion  under  the  command 
of  a  Major.  There  was  but  one  Colonel  and  one  Lt.  Colonel,  as  in  infantry.  These  troops 
performed  garrison  duty,  serving  mostly  within  the  fortifications  around  Washington,  or  in 
the  coast  defences  where  heavy  ordnance  was  used.  In  the  spring  of  1864,  most  of  the  heavy 
artillery  regiments  within  the  defences  of  Washington  were  ordered  to  the  front,  where  they 
served  as  infantry,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  campaign. 

The  heaviest  loss  in  this  arm  of  the  service — and,  also,  in  any  regiment  of  the  army- 
occurred  in  the  First  Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  of  Birney's  Division,  Second  Corps.  During  its 
term  of  service  it  lost  23  officers  and  400  enlisted  men  killed  or  mortally  wounded  in  battle. 
This  regiment  is  remarkable,  also,  for  its  large  percentage  of  loss  ;  for  the  large  numl>er  of 
officei-s  killed  ;  and,  for  having  sustained  in  a  certain  engagement  the  greatest  loss  of  any 
regiment  in  any  one  battle.  The  First  Maine  H.  A.  did  not  take  the  field  until  May,  1864, 


6  KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

having  served  the  two  previous  years  in  the  fortifications  of  Washington.  Its  fighting  and 
all  its  losses  occurred  within  a  period  of  ten  months. 

The  next  greatest  loss  in  the  heavy  artillery  is  found  in  the  Eighth  New  York,  of  Gibbon's 
Division,  Second  Corps,  in  which  regiment  19  officers  and  342  enlisted  men  were  killed  or  died 
of  wounds  during  their  three  years'  term  of  service.  Like  the  First  Maine,  it  did  not  go  to 
the  front  nor  see  any  fighting  until  the  last  year  of  its  service,  all  its  losses  occuring  during 
the  last  ten  months  of  the  war. 

The  following  list  embraces  all  the  heavy  artillery  regiments  in  which  the  number  of 
killed,  or  died  of  wounds,  exceeded  two  hundred  : 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 
HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 

Regiment.  Division.  Corps.  Officers.  Men.  Total. 

1st   Maine  Birney's  Second  23  400  423 

8th  New  York  Gibbon's  Second  19  342  361 

7th  New  York  Barlow's  Second  14  277  291 

2d     Connecticut  Wright's  Sixth  12  242  254 

1st   Massachusetts  Birney's  Second  9  232  241 

2d    Pennsylvania  Ferrero's  Ninth  5  228  233 

14th  New  York  Ferrero's  Ninth  6  220  226 

2d    New  York  Barlow's  Second  10  204  214 

9th  New  York  Eicketts's  Sixth  6  198  204 

The  Second  Pennsylvania  Heavy  Artillery  carried,  from  first  to  last,  over  5000  names  on 
its  rolls.  In  fact,  it  comprised  two  regiments — one  in  the  Ninth,  and  one  in  the  Eighteenth 
Corps.  In  the  spring  of  1864,  the  regiment,  1800  strong,  joined  the  Second  Division  of  the 
Eighteenth  Corps,  at  Cold  Harbor.  The  surplus  men  had  been  previously  formed  into  a 
' '  provisional "  regiment  with  the  same  designation,  and  assigned  to  the  Ninth  Corps.  The 
most  of  the  losses  occurred  in  this  provisional  command. 

A  cavalry  regiment  numbered  1200  men,  nominally,  and  was  divided  into  twelve 
companies  of  one  hundred  each.  They  did  not  suffer  such  severe  losses  in  particular 
engagements  as  did  the  infantry,  but  their  losses  were  divided  among  a  great  many  more 
battles.  The  cavalry  went  into  action  very  much  oftener  than  infantry.  Although  mounted 
and  armed  with  sabres,  much  of  their  fighting  was  done  dismounted,  and  with  carbines.  The 
mounted  regiments  which  lost  the  most  men,  killed  or  fatally  wounded  in  action,  were  the 
following  : 

Regiment.  Division.  Corps.  Officers.  Men.  Tolal. 

1st  Maine  Gregg's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  15  159  174 

1st  Michigan  Kilpatrick's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  14  150  164 

5th  Michigan  Kilpatrick's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  6  135  141 

6th  Michigan  Kilpatrick's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  7  128  135 

1st  Vermont  Kilpatrick's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  10  124  134 

1st  N.  Y.  Dragoons  Torbert's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  4  126  130 

1st  New  Jersey  Gregg's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  12  116  128 

2d  New  York  Wilson's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  9  112  121 

llth  Pennsylvania  Kautz's  Cavalry,  A.  P.  11  108  119 

The  light  artillery  was  composed  of  batteries  with  a  maximum  strength  of  150  men  and 
six  guns.  Before  the  war  closed  many  of  them  were  reorganized  as  four-gun  batteries.  In 


M  \\IMIM  in    KIII.KD  IN   LHJHT 


some  cases  then-  were  regimental  or-ani/at  ions  comprising  12  batteries,  hut  most  of  tin- 
troops  in  (his  arm  of  tin-  service  were  independent  commands;  even  where  there  was  a 
regimental  organization,  each  halt  cry  acted  separately  and  independently  of  the  others.  In 
i  lie  \olu i ii«  ei  service  the  leading  batteries,  in  point  of  loss  in  battle,  were  as  follows  : 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 


Sjmonym. 

"Cooper's" 

"Sands'" 

"Phillips'" 

"Weeden's" 

"Cowan's" 

"Stevens'" 

"Ricketts"' 

"Boston's" 

"  Kern's" 

"Randolph's" 

"Pettit's" 

''Bigelow's" 

"Bradbury's" 

"Wood's" 


tt 
tt 
tt 

tt 
« 


LIGHT  ARTILLKHY 

Rattfry. 

B"       1st  Penn.  Artillery 
llth  Ohio  Battery 
5th  Mass.  Battery 
C  "        1st  R.  I.  Artillery 
1st  N.  Y.  Battery 
5th  Maine  Battery 
F"       1st  Penn.  Artillery 
A  "       1st  Penn.  Artillery 
G"       1st  Penn.  Artillery 
E"       1st  R.  I.  Artillery 
B  "       1st  N.  Y.  Artillery 
Dth  Mass.  Battery 
1st  Maine  Battery 
A"       1st  111.  Artillery 


Corps. 

First 

Officers. 

2 

AffH. 

19 

Total. 

21 

Seventeenth 

., 

20 

20 

Fifth 

1 

IS 

11> 

Fifth 

«  <• 

lit 

19 

Sixth 

2 

i<; 

is 

First 

2 

16 

18 

First 

1 

17 

18 

First 

1 

16 

17 

First 

1 

16 

17 

Third 

—  — 

17 

17 

Second 

.. 

1<5 

16 

Reserve  Art'y 
Nineteenth 

2 

2 

18 
L3 

15 
15 

Fifteenth 

15 

15 

The  loss  in  the  Eleventh  Ohio  Battery  occurred  almost  entirely  in  one  action,  1!)  of  its  men 
having  l>een  killed  or  mortally  wounded  at  Inka  in  a  charge  on  the  battery.  In  the  other 
batteries,  however,  the  losses  represent  a  long  series  of  battles  in  which  they  rendered  effective 
service,  and  participated  with  honor  to  themselves  and  the  arm  of  the  service  to  which  they 
belonged. 

Among  the  light  batteries  of  the  Regular  Army,  equally  heavy  losses  occurred  in  the 
following  famous  commands  : 


'B" 
"K" 
"I" 
"D" 

"C" 
"H" 


4th  U.  S.  Artillery 
4th  U.  S.  Artillery 
1st  U.  S.  Artillery 
5th  U.  S.  Artillery 
5th  U.  S.  Artillery 
5th  U.  S.  Artillery 


Gibbon's"        or  "Stewart's." 


A  &  C       4th  U.  S.  Artillery 


'DeRussey's" 
"Ricketts"' 
"Griffin's" 
"Seymour's" 
"Gunther's" 
"HazzardV 


"  "Seeley's." 

"  "Kirby's" 

"  "Hazlitt's." 

"  "Ransom's" 

"  "Burnham's." 

"  "Cushing's" 


or    'Woodruff's.' 
"    "Weir's." 
"    "Thomas'." 


The   foregoing    pages  show   accurately   the  limit   of    loss    in   the   various    regimental 
organizations  in  the  civil  war.     The  figures  will  probably  fall  below  the  prevalent  idea  as  to 
the  numl)er  killed  in  certain  regiments  ;  but  these  figures  are  the  only  ones  that  the  muster 
out  rolls  will  warrant,  and  no  others  can  be  accepted.     True,  there  are  many  errors  in  the 
rolls  ;  but  they  have  been  thoroughly  revised  and  corrected. 

There  have  been  too  many  careless,  extravagant  statements  made  regarding  losses  in 
action.  Officei-s  have  claimed  losses  for  their  regiments,  which  are  sadly  at  variance  with  the 
records  which  they  certified  as  correct  at  the  close  of  the  war — muster-out  rolls  which  they 
made  out  themselves,  and  on  which  they  accounted  for  each  man  in  their  command.  If  any 
veteran  is  surprised  at  the  figures  given  here  and  feels  disposed  to  question  their  accuracy,  let 
him  first  carefully  examine  the  muster-out  rolls  of  his  regiment.  It  will  not  l>e  necessary  to 


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REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


exaggerate  the  result.     To  the  thoughtful,  the  truth  will  be  sensational  enough  :  the  correct 
figures  are  amply  heroic,  and  are  unsurpassed  in  the  annals  of  war. 

The  number  of  men  killed  in  a  regiment  during  its  term  of  service  has  thus  far  been 
considered  only  in  respect  to  the  maximum  of  loss,  and  the  result  is  of  value  only  so  far  as  it 
defines  the  limit  of  casualties  to  which  regiments  of  this  size  are  exposed.  But,  though  similar 
in  formation,  the  regiments  varied  in  numbers  according  to  the  recruits  or  transferred  men 
received.  Some  regiments  received  large  numbers  of  recruits  to  make  good  their  losses,  while 
other  commands  went  through  the  war  with  constantly  lessening  ranks  and  carried  only  the 
original  thousand,  or  less,  upon  their  rolls.  Some  regiments  which  reenlisted  at  the  end  of 
their  three  years'  term  received  large  accessions  from  other  commands  which,  returning  home, 
left  detachments  in  the  field  "composed  of  recruits  with  unexpired  terms,  or  reenlisted  men. 
Distinction  must  be  made,  in  the  matter  of  losses  in  action,  between  the  regiments  whose 
ranks  were  always  kept  full,  and  the  ones  which  received  no  fresh  material. 

In  short,  the  proper  way  to  judge  of  the  relative  losses  of  regiments  during  their  term 
of  service  is  to  accompany  the  statement  of  the  losses  with  the  figures  of  the  total  enrollment, 
and  compare  the  percentages  as  well  as  the  losses.  The  regiments  in  the  following  list  can 
fairly  claim  the  honor  of  having  encountered  the  hardest  fighting  in  the  war.  They  may  not 
have  done  the  most  effective  fighting,  nor  the  best  fighting  ;  but  they  evidently  stood  where 
the  danger  was  thickest,  and  were  the  ones  which  faced  the  hottest  musketry.  They  were  all 
well-known,  reliable  commands,  and  served  with  unblemished  records.  The  maximum  of  loss 
is  reached  in  this  table  : 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 
MAXIMUM  PERCENTAGES  OF  ENROLLMENT. 


Regiment. 

Division* 

Corps. 

Enrolled. 

Killed. 

Per  ct. 

2d    Wisconsin 

Wads  worth's 

First 

1203 

238 

19.7 

1st   Maine  H.  Art'y 

Birney's 

Second 

2202 

423 

19.2 

57th  Massachusetts 

Stevenson's 

Ninth 

1052 

201 

19.1 

140£h  Pennsylvania 

Barlow's 

Second 

1132 

198 

17.4 

26th  Wisconsin 

Schurz's 

Eleventh 

1089 

188 

17.2 

7th  Wisconsin 

Wadsworth's 

First 

1630 

281 

17.2 

69th  New  York 

Hancock's 

Second 

1513 

259 

17.1 

llth  Penn.  Reserves 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

1179 

196 

16.6 

142d    Pennsylvania 

Doubleday's 

First 

935 

155 

16.5 

141st   Pennsylvania 

Birney's 

Third 

1037 

167 

16.1 

19th  Indiana 

Wadsworth's 

First 

1246 

199 

15.9 

121st  New  York 

Wright's 

Sixth 

1426 

226 

15.8 

7th  Michigan 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1315 

208 

15.8 

148th  Pennsylvania 

Barlow's 

Second 

1339 

210 

15.6 

83d    Pennsylvania 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

1808 

282 

15.5 

22d    Massachusetts 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

1393 

216 

15.5 

36th  Wisconsin 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1014 

157 

15.4 

27th  Indiana 

Williams's 

Twelfth 

1101 

169 

15.3 

5th  Kentucky 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1020 

157 

15.3 

27th  Michigan 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

1485 

225 

15.1 

79th  U.  S.  Colored 

Thayer's 

Seventh 

1249 

188 

15.0 

17th  Maine 

Birney's 

Third 

1371 

207 

15.0 

1st  Minnesota 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1242 

187 

15.0 

• 


,  mention 


TUTAI,  KNKOU.MKNTS.  9 

The  loss  in  tin-  Sr. mid  \Vismnsiii  indicates  the  extreme  limit  of  danger  to  which  human 
lii'e  is  exposed  in  a  war  similar  in  duration  and  activity  to  the  American  Civil  War.  It  shows 
the  ch;m< -es  which  a  man  takes  when  he  enlists.  The  figures,  however,  are  the  result  of  the 
weapons  and  mode  of  fighting  of  twenty  years  ago.  Since  then,  muzzle-loading  rifles  have 
l)een  dispensed  with.  Still,  in  the  Franco-Prussian  war,  in  which  the  troops  were  armed  with 
breech-loaders,  there  was  no  increase  in  the  percentage  of  casualties.  In  fact,  the  old  muzzle- 
loaders  were  capahle  of  delivering  a  hotter  fire  than  any  body  of  troops  could  withstand.  At 
Marye's  Heights  and  Cemetery  Ridge,  the  bravest  of  assaulting  columns  recoiled  from  their 
fire  ;  breech  -loaders  could  have  done  no  more.  There  was  a  limit  of  punishment  beyond 
which  endurance  would  not  go,  and  the  old  Springfield  rifle  was  capable  of  inflicting  it. 

Hut  the  figures  of  the  Second  Wisconsin,  and  of  the  other  regiments  as  well,  fail  to  show 
the  full  percentage  of  loss  :  the  actual  percentage  was  much  larger.  The  figures  given  are 
based  upon  the  total  enrollment  of  the  regiment,  and  necessarily  include  the  non-combatants- 
the  musicians,  teamsters,  company  cooks,  officers'  servants,  Surgeon's  assistants,  and  Quarter 
master's  men  ;  also,  the  sick,  the  detailed  men,  and  absentees  of  all  kinds.  If  the  percentage 
were  based  on  the  numlxn1  of  men  who  were  accustomed  to  follow  the  colors  into  action, 
the  figures  would  be  still  more  startling.  But  there  is  no  place  to  draw  a  dividing  line, 
and  so  the  total  enrollment  must  be  taken.  As  all  regiments  were  pretty  much  alike 
in  respect  to  the  number  of  non-combatants,  it  shows  fairly  their  relative  positions  in 
I>oint  of  loss. 

These  figures,  let  it  be  remembered,  include  only  the  killed  and  mortally  wounded.  To 
understand  their  full  significance,  one  must  bear  in  mind  the  additional  loss  of  wounded  men 
who  survived  their  injuries — many  of  them  surviving  only  to  drag  their  marred  and  crippled 
lives  along  a  lower  plane  of  existence.  In  the  Second  Wisconsin  nearly  i)oo  men  were  killed 
or  wounded,  leaving  but  few  unharmed  of  those  who  carried  arms. 

In  stating  the  total  enrollment  of  a  regiment,  the  statistician  is  often  in  doubt  as  to  what 
figures  may  be  fairly  used.  In  the  Second  Wisconsin  there  were  two  companies  K.  The  first 
one  remained  with  the  regiment  but  a  few  weeks  and  was  then  permanently  detached.  Its 
place  was  taken  by  another  company  which  was  recruited  in  October,  1861.  It  would, 
manifestly,  be  unfair  to  include  both  companies  in  the  enrollment,  and  so  the  first  was  not 
counted.  Yet,  the  first  company  K  was  with  the  regiment  in  the  battle  of  First  Bull  Run, 
and  lost  in  that  action  one  man  killed  and  two  missing.  As  this  loss  is  included  in  the  figures 
given  for  the  Second  Wisconsin,  absolute  accuracy  would  demand  their  subtraction  before 
calculating  the  percentage.  The  regiment  would,  however,  still  remain  at  the  head  of  the  list 
in  the  table  of  percentages. 

In  the  case  of  the  First  Maine  Heavy  Artillery  a  careful  discrimination  was  also  necessary. 
The  enrollment  given  here  includes  the  original  regiment,  together  with  all  recruits  received 
prior  to  the  close  of  the  war.  But,  in  June,  1865 — two  months  after  the  war  had  closed — the 
regiment  received  a  large  accession  from  the  Seventeenth  and  Nineteenth  Maine  Infantry. 
These  latter  commands  had  been  mustered  out,  upon  which  the  recruits  with  unexpired 
terms  of  service  were  transferred  to  the  First  Maine  Heavy  Artillery.  These  men — trans 
ferred  after  the  war  had  ended — are  not  included  in  the  enrollment,  as  they  formed  no  part 
of  the  body  under  consideration  in  the  matter  of  percentage  of  loss.  Their  number  had 
already  entered  into  the  calculation  of  the  regiments  in  which  they  had  previously  served.  A 
careful  examination  of  the  rolls  of  the  First  Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  name  by  name,  shows 
that  2202  men  only  were  enrolled  prior  to  the  surrender  at  Appomattox. 

A  similar  case  is  found  in  the  Fifty-seventh  Massachusetts,  which  carried  1052  names, 
officers  and  enlisted  men,  on  its  rolls  up  to  the  close  of  the  war.     On  the  !>th  of  August,  1865- 
four  months  after  the  fighting  had  ceased— its  rolls  were  increased  by  a  transfer  of  the 


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REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Fifty-ninth  Massachusetts,  which  was  consolidated  with  it.     The  names  thus  added  were  not 
included  in  the  enrollment  under  consideration. 

In  the  following  table  will  be  found  every  regiment  in  which  the  loss  in  killed  and  died  of 
Avounds  exceeded  ten  per  cent,  of  the  total  enrollment : 

REGIMENTAL  PERCENTAGES  OF  KILLED 

DURING  ENTIRE   TERM   OF   SERVICE. 


Regiment. 

Division.* 

Corps. 

Enrolled. 

Killed. 

Per  Ct. 

2d    Connecticut  (H.  A.) 

Wright's 

Sixth 

2506 

254 

10.1 

Tth  Connecticut 

Terry's 

Tenth 

1657 

169 

10.1 

14th  Connecticut 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1724 

205 

11.8 

9th  Illinois 

Dodge's 

Sixteenth 

1493 

216 

14.4 

12th  Illinois 

Dodge's 

Sixteenth 

1207 

148 

12.2 

20th  Illinois 

Logan's 

Seventeenth 

1092 

139 

12.7 

22d     Illinois 

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

1123 

147 

13.0 

27th  Illinois 

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

1078 

115 

10.6 

35th  Illinois 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

987 

109 

11.0 

36th  Illinois 

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

1376 

204 

14.8 

40th  Illinois 

C.  R.  Woods' 

Fifteenth 

1017 

125 

12.2 

41st    Illinois 

Lauman's 

Sixteenth 

1029 

115 

11.1 

42d     Illinois 

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

1622 

181 

11.1 

44th  Illinois 

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

1344 

135 

10.0 

55th  Illinois 

Blair's 

Fifteenth 

1099 

157 

14.2 

73d     Illinois 

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

994 

114 

11.4 

82d     Illinois 

Schurz's 

Eleventh 

956 

102 

10.6 

84th  Illinois 

Stanley's 

Fourth 

987 

124 

12.5 

88th  Illinois 

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

926 

103 

11.1 

89th  Illinois 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1318 

133 

10.0 

93d     Illinois 

Quinby's 

Seventeenth 

1011 

151 

14.9 

104th  Illinois 

Carlin's 

Fourteenth 

999 

116 

11.6 

6th  Indiana 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1091 

125 

11.4 

14th  Indiana 

French's 

Second 

1134 

150 

13.2 

19th  Indiana 

Wadsworth's 

First 

1246 

199 

15.9 

20th  Indiana 

Birney's 

Third 

1403 

201 

14.3 

27th  Indiana 

Williams'  s 

Twelfth 

1101 

'169 

15.3 

30th  Indiana 

Stanley's 

Fourth 

1126 

137 

12.1 

32d     Indiana 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1283 

171 

13.8 

36th  Indiana 

Stanley's 

Fourth 

1118 

113 

10.1 

40th  Indiana 

Newton's 

Fourth 

1473 

148 

10.0 

3d     Iowa 

Lauman's 

Sixteenth 

1099 

127 

11.5 

5th  Iowa 

Quinby's 

Seventeenth 

1042 

117 

11.2 

6th  Iowa 

Corse's 

Sixteenth 

1102 

152 

13.7 

9th  Iowa 

C.  R.  Woods'  s 

Fifteenth 

1229 

154 

12.5 

*  Most  regiments  served  under  more  than  one  division  commander,  and  some  of  them  in  more  than  one  corps  :   for  lack  of  space,  mention 
Is  made  here  only  of  the  division  which  will  best  assist  the  reader  in  identifying  the  regiment  and  its  campaigns. 


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22d    Iowa 
24th  Iowa 

3d    Kentucky 

5th  Kentucky 

6th  Kentucky 

15th  Kentucky 

1st  Maine  <H.  A.) 

4th  Maine 

6th  Maine 

7th  Maine 
17th  Maine 
19th  Maine 
31st  Maine 

2d  Massachusetts 
9th  Massachusetts 
10th  Massachusetts 
12th  Massachusetts 
15th  Massachusetts 
16th  Massachusetts 
20th  Massachusetts 
21st  Massachusetts 
22d  Massachusetts 
25th  Massachusetts 
28th  Massachusetts 
34th  Massachusetts 
36th  Massachusetts 
37th  Massachusetts 
56th  Massachusetts 
57th  Massachusetts 
58th  Massachusetts 

1st  Michigan  (S.  S.) 

1st  Michigan 

2d    Michigan 

3d    Michigan 

4th  Michigan 

5th  Michigan 

7th  Michigan 

8th  Michigan 
16th  Michigan 
17th  Michigan 
2()th  Michigan 
iMth  Michigan 
iMth  Michigan 
-!7th  Michigan 


Division. 

Me  Arthur's 
G  rover's 
G  rover's 

Newton's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Johnson's 

Birney's 

Birney's 

Wright's 

Getty's 

Birney's 

Gibbon's 

Potter's 

Williams's 

Griffin's 

Getty's 

Robinson's 

Gibbon's 

Humphreys's 

Gibbon's 

Stevenson's 

Griffin's 

Weitzel's 

Barlow's 

Tlioburn's 

Potter's 

Getty's 

Stevenson's 

Stevenson's 

Potter's 

Willcox's 

Morell's 

Willcox's 

Birney's 

Griffin's 

Birney's 

Gibbon's 

Willcox's 

Griffin's 

Willcox's 

Willcox's 

Wads  worth's 

Barlow's 

Willcox's 


Corps. 

Seventeenth 

Enrolled. 

1118 

Killed. 
119 

Per  Ct. 
10.7 

Nineteenth 

1067 

114 

10.6 

Nineteenth 

1207 

128 

10.6 

Fourth 

1035 

109 

10.5 

Fourth 

1020 

157 

15.3 

Fourth 

960 

115 

11.9 

Fourteenth 

956 

137 

14.:{ 

Second 

2202 

423 

19.2 

Third 

1440 

170 

11.8 

Sixth 

1213 

153 

12.6 

Sixth 

1505 

152 

10.0 

Third 

1371 

207 

15.0 

Second 

1441 

192 

13.3 

Ninth 

1395 

183 

13.1 

Twelfth 

1305 

1-7 

14.3 

Fifth 

1654 

209 

12.6 

Sixth 

1218 

134 

11.0 

First 

1522 

193 

12.6 

Second 

1701 

241 

14.1 

Third 

1335 

150 

11.2 

Second 

1978 

260 

13.1 

Ninth 

1178 

159 

13.4 

Fifth 

1393 

216 

15.5 

Eighteenth 
Second 

1371 
1778 

161 

250 

11.7 
14.0 

Eighth 
Ninth 

1309 
1073 

135 
111 

10.3 
10.3 

Sixth 

1324 

169 

12.7 

Ninth 

1047 

126 

12.0 

Ninth 

1052 

201 

19.1 

Ninth 

1032 

139 

13.4 

Ninth 

1101 

137 

12.4 

Fifth 

1329 

187 

14.0 

Ninth 

1725 

225 

13.0 

Third 

1238 

158 

12.7 

Fifth 

1325 

189 

14.2 

Third 

1883 

263 

13.9 

Second 

1315 

20S 

15.S 

Ninth 

1770 

223 

12.5 

Fifth 

1929 

247 

12.8 

Ninth 

1137 

135 

11.8 

Ninth 

1114 

124 

11.  1 

First 

1654 

189 

11.4 

Second 

1210 

121 

10.0 

Ninth 

1485 

225 

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REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

1st   Minnesota 

10th  Missouri 
llth  Missouri 
12th  Missouri 
15th  Missouri 
26th  Missouri 

3d    New  Hampshire 

7th  New  Hampshire 

•12th  New  Hampshire 

1st   New  Jersey 

3d  New  Jersey 
14th  New  Jersey 
15th  New  Jersey 

5th  New  York 

8th  New  York  (H.  A.) 

44th  New  York 

48th  New  York 

49th  New  York 

51st   New  York 

61st   New  York 

64th  New  York 

69th  New  York 

70th  New  York 

72d     New  York 

73d     New  York 

76th  New  York 

82d     New  York 

83d     New  York 

84th  New  York 

86th  New  York 

88th  New  York 
100th  New  York 
109th  New  York 
lllth  New  York 
1 14th  New  York 
115th  New  York 
121st  New  York 
124th  New  York 
126th  New  York 
137th  New  York 
148th  New  York 
149th  New  York 
155th  New  York 
164th  New  York 


Division. 

Corps. 

Enrolled. 

Killed. 

Per  Ct. 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1242 

187 

15.0 

Quinby's 

Seventeenth 

977 

101 

10.3 

Mower's 

Sixteenth 

945 

104 

11.0 

Osterhaus's 

Fifteenth 

931 

112 

12.0 

Newton's 

Fourth 

904 

115 

12.7 

Quinby's 

Seventeenth 

972 

118 

12.1 

Terry's 

Tenth 

1725 

198 

11.4 

Terry's 

Tenth 

1718 

184 

10.7 

Humphreys's 

Third 

1450 

181 

12.4 

Wright's 

Sixth 

1324 

153 

11.5 

Wright's 

Sixth 

1238 

157 

12.6 

Ricketts's 

Sixth 

1312 

147 

11.2 

Wright's 

Sixth 

1702 

240 

14.1 

Sykes' 

Fifth 

1508 

177 

11.7 

Gibbon's 

Second 

2575 

361 

14.0 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

1365 

182 

13.3 

Terry's 

Tenth 

2173 

236 

10.8 

Getty's 

Sixth 

1312 

141 

10.7 

Potter's 

Ninth 

2020 

202 

10.0 

Barlow's 

Second 

1526 

193 

12.6 

Barlow's 

Second 

1313 

173 

13.1 

Barlow's 

Second 

1513 

259 

17.1 

Hooker's 

Third 

1226 

190 

15.4 

Hooker's 

Third 

1250 

161 

12.8 

Hooker's 

Third 

1326 

156 

11.7 

Wadsworth's 

First 

1491 

173 

11.6 

Gibbon's 

"Second 

1452 

181 

12.4 

Robinson's 

First 

1413 

156 

11.0 

Wadsworth's 

First 

1365 

162 

11.8 

Birney's 

Third 

1524 

172 

11.2 

Barlow's 

Second 

1352 

151 

11.1 

Terry's 

Tenth 

1491 

202 

13.5 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

1353 

165 

12-.  1 

Barlow's 

Second 

1780 

220 

12.3 

Dwight's 

Nineteenth 

1134 

121 

10,6 

Ames's 

Tenth 

1196 

135 

11.2 

Wright's 

Sixth 

1426 

226 

15.8 

Birney's 

Third 

1320 

148 

11.2 

Barlow's 

Second 

1036 

153 

14.7 

Geary's 

Twelfth 

1111 

127 

11.4 

Brooks'  s 

Eighteenth 

1065 

116 

10.8 

Geary's 

Twelfth 

1286 

133 

10.3 

Gibbon's 

Second 

830 

114 

13.7 

Gibbon's 

Second 

928 

116 

11.4 

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Division. 

Corps. 

Enrolled. 

KilU-d. 

Ptr  Ct. 

170th  New  York 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1002 

129 

12.S 

1st   Ohio 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1160 

121 

10.4 

7th  Ohio 

Geary's 

Twelfth 

1365 

184 

13.4 

8th  Ohio 

(ribbon's 

Second 

1032 

132 

12.7 

14th  Ohio 

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

1404 

146 

10.3 

loth  Ohio 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1654 

179 

lo.s 

21st   Ohio 

Johnson's 

Fourteenth 

1398 

172 

12.8 

30th  Ohio 

Blair's 

Fifteenth 

1115 

128 

11.4 

33d     Ohio 

Baird's 

Fourteenth 

1284 

137 

10.6 

41st   Ohio 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1423 

176 

12.3 

46th  Ohio 

Hazen's 

Fifteenth 

1111 

134 

12.0 

49th  Ohio 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1468 

202 

13.7 

55th  Ohio 

Steinwehr's 

Eleventh 

1392 

143 

10.2 

65th  Ohio 

Newton's 

Fourth 

1216 

122 

10.0 

73d    Ohio 

Steinwehr's 

Eleventh 

L267 

171 

13.4 

93d     Ohio 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

1068 

113 

10.5 

98th  Ohio 

Davis's 

Fourteenth 

1152 

120 

10.4 

110th  Ohio 

Ricketts's 

Sixth 

1165 

126 

10.8 

113th  Ohio 

Davis's 

Fourteenth 

1113 

120 

10.7 

120th  Ohio 

Ricketts's 

Sixth 

1254 

152 

12.1 

5th  Ponn.  Reserves 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

1046 

141 

13.5 

(5th  Perm.  Reserves 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

1059 

110 

10.3 

8th  Perm.  Reserves 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

1062 

158 

14.  s 

9th  Penn.  Reserves 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

1088 

137 

12.5 

loth  Penn.  Reserves 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

1150 

160 

13.9 

llth  Penn.  Reserves 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

1  1  79 

196 

16.  6 

13th  Penn.  Reserves 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

1165 

162 

13.9 

llth  Pennsylvania 

Robinson's 

Fii-st 

2052 

236 

Ll.fi 

45th  Pennsylvania 

Potter's 

Ninth 

I960 

227 

Ll.fi 

46th  Pennsylvania 

Williams's 

Twelfth 

1  7'.»4 

17'.» 

In.  ii 

49th  Pennsylvania 

Wright's 

Sixth 

131** 

193 

i4.<; 

55th  Pennsylvania 

Ames's 

Tenth 

1820 

208 

n.i 

61st   Pennsylvania 

Getty's 

Sixth 

1987 

237 

L1.9 

62d    Pennsylvania 

mf 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

1571 

169 

lo.7 

63d     Pennsylvania 

Birney's 

Third 

1  34  1 

186 

13.8 

69th  Pennsylvania 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1715 

178 

10.3 

72d     Pennsylvania 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1596 

193 

12.9 

81st   Pennsylvania 

Barlow's 

Second 

1608 

208 

12.9 

83d     Pennsylvania 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

1808 

282 

15.5 

84th  Pennsylvania 

Humphreys'* 

Third 

1241 

125 

10.0 

96th  Pennsylvania 

Wright's 

Sixth 

1  1  53 

132 

11.4 

looth  Pennsylvania 

Stevenson's 

Ninth 

2014 

224 

11.1 

105th  Pennsylvania 

Birney's 

Third 

L992 

245 

12.2 

106th  Pennsylvania 

Gibbon's 

Second 

1004 

104 

10.3 

118th  Pennsylvania 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

i27«; 

141 

ll.o 

ll'.'th  Pennsylvania 

Wright's 

Sixth 

1216 

141 

ll.fi 

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REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

121st  Pennsylvania 
139th  Pennsylvania 
140th  Pennsylvania 
141st  Pennsylvania 
142d  Pennsylvania 
143d  Pennsylvania 
145th  Pennsylvania 
148th  Pennsylvania 
149th  Pennsylvania 
1 84th  Pennsylvania 
188th  Pennsylvania 

2d    Vermont 

3d    Vermont 

5th  Vermont 

6th  Vermont 
10th  Vermont 
17th  Vermont 

7th  West  Virginia 

1st   Wisconsin 

2d    Wisconsin 

3d    Wisconsin 

6th  Wisconsin 

7th  Wisconsin 

21st   Wisconsin 

24th  Wisconsin 

26th  Wisconsin 

36th  Wisconsin 

37th  Wisconsin 


Division. 

Doubleday's 

Getty's 

Barlow's 

Birney's 

Doubleday's 

Doubleday's 

Barlow's 

Barlow's 

Doubleday's 

Gibbon's 

Brooks's 

Getty's 

Getty's 

Getty's 

Getty's 

Ricketts's 

Potter's 

Gibbon's 

Baird's 

Wadsworth's 

Williams' s 

Wadsworth's 

Wadsworth's 

Johnson's 

Newton's 

Schurz'  s 

Gibbon's 

Willcox's 


1st   U.  S.  Sharpshooters*  Birney's 
2d     U.  S.  Sharpshooters    Birney's 

79th  U.  S.  Colored  Inf.         Thayer's 


Corps. 

First 

Sixth 

Second 

Third 

First 

First 

Second 

Second 

First 

Second 

Eighteenth 

Sixth 
Sixth 
Sixth 
Sixth 
Sixth 
Ninth 

Second 

Fourteenth 

First 

Twelfth 

First 

First 

Fourteenth 

Fourth 

Eleventh 

Second 

Ninth 

Third 
Third 

Seventh 


Enrolled. 

891 
1070 
1132 
1037 

935 
1491 
1456 
1339 
1454 

959 
1201 

1811 
1748 
1533 

1568 
1304 
1137 

1008 

1386 
1203 
1333 
1940 
1630 
1171 
1077 
1089 
1014 
1110 

1392 
1178 

1249 


Killed. 

109 
145 
198 
167 
155 
151 
205 
210 
169 
113 
124 

224 
206 
213 
203 
149 
147 

142 

157 
238 
170 
244 
281 
122 
111 
188 
157 
156 

153 
125 

188 


Per  Ct. 

12.2 
13.5 
17.4 
16.1 
16.5 
10. 1 
14.1 
15.6 
11.8 
11.7 
10.3 

12.3 
11.7 
13.8 
12.9 
11.3 
12.9 

14.0 

11.3 
19.7 
12.7 
12.5 
17.2 
10.4 
10.3 
17.2 
15.4 
14.0 

10.9 
10.6 

15.0 


In  some  of  the  regiments  of  the  preceding  list,  a  part  of  the  enrollment  has  been  omitted, 
and  the  percentage  was  calculated  on  the  number  enrolled  during  the  period  of  active  service. 
In  some  cases  deduction  was  made  for  large  bodies  of  conscripts  which  never  joined  the 
regiment,  although  their  names  were  borne  upon  the  rolls  ;  also,  for  accessions  of  substitutes 
and  drafted  men  who  did  not  reach  the  regiment  until  the  fighting  had  practically  ended. 
Partial  enrollments  were  used  in  calculating  the  percentages  of  the  Second  Massachusetts, 
Third  Wisconsin,  Twentieth  Massachusetts,  Seventh  West  Virginia,  Eighty-second  New  York, 
and  Eighty-third  New  York. 

There  were  many  regiments  which  would  appear  in  the  preceding  table  of  high  percentages 
were  it  not  that  their  rolls  were  unduly  swelled  by  useless  names  ;  by  conscripts  and  merce- 

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naries  wh<>  deserted  on  their  way  to  the  front  ;  and  by  transfers  from  disbanded  regiments, 
in  which  t<>.>  large  a  nnml>er  of  the  men  appeared  on  the  transfer  papers  only.  An  attempt 
has  been  made  in  the  succeeding  pages  to  render  justice  to  such  regiments  by  tabulating  the 
original  enrollment  separately,  and  stating  the  percentage  of  killed  as  based  on  that.  In  the 
Fifth  New  Hampshire,  which  does  not  ap}X3ar  in  the  table  of  high  percentages,  17.!)  jnjr  cent, 
of  the  original  regiment  were  killed  or  mortally  wounded. 

Care  was  necessary,  also,  to  avoid  counting  names  twice,  as  in  many  regiments  men  were 
transferred  from  one  company  to  another,  their  names  appearing  on  the  muster  out  rolls  of 
each  company.  In  the  printed  rolls  of  the  New  Jersey  troops  these  men  are  counted  twice  in 
the  recapitulation  which  appears  at  the  end  of  each  regimental  roll,  thereby  increasing,  appar 
ently,  the  quota  of  men  furnished,  but  lowering  the  percentage  of  killed.  Still,  the  printed 
rolls  of  the  New  Jersey  regiments  are  in  better  shape  than  those  of  any  other  State,  and  are 
highly  creditable  to  the  authorities  who  had  charge  of  the  publication  In  the  regimental 
rolls  published  by  Massachusetts,  the  names  of  those  who  reenlisted  appear  twice  ;  and  in  all 
the  State  rolls  names  are  duplicated  more  or  less  as  the  result  of  transfers  or  consolidation  of 
companies.  On  the  War  Department  records,  a  man  who  reenlisted  was  counted  as  two 
men,  and  so  credited  on  the  quota  of  the  State. 

In  the  figures  given  here,  pains  have  been  taken  to  avoid  counting  a  man  more  than  once, 
the  intention  being  that  the  total  enrollment  should  show  exactly  the  number  of  individuals 
who  served  iu  each  regiment. 


H 


CHAPTER  II. 


MAXIMUM   OF  REGIMENTAL  LOSS   IN   KILLED   IN   ANY   ONE   BATTLE - 

PROPORTION   OF   WOUNDED   TO   KILLED. 

AVING-  arrived  at  the  maximum  of  killed  in  a  regiment  during  its  term  of  service  with 
its  many  battles,  the  question  naturally  arises  as  to  the  greatest  number  killed  in  any 
one  action.  There  has  been  a  great  deal  of  exaggeration  regarding  regimental  losses  in 
particular  battles,  especially  in  instances  where  the  loss  was  comparatively  small ;  while  some 
regiments  which  really  sustained  heroic  losses  are  never  mentioned  in  this  particular.  The 
figures  in  connection  with  this  subject  are  interesting,  as  they  show  the  extreme  limit  of  loss 
in  human  life  during  a  battle,  in  a  regiment  of  the  size  common  to  the  American  Armies. 
Larger  figures,  of  course,  may  be  found  in  the  casualty  lists  of  the  German  regiments  in  the 
Franco-Prussian  war,  but  these  regiments  contained  three  times  as  many  men. 

Although  the  casualty  lists  of  a  regiment  are  always  stated  in  killed,  wounded,  and 
missing,  the  appended  list  shows  only  the  killed,  including  those  who  died  of  their  wounds. 
Farther  on,  in  the  "List  of  Battles,  with  Regiments  sustaining  Highest  Loss  in  Each,"  these 
same  losses  are  given  again,  showing  the  number  of  killed,  wounded,  and  missing  ;  but  in 
that  table  the  mortally  wounded  are  included  with  the  wounded  instead  of  with  the  killed. 

The  surviving  wounded  and  the  missing  are  omitted  in  the  following  list,  in  order  to 
emphasize  the  more  important  feature  of  the  loss,  and  the  consequent  relative  position  of  the 
various  regiments  in  this  respect.  The  losses  of  the  different  commands  can  be  compared 
better  by  eliminating  the  somewhat  indefinite  factor  of  the  wounded  and  missing,  and  tabu 
lating  the  regiments  with  regard  only  to  the  killed  and  died  of  wounds. 

This  list  has  been  prepared  after  a  careful  examination  of  the  muster-out  rolls  of  every 
regiment  whose  losses  would  indicate  that  they  might  possibly  have  a  place  in  this  column. 
In  each  case  the  rolls  have  been  examined  name  by  name,  in  order  to  count  the  ones  recorded 
there  as  killed  or  mortally  wounded  in  the  battles  mentioned.  The  list  includes  every  regiment 
in  the  Union  Armies  which  sustained,  in  any  one  battle,  a  loss  in  killed  or  mortally  wounded 
of  fifty  or  more. 

The  First  Maine  Heavy  Artillery  took  050  officers  and  men  into  the  assault  on  Petersburg, 
June  18th,  ISfJ-t,  and  the  Fifth  New  York  took  4-iM)  into  the  fight  at  Manassas.  These  figures 
must  be  borne  in  mind  in  case  of  a  comparison  with  the  maximum  battle-loss  of  regiments  in 
foreign  wars.  Still  higher  percentages,  however,  occurred  at  times  during  the  Civil  War, 
and  will  be  found  recorded  farther  on. 


M  \\IMIM  <>!•• 


Loss  IN   I'AKTK  i  i.  AK  ENGAGEMENTS. 


17 


MAXIMUM  OF  REGIMENTAL    LOSS    IN    KILLED    AND    DIED    OF    WOUNDS    IN 

PARTICULAR    ENGAGEMENTS. 


HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 


Regiment. 

1st  Maine* 
8th  New  York 
1st  Maine 
2d    Connecticut 
7th  New  York* 
1st  Massachusetts* 
9th  New  York* 
3d    Pennsylvania 
Uth  New  York 
7th  New  York 
1st  Massachusetts 
2d    New  York 
Oth  New  York 


5th  New  York  * 
15th  New  Jersey 
49th  Pennsylvania 
15th  Massachusetts^ 

1st  Kansas 

1st  Missouri 

9th  Illinois* 
ISth  U.  S.  Infantry* 
llth  Illinois 
121st  New  York* 
70th  New  York 
24th  Michigan 
57th  Massachusetts 
61st  Pennsylvania 
145th  Pennsylvania 
11 1th  New  York* 
22d    Michigan 
20th  Wisconsin 

9th  Massachusetts 

8th  U.  S.  Colored 
32d    Iowa 
55th  Illinois 

4th  Vermont 
22d    Massachusetts 


Battle. 

Petersburg! 
Cold  Harbor 
SpotsylvaniaJ 
Cold  Harbor 
Cold  Harbor 

8potsylvania$ 

Cedar  Creek 

Petersburg^ 
Petersburg§ 
Petersburg 
Petersburgf 
Petersburg^ 
Monocacy 


Division. 

Birney's 

Gibbon's 

Tyler's 

Russell's 

Barlow's 

Tyler's 

Ricketts's 

Willcox's 

W  illcox's 

Barlow's 

Birney's 

Barlow's 

Ricketts's 


INFANTRY. 


Manassas 
Spotsylvania  \ 
Spotsylvania  || 
Antietam 
Wilson's  Creek 
Wilson's  Creek 
Shiloh 

Stone's  River 
Fort  Donelson 
Salem  Church 
Williamsburg 
Gettysburg 
Wilderness 
Fair  Oaks 
Fredericksburg 
Gettysburg 
Chickamauga 
Prairie  Grove 
Gaines's  Mill 
Olustee 
Pleasant  Hill 
Shiloh 
Wilderness 
Gaines's  Mill 


Sykes's 

Russell's 

Russell's 

Sedgwick's 

Lyon's 

Lyon's 

W.  H.  Wallace's 

Rousseau's 

McClernand's 

Brooks's 

Hooker's 

Wadsworth's 

Stevenson's 

Couch's 

Hancock's 

Alex.  Hays's 

Morgan's 

Herron's 

Morell's 

Seymour's 

Mower's 

Sherman's 

Getty's 

Morell's 


Corps. 

Second 

Second 

Second 

Sixth 

Second 

Second 

Sixth 

Ninth 

Ninth 

Second 

Second 

Second 

Sixth 


F.  J.  Porter's 
Sixth 
Sixth 
Second 


Fourteenth 


Sixth 

Third 

First 

Ninth 

Fourth 

Second 

Second 

Reserve 

Fifth 

Tenth 

Sixteenth 


Sixtli 
Fifth 


Killed. 

210 

207 

147 

129 

127 

120 

64 

64 

57 

55 

54 

54 

51 


117 

110 

109 

10S 

10<5 

103 

103 

102 

102 

97 

97 

94 

94 

92 

91 

88 

- 

88 

87 

87 

86 

86 

84 

84 


*  This  regiment  api>ears  again  in  this  same  list.  t  Assault  of  June  18,  10M.  t  rYederk-ksburx  Pike,  May  19,  18M. 

$  Assault  of  June  17,  ISM.  '•  Includes  losses  from  May  8th  to  May  I3th. 

1 1ncludes  a  company  of  the  "  Andrew  Sharpshooters."  whiuti  was  jnjrmanently  attached  to  this  regiment. 

2 


18 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment, 

13th  U.  S.  Colored 
10th  Ohio 
49th  Ohio 

2d  Wisconsin 
48th  New  York 
15th  Kentucky 
36th  Wisconsin 
24th  New  York 
23d  U.  S.  Colored  Inf. 

8th  Illinois 
16th  Wisconsin 
43d     Illinois 
16th  Michigan 
118th  Pennsylvania 

7th  New  Hampshire* 
72d    New  York 

1st   Wisconsin 
12th  U.  S.  Infantry 
16th  Maine 

1st   Minnesota 

2d     Vermont 
21st    Illinois 
24th  Iowa 
12th  Massachusetts 
25th  Massachusetts 

7th  Iowa 

9th  Iowa 
18th  Illinois 
35th  Massachusetts 
12th  New  Hampshire* 

5th  Vermont* 
19th  Iowa 

9th  Ohio 
38th  Ohio 
81st   New  York 
93d     New  York 
llth  Pennsylvania 
59th  New  York 
69th  New  York 
llth  Penn.  Reserves 
23d     Pennsylvania 
75th  Illinois 
77th  Ohio 
40th  Illinois 

loth  Illinois 


Battle. 

Nashville 
Chaplin  Hillsf 
Pickett's  Mills 
Manassas  \ 
Fort  Wagner 
Chaplin  Hills 
Cold  Harbor  || 
Manassas 
Petersburg  Mine 
Fort  Donelson 
Shiloh 
Shiloh 
Games'  Mill 
Shepherdstown 
Fort  Wagner 
Williamsburg 
Chaplin  Hills 
Games'  Mill 
Fredericksburg 
Gettysburg 
Wilderness 
•[Stone's  River 
Champion's  Hill 
Aiitietam 
Cold  Harbor 
Belmont 
Pea  Ridge 
Fort  Donelson 
Antietam 
Chancellors  ville 
Savage  Station 
Prairie  Grove 
Chickamauga 
Jonesboro 
Cold  Harbor 
Wilderness 
Manassas  ** 
Antietam 
Antietam 
Games'  Mill 
Cold  Harbor 
Chaplin  Hills 
Shiloh 
Shiloh 
Shiloh 


Division. 

Cruft's 

Rousseau's 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Hatch's 

Seymour's 

Rousseau's 

Gibbon's 

Hatch's 

Ferrero's 

McClernand's 

Prentiss's 

McClernand's 

MorelPs 

Morell's 

Seymour's 

Hooker's 

Rousseau's 

Sykes's 

Gibbon's 

Gibbon's 

Getty's 

Davis' s 

Hovey's 

Ricketts's 

Martindale's 

Grant's 

E.  A.  Carr's 

McClernand's 

Sturgis's 

Whipple's 

W.  F.  Smith's 

Herron's 

Brannan's 

Baird's 

Brooks' s 

Birney's 

Ricketts's 

Sedgwick's 

Richardson's 

McCall's 

Russell's 

Mitchell's 

Sherman's 

Sherman's 

Hurlbut's 


Corps. 


Fourth 
First  § 
Tenth 

Second 

First 

Ninth 


Fifth 
Fifth 
Tenth 
Third 

Fifth 

First 

Second 

Sixth 

Fourteenth 

Thirteenth 

First 

Eighteenth 


Ninth 
Third 
Sixth 


Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Eighteenth 

Second 

First 

Second 

Second 

Fifth 

Sixth 


Killed. 

84 
84 
83 
83 
83 

82 
81 

81 
81 
81 
79 

78 
78 
78 
77 
77 
77 
76 
76 
75 
75 
75 
75 
74 
74 
74 
74 
74 
73 
72 
72 
72 
72 
72 
72 
72 
72 
71 
71 
71 
71 
71 
71 
71 
70 


*  This  regiment  ap]>ears  again  in  this  same  list.  t  Perryville,  Ky.,  Oct.  8,  18G2.  %  This  loss  occurred  at  Gainesville  on  the  29th 

§The  First  Corps  was  designated  in  that  campaign  the  "Third  Corps,  Army  of  Virginia." 
.Time  1st.  49  killed  ;  June  3d,  32  killed.  1.  Includes  loss  at  Knob  Gap.  **  Includes  22  killed  at  Thoroughfare  Gap. 


MAXIMIM  OK  UKCJIMKNT  VL  Loss  IN  I'AKTHILAK  ENGAGEMENTS. 


19 


Regimatt, 

73d  New  York 

147th  New  York 

16th  Connecticut 

93d  Illinois 

22d  Iowa 

97th  Pennsylvania 

203d  Pennsylvania 

•/ 

6th  Vermont 

5th  New  Hampshire* 

9th  New  Hampshire 
19th  Maine 

:id    Vermont 

7th  U.  S.  Colored 
Uth  Ohio 

8th  Iowa 
32d    Illinois 
84th  Illinois 

6th  New  Hampshire 
67th  New  York 
148th  Pennsylvania 
149th  Pennsylvania 
18th  Kentucky 
96th  Illinois 

3d    New  Hampshire 
12th  New  Hampshire 
30th  New  York 
100th  New  York 
142d     Pennsylvania 
ir>  1st    Pennsylvania 

2d     Michigan 

26th  Pennsylvania 
36th  Illinois 
82d     New  York 
146th   New  York 

46th  Ohio 

28th  Pennsylvania 

72d  Pennsylvania 

4th  New  York 
126th  New  York 

3d     Ohio 
21st  Wisconsin 

5th  U.  S.  Colored 

5th  Vermont 

8th  New  York 

6th  Iowa 
105th  Ohio 

5th  Iowa 


Rattle. 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Antietam 

Champion's  Hill 

Vicksburg  (May  22) 

Bermuda  Hundred 

Fort  Fisher 

Wilderness 

Cold  Harbor 

Spotsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Wilderness 

Fort  Gi  liner 

Chickamauga 

Shiloh 

Shiloh 

Stone's  River 

Manassas 

Fair  Oaks 

Spotsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Richmond 

Chickamauga 

Drewrv's  Bluff 

V 

Cold  Harbor 

Manassas 

Fort  Wagner 

Fredericksburg 

Gettysburg 

Petersburg  t 

Gettysburg 

Stone's  River 

( i.-n  \  sburg 

Wilderness 

Shiloh 

Antietam 

Gettysburg 

Antietam 

Gettysburg 

Chaplin  Hills 

Chaplin  Hills 

Chaffin's  Farm 

Wilderness 

Cross  Keys 

Shiloh 

Chaplin  Hills 

luka 


Division, 

Corps. 

Kilted. 

Huiuphreys's 

Third 

70 

Wadsworth's 

First 

76 

Sturgis's 

Ninth 

7o 

Crocker's 

Seventeenth 

70 

E.  A.  Carr's 

Thirteenth 

70 

Ames's 

Tenth 

7«i 

Ames's 

Tenth 

6!i 

Getty's 

Sixth 

69 

Barlow's 

Second 

69 

Potter's 

Ninth 

68 

Gibbon's 

Second 

68 

Getty's 

Sixth 

68 

Paine's 

Eighteenth 

6S 

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

68 

W.  H.  Wallace's 

6s 

Hurlbut's 

68 

Palmer's 

Fourteenth 

67 

Reno's 

Ninth 

67 

Couch's 

Fourth 

67 

Barlow's 

Second 

67 

Doubleday's 

First 

67 

Nelson's 

66 

Steed  man's 

Reserve 

r.6 

Terry's 

Tenth 

66 

Brooks' 

Eighteenth 

66 

Hatch's 

First 

66 

Seymour's 

Tenth 

66 

Meade's 

First 

66 

Doubleday's 

First 

66 

Wlllcox's 

Ninth 

65 

Humphreys's 

Third 

t;;. 

Sheridan's 

Fourteenth 

65 

Gibbon's 

Second 

65 

Ay  res'  s 

Fifth 

65 

Sherman's 

65 

Greene's 

Twelfth 

64 

Gibbon's 

Second 

64 

French's 

Second 

64 

Alex.  Hays's 

Second 

64 

Rousseau's 



64 

Rousseau's 



64 

Paine's 

Eighteenth 

68 

Getty's 

Sixth 

63 

Blenker's 



63 

Sherman's 



63 

Jackson's 

75 

Hamilton's 



62 

*  This 


:ii>|  tears  a^ain  hi  tins  same  list. 


t  Assault  uf.Iim.'  17,  ltd. 


20 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAK. 


19th 
141st 
8th 
98th 
140th 
83d 
Oth 
87th 
10th 
125th 
8th 
26th 
121st 
134th 
27th 
14th 
6th 
lllth 
63d 
76th 
83d 
96th 
2Sth 
31st 
47th 
55th 
125th 
26th 
54th 
3d 
42d 
157th 
118th 
124th 
14th 
7th 
143d 
150th 
22d 
46th 
7th 
37th 
1st 
2d 
28th 
6th 


Regiment. 

Indiana 

Pennsylvania 

Michigan 

Ohio 

Pennsylvania 

Pennsylvania 

U.  S.  Colored 

Indiana 

Iowa 

Illinois 

Kansas 

Wisconsin* 

New  York 

New  York 

Michigan 

New  Hampshire 

New  Jersey 

New  York 

New  York 

Pennsylvania 

Pennsylvania* 

Pennsylvania 

Illinois 

Illinois 

Pennsylvania 

Pennsylvania 

Pennsylvania 

Massachusetts 

Massachusetts  (Col'd) 

New  Jersey 

New  York 

New  York 

New  York 

New  York 

New  Jersey 

Michigan 

Pennsylvania 

Pennsylvania 

Indiana 

Illinois 

Wisconsin* 

Wisconsin*  f 

Delaware 

Massachusetts 

Massachusetts 

Maine 


Battle. 

Manassas 

Chancellorsville 

James'  Island 

Chaplin  Hills 

Gettysburg 

Games'  Mill 

Chaffin's  Farm 

Chickamauga 

Champion's  Hill 

Kenesaw 

Chickamauga 

Gettysburg 

Spotsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Spotsylvania 

Opequon 

Williamsburg 

Wilderness 

Antietam 

Fort  Wagner  £ 

Spotsylvania 

Spotsylvania 

Shiloh 

Fort  Donelson 

Cedar  Creek 

Drewry's  Bluff 

Antietam 

Opequon 

Fort  Wagner 

Games'  Mill 

Antietam 

Gettysburg 

Drewry's  Bluff 

Chancellorsville 

Cold  Harbor 

Antietam 

Wilderness 

Gettysburg 

Chaplin  Hills 

Shiloh 

Wilderness 

Petersburg 

Antietam 

Cedar  Mountain 

Manassas 

Rappahannock  Sta. 


Division. 

Hatch's 

Birney's 

Stevens's 

Jackson's 

Caldwell's 

Morel! 's 

Paine's 

Brannan's 

Crocker's 

Davis' s 

Davis's 

Schurz's 

Russell's 

Steinwehr's 

Willcox's 

Grover's 

Hooker's 

Barlow's 

Richardson's 

Seymour's 

Griffin's 

Wright's 

Hurlbut's 

McClernand's 

Dwight's 

Ames's 

Williams' s 

Grover's 

Seymour's 

Slocum's 

Sedgwick's 

Schurz's 

Brooks's 

Whipple's 

Ricketts's 

Sedgwick's 

Wadsworth's 

Doubleday's 

Mitchell's 

Hurlbut's 

Wadsworth's 

Willcox's 

French's 

Williams' s 

Stevens's 

Wright's 


Corps. 

First 
Third 


Second 

Fifth 

Eighteenth 

Fourteenth 

Seventeenth 

Fourteenth 

Twentieth 

Eleventh 

Sixth 

Eleventh 

Ninth 

Nineteenth 

Third 

Second 

Second 

Tenth 

Fifth 

Sixth 


Nineteenth 

Tenth 

Twelfth 

Nineteenth 

Tenth 

Sixth 

Second 

Eleventh 

Eighteenth 

Third 

Sixth 

Second 

First 

First 


First 

Ninth 

Second 

Twelfth  § 

Ninth 

Sixth 


Killed. 

62 

62 

61 

66 

61 

61 

61 

61 

61 

61 

61 

61 

60 

60 

60 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

59 

58 

58 

58 

58 

58 

58 

58 

58 

58 

58 

57 

57 

57 

57 

57 

57 

57 

57 

57 

57 

56 

56 

56 

56 


«  This  regiment  appears  again  in  this  same  list  +  Assault  of  Juno  17,  1864.  %  Assault  of  July  11,  186-1— not  the  main  assault. 

S  Banks'  Corps,  then  designated— but  for  a  short  time  only— the  "  Seeond  Corps,  Army  of  Virginia." 


MAXIMUM  OF  RKUIMKNTAL  Loss  IN  PARTICULAR  KNUAUKMKNTS. 


"21 


Rfgintfnt. 

7th  New  York 
164th  New  York 
69th  Pennsylvania 
105th  Pennsylvania* 
1 19th  Pennsylvania 
46th  Pennsylvania* 
188th  Pennsylvania 
Oth  Illinois 
38th  Illinois 
37th  Wisconsin 
5th  New  York 
140th  New  York 
155th  New  York 
Oth  New  York 
21st  New  York 
40th  New  York 
1 12th  New  York 
115th  New  York 
120th  New  York 
17th  Maine 
18th  Massachusetts 
37th  Massachusetts 
1st   Michigan 
4th  Michigan 
7th  Ohio 

18th  U.  S.  Infantry 
10th  Vermont 
2d    Iowa 
71st   Indiana 
79th  Pennsylvania 
105th  Pennsylvania 
26th  Michigan 
26th  Wisconsin 
10th  Wisconsin 
38th  Ohio 
26th  Indiana 
llth  Iowa 
13th  Iowa 
15th  Indiana 
4th  New  Jersey 
24th  New  Jersey 
49th  New  York 
137th  New  York 

1st   Michigan  (S.  S.) 
26th  Ohio 
65th  Ohio 


Battle. 

Fredericksburg 

Cold  Harl)or 

( Jettyshurg 

Wilderness 

Spotsylvania 

Cedar  Mountain 

Cold  Harhor 

Fort  Donelson 

Stone's  River 

Petershurg  Mine 

Games'  Mill 

Wilderness 

Cold  Harlwr 

Antietani 

Manassas 

Wilderness 

Cold  Harbor 

Olustee 

Gettysburg 

Wilderness 

Manassas 

Wilderness 

Manassas 

Malvern  Hill 

Cedar  Mountain 

Chickamauga 

Cold  Harl>or 

Fort  Donelson 

Richmond 

Chaplin  Hills 

Fair  Oaks 

Spotsylvania 

Chancellorsville 

Chaplin  Hills 

Chickasaw  Bluffs 

Prairie  Grove 

Shiloh 

Atlanta  (July  22d) 

Stone's  River 

Games'  Mill 

Fredericksburg 

Spotsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Spotsylvania 

Chickamauga 

Stone's  River 


Division. 

Hancock's 

Gibbon's 

Gihlxm's 

Birney's 

Russell's 

Williams's 

Brooks's 

C.  F.  Smith's 

Davis's 

Willcox's 

Sykes's 

Griffin's 

Gibbon's 

Rodman's 

Hatch's 

Birney's 

Devens's 

Seymour's 

Humpbreys's 

Birney's 

Morell's 

Getty's 

Morell's 

Morell's 

Augur's 

Baud's 

Ricketts's 

C.  F.  Smith's 

Nelson's 

Rousseau's 

Kearny's 

Barlow's 

Schurz's 

Rousseau's 

Steele's 

Herron's 

McClernand's 

Giles  A.  Smith's 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Slocum's 

French's 

Getty's 

Geary's 

Willcox's 

T.  J.  Wood's 

T.  J.  Wood's 


Corps, 

Second 

Second 

Second 

Second 

Sixth 

Twelfth  f 

Eighteenth 

Fourteenth 

Ninth 

Fifth 

Fifth 

Second 

Ninth 

First 

Second 

Tenth 

Tenth 

Third 

Second 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Fifth 

Fifth 

Twelfth 

Fourteenth 

Sixth 


Third 

Second 

Eleventh 


Fifteenth 


Seventeenth 

Fourteenth 

Sixth 

Second 

Sixth 

Twelfth 

Ninth 

Twenty-first 

Fourteenth 


Kitted. 

5C 
56 
5C 
56 
60 
55 
65 
55 
55 
55 
65 
55 
55 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 

.  54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
54 
53 
53 
53 
52 
52 
52 
52 
52 
52 
52 
52 
62 
52 
52 
52 
52 


*  This  regiment  api>ears  again  in  this  same  list. 

t  Banks'  Corps,  then  designated— but  for  a  short  time  only— the  "  Second  Corps,  Army  of  Virginia.' 


22 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN   THE   ClVIL  WAR. 


6th 

21st 
101st 

8th 
47th 
12th 

7th 

5th 
46th 
14th 
20th 
80th 
26th 
26th 
64th 
83d 
12th 

2d 
24th 


Regiment. 

Ohio 

Ohio 

Ohio 

Connecticut 

Indiana 

Wisconsin 

New  Hampshire 

New  Hampshire 

Pennsylvania 

Illinois 

New  York 

New  York 

New  York* 

New  York 

New  York 

Pennsylvania 

Missouri 

Minnesota 

Indiana 


Battk. 

Stone's  River 

Chickamauga 

Stone's  River 

Antietam 

Champion's  Hill 

Atlanta  (July  22d) 

Olustee 

Fredericksburg 

Peach  Tree  Creek 

Shiloh 

Antietam 

Manassas 

Fredericksbur 

Antietam 

Fair  Oaks 

Malvern  Hill 

Vicksburg  (May  22) 

Chickamauga 

Champion's  Hill 


Division. 

Palmer's 

Negley's 

Davis's 

Rodman's 

Hovey's 

Leggett's 

Seymour's 

Hancock's 

Williams' s 

Hurlbut's 

W.  F.  Smith's 

Hatch's 

Gibbon's 

Ricketts's 

Richardson's 

Morell's 

Steele's 

Brannan's 

Hovey's 


Corps. 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Ninth 

Thirteenth 

Seventeenth 

Tenth 

Second 

Twentieth 


Sixth 

First 

First 

First 

Second 

Fifth 

Fifteenth 

Fourteenth 

Thirteenth 


Killed. 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
51 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 


There  are  certain  regiments  which  do  not  appear  in  the  foregoing  table,  and  yet  they 
were  regiments  which  had  encountered  an  unusual  amount  of  hard  fighting.  They  had  been 
in  too  many  battles  and  sustained  heavy  losses  in  too  many  of  them,  to  allow  a  surpris 
ing  loss  in  any  one.  Notably  among  such  were  the  Twentieth  and  Twenty-eighth  Massachu 
setts,  the  Fourteenth  Connecticut,  the  Ninth  Maine,  the  Second  New  Hampshire,  the  Forty- 
fourth,  Fifty-first,  and  Sixty-first  New  York,  the  Forty-fifth,  Fifty-third,  Eighty- first,  and 
One  Hundredth  Pennsylvania,  the  Fifth  Michigan,  the  Fifth  and  Sixth  Wisconsin,  the 
Twentieth  and  Twenty-seventh  Indiana,  the  Fifteenth  Ohio,  and  the  Forty-second  Illinois. 

In  these  figures  the  mortally  wounded  are  included  with  the  killed,  as  the  object  is  to 
state  clearly  the  loss  of  life  in  each  instance  instead  of  the  total  casualties.  The  proportion 
of  the  wounded  to  the  number  killed  or  died  of  wounds  is  very  near  2.5.  This  ratio  is  based 
on  the  figures,  after  the  mortally  wounded  have  been  deducted  from  the  wounded  and  added 
to  the  killed. 

This  ratio  of  2. 5  must  not  be  confounded  with  the  one  representing  the  usual  propor 
tion  of  wounded  to  killed,  as  shown  in  statements  of  aggregate  losses  in  battle.  In  such 
losses  the  proportion  of  wounded  to  the  killed  is  about  4.8,  the  mortally  wounded  being 
always  included  with  the  wounded  ;  for  the  casualty  lists  are  made  up  at  the  close  of  the 
battle,  and  with  the  killed  are  included  only  those  who  died  on  the  field.  In  all  such  state 
ments — of  killed,  wounded,  and  missing — the  mortally  wounded  are  necessarily  included 
with  the  wounded,  and  the  word  killed  refers  only  to  those  who  were  killed  outright,  or  died 
within  a  few  hours. 

The  proportion  of  4. 8  is  an  average  ratio  as  regards  the  aggregate  of  losses  in  battle,  but 
is  not  a  constant  one.  It  varies  somewhat,  the  proportion  of  killed  increasing  where  the 
fighting  is  close  and  destructive,  while  in  long  range  fighting  the  proportion  of  wounded 
increases. 


*  This  regiment  appears  again  in  this  same  list. 


PROPORTION    "1     \VOUNDKD   TO    KlI.I.Kh 


PROPORTION  OF  WOUNDED  TO  KILLED. 


Rattles.  Killed. 

Shiloh.  1,754 

Mill  Springs  .  30 

Fort  Donelson  .  500 

Pea  Ridge  .  203 

New  Berne 90 

Kernsto  wn 118 

Williamsburg...  45(5 

Fair  Oaks 790 

Seven  Days.  1,734 

Cedar  Mountain  .  314 

Manassas  -  1 , 747 

South  Mountain  .  325 

Grampton's  Gap  .  113 

Antietam.  2,108 

I uka  .  141 

Corinth  .  355 

Chaplin  Hills  .  845 

Chickasaw  Bluffs  .  208 

Arkansas  Post.  134 

Gettysburg  .  3,063 

Vicksburg  Campaign.  1,514 

Port  Hudson  ...  707 
Rappahannock  Station  . 

Fort  Wagner  (July  IS)  .  240 

Mine  Run  .  173 

Missionary  Ridge 752 

Wilderness  .  2,246 

Spotsyl  vania .  2, 725 

North  Anna  and  ) 

.,,                             f 591 

Totopotonioy 

Cold  Harbor  and  )  ^. 
Bethesda  Church  I 

Petersburg,  June  15-18.  1,688 

Deep  Bottom  327 

Atlanta  Campaign  .  4,423 

Opequon  697 

Cedar  Creek  .  644 

21  Minor  Engagements.  835 

Total.  34,532 


Wounded, 
including  mortally. 

8,408 

207 
2,108 

980 

380 

450 
1,410 
3,594 
8,062 
1,445 
8,452 
1,403 

418 
9,549 

613 
1,841 
2,851 
1,005 

898 

14,492 

7,395 

3,336 

328 

880 

1,099 

4,713 

12,037 

13,416 

2,734 

9,077 

8,513 
1,851 

22,822 
3,983 
3,430 
4,597 


168,777 


Captured 
and  Mining. 

2,885 

224 

201 

1 

22 

373 

647 

6,053 

622 

4,263 

85 

2 

753 

36 

324 

515 

563 

29 

5,435 

453 

819 

6 

389 

381 

349 

3,383 

2,258 

661 

1,816 

1,185 

721 
4,442 

338 
1,591 

461 

41,786 


Ratio  of  Wounded 
/<•  Killed. 

4.7 
5.3 
4.2 

4.8 
4.2 
3.H 
3.0 
4.5 
4.6 
4.5 
4.s 
4.3 
3.6 
4.5 
4.3 
5.1 
8.3 
4.8 
6.7 
4.7 
4.s 

4.7 
3.9 
3.5 
6.3 
6.2 
5.3 
4.9 

4.6 

4.9 

5.0 
5.6 
5.1 
5.7 
5.3 
5.5 

4.8 


Included  in  the  "Captured  and  Missing"  are  many  wounded  men,  also  a  large  numtor 
of  killed.  Their  relative  proportion  cannot  1x3  ascertained,  but  it  probably  would  not  differ 
enough  from  the  usual  ratio  to  change  the  average  to  any  extent.  In  the  preceding  table  the 
losses  at  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Cliickamauga,  and  Drewry's  Bluff  are  omitted. 


24  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

In  those  battles  the  Union  Armies  lost  possession  of  the  field,  and  consequently  a  large 
number  of  the  killed  are  included  with  the  missing  — so  large  a  number  that  any  ratio  based 
on  the  casualties  of  these  battles  would  be  misleading. 

In  the  German  army,  during  the  Franco-Prussian  war,  the  proportion  of  wounded  to 
the  killed  was  5.4,  and  the  proportion  of  wounded  to  the  killed  and  mortally  wounded  was 

3.02.* 

Mr.  Kirkley,  the  statistician  of  the  War  Department,  states  the  deaths  from  battles 
during  the  Civil  War  at  110,070,  of  which  67,058  are  classified  as  killed  in  action,  and  43,012 
as  having  died  of  womids.  From  this  it  appears  that,  011  the  average,  the  mortally  wounded 
are  equal  to  64  per  cent,  of  the  killed,  f  Hence,  the  proportion  of  wounded  to  killed  may  be 
expressed  by  the  following  formulas,  the  first  showing  the  proportion  where  the  mortally 
wounded  are  included  with  the  wounded,  and  the  second  where  they  are  included  with  the 
killed. 

Killed.      Wounded.  Killed.  Wounded. 

(a)  100  +  480  :   :  580  or  as  1         :        4.8 

(6)  164  +  416  :   :  580  or  as  1         :        2.5 

The  first  represents  the  common  form  used  in  stating  the  casualties  at  the  close  of  an 
action  ;  the  second  represents  the  same  loss,  after  the  number  of  those  who  died  of  wounds 
has  been  ascertained  from  the  muster-out  rolls,  and  added  to  the  killed  outright.  The  first 
is  the  common  one  used  in  all  military  reports  and  histories. 

In  the  Surgeon-General's  Report  of  the  War,  it  appears  that  out  of  235,585  cases  of  gun 
shot  wounds  treated  in  the  hospitals,  33,653  died  of  their  injuries  —  a  ratio  of  14  per  cent.,  and 
one  which  agrees  closely  with  the  conditions  expressed  in  the  preceding  formulas. £ 

From  the  second  formula  it  may  be  deduced,  that  if  110,070  were  killed  or  mortally 
wounded  in  the  war,  the  total  of  casualties  may  be  further  stated  as  :  - 

Killed  and  Died  of  Wounds  (official)  .  110,070 

Wounded,  not  mortally.  275,175 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded 385,245 

If  these  formulas  are  correct  they  are  of  value,  as  there  is  no  other  way  of  arriving  at  the 
total  number  of  killed  and  wounded  in  the  war.  There  were  so  many  minor  engagements  for 
which  no  official  returns  of  casualties  were  made,  that  any  summary  of  the  casualties  by 
battles  would  fall  far  short  of  the  correct  amount. 

The  number  of  wounded  treated  at  the  hospitals  during  the  war  was  246,712,  which, 
according  to  the  Surgeon-General's  estimate,  embraced  nine-tenths  of  all  the  wounded.  Of 
these  hospital  cases,  only  922  were  wounded  by  sabres  or  bayonets,  and  a  large  proportion  of 
these  originated  in  private  quarrels,  or  were  inflicted  by  camp-guards  in  the  discharge  of 
their  duty. 

This  ratio  of  4.8,  though  true  in  the  aggregate,  varies  greatly  in  particular  instances; 
though  generally  correct  as  to  the  loss  of  an  army  in  battle,  it  will  not  always  hold  good  for 
a  particular  regiment.  Still,  the  same  regiment  which  in  some  one  engagement  may  show  a 


*  The  loss  in  tho  German  army  was  17,572  killed,  9C.187  wounded,  and  14,138  missing ;  total,  127,897.  With  the  killed  are  included  6,210  who 
were  trortally  wounded,  hut  died  within  24  hours.  Tho  deaths  from  wounds  prior  to  May  1,  1871,  increased  the  number  of  killed  to  28.277.  The 
missing  were  subsequent! y  accounted  for,  with  tho  exception  of  4,000.  The  total  deaths  in  the  German  army— in  the  field— during  the  war  were 
2H.37T  killed  ;  died  of  disease  or  other  causes,  12.400 ;  total,  40.743.  Total  strength  of  the  armies,  887,876.  Percentage  of  killed,  3.1;  percentage  of 
deaths  from  all  other  causes,  1.4.— (Dr.  Engel,  Director  des  koniglich  preussisohen  statistischen  Bureaus.) 

t  In  the  German  Arniy-Franco-Prussian  War— there  were  17,572  killed,  and  10,707  who  died  of  their  wounds,  the  mortally  wounded  being 
equal  to  01  per  cent,  of  the  killed. 

t  In  the  Crimean  War,  13.7  of  the  wounded  died  of  their  wounds.— (Wm.  Barwick  Hodge,  Journal  of  the  London  Statistical  Society.) 


NUMBKK  KILLED  AT  GETTYSBURG.  25 

fur  different  proportion,  will  in  its  aggregate  of  battles,  show  the  usual  ratio;  particularly  so 
if  its  losses  are  not  complicated  by  too  large  a  number  of  missing. 

The  exact  number  of  wounded  who  die  of  injuries  received  in  any  l>attle  is  an  important 
element  in  this  matter  of  losses  in  action.  The  man  who  dies  under  the  surgeon's  knife  should 
be  included  with  the  killed  as  well  as  the  one  who,  a  few  hours  before,  slowly  bled  to  death 
upon  the  field.  The  mangled  soldier  who  survived  a  day  belongs  with  the  killed  as  much 
as  the  one  who  was  buried  where  he  fell.  And,  yet,  they  never  are.  Take  Gettysburg,  for 
instance.  The  official  figures  for  the  Union  loss  at  Gettysburg  have  lately  been  revised  and 
corrected  at  the  War  Department,  This  final  statement  shows  that  the  Union  Army  lost  at 
Gettysburg  3,003  killed,  14,402  wounded,  and  5,435  missing.  But,  as  usual,  the  mortally 
wounded  are  included  in  the  14,41)2  wounded.  As  no  further  statement  of  this  loss  will  he 
made  by  the  War  Department,  the  question  arises  as  to  how  many  of  the  wounded  died  of 
their  injuries.  How  many  of  the  Union  Army  were  killed  or  died  of  their  wounds  as  a  result 
of  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  ?  What  was  the  actual  loss  of  life  ? 

Hitherto,  this  hn{>ortant  question  has  never  been  answered.  The  writer,  impressed  with 
its  importance,  has  examined  the  rolls  of  each  regiment  which  fought  at  Gettysburg,  and 
picked  off,  name  by  name,  the  number  of  those  who  were  killed  or  died  of  wounds  in  that 
greatest  of  historic  battles.  As  a  result,  it  api>ears  that  5,291  men  lost  their  lives,  fighting  for 
the  Union  on  that  field.  To  the  recapitulation  of  losses,  as  published  by  Mr.  Kirkley  in  1886, 
I  have  attached  here  the  numl>er  of  killed,  as  increased  by  those  who  died  of  wounds,  three- 
fourths  of  whom  died  within  a  week, 

GETTYSBURG,  JULY  1-3,  18G3. 


Captured  Killed  and 

Killed.  Wounded.  or  Missing.  Total.  Died  oj 

Wounds. 


General  Headquarters  4  4 

1st   Army  Corps  503  3,200  2,222  (5,024  1,008 

2d     Army  Corps  700  3,180  30S  4,350  1,238 

3d     Army  Corps  578  3,026  000  4,2 lo  1,050 

5th  Army  Corps  365  1,611  211  2,187  503 

6th  Army  Corps  27  185  30  242  46 

llth  Army  Corps  368  1,022  1,511  3,801  724 

12th  Army  Corps  204  810  67  1,081  32o 

Cavalry  Corps  00  352  407  840  152 

Reserve  Artillery  4i>  187  13  242  7<> 

Total  3,063  14,402  5,435  22,000  5,201 

From  these  figures  it  appears  that  the  Second  Corps  sustained  the  greatest  loss  in  killed, 
although  the  First  Corps  is  credited  with  the  largest  numter  of  casualties.  The  strength  of 
each  Corps,  in  infantry,  present  for  duty  equipped,  June  30,  1863,  was  :- 

First  Corps,         0,403  Fifth  Corps,         11,054  Twelfth  Corps,         8,103 

Second  Corps,  12,363  Sixth  Corps,        14,516  Cavalry  Corps        14,073 

Third  Corps,      11,247  Eleventh  Corps,    0,107  Artillery,  6,602 

It  is  extremely  doubtful,  however,  if  any  one  of  these  corps  carried  into  action  four-fifths 
of  this  reported  strength.  The  returns  for  the  First  Corps  do  not  include  Sk-unianl's  Vermont 
Brigade  (three  regiments),  which  joined  July  2d  ;  the  two  other  regiments  of  this  brigade 
were  with  the  wagon  train. 


CHAPTER     III. 


PERCENTAGE   OF   KILLED   IN    REGIMENTS   IN    PARTICULAR    BATTLES  — COM 
PARISON  OF  SUCH  LOSSES  WITH  THOSE  OF  EUROPEAN  REGIMENTS. 

r~pHE  loss  sustained  by  a  regiment  in  any  battle  can  be  properly  estimated,  only  when  the 
number  of  men  engaged  is  known  and  taken  into  consideration.  The  small  battalion  in 
which  fifty  men  were  killed  must  not  be  classed,  in  point  of  loss,  with  the  large  regiment 
losing  the  same  number.  The  31  men  killed  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-first  New  York, 
at  Peach  Tree  Creek,  was  as  severe  a  loss  as  the  102  killed  in  the  Eleventh  Illinois  at  Fort 
Donelson.  The  percentage  of  loss  in  each  case  was  the  same,  and  the  one  faced  as  hot  a  fire 
as  the  other. 

In  proportion  to  the  number  engaged,  the  greatest  loss  sustained  by  any  regiment,  during 
the  war,  was  that  of  the  First  Minnesota  at  Gettysburg.  This  regiment  was  then  in 
Harrow's  Brigade,  Gibbon's  Division,  Second  Corps.  On  the  afternoon  of  the  second  day  at 
Gettysburg,  the  Union  line  was  driven  back  in  confusion  from  its  position  along  the  Emmetts- 
burg  road.  While  Hancock  wras  "  patching  "  up  a  second  line,  he  perceived  a  column  of  the 
enemy  (Willcox's  Brigade)  emerging  suddenly  from  a  clump  of  trees  near  an  unprotected 
portion  of  his  line.  The  First  Minnesota,  alone  and  unsupported,  was  in  position  near  by, 
and  Hancock,  desirous  of  gaining  time  until  reinforcements  could  be  brought  forward, 
rode  up  to  Colonel  Colville  and  ordered  him  to  take  the  enemy's  colors.*  A  desperate 
fight  ensued,  in  which  the  enemy  was  forced  back,  leaving  their  colors  in  the  hands  of  the 
First  Minnesota.  Speaking  of  this  affair  afterwards,  General  Hancock  is  reported  to  have 
said : 

"  There  is  no  more  gallant  deed  recorded  in  history.  I  ordered  those  men  in  there  because 
I  saw  that  I  must  gain  five  minutes'  time.  Reinforcements  were  coming  on  the  run,  but  I 
knew  that  before  they  could  reach  the  threatened  point  the  Confederates,  unless  checked, 
would  seize  the  position.  I  would  have  ordered  that  regiment  in  if  I  had  known  every  man 
would  be  killed.  It  had  to  be  done,  and  I  was  glad  to  find  such  a  gallant  body  of  men  at 
at  hand,  willing  to  make  the  terrible  sacrifice  that  the  occasion  demanded. " 

The  regiment  took  202  officers  and  men  into  this  affair,  f  It  lost  50  killed  and  174 
wounded,  total,  224  casualties,  nearly  all  of  which  occurred  in  this  fight.  A  remarkable 
feature  of  this  loss  is  that  none  were  missing.  Seventeen  officers  were  killed  or  wounded, 

*  "  Dashing  up  to  the  Colonel,  and  pointing  to  the  Confederate,  column,  he  exclaims:  'Do  you  see  those  colors?  Take  them  !' "—(Gen. 
Francis  A.  Walker:  Hist.  Second  Army  Corps.) 

t  The  morning  report  of  the  First  Minnesota  for  June  80th— the  last  return  made  before  the  battle— shows  27  officers  and  358  men  "  present 
for  duty,"  not  including  a  company  of  sharpshooters  attached  (Co.  L),  which  was  not  present,  having  been  detailed  as  a  support  to  Kirby's 
Battery.  This  number— " present  for  duty"— included  the  non-combatants,  the  Chaplain,  Quartermaster,  three  Surgeons,  Quartermaster- 
Sergeant,  Commissary-Sergeant  and  his  assistants.  Hospital  Steward  and  assistants,  from  ten  to  twenty  musicians,  ten  company  cooks,  officers' 
servants,  and  other  details.  Some,  also,  may  have  fallen  out  on  the  forced  march  to  the  field. 

The  regiment  took  eight  companies  into  this  affair  of  July  2d.  Company  C  was  on  duty  at  Headquarters  as  a  provost-guard,  and  Company  F 
had  been  detailed  elsewhere  on  the  field.  Colonel  Colville  states  that  "the.  loss  on  the  2d  was  215  killed  and  wounded,  out  of  2(52 ";  and  that  on 
the  3d,  "  Companies  F  and  C,  having  rejoined,  brought  the  number  in  that  day's  fight  up  to  about  100  men."— (Letter  to  Major  II.  D.  O'Brien, 
published  in  the  "  Picket  Guard.")  The  casualties  on  the  8d  increased  the  loss  to  224.  There  were  8  officers  and  91  men  for  duty  at  the  close  of 
the  third  day's  battle.  The  number  present  in  action  on  the  2d  (262)  is  the  one  on  which  the  percentage  of  loss  should  be  based,  or  at  least  the 
loss  for  that  day.  The  sharpshooters  (Company  L)  did  not  rejoin  until  after  the  battle  ;  neither  their  number  present  nor  their  casualties  have 
been  included.  9 


PKUCI.M -.\«;K  OK  KILLKD  IN  PARTICULAR  ENGAOKMRNTS.  27 

lln-  lattrr  iiu -hiding  the  Colonel,  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Major,  and  Adjutant.  The  killed,  with 
i  In >se  who  died  of  their  wounds,  numlxM-ed  75,  or  over  28  per  cent,  of  those  engaged —a  per- 
centago  of  killed  unequalled  in  military  statistics.* 

The  next  largest  percentage  of  killed  occurred  at  Spotsylvania,  in  the  Fifteenth  New 
Jersey.  This  regiment  helonged  to  the  First  Jersey  Brigade,  Wright's  Division,  Sixth 
Corps,  and  lost  1H»  killed  or  mortally  wounded  at  Spotsylvania.  Unlike  the  sudden  loss  of 
the  First  Minnesota  at  Gettysburg,  its  casualties  occurred  in  three  different  actions  :  31  were 
lost  on  May  8th,  5  on  May  loth,  and  80  on  May  12th,  at  the  Bloody  Angle.  It  may  he  urg<»d 
that,  these  IxMiig  three  different  affairs,  the  losses  should  not  IK)  consolidated.  If  they  had 
occurred  at  different  places,  as,  for  instance,  South  Mountain  and  Antietam,  the  criticism 
would  hold  good  ;  but  this  fighting  was  done  at  one  place,  and  the  continuous  nervous  strain 
made  it  as  heroic  as  if  the  loss  had  occurred  in  one  brief  charge.  This  regiment  crossed  th<> 
Itapidan  May  5th,  with  444  effective  men.f  It  sustained  hut  a  slight  loss  at  the  Wilderness, 
and  took  432  officers  and  men  into  action  at  Spotsylvania,  of  whom  1 16  were  killed  or  died  of 
wounds — a  loss  of  20  per  cent.  Within  nine  days  after  breaking  camp,  it  was  reduced  to  5 
officers  and  136  men  available  for  action. 

Next,  in  percentage  of  killed  in  particular  engagements,  is  the  Twenty-fifth  Massa 
chusetts  at  Cold  Harlxn*,  then  in  Stannard's  Brigade,  Martindale's  Division,  Eighteenth  Corps. 
This  loss  (x:curred  in  the  assault  on  the  earthworks  at  Cold  Harbor,  where  it  was  subjected 
to  a  terrible  fire.  .  A  Confederate  officer,  describing  the  advance  of  the  Twenty-fifth  against 
his  works,  writes  that  the  heroic  regiment  struggled  forward  under  a  fire  which  seemed  to 
literally  annihilate  them  ;  that  the  whole  line  seemed  to  disapjx»ar  ;  and  he  expresses  wonder 
that  any  could  have  survived.  The  loss  was  53  killed,  13!)  wounded,  and  2S  missing,  "out  of 
310  reported  for  duty  that  morning. "£  On  the  following  day  there  were  only  4  officers  and 
62  men  left  on  duty.  Many  of  the  missing  were  killed.  The  muster-out  rolls  of  the  Twenty- 
fifth  bear  the  names  of  74  officers  and  men  who  were  killed  or  mortally  wounded  during  the 
quarter  of  an  hour  which  covered  that  assault  ;  a  loss  of  24  per  cent,  in  killed,  and  over  two- 
thirds  in  killed  and  wounded.  The  small  number  taken  into  this  action  was  owing  to  the 
heavy  losses  which  the  regiment  had  just  sustained,  a  few  days  previous,  in  the  Drewry's 
Bluff  campaign.  The  Confederate  officer  just  referred  to,  states  further  that  his  men  were 
massed  five  ranks  deep  behind  their  breastworks  ;  that  the  front  rank  alone  fired,  while  the 
others  passed  up  loaded  rifles,  which  were  discharged  as  rapidly  as  they  could  1x3  fired  ;  that, 
in  addition  to  this,  the  artillery  posted  in  the  salients,  poured  a  flanking  fire  of  canister  into 
the  ranks  of  the  doomed  regiment. 

A  smaller  loss  as  to  the  number  killed,  but  equally  remarkable  as  to  percentage,  is  found 
in  the  record  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-first  Pennsylvania  at  Gettysburg,  This  regiment 
was,  at  that  time,  in  Graham's  Brigade,  Bimey's  Division,  Third  Corps.  It  had  already  lost 
at  Chancellorsville  235  (killed,  wounded,  and  missing)  out  of  417  engaged  there.  At 
Gettysburg,  only  198  answered  to  the  morning  roll  call,$  of  whom  25  were  killed,  103  wounded, 
and  21  missing  ;  total,  140.  The  killed,  with  those  who  died  of  wounds,  numl>ered  49,  or  24 
per  cent,  of  those  engaged.  The  One  Hundred  and  Forty-first  fought  at  Gettysburg  in  the 

famous  Peach  Orchard. 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  losses  in  the  war,  both  in  numlx'rs  and  j>ercentage,  occurred 
at  Manassas,  in  Gen.  Fitz  John  Porter's  Corps,  in  the  celebrated  Duryee  Zouaves  (Fifth  New 
York),  of  Warren's  Brigade,  Sykes'  Division.  General  Sykes,  in  his  official  report,  states 


•  There  have  been  affairs  known  as  "  massanvs,"  In  wl.i.-Ii  all.  or  nearly  all.  have  lost  th.-ir  lives.     In  the  hattle  ..f  the  Uttle  tt\g  Horn  (I 
a  fight  between  some  hostile  tribes  of  Indians  and  a  d.-Uwhnu-nt  ..f  the  Seventh  U.  8.  Cavalry  under  (ten.  Custer.  tho  entire  coraman.! 
latter  was  annihilated.    Fourteen  officers  and  230  enlisUxl  men  were  killed,  including  (Jen.  CusUjr.    Not  one  escaped 
and  fought  to  the  death. 

t  Foster :  New  Jersey  in  the  Rebellion.  t  Capt.  J.  W.  Denny  :  Hist.  25th  Ma*.  Vote.  |  8.  P.  Bate. :  Hl«t.  Pennsylvania  Voto. 


28 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


that  the  regiment  took  490  into  action.  It  lost  79  killed,  170  wounded,  and  48  missing  ;  total, 
297.  Many  of  the  missing  were  killed.  The  deaths  from  wounds  increased  the  number 
killed  to  117,*  or  23  per  cent,  of  those  engaged,  the  greatest  loss  of  life  in  any  infantry 
regiment  during  the  war,  in  any  one  battle.  The  regiment  held  an  exposed  position,  and 
Gen.  Warren  states  that  when  he  endeavored  to  extricate  them,  "  they  were  unwilling  to  make 
a  backward  movement."  This  is  the  regiment  which,  at  Games'  Mill,  having  been  badly 
thinned,  closed  up  its  ranks  and  counted  off  anew  "with  great  coolness  while  exposed  to 
a  most  terrific  fire  !"-  -(Official  Eeport.) 

The  following  list  of  percentages  will  indicate  fairly  the  extent  of  loss  in  killed,  to  which 
a  regiment  is  liable  in  battle.  The  number  engaged  is,  in  most  cases,  taken  from  the  official 
reports.  In  some  instances,  however,  the  number  given  was  ascertained  from  statements  in 
regimental  histories. 


PERCENTAGES   OF  KILLED  IN   REGIMENTS,  IN  PARTICULAR   ENGAGEMENTS. 


Regiment. 

5th  Connecticut 

7th  Connecticut 

17th  Connecticut 

27th  Connecticut 

7th  Illinois 

8th  Illinois 

9th  Illinois 

llth  Illinois 

llth  Illinois 

12th  Illinois 

22d  Illinois 

22d  Illinois 

28th  Illinois 

34th  Illinois 

35th  Illinois 

38th  Illinois 

41st  Illinois 

43d  Illinois 

51st  Illinois 

53d  Illinois 

55th  Illinois 

75th  Illinois 

79th  Illinois 

82d  Illinois 

84th  Illinois 

93d  Illinois 

14th  Indiana 
15th  Indiana 


Battle. 

Cedar  Mountain 
Fort  Wagner 
Gettysburg 
Gettysburg 

Allatoona  Pass 

Fort  Donelson 

Shiloh 

Fort  Donelson 

Shiloh 

Allatoona  Pass 

Stone's  River 

Chickamauga 

Shiloh 

Stone's  River 

Chickamauga 

Chickamauga 

Jackson 

Shiloh 

Chickamauga 

Jackson 

Shiloh 

Chaplin  Hills 

Stone's  River 

Chancellorsville 

Stone's  River 

Alatoona  Pass 

Antietam 
Stone's  River 


Division. 

Williams's 
Seymour's 
Barlow's 
CaldwelPs 


Engaged. 

424 
191 
369 

74 


Corse's  291 

McClernand's  613 
W.  H.  Wallace's    578 

McClernand's  500 

McClernand's  239 

Corse's  161 

Sheridan's  342 

Sheridan's  297 

Hurlbut's  558 

Johnson's  354 

Davis's  299 

Davis' s  301 

Lauman's  338 

McClernand's  500 

Sheridan's  209 

Lauman's  219 

Sherman's  512 

Mitchell's  709 

Johnson's  437 

Schurz's  359 

Palmer's  357 

Corse's  290 

French's  320 

T.  J.  Wood's  440 


Killed,  f 

48 
28 
39 
13 

48 

81 
103 
102 

24 

17 

43 

42 

58 

36 

34 

33 

44 

78 

26 

33 

83 

71 

44 

47 

67 

34 

49 

52 


Per  Ci. 
11+ 

14+ 
10+ 

17+ 

16+ 
13+ 
17+ 
20+ 
10+ 
10+ 
12+ 
14+ 
10+ 
10+ 

11+ 
10+ 

13+ 

15+ 

12+ 

15  + 

16+ 

10+ 

10+ 

13+ 

18+ 

11  + 

15  + 
11+ 


*  Includes  four  who  were  "  wounded  and  missing  in  action,"  and  who  never  returned.    The  names  of  the  killed  (117)  are  irtrai  with  their 
companies,  in  Davenport's  History  of  the  Fifth.  New  York. 

t  Including  mortally  wounded. 


•RKUIMKNTAI,  PERCENTAOKS  OK  KILLED  IN  PAUTICULAU  ENGAGEMENTS. 


29 


Ktgimmt, 

15th  Indiana 
19th  Indiana 
10th  Indiana 
19th  Indiana 
22d  Indiana 
26th  Indiana 
27th  Indiana 
27th  Indiana 
48th  Indiana 
73d  Indiana 
87th  Indiana 

3d     Iowa  (Cavalry) 

3d     Iowa  (Inf.) 

5th  Iowa 

7th  Iowa  (8  Cos) 

9th  Iowa 
13th  Iowa 
32d  Iowa 
39th  Iowa 

1st  Kansas 
Sth  Kansas 
8th  Kansas 

5th  Kentucky 
17th  Kentucky 

1st   Maine  (H.  A.) 

3d    Maine 

4th  Maine 

4th  Maine 

6th  Maine 

7th  Maine 

Sth  Maine 

9th  Maine 
16th  Maine 
16th  Maine 
17th  Maine 
19th  Maine 
20th  Maine 

2d  Massachusetts 

2d  Massachusetts 

10th  Massachusetts 

12th  Massachusetts 

15th  Massachusetts 

15th  Massachusetts 


Battle. 

Mission  Ridge 

Manassas 

Autietain 

Gettysburg 

Chaplin  Hills 

Prairie  Grove 

Antietain 

Gettysburg 

luka 

Stone's  River 

Chickamauga 

Pea  Ridge 
Jackson 
luka 
Belmont 
Pea  Ridge 
Atlanta  (July  22) 
Pleasant  Hill 
Allatoona  Pass 

Wilson's  Creek 
Chickamauga 

Nashville 

Stone's  River 
Shiloh 

Petersburg 

Gettysburg 

Fredericksburg 

Gettysburg 

Rappahannock  Sta 

Antietain 

Ware  Bottom  Ch. 

Petersburg 

Fredericksburg 

Gettysburg 

Wilderness 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Cedar  Mountain 

Gettysburg 

Spotsylvania 

Antietain 

Antietain 

Gettysburg 


Division. 

Engaged. 

Killed. 

Per  Ct. 

Sheridan's 

334 

45 

13+ 

Hatch's 

423 

02 

14  + 

Doubleday's 

202 

28 

13+ 

Wads  worth's 

288 

41 

14  + 

Mitchell's 

303 

57 

18+ 

Huston's 

445 

52 

11  + 

Williams's 

409 

41 

10+ 

Williains's 

339 

40 

11  + 

Hamilton's 

434 

48 

11  + 

T.  J.  Wrood's 

331 

38 

11  + 

Brannan's 

380 

61 

10+ 



235 

27 

11  + 

Lainnan's 

241 

30 

14  + 

Hamilton's 

4S2 

02 

12  + 

Grant's 

410 

74 

18+ 

E.  A.  CUIT'S 

560 

74 

13+ 

Gresham's 

4K> 

55 

13  + 

Mower's 

420 

80 

20  + 

Corse's 

280 

43 

15+ 

Lyon's 

644 

106 

10+ 

Da  vis's 

406 

61 

15-f 

Beatty's  (S.) 

140 

16 

11  + 

Johnson's 

320 

32 

10+ 

Hurlbut's 

250 

27 

10+ 

Birney's 

950 

210 

22  + 

Birney's 

210 

30 

14  + 

Birney's 

211 

33 

15  + 

Birney's 

2(>2 

27 

13+ 

Wright's 

321 

50 

17+ 

W.  F.  Smith's 

181 

25 

13+ 

Ames's 

190 

19 

10+ 

Ames's 

102 

20 

19+ 

Gibbon's 

427 

70 

17+ 

Robinson's 

248 

27 

10+ 

Birney's 

507 

54 

10  + 

Gibbon's 

440 

68 

15  + 

Barnes's 

380 

41 

10  + 

Williains's 

474 

56 

12  + 

Williains's 

816 

45 

14  + 

Getty's 

210 

20 

12  + 

Ricketts's 

334 

74 

22  + 

Sedg  wick's 

606 

108 

17+ 

Giblnm's 

239 

38 

15+ 

30 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

Battle. 

Division.                      Engaged. 

Killed. 

Per  Ct. 

18th  Massachusetts 

Manassas 

Morell's 

421 

54 

12  + 

19th  Massachusetts 

Gettysburg 

Gibbon's 

141 

17 

12  + 

20th  Massachusetts 

Fredericksburg 

Howard's 

238 

48 

20  + 

25th  Massachusetts 

Cold  Harbor 

Martindale's 

310 

74 

23+ 

57th  Massachusetts 

Wilderness 

Stevenson's 

545 

94 

17  + 

9th  Massachusetts  Bat'y 

Gettysburg 

Reserve  Artillery 

104 

11 

10  + 

5th  Michigan  (Cavalry) 

Hawes'  Shop 

Torbert's 

150 

15 

10+ 

6th  Michigan  (Cavalry) 

Hawes'  Shop 

Torbert's 

140 

17 

12+ 

1st   Michigan  (Infantry) 

Manassas 

Morell's 

320 

55 

17+ 

2d    Michigan 

Knoxville 

Ferrero's 

150 

28 

18  + 

3d    Michigan 

Manassas 

Kearny's 

260 

41 

15  + 

4th  Michigan 

Gettysburg 

Barnes's 

342 

40 

11  + 

5th  Michigan 

Fair  Oaks 

Kearny's 

330 

43 

13+ 

7th  Michigan 

Gettysburg 

Gibbon's 

165 

27 

16+ 

8th  Michigan 

James'  Island 

Stevens's 

534 

61 

11  + 

13th  Michigan 

Stone's  River 

T.  J.  Wood's 

225 

32 

14  + 

13th  Michigan 

Chickamauga 

T.  J.  Wood's 

217 

26 

11  + 

16th  Michigan 

Gettysburg 

Barnes'  s 

218 

29 

13  + 

17th  Michigan 

Spotsylvania 

Willcox's 

226 

30 

13+ 

22d     Michigan 

Chickamauga 

Steedman's 

584 

88 

15+ 

24th  Michigan 

Gettysburg 

Wadsworth's 

496 

94 

18  + 

1st   Minnesota 

Gettysburg 

Gibbon's 

262 

75 

28+ 

12th  Missouri 

Vicksburg  (May 

22)  Steele's 

360 

39 

10  + 

2d    New  Hampshire 

Manassas 

Hooker's 

332 

37 

11  + 

2d     New  Hampshire 

Gettysburg- 

Humph  reys's 

354 

48 

13+ 

3d     New  Hampshire 

Deep  Bottom 

Terry's 

198 

28 

14+ 

5th  New  Hampshire 

Fredericksburg 

Hancock's 

303* 

51 

16+ 

5th  New  Hampshire 

Gettysburg 

Caldwell's 

177 

34 

19+ 

5th  New  Hampshire 

Cold  Harbor 

Barlow's 

577 

69 

11  + 

6th  New  Hampshire 

Manassas 

Reno's 

450 

68 

15+ 

7th  New  Hampshire 

Fort  Wagner 

Seymour's 

480 

77 

16  + 

9th  New  Hampshire 

Spotsylvannia 

Potter's 

502 

68 

13+ 

12th  New  Hampshire 

Chancellors  ville 

Whipple's 

558 

72 

12  + 

12th  New  Hampshire 

Cold  Harbor 

Brooks's 

301 

66 

21  + 

2d    New  Jersey  (5  Cos.) 

Games'  Mill 

Slocum's 

261 

34 

13+ 

8th  New  Jersey 

Chancellorsville 

Berry's 

258 

32 

12  + 

llth  New  Jersey 

Gettysburg 

Humphreys's 

275 

40 

14  + 

14th  New  Jersey 

Monocacy 

Ricketts's 

350 

40 

11  + 

15th  New  Jersey  f 

Spotsylvania 

Russell's 

432 

116 

26  + 

*  In  Hancock's  official  report,  the  number  unsaved  is  stated  at  303  ;  but,  Colonel  Cross  in  his  official  report  says  that  lie  "  took  into  action  19 
Commissioned  Officers  and  247  bayonets." 

t  Chaplain  Haines,  in  his  history  of  the  15th  New  Jersey,  states  that  the  regiment  broke   camp  the  week  before,  with  16  officers  and  429 
muskets.    lie  gives  the  uaiues  yf  the  officers,    After  deducting  the  slight  loss  at  the  Wilderness,  there  would  be  432  left,  as  present  at  Spotsyl- 


vaiiia. 


KKUI.MKNTAL  I'UUCKNTAUKS  OF  KILLKD  IN  PAHTICULAK  KMJ.UJKMKNTS. 


31 


Jlegimtttt. 

4th  New  York 
5th  New  York 
5th  New  York 
7th  New  York 
8th  New  York 
9th  New  York 

13th  New  York 

22d     New  York 

25th  New  York 

20th  New  York 

28th  New  York 

30th  New  York 

34th  New  York 

38th  New  York 

40th  New  York  (5  Cos.) 

40th  New  York 

42d     New  York 

44th  New  York 

48th  New  York 

49th  New  York 

49th  New  York 

:>7th  New  York 

57th  New  York 

59th  New  York 

61st    New  York 

63d     New  York 

64th  New  York 

66th  New  York 

(57th  New  York 

69th  New  York 

69th  New  York 

70th  New  York 

71st    New  York 

73(1     New  York 

76th  New  York 

80th  New  York 

82d     New  York 

82d     New  York 

83d     New  York 

88th  New  York 

88th  New  York 

93d    New  York 

96th  New  York 
100th  New  York 
101st  New  York 
105th  New  York 
107th  New  York 
lllth  New  York  (8  Cos.) 


Rank. 

Aiitietum 

Games'  Mill 

Manas-sat- 

Fredericksburg 

Cross  Keys 

Antietam 

Mnnassas 

Manassas 

Hanover  C.  H. 

Fredericksburg 

Cedar  Mountain 

Manassas 

Antietam 

Fredericksburg 

Fair  Oaks 

Manassas 

Antietam 

Malvern  Hill 

Foil  Wagner 

Wilderness 

Spotsylvania 

Antietam 

Fredericksburg 

Antietam 

Fair  Oaks 

Antietam 

Gettysburg 

Fredericksburg 

Wilderness 

Antietam 

Fredericksburg 

Williamsburg 

Manassas 

Manassas 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Antietam 

Gettysburg 

Fredericksburg 

Antietam 

Fredericksburg 

Wilderness 

Fort  Harrison 

Fort  Wagner 

Manassas 

Fredericksburg 

New  HOJM;  Church 

Gettysburg 


Division. 

French's 

Sykes's 

Sykes's 

Hancock's 

Blenker's 

Rodman's 

Morell's 

Hatch's 

Morell's 

Gibbon's 

VVilliams's 

Hatch's 

Sedgwick's 

Birney's 

Kearny's 

Kearny's 

Sedgwick's 

Morell's 

Seymour's 

Getty's 

Getty's 

Richardson's 

Hancock's 

Sedgwick's 

Richardson's 

Richardson's 

Caldwell's 

Hancock's 

Wright's 

Richardson's 

Hancock's 

Hooker's 

Hooker's 

Hooker's 

Wadsworth's 

Doubleday's 

Sedgwick's 

Gibbon's 

Gibbon's 

Richardson's 

Hancock's 

Birney's 

Stannard's 

Seymour's 

Kearny's 

Giblwm's 

Williams's 

Alex.  Hays's 


M&W-J. 

KilUd. 

Per  Ct. 

540 

64 

1  + 

450 

55 

2  + 

490 

117 

23+ 

488 

56 

1  + 

548 

63 

1  + 

373 

54 

4  + 

240 

45 

8  + 

379 

4<; 

2  + 

349 

41 

1  + 

300 

51 

7  + 

339 

H 

2  + 

341 

66 

19  + 

311 

41 

13+ 

374 

41 

KI  + 

231 

24 

10  + 

244 

37 

15  + 

:',4:» 

58 

115+ 

225 

23 

10  + 

516 

83 

16  + 

384 

39 

10  + 

284 

52 

18+ 

309 

53 

10  + 

192 

20 

10+ 

381 

71 

18+ 

435 

44 

10  + 

341 

59 

17+ 

205 

31 

15  + 

238 

24 

!'•  + 

270 

28 

K>  + 

317 

71 

22  + 

238 

:'.4 

14  + 

700 

97 

13  + 

250 

37 

14  + 

107 

17 

15+ 

:',74 

48 

12+ 

287 

47 

6  + 

339 

41 

2  + 

461 

68 

4  + 

292 

35 

1  + 

302 

38 

2  + 

252 

38 

4  + 

433 

72 

<>  + 

H',7 

33 

3+ 

47S 

66 

3  + 

168 

26 

5+ 

177 

22 

2  + 

35S 

47 

13+ 

390 

88 

22+ 

32 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

lllth  New  York 
114th  New  York 
114th  New  York 
121st  New  York 
121st  New  York 
124th  New  York 
124th  New  York 
126th  New  York 
134th  New  York 
137th  New  York 
141st  New  York 
147th  New  York* 

3d     Ohio 

4th  Ohio 

5th  Ohio 

6th  Ohio 

7th  Ohio 

7th  Ohio 

8th  Ohio 

Sth  Ohio 
10th  Ohio 
14th  Ohio 
25th  Ohio 
38th  Ohio 
41st  Ohio 
41st  Ohio 
40th  Ohio 
63d  Ohio  (9  Cos.) 
65th  Ohio 
73d  Ohio 
73d  Ohio 
82d  Ohio 
101st  Ohio 
llth  Ohio  Battery 

Sth  Penn.  Reserves 

llth  Penn.  Reserves 

26th  Pennsylvania 

45th  Pennsylvania 

46th  Pennsylvania 

49th  Pennsylvania 

52d  Pennsylvania 

53d  Pennsylvania 

56th  Pennsylvania 

58th  Pennsylvania 

61st  Pennsylvania 

62d  Pennsylvania 


Battle. 

Wilderness 

Opequon 

Cedar  Creek 

Salem  Heights 

Spotsylvaiiia 

Chancellorsville 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Wauhatchie 

Peach  Tree  Creek 

Gettysburg 

Chaplin  Hills 

Fredericksburg 

Cedar  Mountain 

Stone's  River 

Cedar  Mountain 

Ringgold 

Antietam 

Gettysburg 

Chaplin  Hills 

Chickamauga 

Gettysburg 

Jonesboro 

Shiloh 

Pickett's  Mills 

Pickett's  Mills 

Corinth 

Stone's  River 

Manassas 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Stone's  River 

luka 

Fredericksburg 
Fredericksb  urg 
Gettysburg 
Cold  Harbor 
Cedar  Mountain 
Spotsylvaiiia 
Fair  Oaks 
Fredericksburg 
Gettysburg- 
Fort  Harrison 
Fair  Oaks 
Gettysburg 


Division. 

Barlow's 

Dwight's 

Dwight's 

Brooks's 

Russell's 

Whipple's 

Birney's 

Alex.  Hays's 

Steiiiwehr's 

Geary's 

Williams's 

Wadsworth's 

Rousseau's 

French's 

Augur's 

Palmer's 

Augur's 

Geary's 

French's 

Alex.  Hays's 

Rousseau's 

Brannan's 

Barlow's 

Baird's 

Nelson's 

T.  J.  Wood's 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Stanley's 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Schenck's 

Steiiiwehr's 

Schurz's 

Davis's 

Hamilton's 

Meade's 

Meade's 

Humphreys' s 

Potter's 

Williams's 

Russell's 

Casey's 

Hancock's 

Wadsworth's 

Stannard's 

Couch's 

Barnes's 


Engaged. 

Killed. 

Per  Ct. 

386 

59 

15+ 

315 

44 

13+ 

250 

39 

15+ 

453 

97 

21+ 

346 

60 

17+ 

550 

57 

10+ 

238 

32 

13+ 

402 

64 

15  + 

400 

60 

15+ 

206 

31 

15+ 

142 

31 

21  + 

380 

76 

20+ 

502 

64 

12  + 

113 

12 

11  + 

275 

31 

11  + 

383 

51 

13+ 

307 

55 

17  + 

206 

25 

12  + 

341 

43 

12  + 

209 

28 

13+ 

528 

84 

15+ 

449 

81 

18  + 

220 

25 

11  + 

360 

72 

20  + 

371 

43 

11  + 

271 

40 

14+ 

475 

83 

17+ 

275 

39 

14+ 

405 

52 

12  + 

335 

39 

11  + 

300 

40 

13+ 

312 

35 

11  + 

460 

51 

11  + 

105 

19 

18  + 

264 

44 

16+ 

394 

49 

12  + 

382 

65 

17  + 

315 

41 

13  + 

504 

55 

10  + 

478 

109 

22+ 

249 

29 

11  + 

283 

39 

14+ 

252 

31 

12+ 

237 

34 

14+ 

574 

92 

16+ 

426 

45 

10+ 

REGIMENTAL  PERCENTAGES  OP  KILLED  IN  PARTICULAR  ENGAGEMENTS. 


33 


Jtegiment. 

PattU. 

Division. 

Engaged. 

KilltX. 

Per  Ct. 

68th  Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Birney's 

320 

47 

14+ 

69th  Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Gibbon's 

258 

56 

81+ 

72d    Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Gibbon's 

473 

64 

13  + 

75th  Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Schurz's 

206 

33 

16+ 

81st   Pennsylvania 

Fredericksbnrg 

Hancock's 

261 

46 

17  + 

83d    Pennsylvania 

Seven  Days 

Morell's 

554 

111* 

20  + 

83d     Pennsylvania 

Manassas 

Morell's 

224 

26 

10+ 

84th  Pennsylvania 

Kernstown 

Shield's 

260 

30 

11  + 

97th  Pennsylvania 

Bermuda  Hundred 

Ames's 

311 

56 

18+ 

105th  Pennsylvania 

Wilderness 

Birney's 

351 

56 

15  + 

107th  Pennsylvania 

Antietam 

Kicketts's 

190 

27 

14  + 

lllth  Pennsylvania 

Antietam 

Greene's 

243 

33 

13+ 

115th  Pennsylvania 

Chancellors  ville 

Berry's 

244 

25 

10+ 

116th  Pennsylvania 

Fredericksbnrg 

Hancock's 

247 

25 

10+ 

118th  Pennsylvania 

Shepherdstown 

Morell's 

737 

78 

10  + 

121st   Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Doubleday's 

263 

29 

11  + 

132d     Pennsylvania 

Fredericksburg 

French's 

251 

26 

10+ 

140th  Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Caldwell's 

589 

61 

10+ 

141st   Pennsylvania 

Chancellorsville 

Birney's 

417 

62 

14  + 

141st   Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Birney's 

198 

49 

24  + 

142d     Pennsylvania 

Fredericksburg 

Meade's 

550 

66 

12  + 

145th  Pennsylvania 

Fi'edericksburg 

Hancock's 

505 

91 

18  + 

145th  Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Caldwell's 

202 

27 

13+ 

148th  Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Caldwell's 

210 

31 

14  + 

149th  Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Doubleday's 

450 

67 

14  + 

150th  Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Doubleday's 

400 

57 

14  + 

151st   Pennsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Doubleday's 

467 

66 

14  + 

2d    Vermont 

Wilderness 

Getty's 

700 

80 

11  + 

3d    Vermont  (4  Cos.) 

Lee's  Mills 

W.  F.  Smith's 

192 

35 

18  + 

3d    Vermont 

Wilderness 

Getty's 

:,:::< 

68 

12+ 

3d    Vermont 

Cold  Harbor 

Getty's 

293 

30 

10  + 

4th  Vermont 

Wilderness 

Getty's 

575 

84 

14  + 

5th  Vermont 

Savage  Station 

W.  F.  Smith's 

400 

72 

18  + 

5th  Vermont 

Wilderness 

Getty's 

475 

63 

13  + 

6th  Vermont 

Wilderness 

Getty's 

441 

69 

15  f 

8th  Vermont 

Cedar  Creek 

Dwight's 

156 

26 

16+ 

10th  Vermont 

Cedar  Creek 

Kicketts's 

277 

27 

10  + 

1st    Wisconsin 

Chaplin  Hills 

Rousseau's 

407 

77 

18+ 

2d     Wisconsin 

Manassas 

Hatch's 

511 

87 

17  + 

2d     Wisconsin 

Gettysburg 

Wadsworth's 

302 

46 

15  + 

3d     Wisconsin 

Antietam 

Williams's 

340 

41 

12+ 

4th  Wisconsin 

Port  Hudson 

Pai  ne's 

222 

45 

20+ 

10th  Wisconsin 

Chaplin  Hills 

Rousseau's 

376 

52 

13+ 

14th  Wisconsin 

Vicksburg(May22) 

Me  Art  bur's 

256 

30 

11  + 

15th  Wisconsin 

Dallas 

T.  J.  Wood's 

160 

26 

16+ 

•  Of  this  number,  Cl  were  killed  or  mortally  wounded  at  Galucb'  Mill ;  the  remaining  50  were  lost  at  Malvern  HilL 

3 


34 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

19th  Wisconsin 
26th  Wisconsin 
26th  Wisconsin 
36th  Wisconsin  (4  Cos.) 
37th  Wisconsin 

7th  U.  S.  Infantry 
10th  U.  S.  Infantry 
llth  U.  S.  Infantry 
17th  U.  S.  Infantry 
18th  U.  S.  Infantry 

5th  U.  S.  Colored 

6th  U.  S.  Colored 

79th  U.  S.  Colored 


Battle. 

Fair  Oaks  (1864) 
Chancellorsville 
Gettysburg 
Bethesda  Church 
Petersburg  Mine 

Gettysburg 
Gettysburg 
Gettysburg 
Gettysburg 
Stone's  River 

Chaffin's  Farm 
Chaffin's  Farm 
Poison  Springs 


Division. 

Marston's 

Schurz's 

Schurz's 

Gibbon's 

Willcox's 

Barnes's 
Barnes's 
Barnes's 
Barnes's 
Rousseau's 

Paine's 
Paine's 
Thayer's 


Engaged. 

197 
471 

508 
240 
251 

116 
93 

286 
260 
603 

550 
367 
463 


Killed. 
26 

53 
61 
49 
55 

19 

22 

35 

43 

102 

85 

61 

111 


Per  Ct. 
13+ 

11  + 

12  + 

20+ 
21  + 

16+ 
23+ 
12+ 
16+ 
16+ 

15+ 

16+ 
23+ 


Unlike  other  tabulations  in  these  pages,  the  above  list  is  not  an  exhaustive  one.  Although 
showing  losses  of  over  ten  per  cent.,  it  does  not  include  every  loss  which  exceeded  that  ratio. 
It  is  impossible,  in  many  cases,  to  ascertain  the  number  of  muskets  taken  into  action  ;  regi 
mental  commandants  seldom  stated  it,  although  it  always  would  have  formed  an  important 
item  in  their  official  report. 

Morning  reports  are  of  little  assistance  in  this  matter,  for  there  wras  always  a  wide 
difference  between  the  number  of  men  reported  as  "  present  for  duty  "  and  the  number  taken 
into  action.  Although  the  morning  reports  stated  the  "  present  for  duty"  separately  from  the 
"aggregate  present,"  there  were  still  a  large  number  of  non-combatants  included  in  the 
"present  for  duty";  a  large  number  of  men  detailed  on  special  duties — too  often,  contrary 
to  orders  ;  and  in  case  of  a  hard  march,  immediately  preceding  a  battle,  many  fell  out  from 
inability  to  keep  up,  to  say  nothing  of  disinclination.  General  McClellan,  in  his  official 
report  of  the  battle  of  Antietam,  carelessly  states  the  strength  of  his  army  at  87,164,  when  it 
is  doubtful  if  he  had  60,000  muskets  on  the  field."  Yet  the  morning  reports  would  justify 
his  statement. 

Let  it  be  hoped  that,  in  the  future  wars  of  the  Republic,  the  army  may  have  its  corps  of 
intendants,  as  in  the  German  Army  ;  that  every  wearer  of  the  national  uniform  shall  be  a 
man-at-arms,  serving  as  such  only  ;  and  that  the  men  attached  to  the  trains  and  all  other 
subsidiary  departments  shall  be  enlisted  for  such  service  and  wear  a  different  uniform.  Then 
a  morning  report  will  be  some  indication  of  the  strength  of  a  regiment  or  of  an  army. 

The  Confederates  managed  these  things  better.  They  counted  their  men  as  they  went 
into  action,  and  were  careful  to  report  no  larger  number.  They  were  quick  to  see  the 
important  point  involved.  In  General  Cheatham's  official  report  for  Stone's  River,  he  not 
only  tabulates  the  number  of  killed  and  wounded  in  his  division,  but  adds  other  columns  in 
which  he  states  the  number  of  men  taken  into  action  by  each  regiment  and  the  consequent 
percentage  of  loss. 

This  mention  of  the  actual  force  engaged  is  a  frequent  item  in  the  reports  of  the  Confed 
erate  colonels,  while  in  the  Union  A.rmy  it  is  correspondingly  rare.  In  the  latter  there  were 
so  many  men  detailed  contrary  to  order  —  officers'  servants,  for  instance  —  that,  too  often,  a 
colonel  did  not  care  to  call  attention  to  the  discrepancy  between  his  morning  report  and  his 


*  Gen.  F.  W.  Palfrey  :  The  Antietam  and  Fredericksburg,  p.  70. 


HANCOCK'S  DIVISION. 

effective  strength.  The  Union  Armies  generally  outnumbered  the  Con f ederates,  but  the 
disparity  was  not  so  great  as  the  official  figures  always  implied. 

Although  the  reports  of  the  Union  commanders  seldom  mentioned  the  number  taken  into 
action  by  each  regiment,  General  Hancock  was  thoughtful  enough  in  his  re|K>rt  for  Freder- 
icksburg  to  specify  the  number  present  on  the  field  in  each  regiment  of  his  division.  As  the 
loss  in  Hancock's  Division,  in  its  memorable  assault  on  Marye's  Heights,  was  one  of  the 
severest  of  the  war,  it  is  given  here  in  full.  In  addition  to  the  official  figures,  the  number  of 
killed,  as  increased  by  those  who  died  of  their  wounds,  is  also  given — the  number  having 
been  ascertained  by  examining  the  muster-out  rolls  of  each  regiment. 

Having  the  exact  number  engaged,  these  casualties  are  of  interest  as  showing  the  outside 
limit  of  loss  to  which  troops  are  subjected  in  action.  There  are  on  record  some  higher  per 
centages  in  cases  of  individual  regiments  in  certain  engagements,  but  no  greater  percentage 
in  any  division. 

HANCOCK'S  DIVISION. 
FREDERICKSBURO,  DF.C.  13,  1S62. 


If  KOI  MB  NT*. 

Casualties. 

Nnmlwr 
Kneaded. 

I'eroentaRe 
of 
Casualties. 

Killed  HIM) 
Died  of 

\Viimnls. 

PWii'litiijci* 
Killed. 

Killed. 

Wounded. 

Missing. 

Toiul. 

Caldwcll's  Brigade. 
Staff    

20 
26 
9 
4 
15 
34 

14 
2 
10 

17 

m 

i 

10 

4 
6 
8 
11 
21 
1 

3 
154 
184 
27 
68 
141 
152 

124 
38 
95 
97 
67 

S3 
41 
37 
78 
55 
133 
4 

r.» 

33 

20 
43 

20 
4 
23 
13 
14 

20 
9 

1 
9 
1 

229 

3 
193 

243 
36) 

72  f 
176 
229 

158 
44 

128 
127 

88 

113 

54 
43 

87 
75 
155 

y 

2,029 

303 

488 

435 

261 
500 

416 
162 

238 
252 
247 

3*4 
244 
160 
192 
238 
314 

4,834 

63.6 
4V).  7 

24.8 

07.4 
45.  s 

37.9 

27.  1 
53.  7 
50.3 
35.6 

20.4 
22.  1 
26.  S 
45.3 
31.5 
49.3 

41.9 

51 
56 

26 

46 
91 

OT 

3, 
11 
34 
38 
25 

36 

15 
12 
20 
24 
39 

16.8 
11.4 

5.9 

17.6 
lb.2 

8.8 
6.7 
14.2 
15.0 

lo.l 

9.3 
6.1 
7.5 
10.4 
10.0 
12.4 

5th  New  Hampshire  . 
7th  New  York. 

61st   New  York 

61th  New  York  

81st    Pennsvlvania. 

145th  Pennsylvania 

Irish  Brigade. 
28th  Massachusetts  .. 

63d     New  York 

69th  New  York  . 

88th  New  York 

116th  Pennsylvania 

w 

Zook's  Brigade. 
27th  Connecticut  

2d     Delaware 

52d    New  York 

57th  New  York 

66th  New  York 

53d    Pennsylvania 

4th  U.S.  Artillery  "C" 

Total  

219 

1,581 

561 

11.6 

Nearly  all  the  missing  ones  were  killed  or  wounded  men,  who  M\  in  front  of  the 
wall  at  Marye's  Heights.      Most  of  them  belong  with  the  killed,   and  were  buried  by  the 
enemy.     The  number  engaged  may  appear  small  ;  but  it  should  IK-  remembered  that  this 
division  had  already  lost  3,290  men  on  the  Peninsula  and  at  Antietam. 


36 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


It  may  be  of  interest  to  know  the  maximum  of  percentage,  as  based  on  the  total  of 
killed,  ivounded  and  missing,  instead  of  on  the  killed  and  mortally  wounded  alone.  Such 
percentages,  however,  are  apt  to  be  unsatisfactory,  as  the  missing  includes  the  captured  men. 
In  the  following  table  the  missing  are  mostly,  if  not  all,  killed  or  wounded  men. 


MAXIMUM  PERCENTAGE  OF  CASUALTIES. 


Regiment. 

1st  Minnesota 
141st  Pennsylvania 
101st  New  York 
25th  Massachusetts 
36th  Wisconsin  (4  Cos.) 
20th  Massachusetts 

8th  Vermont 
81st  Pennsylvania 
12th  Massachusetts 

1st  Maine  H.  A. 

9th  Louisiana  Colored 
lllth  New  York 
24th  Michigan 

5th  New  Hampshire 

9th  Illinois 

9th  New  York  (8  Cos.) 
15th  New  Jersey 
15th  Massachusetts 
69th  New  York 
51st  Illinois 
19th  Indiana 
121st  New  York 

5th  New  York 
93d    New  York 

2d    Wisconsin 
41st  Illinois 
148th  Pennsylvania 
15th  Indiana 

7th  Ohio 
80th  New  York 
63d    New  York 

3d    Wisconsin 
114th  New  York 
59th  New  York 
26th  Ohio 

2d    Wisconsin 

3d    Maine 

17th  U.  S.  Inf.  (7  Cos.) 
126th  New  York 
45th  Pennsylvania 


Battle. 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Manassas 

Cold  Harbor 

Bethesda  Church 

Fredericksburg 

Cedar  Creek 

Fredericksburg 

Antietam 

Petersburg 

Milliken's  Bend 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Fredericksburg 

Shiloh 

Antietam 

Spotsylvania 

Gettysburg 

Antietam 

Chickamauga 

Manassas 

Salem  Church 

Manassas 

Wilderness 

Gettysburg 

Jackson 

Gettysburg 


Corps. 

Second 

Third 

Third 

Eighteenth 

Second 

Second 

Nineteenth 

Second 

First 

Second 


•Engaged.  Killed.  *  Wounded.  Missing. 


Second 

First 

Second 

Ninth 

Sixth 

Second 

Second 

Twentieth 

First 

Sixth 

Fifth 

Second 

First 

Sixteenth 


Second 
Missionary  Ridge  Fourth 
Cedar  Mountain  Twelfth 


Gettysburg 

Antietam 

Antietam 

Opequon 

Antietam 

Chickamauga 

Manassas 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Cold  Harbor 


First 

Second 

Twelfth 

Nineteenth 

Second 

Twenty-first 

First 

Third 

Fifth 

Second 

Ninth 


262f 

198 

168 

310 

240 

238 

156 

261 

334 

950 

300 

390 

496 

303 

578 

373 

432 

239 

317 

209 

423 

453 

490 

433 

302 

338 

210 

334 

307 

287 

341 

340 

315 

381 

362 

511 

210 

260 

402 

315 


47 

25 

6 

53 

20 
25 
17 
15 
49 
115 
62 
58 
69 
20 
61 
45 
75 
23 
44 
18 
47 
48 
79 
42 
26 
27 
19 
24 
31 
35 
35 
27 
21 
48 
27 
53 
18 
25 
40 
18 


168 
103 
101 
139 
108 
138 

66 
141 
165 
489 
130 
177 
247 
154 
300 
176 
159 

97 
152 

92 
168 
173 
170 
213 
155 
135 
101 
175 
149 
111 
165 
173 
164 
153 
140 
213 

59 
118 
181 
141 


21 
17 

28 
38 

23 

20 
10 

28 

14 

t 

19 

5 

14 
38 

28 

18 
44 

55 

48 

5 

40 
5 

2 
24 

9, 


23 
45 
32 
45 

7 
10 

22 


Per  Ct. 

82.0 

75.7 

73.8 

70.0 

69.0 

68.4 

67.9 

67.4 

67.0 

66.5 

64.0 

63.8 

63.7 

63.6 

63.3 

63.0 

62.9 

61.9 

61.8 

61.2 

61.2 

60.9 

60.6 

60.0 

59.9 

59.7 

59.5 

59.5 

59.2 

59.2 

59.2 

58.8 

58.7 

58.7 

58.5 

58.3 

58.0 

57. 6 

57.4 

57.4 


•Including  the  mortally  wounded.  tAction  of  July  ad-8  companies  engaged  ;  total  casualties  at  Gettysburg  were  224 

i  and  wounded  there  were  47  missing  §In  addition  to  the  killed  and  wounded  there  were  52  missing. ' 


MAXIMUM  PKRCENT.UJE  OF  CASUALTIES. 


37 


Regiment. 

49th  Pennsylvania 

Oth  U.  S.  Colored 
15th  Massachusetts 
20th  New  York 
14th  Indiana 
90th  Illinois 
26th  Pennsylvania 
llth  New  Jersey 

1st  Michigan 
19th  Indiana 
12th  New  Hampshire 
Olst  Pennsylvania 
25th  Illinois 
14th  Ohio 

2d    New  Hampshire 

sth  Kansas 
10th  Maine 
I  Oth  United  States 
55th  Illinois 
09th  New  York 
35th  Illinois 
22d    Indiana 
llth  Illinois 


Battle. 

Spotsylvania 

Chaftin's  Farm 

Antietam 

Fredericksbuig 

Antietam 

Chickamauga 

Gettysburg 

( it-ii  \  -inn- 

Manassas 

Gettysburg 

Cold  Harbor 

Fair  Oaks 

Chickamauga 

Chickamauga 

Gettysburg 

Chickamauga 

Fredericksbuig 

Stone's  River 

Shiloh 

Fredericksburg 

Chickamauga 

Chaplin  Hills 


Corps. 

Sixth 

Engaged. 

47S 

Killed.  */ 
50 

/  'ounJed. 

ISO 

Misting. 

44 

Eighteenth 

307 

11 

100 

8 

Second 

000 

65 

255 

24 

First 

300 

23 

130 

11 

Second 

320 

30 

150 

Reserve 

401 

39 

134 

52 

Third 

382 

30 

176 

7 

Third 

275 

17 

124 

12 

Fifth 

320 

33 

114 

31 

First 

2S8 

27 

I:;:; 

t 

Eighteenth 

301 

23 

129 

15 

Fourth 

574 

68 

152 

43 

Twentieth 

337 

10 

171 

24 

Fourteenth 

449 

35 

107 

43 

Third 

354 

20 

137 

36 

Twentieth 

4<)0 

30 

165 

25 

First 

427 

27 

170 

34 

Fourteenth 

308 

10 

134 

16 

512 

51 

197 

27 

Second 

238 

10 

95 

23 

Twentieth 

299 

17 

130 

13 

Fourteenth 

303 

49 

87 

23 

500 

70 

isl 

i 

I'rr  Ct. 
57.3 

56.9 
56.7 
56.6 
56.2 
56.1 
55.7 
55.6 
55.6 
55.5 
55.4 
55.4 
54.9 
54.5 
54.5 
54.1 
54.0 
53.8 
53.7 
53.7 
53.5 
52.4 
50.1 


Fort  Donelson 

There  are  other  instances  which  deserve  a  place  in  tin-  pivrrdiug  list,  hut  are  omitted  ;i- 
it  is  impossible  to  ascertain  definitely  the  number  of  men  engaged. 

It  is  well  to  pause  here,  and  consider  \vhat  these  figures  mean  ;  to  think  of  what  such 
extraordinary  percentages  imply.  Perhaps  their  significance  will  l>e  better  understood  when 
compared  with  some  extraordinary  loss  in  foreign  wars;  some  well  known  instance  which 
may  serve  as  a  standard  of  measurement.  Take  the  charge  of  the  Light  Brigade  at  Balaklava. 
Its  extraordinary  loss  has  been  made  a  familiar  feature  of  heroic  verse  and  story  in  every  land, 
until  the  whole  world  has  heard  of  the  gallant  Six  Hundred  and  their  ride  into  the  Valley  of 
Death.  Now,  as  the  Light  Brigade  accomplished  nothing  in  this  action, —  merely  executed 
an  order  which  was  a  blunder, —  it  must  be  that  it  was  the  danger  and  its  attendant  loss  which 
inspired  the  interest  in  that  historic  ride.  What  was  the  loss  ?  The  Light  Brigade  took  673 
officers  and  men  into  that  charge  ;  they  lost  113  killed  and  134  wounded  §  ;  total,  247,  or  30.7 
per  cent. 

The  heaviest  loss  in  the  German  Army  during  the  Franco-Prussian  war  occurred  in  the 
Sixteenth  Infantry  (Third  Westphalian),  at  Mars  La  Tour.  Like  all  German  regiments  of  the 
line  it  numbered  3,000  men.  As  this  battle  was  the  first  in  which  it  was  engaged, — occurring 
within  a  few  days  of  the  opening  of  the  campaign, — it  carried  3,000  men  into  action.  It  lost 
509  killed  and  mortally  wounded,  019  wounded,  and  305  missing  !;  total.  1484,  or  49.4  per 
cent.  The  Garde-Schutzen  Battalion,  1,000  strong,  lost  at  Metz,  August  18th.  162  killed  and 
mortally  wounded,  294  wounded,  and  5  missing;  total,  401,  or  40. 1  per  cent. 

A  comparison  of  these  percentages  with  those  of  the  Union  regiments  in  certain  battles 
just  cited  will  give  some  idea  of  the  desperate  character  of  the  fighting  during  the  American 
Civil  War. 


'Including  the  mortally  wounded.  +In  addition  to  the  killed  and  wound* 

Jin  ji'lcUti.ui  to  the  killed  and  wounded  th.>n>  wero  RS  raiMtaff. 

(Dr.  Engel:  Director  des  knniglich  preussis«:h«n  statistisohen  Bureaus. 


CHAPTER  IV. 


LOSS  IN  OFFICERS -- LIST  OF  GENERALS  KILLED  —  SURGEONS  AND 

CHAPLAINS  KILLED. 

'"pHE  loss  in  officers  killed  or  wounded,  in  proportion  to  their  number,  was  in  excess  of 
that  of  their  men.  Of  the  total  number  killed  and  wounded  during  the  war,  there  were 
6,365  officers,  and  103,705  enlisted  men  ;  or,  one  officer  to  16  men.  In  the  common  regi 
mental  organization  there  was  one  officer  to  28  men  ;  and  this  proportion  would  have  conse 
quently  required  only  one  officer  to  28  men  among  the  killed.  The  loss  of  officers,  however, 
was  not  so  excessive  as  the  difference  in  these  ratios  would  indicate  ;  for,  as  the  ranks 
became  depleted  the  latter  proportion  was  not  maintained.  In  the  Army  of  the  Potomac, 
just  before  starting  on  the  Wilderness  campaign,  the  morning  reports  showed  one  officer  to 
every  21  men  "present  for  duty,  equipped."  As  this  latter  proportion  was  a  frequent  one,* 
it  may  be  assumed  that  the  difference  between  it  and  the  actual  ratio  in  the  killed  indicates 
fairly  the  excess  of  the  loss  in  officers. 

At  Gettysburg,  the  officers  lost  27  per  cent,  in  killed  and  wounded,  while  the  enlisted  men 
lost  21  per  cent., —  as  based  on  the  number  engaged.  At  Shiloh,  the  loss  in  officers  killed 
and  wounded  was  21.3  per  cent.,  and  in  men  17.9  per  cent., —  as  based  on  the  morning 
reports  of  Grant's  six  divisions. 

This  greater  loss  among  the  officers  did  not  occur  because  they  were  so  much  braver  than 
the  men  in  the  'ranks,  but  because  the  duties  of  their  position  while  under  fire  involved  a 
greater  personal  exposure.  Sharpshooters  were  always  on  the  alert  to  pick  them  off  ;  and, 
even  in  the  confusion  of  a  hot  musketry  fire,  any  soldier,  110  matter  how  poor  a  marksman, 
would  turn  his  rifle  on  any  conspicuous  man  in  the  opposing  ranks  whose  appearance  indicated 
that  he  might  be  an  officer.  In  close  quarters,  guns  were  not  apt  to  be  aimed  at  privates  if  a 
Lieutenant  was  in  sight  near  by.  There  was  just  as  good  stuff  in  the  ranks  as  in  the  line  ; 
in  fact,  the  line  officers  were  recruited  almost  entirely  from  the  ranks  ;  but  when  the 
gallant  private  donned  an  officer's  uniform,  he  found  his  chances  not  at  all  improved,  to 
say  the  least. 

This  additional  exposure  is  well  illustrated  by  a  comparison  of  the  casualties  at  Gettys 
burg  with  those  of  the  Wilderness.  In  the  first  named  battle  the  percentage  of  loss  among 
the  officers  was  one-half  greater  than  in  the  latter.  At  Gettysburg,  the  fighting  w^as  done 
in  open  fields,  where  the  officers  were  in  full  view  ;  at  the  Wilderness,  the  fighting  was 
done  in  dense  thickets  which  concealed  the  opposing  armies.  In  the  latter,  both  officers 
and  men  were  hidden  by  the  leafy  screens,  and  hence  their  casualty  lists  show  a  like  per 
centage  of  loss. 

In  the  Franco-Prussian  war  there  was  a  remarkable  excess  of  loss  among  the  German 
officers.  The  percentages  of  killed  and  mortally  wounded  in  the  entire  German  army  were  : 
Enlisted  men,  3.1  ;  Line  officers,  8.0  ;  Staff  officers,  9.6. 

*  Exactly  the  same  proportion  —  one  officer  to  21  men  of  the  "  present  for  duty,  equipped  "—  appears  in  the  morning  reports  of  Gen.  Grant's 
army  at  Shiloh ;  of  the  Peninsular  Army  in  the  Seven  Days'  Battle  ;  of  Sherman's  armies  in  the  Atlanta  campaign ;  and  in  several  other 
instances.  The  variations,  in  general,  were  few  and  slight. 

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MAXIMUM  <n    OKKICKKS  KILLED.  3!) 

The  largest  numl>er  of  officers  killed  in  any  infantry  regiment  in  tho  Union  Annies  is 
found  in  the  Sixty-first  Pennsylvania,  of  tho  Sixth  Corps,  in  which  in  officers  were  killed  or 
mortally  wounded  during  the  war.  Among  the  numl>er  were  three  colonels  :  Col.  Rippey 
was  killed  at  Fair  Oaks  ;  Col.  Spear  fell  while  leading  a  successful  assault  on  Marye's  Heights; 
and  Col.  Crosby,  who  had  lost  an  arm  at  Fort  Stevens,  was  killed  in  the  final  and  victorious 
assault  on  Petersburg.  The  total  loss  of  the  Sixty-first  in  killed  and  died  of  wounds,  was  1!» 
officers  and  218  enlisted  men  ;  total,  237.  It  was  a  gallant  regiment  and  was  bravely  led,  as 
its  loss  in  officers  clearly  shows. 

The  following  list  embraces  every  regiment  which  lost  16  or  more  officers  killed  during 
the  war  : 

INFANTRY. 

OMeert 

ftegiment.  Division.  Corps.  A'illsJ. 

61st  Pennsylvania  Getty's  .  Sixth  19 

5th  New  Hampshire  Barlow's  Second.  18 

12th  Massachusetts  Robinson's  First.  18 

48th  New  York  .  Terry's  Tenth  18 

73d  New  York  .  Hooker's  Third  18 

81st  Pennsylvania  Barlow's  Second  18 

145th  Pennsylvania  Barlow's  Second  18 

31st  Maine  .  Potter's  Ninth  18 

20th  Massachusetts  Gibbon's  Second.  17 

14th  Connecticut  Gibbon's  Second.  17 

62d  Pennsylvania  Griffin's.  Fifth  .  17 

63d  Pennsylvania  Birney's  Third  17 

5th  Michigan  ...  Birney's  Third  1»> 

ICth  Massachusetts  Humphreys's  Third  H', 

61st  New  York  .  Barlow's  Second .  h> 

126th  New  York  .  Barlow's  Second  ItJ 

82d  Ohio  Schurz's  .  Eleventh.  1C 

100th  Pennsylvania  Stevenson's  .  Ninth.  16 

r.th  Wisconsin AVadswi  >rth's .  First 16 

HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 

1st   Maine  .  Birney'f  Second . 

Sth  New  York.  Gibbon's  Second. 

A  heavy  artillery  regiment  had  just  twice  as  many  line  officers  as  an  infantry  regiment. 

The  largest  regimental  loss  of  officers  killed  in  any  one  battle,  occurred  in  the  Seventh 
New  Hampshire  at  the  assault  on  Fort  Wagner,   the  regiment  losing  1 1  officers 
mortally  wounded  in  that  bloody  affair.     Among  the  killed  was  Col.  Putnam,  who  fell  i 
he  had  gained  an  entrance  within  the  outer  works  of  the  fort.     He  was  a  graduate  of  Wes 
Point  and  an  officer  of  the  Regular  Army  ;   like  many  other  Regular  officers  he  had  received 
permission  to  accept  the  command  of  a  volunteer  regiment. 

The  Twenty-second  New  York  Infantry  lost  at  Manassas  10  officers 
out  of  24  present  in  action  ;  9  of  them  were  killed,  among  whom  was  the  Lieutenant-Colonel, 

Gorton  T.  Thomas. 

The  following  list  includes  every  infantry  regiment  in  the  service  which  lo> 

officers  killed  in  any  one  engagement  : 


40  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Officers 
Regiment.  Battle.  Division.  Corps.  Killed. 

7th  New  Hampshire         Fort  Wagner  Seymour's  Tenth  11 

7th  New  York  Fredericksburg  Hancock's  Second  9 

22d    New  York  Manassas  Hatch's  First  9 

59th  New  York  Antietam  Sedgwick's  Second  9 

145th  Pennsylvania  Fredericksburg  Hancock's  Second  9 

43d     Illinois  Shiloh  McClernand's  8 

87th  Indiana  Chickamauga  Brannan's  Fourteenth  8 

1st   Michigan  Manassas  MorelPs  Fifth  8 

14th  New  Hampshire         Opequon  Grover's  Nineteenth  8 

24th  Michigan  Gettysburg  Wadsworth's  First  8 

120th  New  York  Gettysburg  Humphreys's  Third  8 

In  addition,  mention  should  be  made  of  the  loss  of  officers  in  the  heavy  artillery  at 
certain  battles.  The  First  Maine  H.  A.  lost  12  officers,  killed  or  wounded,  at  Spotsylvania, 
May  19th,  of  whom  0  were  killed  or  mortally  wounded  ;  and  at  Petersburg,  June  18th,  the 
same  regiment  lost  32  officers,  killed  or  wounded,  of  whom  10  lost  their  lives.  In  the  Eighth 
New  York  Heavy  Artillery,  t)  officers  were  killed  at  Cold  Harbor.  But  the  large  number  of 
extra  officers  allowed  these  regiments  will  not  admit  of  their  classification  with  the  infantry 
regiments  just  mentioned. 

There  is  a  remarkable  difference  between  the  loss  of  officers  in  battle  and  by  disease,  as 
compared  with  that  of  the  enlisted  men.  In  battle,  one  officer  was  killed  for  every  16  enlisted 
men  ;  but,  among  the  deaths  from  disease,  one  officer  died  to  every  72  men,  and  in  the  colored 
regiments,  one  officer  to  every  215  men.  The  officers  had  better  facilities  for  purchasing  food, 
and  were  furnished  with  better  quarters  while  in  camp  ;  but  in  an  active  campaign,  in  bivouac 
or  on  the  march,  they  encountered  substantially  the  same  exposure  and  privation  ;  they  were 
exposed  to  the  same  storms  and  their  food  was  equally  scanty.  There  was  not  enough  of 
difference  in  the  fare  to  account  for  this  remarkable  difference  in  the  death-rate.  It  might 
account  for  some  of  it,  but  for  the  greater  part  the  reason  must  be  looked  for  elsewhere. 

The  general  officers  never  hesitated  in  time  of  battle  to  share  the  danger  with  the  men 
whenever  it  became  necessary.  The  gallantry  with  which  they  were  wont  to  expose  them 
selves  is  fully  evidenced  by  the  long  list  of  those  who  were  killed. 

GENERAL   OFFICERS  KILLED  IN  ACTION. 

ARMY  COMMANDERS. 
Major-General  James  B.  McPherson,  Army  of  Tennessee,     Killed  at  Atlanta. 

CORPS  COMMANDERS. 

Major-General  Joseph  K.  Mansfield,  12th  A.  C.,  Killed  at  Antietam. 

Major-General  John  F.  Reynolds,  1st  A.  C.,  Gettysburg. 

Major-General  John  Sedgwick,  (ith  A.  C.,  Spotsylvania. 

DIVISION  COMMANDERS. 

Major-General  Isaac  I.  Stevens  .  _ Killed  at  Chantilly. 
Major-General  Philip  Kearny  Chantilly. 

Major-General  Jesse  L.  Reno  .  South  Mountain. 

Major-General  Israel  B.  Richardson*  Antietam. 

Major-General  Amiel  W.  Whipple*  Chancellors ville. 


:  Mortally  wounded. 


GENERAL  OFFICERS  KILLED  IN  ACTION. 


41 


Major-General  Hiram  G.  Berry  Killed  at  Chancellorsville. 

Brevet  Major-General  James  S.  Wadsworth  Wilderness. 

Brevet  Major-General  David  A.  Russell.  Opequon. 

Brigadier-General  William  H.  Wallace*  .  Shiloh. 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  Williams  .  Baton  Rouge. 

Brigadier-General  James  S.  Jackson.  Chaplin  Hills. 

Brigadier-General  Isaac  P.  Rodman*  Antietam. 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  G.  Stevenson.  Spotsylvania. 

Brevet  Brigadier-General  James  A.  Mulligan*  Winchester  (1803) 

BRIGADE  COMMANDERS. 

Major-Goneral  George  C.  Strong*  .Killed  at  Fort  Wagner. 

Brevet  Major-General  Alexander  Haysf  .  Wilderness. 

Brevet  Major-General  S.  K.  Zook  .  Gettysburg. 

Brevet  Major-General  Frederick  Winthrop  Five  Forks. 

Brevet  Major-General  Thomas  A.  Smyth*  Farmville. 

Brigadier-General  Nathaniel  Lyon  Wilson's  Creek. 

Brigadier-General  Robert  L.  McCook^:.  Decherd,  Tenn. 

Brigadier-General  Henry  Bohlen  .  Freeman's  Ford. 

Brigadier-General  George  W.  Taylor  .  Manassas. 

Brigadier-General  William  R.  Ten-ill  .  Chaplin  Hills. 

Brigadier-General  Pleasant  A.  Hackleman  Corinth. 

Brigadier-General  George  J).  Bayard*  Fredericksburg. 

Brigadier-General  Conrad  F.  Jackson  Fredericksburg. 

Brigadier-General  Joshua  W.  Sill  Stone's  River. 

Brigadier-General  Edward  P.  Chapin .  Port  Hudson. 

Brigadier-General  Stephen  W.  Weed.  Gettysburg. 

Brigadier-General  Elon  J.  Farnsworth.  Gettysburg. 

Brigadier-General  Strong  Vincent  .  Gettysburg. 

Brigadier-General  William  H.  Lytle.  Chickamauga. 

Brigadier-General  William  P.  Sanders.  Knoxville. 

Brigadier-General  Samuel  A.  Rice*  Jenkins'  Ferry. 

Brigadier-General  James  C.  Rice.  Spotsylvania. 

Brigadier-General  Charles  G.  Harker.  Kenesaw  Mountain. 

Brigadier-General  Daniel  McCook*  Kenesaw  Mountain. 

Brigadier-General  Hiram  Burnhai  1 1  Fort  Harrison . 

Brigadier-General  Daniel  D.  Bid  well.  Cedar  Creek. 

Brigadier-General  Charles  R.  Lowell"  Cedar  Creeli 

Brevet  Brigadier-General  Arthur  H.  Dutton*  Bermuda  Hundred. 

Brevet  Brigadier-General  Griffin  A.  Stedman  .  Petersburg. 

Brevet  Brigadier-General  George  D.  Wells.  Cedar  Creeli 

Brevet  Brigadier-General  J.  H.  Kitching*  Cedar  Creek. 

Brevet  Brigadier-General  Sylvester  G.  Hill .  Nashville. 

There  were  also  23  Brevet  Brigadier-Generals  who  were  killed  in  action,  but  who  wen? 
without  brigade  commands.  They  were  regimental  or  staff  officers  whose  brevets,  in  mosl 
instances,  dated  from  the  day  they  were  killed. 

»  Mortally  wounded.       t  Hays  commanded  a dlvtolon  on  the  Gettysburg  oamiwlgn.      J  Shot  by  guerrilla*.  whll«  lyln*  «l<*  In  an  ambulan. 


42  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

There  were  35  general  officers  who  died  of  disease  during  the  war.  Among  them  were 
several  prominent  and  able  officers  —  Generals  Sumner,  C.  F.  Smith,  Birney,  Mitchel,  Welsh, 
Buford,  Corcoran,  Ransom,  Crocker,  and  other  noted  generals. 

A  large  number  of  brigades  were  commanded  by  Colonels,  some  of  whom  held  a  brigade 
command  for  a  long  time,  during  which  they  displayed  marked  ability,  but  without  any 
recognition  of  their  services  on  the  part  of  the  Government. -"  The  list  of  Brigadiers  killed  in 
action  would  convey  an  erroneous  impression  as  to  the  losses  in  that  grade,  unless  accom 
panied  by  a  supplementary  list  of  the  other  brigade  commanders  who  also  lost  their  lives 
in  battle. 

The  following  list  is  composed  of  Colonels  who  had  been  entrusted  with  brigades,  and 
were  exercising  such  commands  at  the  time  of  their  death.  They  were  men  of  noble  spirits, 
intrepid  soldiers,  whose  gallantry  and  ability  had  won  the  admiration  and  respect  of  all. 

KILLED   IN  ACTION. 


BRIGADE  COMMANDERS,  WITH  RANK  OF  COLONEL. 


Colonel  Edward  D.  Baker, 
Colonel  Julius  Raith,f 
Colonel  Everett  Peabody, 
Colonel  George  Webster, 
Colonel  John  A.  Koltes, 
Colonel  William  B.  Goodrich, 
Colonel  George  W.  Roberts, 
Colonel  Frederick  Schaefer, 
Colonel  George  C.  Spear, 
Colonel  David  S.  Cowles, 
Colonel  George  B.  Boomer, 
Colonel  Edward  E.  Cross, 
Colonel  George  L.  Willard, 
Colonel  Eliakim  Sherrill, 
Colonel  Haldinand  S.  Putnam, 
Colonel  James  E.  Mallon, 
Colonel  Edward  A.  King, 
Colonel  Hans  C.  Heg, 
Colonel  Philemon  P.  Baldwin, 
Colonel  William  R.  Creighton, 
Colonel  Patrick  E.  Burke,  f 
Colonel  Orlando  H.  Morris, 
Colonel  Lewis  0.  Morris, 
Colonel  Henry  Boyd  McKeen, 
Colonel  Frank  A.  Haskell, 
Colonel  Jeremiah  C.  Drake, 
Colonel  Richard  Byrnes,  f 
Colonel  Patrick  Kelly, 
Colonel  William  Blaisdell, 
Colonel  Simon  Mix, 


71st 

43d 

25th 

98th 

73d 

60th 

42d 

2d 
61st 
128th 
26th 

5th 
125th 
126th 

7th 
42d 
68th 
15th 

6th 

7th 
66th 
66th 

7th 
81st 
36th 
112th 
28th 
88th 
llth 

3d 


Pennsylvania, 

Illinois, 

Missouri, 

Ohio, 

Pennsylvania, 

New  York, 

Illinois, 

Missouri, 

Pennsylvania, 

New  York, 

Missouri, 

New  Hampshire, 

New  York, 

New  York, 

New  Hampshire, 

New  York, 

Indiana, 

Wisconsin, 

Indiana, 

Ohio, 

Illinois, 

New  York, 

New  York  (H.  A.), 

Pennsylvania, 

Wisconsin, 

New  York, 

Massachusetts,  ^ 

New  York,:}: 

Massachusetts, 

New  York  Cavalry, 


BaU's  Bluff. 

Shiloh. 

Shiloh. 

Chaplin  Hills. 

Manassas. 

Antietam. 

Stone's  River. 

Stone's  River. 

Marye's  Heights. 

Port  Hudson. 

Vicksburg. 

Gettysburg. 

Gettysburg. 

Gettysburg. 

Fort  Wagner. 

Bristoe  Station. 

Chickamauga. 

Chickamauga. 

Chickamauga. 

Ringgold. 

Rome  Cross  Roads. 

Cold  Harbor. 

Cold  Harbor. 

Cold  Harbor. 

Cold  Harbor. 

Cold  Harbor. 

Cold  Harbor. 

Petersburg. 

Petersburg. 

Petersburg. 


*  In  the  Confederate  Army,  each  brigade  commandant  was  commissioned  as  a  Brigadier-General,  except  where  the  appointment  was  a 
temporary  one.  t  Mortally  wounded.  J  Irish  Brigade. 


CHAPLAINS,  QUAKTKKMASTKKS,  AND  SURGEONS. 


Colonel  Calvin  A.  Craig, 
Colonel  Nathan  T.  Dushane, 
Colonel  Joseph  Tholmrn,* 
Colonel  Louis  Bell, 


105th  Pennsylvania, 
1st   Maryland, 
1st   West  Virginia, 
4th  New  Hampshire, 


Deep  Bottom. 
Weldon    Ixailroad. 
Cedar  Creek. 
Fort  Fisher. 


In  each  regiment  there  were  officers  whose  duties  did  not  require  that  they  should  go 
into  action--  the  Chaplain,  the  Quartermaster,  and  the  Surgeons.  Although  they  had  no 
tactical  position  in  the  line  of  battle,  there  was  a  loss  of  life  among  their  numlx-i-  which 
entitles  them  to  some  other  place  in  the  records  of  the  war  than  that  of  mere  non-combatants. 
Many  of  them  waived  their  exemption  from  danger,  and  gallantly  volunteered  for  service  in 
the  field  ;  while  others --the  surgeons,  for  instance  —  attended  calmly  to  the  performance  of 
their  duties  amid  perils  which  would  test  the  stoutest  heart. 

Though  the  surgeons  seldom  took  an  active  part  in  a  battle,  they  were  required  to  l>e 
near,  and  much  of  the  time  were  under  fire.  Some  of  them  went  on  the  field  with  their  regi 
ments  in  order  to  render  timely  aid;  others  were  stationed  near  by  at  some  field  hospital, 
where  they  often  found  themselves  exposed  to  serious  danger.  During  the  war,  40  Surgeons 
were  killed  and  73  wounded  while  bravely  attending  to  their  duties  on  the  battle  field.  They 
had  not  the  excitement  of  the  fight  to  dull  their  sense  of  danger  ;  they  had  not  the  incentive 
of  promotion  ;  they  were  not  spurred  by  ambitious  hopes  ;  victory  might  bring  laurels  to 
others,  but  not  to  them  ;  they  met  their  fate,  actuated  and  sustained  by  no  other  impulse 
than  the  sense  of  duty. 

Many  Surgeons  died  from  disease  while  in  the  service,  and  their  names  also  lengthen  the 
Roll  of  Honor.  A  record  of  these  patriots, —  their  names  and  regiments,  and  the  battles  in 
which  they  lost  their  lives, —  appears  in  the  Medical  and  Surgical  History  of  the  war. 

Several  lives  were  also  lost  among  the  Quartermasters,  some  of  them  having  been  killed 
while  serving  as  volunteer  aids,  while  others  fell  while  attending  to  the  duties  of  their 
position  when  under  fire.  Among  the  first  to  scale  the  heights  of  Missionary  Ridge  was  a 
Quartermaster-Sergeant  of  a  Michigan  regiment,  who  had  borrowed  a  gun  and  volunteered 
for  the  fight. 

It  will,  doubtless,  be  a  surprise  to  many  to  note  the  number  of  Chaplains  killed  in  battle1. 
These  gallant  members  of  the  Church  Militant  were  wont  to  take  a  more  active  part  in  the 
fighting  than  has  been  generally  credited  to  them.  They  were  frequently  seen  in  the  thickest 
of  the  fight,  some  of  them  handling  a  rifle  with  the  skill  of  a  marksman,  while  others, 
unarmed,  would  move  about  among  their  men  encouraging  them  to  do  their  best. 

Among  the  Chaplains  killed  in  action,  there  were  : 


Name. 

Rev.  Arthur  B.  Fuller, 
Rev.  Orlando  N.  Benton, 
Rev.  John  M.  Springer, 
Rev.  Francis  E.  Butler, 
Rev.  John  L.  Walther, 
Rev.  Levi  W.  Sanders, 
Rev.  John  W.  Eddy, 
Rev.  Horatio  S.  Howell, 
Rev.  Thomas  L.  Ambrose, 
Rev.  George  W.  Bartlett, 
Rev.  George  W.  Densmore, 


Regiment. 

Massachusetts, 
51st   New  York, 
3d     Wisconsin, 
25th  New  Jersey, 
43d     Illinois, 
125th  Illinois, 
72d     Indiana, 
90th  Pennsylvania, 
12th  New  Hampshire, 
1st   Maine  Cavalry, 
1st   Wisconsin  Cavalry, 


Battle. 

Fredericksburg. 

New  Berne. 

liVsaca. 

Siege  of  Suffolk. 

Shiloh. 

Cald well's  Ferry. 

Hoover's  Gap. 

Gettysburg. 

Petersburg. 

Cold  Harbor. 

L'Anguille  Ferry 


'  Thoburn  commanded  a  division  durinc  the  entire  Shenandoah  campaign,  and  wax  In  command  of  it  at  tlio  time  of  lil-i  death. 


44  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

In  addition,  there  were  several  who  lost  their  lives  by  the  diseases  incident  to  the  hard 
ship  and  exposure  of  a  soldier's  life. 

Chaplain  Fuller,  of  the  Sixteenth  Massachusetts,  had  resigned  from  the  service  and  had 
just  received  his  discharge,  when  he  learned  that  his  regiment  was  about  to  go  into  action,  at 
Fredericksburg.  Crossing  the  river  in  the  boats  with  the  forlorn  hope,  he  joined  the  skir 
mishers  of  the  Nineteenth  Massachusetts,  who  were  then  fighting  their  way  through  the 
streets.  He  fell  dead,  rifle  in  hand,  in  front  of  a  grocery  store  on  Caroline  Street. 

Springer,  of  the  Third  Wisconsin,  fell  mortally  wounded  at  Resaca,  after  having  "seized 
a  musket  "  and  fought  for  four  hours  in  the  "  hottest  of  the  fight." 

Howell,  of  the  Ninetieth  Pennsylvania,  was  shot  at  Gettysburg  during  the  retreat  through 
the  town,  and  died  on  the  steps  of  a  church. 

Butler  was  killed  at  the  Siege  of  Suffolk,  while  carrying  water  to  some  wounded  men. 

Bartlett,  of  the  First  Maine  Cavalry,  was  killed  at  Cold  Harbor.  He  was  struck  in  the 
breast  by  a  shell  and  "  literally  blown  to  pieces." 

Benton  fell  at  New  Berne,  and  General  Reno  states  in  his  official  report  that  he  "was 
killed  while  nobly  encouraging  the  men  to  do  their  duty." 

Eddy,  of  the  Seventy-second  Indiana,  fell  at  Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn.,  struck  by  a  cannon  ball. 

Of  Chaplain  Ambrose,  who  was  killed  in  the  trenches  at  Petersburg,  the  regimental 
historian  says  that  "a  braver  man  never  lived;  a  truer  man  never  wore  the  garb  of 
Christianity." 

At  Resaca,  among  the  Confederate  dead  which  lay  so  thickly  in  front  of  the  Twenty- 
seventh  Indiana,  was  a  family  group  :  a  gray-haired  Chaplain  and  his  two  sons. 

The  official  reports  make  frequent  mention  of  Chaplains  whose  gallantry  and  zeal  had 
attracted  the  notice  of  their  general.  In  the  Chancellorsville  reports,  General  Berdaii, 
commander  of  the  famous  Sharpshooters,  states  that  "  Chaplain  Barber,  of  the  Second  Regi 
ment,  took  a  rifle  and  went  in  with  the  skirmishers,  with  his  usual  bravery." 

At  Antietam,  Gen.  J.  R.  Brooke  mentions  in  his  report  "  the  brave  Chaplain  of  the  Sixty 
-sixth  New  York,  Rev.  Mr.  D wight,  who  was  constantly  in  the  field,  in  the  thickest  of  the 
fight." 

Gen.  Giles  A.  Smith,  in  his  report  of  the  battle  of  Atlanta  (July  22d),  states  that  Chaplain 
Bennett,  of  the  Thirty-second  Ohio,  "carried  his  musket  and  fought  all  day  in  the  ranks, 
which  I  learn  is  his  custom  on  all  such  occasions." 

The  officers  of  a  brigade  petitioned  that  Chaplain  H.  C.  Trumbull,  of  the  Tenth  Connec 
ticut,  be  brevetted  a  Major  ;  stating  that,  "always  at  his  post  in  time  of  danger,  he  has, 
on  two  occasions  at  least,  displayed  marked  and  conspicuous  gallantry  ;  dashing  into  the 
thickest  of  the  fight  to  rally  and  encourage  the  wavering  line."  Gen.  Terry  forwarded  the 
paper  with  the  endorsement:  "No  officer  of  his  regiment  has  displayed  more  gallantry  in 
action,  or  done  more  to  animate  the  men  to  do  their  duty. " 

Aside  from  such  notices,  these  men  have  not  received  the  recognition  due  their  services, 
but  lack  of  space  forbids  further  mention  here. 

Many  of  the  Chaplains  had  served  in  the  ranks  as  enlisted  men  prior  to  their  appoint 
ment.  They  were  regularly  ordained  clergymen,  whose  patriotic  zeal  had  impelled  them  to 
exchange  their  pulpits  for  the  camp  ;  so,  when  a  vacancy  occurred  in  the  chaplaincy  of  a 
regiment  to  which  any  such  belonged,  the  Colonel  was  very  apt  to  recommend  the  clerical 
musket-bearer,  whose  gallantry  perhaps  had  already  attracted  his  attention. 

In  this  connection,  mention  should  also  be  made  of  the  many  clergymen  who  left  their 
pastoral  duties  to  accept  commissions  in  the  army,  some  of  whom  held  regimental  or  brigade 
commands.  Among  the  brigade  commanders  killed  at  Cold  Harbor  was  the  Rev.  Jeremiah 


*  Love :  Wisconsin  in  the  War. 


MUSICIANS.  » 

C.  Drake,  Colonel  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Twelfth  New  York,  an  officer  conspicuous  for 
gallant  and  meritorious  service  on  many  occasions.  A  similar  instance  is  found  in  the  Con 
federate  Army  in  the  case  of  Bishop  Polk,  a  corps-general,  who  fell  while  on  the  Atlanta 
campaign. 

The  musicians  formed  a  numerous  class  among  the  non  combatants.  Although  their 
legitimate  duty  in  time  of  hattle  was  confined  to  that  of  stretcher-bearers,  they  often  partic 
ipated  in  the  fighting.  At  Shiloh,  the  hand  of  the  Forty -eighth  Ohio  laid  aside  their  instru 
ments,  procured  rifles,  and  went  into  the  fight,  where  two  of  their  numl>er  were  killed.*  Still, 
it  must  l>e  confessed  that  the  dead  drummer-hoy  was  not  so  common  a  feature  on  the  field  as 
might  be  inferred  from  the  work  of  hattle- field  artists. 

The  frequent  loss  of  life  among  the  stretcher-bearers  attests  the  faithful  work  of  the  men 
employed  in  that  duty,  most  of  whom  were  musicians.  At  the  battle  of  the  Weldon  Railroad, 
the  ambulance  train  of  the  Fifth  Corps  lost  2  sergeants  killed  and  0  stretcher-men  wounded  : 
8  horses  were  killed,  and  shells  passed  through  two  of  the  ambulances.  This  was  not  an 
uncommon  experience. 

•  Major  John  A.  Bering :  History  of  the  Forty-eighth  Ohio  Volunteers. 


CHAPTER  V. 


CASUALTIES  COMPARED  WITH  THOSE  OF  EUROPEAN  WARS --LOSS  IN  EACH 
ARM  OF  THE  SERVICE  —  DEATHS  FROM  DISEASE  —  CLASSIFICATION  OF 
DEATHS  BY  CAUSES. 

TT  WAS  the  greatest  war  of  the  century.     On  the  Union  side  alone,  110,070  men  were 

killed  in  battle,  while  249,458  more  died  from  disease,  accidents,  in  military  prisons,  or 
from  other  causes.  Including  both  sides,  over  half  a  million  lives  were  lost.  There  have 
been  wars  which  have  lasted  longer-- wars  with  intermittent  and  desultory  campaigns  ;  but, 
in  this  struggle  the  two  armies  for  four  years  never  let  go  their  clutch  upon  each  other's 
throat.  For  four  years  the  echo  of  the  picket's  rifle  never  ceased. 

It  is  hard  to  realize  the  meaning  of  the  figures,  110,070  men  killed  ;  and  that,  on  one  side 
only.  It  is  easy  to  imagine  one  man  killed  ;  or  ten  men  killed  ;  or,  perhaps,  a  score  of  men 
killed.  With  some  effort  of  the  mind  one  can  picture  a  hundred  men  stretched,  lifeless  and 
bloody  on  the  ground.  The  veteran  recalls,  as  if  in  a  dream,  the  sight  of  many  more  lying 
011  some  battle  field  ;  but  even  he  is  unable  to  comprehend  the  dire  meaning  of  the  one 
hundred  thousand,  whose  every  unit  represents  a  soldier's  bloody  grave. 

The  figures  are  too  large.  They  will  be  better  understood,  however,  and  a  more  intelli 
gent  idea  will  be  formed  if  they  are  compared  with  the  losses  of  other  wars.  A  better  idea 
will  also  be  obtained  of  the  great  struggle  which  occurred  within  our  own  borders,  and  with 
it  will  come  a  fuller  recognition  of  American  manhood. 

The  Franco-Prussian  war  of  1870-71  was  one  of  the  greatest  of  European  wars.  Larger 
armies  were  never  assembled.  The  Germans  took  797,950  men  into  France.  Of  this  number, 
28,277  were  killed,  or  died  of  wounds — a  loss  of  3.1  per  cent.  In  the  Crimean  war,  the  allied 
armies  lost  3.2  per  cent,  in  killed,  or  deaths  from  wounds.  In  the  war  of  1866,  the  Austrian 
army  lost  2.6  percent,  from  the  same  cause.  But,  in  the  American  Civil  War  the  Union 
Armies  lost  4.7  per  cent.,  and  the  Confederates  over  9  per  cent.;  and  this  despite  the  greater 
area  of  country,  which  required  a  large  share  of  the  troops  to  protect  the  lines  of  communi 
cation.  There  are  no  figures  on  record  to  show  that,  even  in  the  Napoleonic  wars,  there  was 
ever  a  greater  percentage  of  loss  in  killed.  In  fact,  all  the  statistics  pertaining  to  the  earlier 
wars  of  the  century  are  loosely  stated,  and  bear  on  their  face  a  lack  of  accuracy.  The  histo 
rians  of  that  period  give  all  battle  losses  in  round  numbers,  the  killed,  wounded,  missing,  and 
prisoners  being  lumped  together  in  one  amount.  Each  writer  treats  the  casualties  as  an 
unimportant  part  of  his  story,  and  seems  to  have  made  no  effort  to  arrive  at  anything  like  an 
accurate  or  classified  statement.  Perhaps,  the  facts  were  not  attainable  and  the  historians 
were  obliged  to  accept  the  wild,  exaggerated  stories  of  which  there  are  always  a  plenty,  and 
which  soon  crowd  out  of  sight  the  truthful  narratives. 

The  two  great  battles  of  the  age,  in  point  of  loss,  are  Waterloo  and  Gettysburg.  Between 
them  there  is  a  remarkable  similarity,  both  in  numbers  engaged  and  extent  of  casualties. 

(46) 


CASUALTIES  AT  (JTETTYSBUKG  COMPARED  WITH  EUROPEAN  BATTLES.  47 

At  Waterloo,  the  French  numliered  80,000  men,  and  252  guns  ;*  the  Allies  miml>ered  72,ooo 
men,  and  18<>  guns.  At  Gettysburg,  the  Union  Army  numl>ered  S3,  (MM)  men,  and  300 
guns  ;f  the  Confederates,  70,000  men,  and  250  guns.  §  At  Waterloo,  Wellington's  army 
lost  23,185;  at  Gettysburg,  Meade's  army  lost  23,003.  The  loss  of  the  French  at 
Waterloo  has  never  been  officially  announced,  but  has  Ixjen  estimated  at  20,300  ;  the  Confed 
erate  loss  at  Gettysburg,  as  officially  reported  by  the  Confederate  Surgeon -General,  was 
20,448,  to  which  must  be  added  7,077  wounded  and  unwounded  prisoners  whose  names  were 
omitted  from  his  lists,  but  whose  names  appear  on  the  records  at  Washington.  In  short,  the 
battles  of  Waterloo  and  Gettysburg  were  fought  with  from  70,000  to  82,000  men  on  each  side, 
and  the  combatants  lost  about  23,000  men  each. 

In  the  Franco-Prussian  war,  the  greatest  loss  occurred  at  the  battle  of  Gravelotte,  where 
the  Germans  lost  4,449  killed  (including  the  mortally  wounded),  15,189  wounded,  and  939 
missing  ;  total,  20,577,  out  of  140,000  troops  engaged,  exclusive  of  (55, 000  reserves.  At  Get 
tysburg,  Meade's  army  sustained  a  greater  loss  with  half  the  number  engaged. 

It  may  be  suggested  that  the  Franco-Prussian  war  was,  comparatively,  of  brief  duration, 
and  hence  a  comparison  of  the  aggregate  casualties  cannot  properly  l>e  made.  But,  in  the 
American  Civil  War,  during  the  six  months  following  May  4,  18<»4,  the  various  Union  armies 
sustained  a  greater  loss  than  the  German  armies  did  during  the  whole  Franco-Prussian  war. 
The  total  loss  of  the  German  army  in  that  war  was  28,277  killed  or  mortally  wounded,  85,4.S2 
wounded,  and  14,138  missing;  total,  127,897. 

All  historians  agree  that  Borodino  was  the  bloodiest  battle  since  the  introduction  of  gun- 
)>owder.  The  casualties  in  that  battle  have  been  variously  stated  :  The  Encyclopedia  Brit- 
tannica  puts  the  Russian  loss  at  30,000  in  killed,  wounded,  ami  prisoners,  and  the  French  loss 
at  "considerably  above  20,000."  Allison  gives  the  losses  at  Borodino  in  round  numbers  only, 
placing  the  French  loss  at  50,000,  and  the  Russian  at  45,000.  The  most  credible  statement  is 
found  in  the  Journal  of  The  London  Statistical  Society,  which  places  the  number  of  killed 
and  wounded  in  the  French  army  at  Borodino  at  2S,085,  out  of  133,000  troops  present  on  the 
field.  The  Russian  army  numbered  132,ooo  at  that  battle,  and  there  is  nothing  to  show  that 
its  loss  was  greater  than  that  of  its  antagonist.  Although  the  nuiiuVr  of  killed  and  wounded 
at  Borodino  was  greater,  numerically,  than  at  Waterloo  and  Gettysburg,  the  percentage  of 
loss  was  very  much  less. 

The  largest  armies  were  marshalled  at  Leipsic,  "the  battle  of  the  Nations."  On  that 
field  the  allies  concentrated  330,000  men  ;*  Napoleon's  army  numbered  175,000.  The  state 
ments  of  the  casualties  as  made  by  various  historians  are  so  conflicting,  and  are  so  loosely 
stated,  that  no  definite  idea  of  the  loss  can  be  obtained.  It  was  greater,  probably,  than  at 
Borodino. 

In  the  American  Civil  War,  the  Union  Armies  lost  110,070  killed  or  mortally  wounded, 
and  275,175  wounded;  total,  385,245,  exclusive  of  the  missing  in  action  whose  numtor  has 
not,  as  yet,  been  officially  stated.  Of  the  110,070  deaths  from  battle,  07,058  were  killed  on 
the  field;  the  remainder,  43,012,  died  of  their  wounds.  This  loss  was  divided  among  the 
different  arms  of  the  service  as  follows  : 


*  Allison. 

tThe  t'omte  de  Paris,  in  his  history  of  tho  war.  estimates  that  the  Union  army  had  only  tti.OOO  aotually  on  tho  field 
return  of  JuneflOth,  shows  99.131  "  Present  for  duty,  equipped."    Still,  in  view  of  the  constant  discrepan.-y  between  the  numl* 
Union  regiments  as  "present  for  duty,"  and  the  number  reported  by  them  as  taken  into  action,  the  estimate  of  the 
assumed  to  be  substantially  correct.     It  *  very  doubtful  if  Meade  had  over  W,000  men  on  the  field,  Including  the  : 
reserve.    Historians  vary  as  to  the  numbers  engaged  at  Waterloo. 

;  At  Uic  first  duy's  battle  there  were  IttS.OUO  present. 

$  General  Lee  had  about  60,000  men  at  Gettysburg,  i  resent  in  action.    His  cavalry  were  absent. 


48 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 
KILLED  OR  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 


Service.  Officers. 

Infantry 5,461 

Sharpshooters 23 

Cavalry  671 

Light  Artillery  .  _ .  116 

5 
4 


'-Heavy  Artillery 
Engineers  . . . 


Enlisted  Men. 

91,424 
443 

9,925 

1,701 

124 

72 


General  Officers 
fGeneral  Staff,. 
Unclassified . 


67 

18 


16 


Total.  6,365 


103,705 


Total. 

96,885 

466 

10,596 

1,817 

129 

76 

67 

18 

16 

110,070 


Ratio  of 
Officers  to  Men. 


1 
1 
1 

1 
1 

1 


16.7 

17.7 
14.7 
14.6 

24.8 
18.0 


1  :  16.2 


The  losses  in  the  three  principal  classes  of  troops  were  : 

KILLED  OR  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 


Class.  Officers. 

Volunteers 6,078 

Regulars 144 

Colored  Troops.  143 


Enlisted  Men. 

98,815 
2,139 
2,751 


Total.  6,365 


103,705 


Total. 

104,893 

2,283 
2,894 

110,070 


Ratio  of 
Officers  to  Men. 

1  :  16.2 
1  :  14.8 
1  :  19.2 


DIED  BY  DISEASE. 

(Nor  INCLUDING  DEATHS  IN  PRISONS.) 


Class.  Officers. 

Volunteers.  ..  2,471 

Regulars.  104 

Colored  Troops.  137 


Enlisted  Men. 

165,039 

2,448 
29,521 


Total.  2,712 


197,008 


Total. 

167,510 

2,552 
29,658 

199,720 


1  :  16.3 


Ratio  of 
Officers  to  Men. 

1  :  66.7 
1  :  23.5 
1  :  215.5 


1  :  72.6 


The  total  number  of  men  enrolled  during  the  four  years  of  the  war  was  2,778,304.  But 
a  large  proportion  of  them  enlisted  for  ninety  days,  six  months,  one  year,  or  two  years,  and 
reentered  the  service  upon  the  expiration  of  their  term  of  enlistment.  Thus,  the  names  of 
many  soldiers  appear  two  or  more  times  upon  the  rolls,  and  in  different  regiments.  Reduced 
to  a  three  years'  standard  of  enlistment,  the  total  enrollment  of  the  Union  Army  would  equal 
2,326,168  men.  Using  this  as  a  basis  for  computation,  the  following  percentages  are  obtained  : 

KILLED  OR  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 


Class. 

Volunteers  .   _ 

Enrolled. 

2  080  193 

Killed. 

104  893 

Per  cent. 
5  0 

±  Regulars  . 

67  000 

2  283 

3  4 

Colored  Troops. 

178  975 

2  894 

1  6 

Total.  .. 

2  326  168 

110  070 

4  7 

*  Heavy  Artillery,  acting  as  infantry,  is  included  with  the  infantry. 
t  Does  not  include  officers  in  volunteer  regiments  detailed  on  staff  duty. 

t  Many  of  the  Kegulars  were  stationed  on  post  duty.    The  Regular  regiments  in  the  field  sustained  losses  fully  as  heavy  as  those  of  the 
Volunteers. 


DEATHS  FROM  ALL  CAUSES.  40 
DIED  OF  DISEASE. 

(Nor  INCLUDING  DEATHS  IN  PRISONS.) 

Class-  Enrolled.  Die,/.  Percent 

Volunteers.  2,080,193  1<;7,510  8.0 

Regulars.  G7,00o  2,552  3.H 

Colored  Troops  178,1)75  29,658  16.:, 

Total.  2,326,1(58  11)9,720  8.5 

DEATHS  FROM  ALL  CAUSES. 

flast'  Enrolled.  Dud.  Percent. 

Volunteers.  2,080,103  316,883  15.2 

Regulars.  67,000  5,798  8.6 

Colored  Troops  178,975  36,S47  20.5 


Total.  2,826,16$  359,528  15.4 

Tin*  number  of  deaths  from  disease  was  remarkable,  being  more  than  double  the  mnnW 
from  hattle.  Without  including  the  deaths  in  Confederate  prisons,  or  those  caused  by  acci 
dents,  drowning,  sunstrokes,  suicides,  executions,  murders,  or  other  causes,  there  were  199.- 
720  of  the  Union  Army  who  died  of  disease  —  in  camp,  in  hospitals,  or  at  home-  l»efore  their 
term  of  enlistment  had  expired.  Part  of  this  extraordinary  loss  was  due  to  the  severity  of 
the  campaigns.  The  extent  of  territory  marched  over  was  immense  ;  some  of  the  campaigns 
were  made  under  a  tropical  sun,  and  some  of  the  battles  were  fought  amid  the  snows  of 
winter.  The  Ninth  Corps  fought  on  the  Carolina  Coast,  and  then  moved  a  thousand  miles 
westward  to  the  fever-smitten  camps  at  Vicksburg.  The  Twelfth  Corps,  after  lighting  for 
two  years  in  Virginia,  moved  to  Tennessee,  from  whence  it  fought  its  way  through  Georgia 
to  Atlanta  ;  marched  from  Atlanta  to  the  Sea,  and  thence  northward  to  its  old  battle  grounds, 
having  encircled  half  a  continent.  Men  from  the  woods  of  Maine  encamped  two  thousand 
miles  distant  along  the  bayous  of  Louisiana.  Men  from  the  prairies  of  the  Northwest  toiled 
and  battled  among  the  everglades  of  Florida,  and  along  the  (Julf.  Human  endurance  was 
often  tested  to  its  utmost,  and  the  restless,  moving  armies  left  in  their  wake  a  line  of  count 
less  graves. 

And,  yet,  some  of  the  greatest  losses  by  disease  occurred  in  regiments  that  were  not  sub 
jected  to  the  exposure  of  active  service  ;  regiments,  which  |H?rformed  garrison  duty  only, 
and  were  provided  with  comfortable  quarters  and  good  food.  The  greatest  loss  by  disease 
occurred  in  some  black  regiments  which  were  doing  garrison  duty,  and  were  stationed  in  the? 
same  district  from  which  they  had  been  recruited  and  where  they  had  lived  all  their  lives. 
Then,  again,  certain  regiments  among  the  white  troops  suffered  from  disease,  unaccountably, 
more  than  others.  The  Vermont  Brigade,  while  encani|>ed  in  Virginia,  in  lsr.1,  lost  scores  of 
men  by  disease,  while  the  regiments  in  adjoining  camps  were  entirely  exempt  ;  and,  yet,  these 
Vermonters  excelled  in  physique,  cleanliness  and  intelligence. 

The  most  striking  feature  of  the  mortuary  statistics  is  that  the  regiments  which  incurred 
the  greatest  loss  in  battle  are  the  ones  which  suffered  least  from  disease.  While,  throughout 
the  whole  army,  the  deaths  from  disease  were  double  those  from  bullets,  the  hard  fighting 
regiments  seldom  lost  even  a  like  number.  One  fifth  of  the  deaths  from  disease  occurred  in 
regiments  that  never  were  in  battle. 

In  connection  with  this  matter  one  must  bear  in  mind,  also,  the  ratio  of  mortality  in  civil 
life.     Assuming  the  average  age  of  the  soldiers  to  be  23  years,  the  tables  of  the  Life  Insurance 
Actuaries  indicate  that  three-fourths  of  the  deaths  from  disease  were  due  to  the  ex|M>sure  of  a 
4 


50  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

soldier's  life  ;  and    that  the  remainder  would  have  occurred,  just  the  same,  if  the  men  had 

remained  at  home. 

Of  those  who  died  from  disease,  one-fourth  died  of  fever,  principally  typhoid  ;  one-fourth 
died  of  diarrhea,  or  other  forms  of  bowel  complaint  ;  nearly  one-fourth  died  from  inflamma 
tion  of  the  lungs,  or  consumption,  principally  the  former  ;  the  remaining  fourth  died  of 
small-pox,  measles,  brain  disease,  erysipelas,  and  the  various  forms  of  disease  common  to  the 

masses. 

The  deaths  in  the  Union  Army,  from  all  causes,  as  officially  classified  were  as  follows  : 

DEATHS  FEOM  ALL  CAUSES. 

Cause.  Officers.  Enlisted  Men.  Aggregate. 

Killed,  or  died  of  wounds 6,365  103,705  110,070 

Died  of  disease..  2,712  197,008  199,720 

In  Confederate  prisons- 83  24,783  24,866 

Accidents 142  3,972  4,114 

Drowning 106  4,838  4,944 

Sunstrokes 5  308  313 

Murdered 37  483  520 

Killed  after  capture 14  90  104 

Suicide! 26  365  391 

Military  executions 267  267 

Executed  by  the  enemy  __                      4  60  64 

Causes  known,  but  unclassified 62  1,972  2,034 

Cause  not  stated.  28  12,093  12,121 


Aggregate 9,584  349,944  359,528 

The  deaths  from  accidents  were  caused,  principally,  by  the  careless  use  of  fire-arms, 
explosions  of  ammunition,  and  railway  accidents  ;  in.  the  cavalry  service,  a  large  number  of 
accidental  deaths  resulted  from  poor  horsemanship. 

The  number  of  the  drowned  may  seem  large,  but  the  average  is  less  than  three  men  to  a 
regiment.  This  loss  was  occasioned  largely  by  bathing  and  boating.  At  times,  some  regi 
ment  would  sustain  a  larger  loss  while  fording  livers,  or  landing  from  small  boats  in  the  surf. 
The  Seventy-fifth  Pennsylvania,  while  crossing  the  Shenandoah,  in  April,  1862,  lost  2  officers 
and  51  men,  drowned  by  the  swamping  of  a  scow. 

Of  the  Union  soldiers  confined  in  Confederate  prisons,  24,866  died  of  disease,  exclusive  of 
2,072  who  died  of  wounds  while  in  the  enemy's  hands,  and  3,218  others  who  died  from  various 
causes,  known  and  unknown.  As  to  what  proportion  of  these  24,866  deaths  was  due  to  harsh 
treatment,  instead  of  -disease,  it  would  be  difficult  to  say.  In.  the  Northern  military  prisons, 
where  the  inmates  were  furnished  with  good  food  and  quarters,  the  death  rate  was  nearly  the 
same;  30,152  Confederates  died  in  Northern  prisons. f  But  these  pages  have  nothing  to  do 
with  the  prison  question  other  than  the  statistics. 

*  la  addition  to  this  number,  there  were  5,290  who  died  while  prisoners,  and  who  are  included  in  the  other  items  ot  this  classification.  The 
total  number  of  Union  soldiers  who  died  while  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy  according  to  this  official  report  was  30,156.  The  causes  of  their  deaths 
are  classified  as  follows :  From  disease,  24.866 ;  wounds,  2,072 ;  sunstroke,  20 :  accidents,  7 ;  drowning,  7 ;  killed  after  capture,  104 ;  executed 
by  the  enemy,  64 ;  causes  known,  but  not  classified,  319 ;  cause  not  stated,  2,697 ;  total,  30,156.  But,  owing  to  the  imperfect  records  kept  at  some 
of  the  Confederate  prisons,  the  deaths  are  not  all  included  in  the  foregoing  statement.  The  mortality  of  Uniou  prisoners,  as  shown  by  the 
graves,  has  been  estimated  at  86,401. 

t  Congressional  Documents:  Report  of  House  Committee  on  treatment  of  prisoners,  1869,  page  231.  (But  this  number,  30,152  does  not 
include  the  deaths  at  Johnson's  Island  ao'd  some  other  places  of  confinement ;  neither  does  it  include  deaths  from  wounds  in  field  hospitals.) 


DEATHS  AT  ANDERSON  VILLE  AND  ELMIKA  PHISONS.  51 

The  principal  place  of  confinement  for  Union  soldiers  \vus  at  Anderson  vi  lie,  (la.  Out  of 
45,013  prisoners  confined  there,  12,'J12  died  —  or,  28  per  cent.  The  greatest  mnnl>er  present  at 
any  time  was  33,114  --on  August  8,  1804.  The  greatest  mnnl>er  of  deaths  in  any  one  day  was 
127 — on  August  23,  1804.  The  daily  average  of  deaths  was  'Jl'jf. 

The  largest  military  prison  in  the  North  was  located  at  Klmira,  N.  Y.  As  at  Andcrson- 
ville,  it  consisted  of  an  open  stockade  or  prison  pen.  In  it  were  conlined  11,010  prisoners,  of 
whom  2,004  died,  or  25  percent.  The  greatest  mortality  occurred  in  March,  lsor»,  in  which 
month  405  died  at  Ehnira.  Of  the  total  numlx»r  that  died,  2,OS8  were  hnried  in  a  field  which 
has  since  heen  ploughed  over  and  planted  with  wheat  ;  and  now  the  grain  of  summer  and  the 
snow  of  winter  show  no  sign  of  the  hapless  Confederates  who  are  laid  at  rest  beneath  its 
surface. 


CHAPTER    VI. 


THE  COLORED  TROOPS --HISTORY  OF  THEIR  ORGANIZATION-    THEIR  LOSSES 

IN  BATTLE  AND  BY  DISEASE. 

VJI/'HEREVER  black  regiments  were  engaged  in  battle  during  the  Civil  War,  they  acquitted 
themselves  in  a  manner  which  fully  justified  the  policy  of  the  Government  in  enlisting 
their  services.     In  the  future  wars  of  the  Republic  the  colored  American  will  find  himself 
entrusted  with  his  full  share  of  the  fighting. 

And  yet,  the  war  for  the  Union  was  not  the  first  one  in  which  the  African  fought  for  the 
Stars  and  Stripes.  Black  faces  were  not  uncommon  among  the  ranks  of  the  patriots  in  1776. 
The  first  man  to  fall  in  that  struggle  was  the  negro*  who  led  the  mob  in  its  attack  on  the 
British  troops  at  the  Boston  Massacre.  At  Bunker  Hill,  the  free  negroes  fought  intermingled 
with  the  whites  ;  and,  when  Major  Pitcairn  was  killed,  it  was  by  a  bullet  from  a  negro's  rifle. 
At  the  battle  of  Rhode  Island,  Colonel  Greene's  black  regiment  repulsed  three  successive 
charges,  during  which  they  handled  a  Hessian  regiment  severely,  f  In  the  war  of  1812,  Gen 
eral  Jackson  issued  a  proclamation  authorizing  the  formation  of  black  regiments,  and,  subse 
quently,  in  an  address  to  the  colored  troops  thus  enlisted,  acknowledged  their  services  in 
unstinted  praise. 

But,  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  War  the  negro  was  closely  associated  in  the  public  mind  with 
the  political  causes  of  the  strife.  The  prejudice  and  opposition  against  the  use  of  colored 
troops  was  so  strong  that  the  war  was  half  finished  before  they  were  organized  to  any 
extent. 

The  first  appearance  of  the  negro  in  the  military  operations  of  that  period  occurred, 
September,  1862,  in  Cincinnati,  at  the  time  of  the  threatened  invasion  by  Morgan's  raiders. 
A  so-called  Black  Brigade  of  three  regiments  was  then  organized,  and  assigned  to  duty  in 
constructing  the  fortifications  and  earthworks  about  Cincinnati.  These  men  gave  their 
services  voluntarily,  but  were  unarmed  and  without  uniforms.  Their  organization,  such  as 
it  was,  existed  for  three  weeks  only,  and  had  no  connection  with  the  movement  for  enlisting 
colored  troops. 

About  this  same  time  General  Butler  took  the  initiative  in  the  enlistment  of  colored  men  as 
soldiers,  by  organizing  at  new  Orleans  the  regiments  known  as  the  Louisiana  Native  Guards, 
one  of  which  completed  its  organization  in  August,  1862,  and  was  mustered  into  service  on 
the  27th  of  the  following  month.  It  was  designated  the  First  Louisiana  Native  Guard,  and 
was  the  first  black  regiment  to  join  the  Union  Army.  The  Second  Louisiana  Native  Guard 

*  Crispus  Attucks :    His  body  was  placed  iu  Faneuil  Hall,  and  honored  with  a  public  funeral.    With  others  who  fell,  he  was  buried  beneath 
a  stone  bearing  the  words  : 

"  Long  as  in  Freedom's  cause  the  wise  contend, 
Dear  to  your  country  shall  your  fame  extend , 
While  to  the  world  the  lettered  stone  shall  tell 
Where  Caldwell,  Attucks,  Gray,  and  Maverick  fell." 
t  Arnold's  History  of  Rhode  Island. 

(52) 


ItKCKUITINtl   OF   COLOKKD    ItKUlMKNTS.  .  ;; 

was  mustered  in,  Octolx»r  12,  IS<52  ;  the  Third,  on  NovemlxT  24,  1SIJ2.  The  other  regiments 
of  the  Guard,  or  Corps  d'Afriquo  as  it  was  called,  completed  their  organizations  within  a  few 
months  later. 

At  this  time,  also,  in  August,  ist'.2,  recruiting  for  a  colored  regiment  was  commenced  in 
Kansas,  and  over  000  men  were  soon  mustered  in.  The  regiment,  however,  was  not  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  until  January  i:{,  is<»3.  It  was  then. designated  the.  First 
Kansas  Colored  Volunteers,  hut  its  name  was  changed,  in  December,  1804,  to  the  79th  United 
States  Colored  Infantrv. 

*/ 

Recruiting  for  a  black  regiment  had,  also,  been  undertaken  in  South  Carolina  by  General 
Hunter,  and  an  officer,  Sergeant  C.  T.  Trowbridge,  had  IMHMI  detailed  for  that  pur]>ose  as  early 
as  May  7,  18t»2.  The  recruiting  progressed  slowly,  and  was  attended  with  so  many  difficulties 
and  discouragements  that  a  complete  regimental  organization  was  not  effected  until  Jan.  31, 
1SG3.  Some  of  the  companies,  however,  were  organized  at  an  earlier  date.  Colonel  T.  W. 
Higginson  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  this  regiment,  his  commission  dating  back  to 
November  10,  18<>2.  Trowbridge  was  made  Captain  of  the  first  company  organized,  and  sub 
sequently  promoted  to  the  Lieutenant-Colonelcy.  This  regiment,  First  South  Carolina,  was  the 
first  slave  regiment  organized,  the  Louisiana  Native  Guard  having  been  recruited  largely  from 
free  blacks.  The  designation  of  the  First  South  Carolina  was  changed  by  the  War  Depart 
ment,  in  February,  1S»;4,  to  Thirty-third  United  States  Colored  Infantry. 

Recruiting  for  the  Fifty-fourth  Massachusetts  commenced  in  February,  1S<>3,  and  its  ten 
companies  were  full  by  May.  It  was  the  first  colored  regiment  raised  in  a  Northern  State, 
the  First  Kansas  having  been  recruited  largely  in  Missouri,  and  partly  from  enslaved  blacks. 
The  Fifty-fourth  was  composed  mostly  of  free  men,  and  its  recruits  came  from  all  the  North 
ern  States,  it  being  their  first  opportunity  to  enlist. 

By  this  time  the  movement  had  become  general,  and  before  the  war  closed  the  colored 
troops  embraced  14.">  regiments  of  infantry,  7  of  cavalry,  12  of  heavy  artillery,  1  of  light 
artillery,  and  1  of  engineers  ;  total,  H'5i{.  Of  these,  about  »>o  were  brought  into  action  on  the 
battle  field,  the  others  having  been  assigned  to  post  or  garrison  duty. 

Of  the  regiments  brought  into  action,  only  a  few  were  engaged  in  more  than  one  battle  ; 
the  war  was  half  over,  and  so  the  total  of  killed  does  not  ap]>caras  great  as  it  otherwise  would 
have  done.  The  total  number  killed  or  mortally  wounded  in  the  colored  troops  was  143 
officers,  and  -2,751  men.  The  officers  were  whites.  Though  participating  only  in  the  latter 
campaigns  of  the  war,  the  black  regiments  made  a  noble  record,  and  if,  at  times,  they  failed 
to  win  victories,  it  was  through  no  fault  of  theirs. 

The  first  action  in  which  colored  troops  were  engaged  was  an  affair  at  Island  Mounds, 
Mo.,  October  2S,  1S02,  in  which  a  detachment  of  the  First  Kansas  was  attacked  by  a  superior 
mimlxn-  of  Confederates  under  command  of  Colonel  Cockerel.  Although  outnuml>ered,  they 
made  a  successful  resistance  and  scored  a  victory.  Their  lost  was  K»  killed,  including  a  Cap 
tain,  and  12  wounded.  The  First  Kansas,  also,  lost  16  men  killed  on  May  18,  18C.3,  in  a  minor 
engagement  at  Sherwood,  Mo. 

In  the  Assault  on  Port  Hudson,  La.,  May  27,  1863,  colored  troops  were  used  for  the  firs 
time  in  a  general  engagement.     The  Nineteenth  Army  Corps,  during  its  l>esiegement  of  that 
stronghold,  included  several  colored  regiments  in  its  organization.     There  were  the  First  and 
Third   Louisiana  Native  Guawls ;  The  First  Louisiana  Engineers,  Corps  d'Afrique  ;  and, 
Sixth,  Seventh,  Eighth,  Ninth  and  Tenth  Infantry,  Corps  d'Afrique.      During  the  siege  the 
First  Louisiana  Native  Guards  lost  2  officers  and  32  men  killed,  and  :J   officers  and  92  men 
wounded  (including  the  mortally  wounded);  total,  129.     But  few  regiments  in  the  Nineteenth 
Corps  sustained  a  greater  loss.      The  other  regiments  of  the  Corps  d'Afrique  were  actively 
engaged,   but  with  fewer  casualties.     The    Fii-st  Louisiana  Native  Guard  was  attached   to 


54  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Augur's  (1st)  Division,  and  participated  in  the  assaults  of  May  27th  and  June  14th,  in  which 
its  principal  loss  occurred,   its  dead  .lying  among  those  nearest  the  enemy's  works.     This 
regiment  should  not  be  confounded  with  the  First  Louisiana  Infantry,  also  of  Augur's  Division, 
-a  white  regiment  which,  also,  sustained  a  severe  loss  at  Port  Hudson. 

On  June  7th,  1803,  the  colored  troops  composing  the  garrison  at  Milliken's  Bend,  La., 
were  attacked  by  Walker's  Division  numbering  3,000  men.  The  garrison  consisted  of  three 
colored  regiments  :  the  Ninth  Louisiana,  Eleventh  Louisiana,  and  First  Mississippi,  In  addi 
tion  there  were  200  men  of  the  23d  Iowa  (white)  who  had  been  escorting  prisoners  up  the 
river,  and  were  on  their  return  to  the  front.  The  regiments  were  small,  many  of  the  men, 
and  most  of  the  officers,  being  absent  on  recruiting  service  or  other  duty.  When  attacked 
the  garrison  was  driven  back  to  the  river,  where  two  gunboats  came  to  their  assistance.  The 
troops  then  made  a  counter  charge,  regaining  possession  of  their  works  and  capturing  several 
prisoners.  The  fighting  was  desperate  in  the  extreme,  many  of  the  combatants  on  each  side 
falling  by  bayonet  thrusts  or  blows  from  clubbed  muskets.  The  loss,  as  officially  stated  by 
the  Assistant  Secretary  of  War,  who  was  then  at  Vicksburg,  amounted  to  : 

Regiment.  Killed.  Wounded.  Total. 

9th  Louisiana.  62  130  192 

llth  Louisiana.  30  120  150 

1st  Mississippi  .  3  21  24 

23d  Iowa  (white)..  26  60  86 

With  the  wounded  are  included  those  who  were  mortally  wounded.  Captain  Miller,  of 
the  Ninth  Louisiana, "::~  states  that  his  regiment  had  only  300  men  engaged,  and  that  the  whole 
force  of  the  garrison  was  about  600  men. 

The  next  action  in  which  colored  troops  were  engaged  was  the  grand  assault  on  Fort 
Wagner,  July  18,  1863.  To  the  54th  Massachusetts  Colored  was  assigned  the  honor  of  leading 
the  attack,  and  after  the  troops  wrere  formed  on  the  beach,  ready  for  the  assault,  the  order  to 
advance  was  withheld  until  the  Fifty-fourth  could  march  by  and  take  position  at  the  head  of 
the  column.  The  assault  failed  ;  but,  not  until  the  Colonel  of  the  Fifty-fourth  and  many  of 
his  men  had  fallen  dead  on  the  parapet,  or  within,  the  fort.  The  loss  of  the  regiment  in  this 
affair  was  —  3  officers  and  31  men  killed,  11  officers  and  135  men  wounded  (including  those 
mortally  so),  and  92  men  missing  ;  total,  272  —  out  of  650  engaged.  An  impression  has  gained 
ground  that  no  quarter  was  given  to  black  troops  ;  and,  that  the  92  missing  or  captured  men 
met  their  death  in  the  fort,  after  they  had  surrendered.  But  the  official  records  show  that  49 
of  these  men  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons,  and  that  others  of  the  captured  men 
returned  at  the  close  of  the  war,  rejoining  their  regiment  before  its  muster-out. 

One  of  the  severest  regimental  losses  during  the  war,  occurred  in  the  Eighth  United  States 
Colored  Infantry,  at  the  battle  of  Olustee,  Fla.,  February  20,  1864.  It  lost  there  2  officers  and 
49  men  killed,  9  officers  and  180  men  wounded,  and  63  missing  ;  total,  303.  The  missing  ones 
were,  mostly,  dead  or  wounded  men  who  were  left  on  the  field  ;  for,  in  this  action  the  Con 
federates  held  possession  of  the  ground,  General  Seymour's  forces  being  obliged  to  retreat. 
Colonel  Fribley  of  the  Eighth  was  among  the  killed.  The  number  of  the  killed  was  increased 
to  87  by  those  who  died  of  wounds, and  certain  ones  who  were  erroneously  included  with  the 
missing.  This  same  regiment  distinguished  itself,  also,  at  Chaffin's  Farm. 

Upon  the  opening  of  the  spring  campaign  in  1864,  colored  troops  were  a  common  feature 
of  the  armies  before  Eichmond.  Ferrero's  Division  of  the  Ninth  Corps,  and  Hinks'  Division 
of  the  Eighteenth  Corps,  were  composed  entirely  of  black  regiments.  In  the  first  attack  on 


*  Brown  :  Negro  in  the  Rebellion. 


FKKUKUO'S  DIVISION  AT  THE  BATTLE  OF  THE  MINE.  55 

Petersburg,  June  15,  1864,  Kinks' Division  achieved  a  brilliant  success,  capturing  (he  lino  of 
works  in  its  front,  and  seven  pieces  of  artillery.  Had  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  arrived  in 
time  to  follow  up  the  success  of  the  colored  troops,  Petersburg  would  have  l>een  taken  then  ; 
but,  by  the  time  that  the  Eighteenth  corps  was  reenforeed.  Lee's  army  had  hurried  thither  by 
rail  and  were  filing  into  the  intrenchments.  The  opportunity  was  gone.  In  this  assault  of 
June  15th,  the  casualty  lists  show  that  the  temporary  success  of  the  Colored  Division  was 
dearly  obtained.  Among  the  heavier  losses  were  : 

•          Regiment.  Killed.  Wounded*  Mistin^  Total. 

4th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  15  no  lo  135 

22dU.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  14  nr>  138 

The  first  opportunity  to  go  into  action  granted  Ferrero's  Division,  was  at  the  Mine  Explo 
sion,  or  battle  of  The  Crater,  at  Petersburg,  July  HO,  18(54.  This  division  was  selected  to  le;ul 
the  assault ;  but,  at  the  last  moment,  the  order  was  changed  and  it  was  sent  in  last.  It  was 
not  ordered  forward  until  the  assault  was  a  bloody  failure,  and  although  it  did  all  that  men 
could  do,  it  was  unable  to  retrieve  the  disaster.  This  change  of  plan  relieved  the  colonel 
regiments  of  all  responsibilty  for  that  defeat.  Still,  they  fought  bravely,  and  held  their 
ground  under  the  most  discouraging  circumstances.  How  well  they  stood  is  attested  by 
their  terrible  losses. 

CASUALTIES   IX    FERRERO'S   DIVISION  AT  THE   RATTLE  OF  THE  MINE, 

JULY  3o,    1S04. 

Regiment.  Killed.  Wounded*  Missing.\  Total. 

23d  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  74  115  121                    3io 

20th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  21  50  47                    124 

31st  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  27  42  GO                    135 

43d  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  14  80  123 

30th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry-  1*  1°-* 

39th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  13  97  47                    157 

28th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  11  <>4  13 

27th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  9  40 

19th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  6 

Total  K97  421  1,327 

To  any  one  familiar  with  the  extent  of  regimental  losses  in  action,  these  figures  tell  a 

heroic  story. 

Hard  fighting  was  also  done  by  colored  troops  at  Chaftin's  Farm,  September 
where  Paine's  Division  (colored)  of  the  Eighteenth  Corps,  and  Birney's*  Colored  Brigade  of 
the  Tenth  Corps --in  all,  about  10,000  strong-  -were  actively  engaged.     These  troops  partic 
ipated   in  the  assaults  on  Fort  Gilmer    and  the  intrenchments  at  New  Market  Heights 
Among  the  regiments  sustaining  the  heaviest  losses  were  the  following  : 


Regiment. 

Oth  U  S  Colored  Infantry 

Killed. 
41 

ll'ountied.* 

100 

.\fissing. 

- 

olal. 
209 

5th  U   S   Colored  Infantry 

28 

185 

23 

230 

4th  U   S  Colored  Infantry 

27 

137 

14 

178 

30th  U   S   Colored  Infantrv 

21 

87 

_  _ 

108 

38th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry  . 

17 

94 

-- 

111 

*  Includes  the  mortally  woundod. 

t  A  lanre 

,..i...i  tii..  T..n!\i  i  ',  irns  in  this 

proportion  of  the  iiilalnc 

battle. 

were  killed 

or  wounded. 

56  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES   IN  THE   ClVIL  WAR. 

The  Sixth  had  only  367  officers  and  men  engaged,  its  loss  being  over  57  per  cent.  The 
troops  in  Paine's  Division  were  the  same  ones  which  carried  the  works  at  Petersburg,  June 
15,  1864 

In  the  action  on  the  Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  October  27,  1864,  the  Twenty-ninth  Connecti 
cut  (colored)  distinguished  itself  by  the  efficiency  with  which  it  held  a  skirmish  line  for 
several  hours,  under  a  strong  pressure.  Loss,  11  killed  and  69  wounded. 

Two  brigades  of  colored  troops  participated  in  the  victory  at  Nashville,  December  15, 
1864.  The  heaviest  loss  in  any  regiment  on  that  field  occurred  in  the  Thirteenth  U.  S.  Colored 
Infantry,  which,  in  its  assault  on  Overton  Hill,  lost  55  killed  (including  4  officers),  and  166 
wounded  ;*  total,  221. 

The  severest  loss  at  the  battle  of  Honey  Hill,  S.  C.,  November  30,  1864,  fell  on  a  black 
regiment,  the  Fifty-fifth  Massachusetts,  which  lost  in  that  action,  29  killed,  and  115  wounded  ; 
total,  144. 

In  the  closing  battle  of  the  war  —  the  victorious  assault  on  Fort  Blakely,  Ala.,  April  9, 
1865 --a  colored  division  bore  a  conspicuous  and  honorable  part.  Among  the  casualties  in 
that  engagement  the  following  are  worthy  of  note  : 

Regiment.  Killed.  Wounded*  Missing  Total. 

68th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry 10  91  101 

76th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  13  78  91 

In  addition  to  the  battles  heretofore  mentioned,  colored  troops  were  prominently  engaged 
in  the  following  actions  : 

Morris  Island,  S.  0.  James  Island,  S.  C.  Liverpool  Heights,  Miss. 

Yazoo  City,  Miss.  Pleasant  Hill,  La.  Prairie  d'Ann,  Ark. 

Poison  Springs,  Ark.  Camden,  Ark.  Jenkins'  Ferry,  Ark. 

Saline  River,  Ark.  Fort  Pillow,  Tenn.  Natural  Bridge,  Fla. 

Morganzia,  La.  Jacksonville,  Fla.  B rice's  X  Roads,  Miss. 

Tupelo,  Miss.  Athens,  Ala.  Drewry's  Bluff,  Va. 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va.  Dutch  Gap,  Va.  Deep  Bottom,  Va. 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.  Hatcher's  Run,  Va.  Fair  Oaks,  Va.  (1864) 

Saltville,  Va.  Deveaux  Neck,  S.  C.  Boykin's  Mills,  S.  C. 

Cox's  Bridge,  N.  C.  Fort  Fisher,  N.  C.  Wilmington,  N.  C. 

Spanish  Fort,  Ala.  Fall  of  Richmond.  Appomattox,  Va. 

They  rendered  effective  and  meritorious  services  in  many  of  these  engagements,  and,  in 
some  of  them,  sustained  serious  losses. 

*  Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


CHAPTER  VII. 


MUSTER-OUT-ROLLS  -    ANTHROPOLOGICAL  STATISTICS. 

E  statistics  presented  in  thoso  pages  are  based  largely  on  a  personal  examination  of  the 
muster-out-rolls  of  the  various  regiments.  When  a  regiment  was  mustered  out  of 
service  at  the  close  of  the  war,  — or  at  the  expiration  of  its  term  of  enlistment,  --  each  com 
pany  in  the  organization  was  required  to  hand  in  a  muster-out  roll  hearing  the  names  of  every 
man  who,  at  any  time,  had  served  in  it.  The  rolls,  which  wore  furnished  in  blank  for  this 
purpose,  were  large  sheets,  nearly  one  yard  square,  ruled  and  printed  with  various  headings. 
Each  company- roll  was  made  out  separately,  making  ten  rolls  in  all  (if  in  a  ten-company 
regiment),  with  an  additional  roll  for  the  Field  and  Staff. 

Opposite  each  name  was  written  the  age  of  the  person  ;  place  of  enlistment  ;  date  of 
muster-in  ;  and,  under  the  column  of  "Remarks,"  statements  showing  what  became  of  the 
man  ;  --if  dead,  the  cause,  date,  and  place  of  death. 

These  names  were  grouped  under  the  various  headings  of :  "  Present  at  muster-out ;" 
"Previously  discharged;'  "Transferred;"  "Deserted;"  "Killed  in  action;"  "  Died  of 
wounds  ;"  and,  "Died  of  disease  ;"  or  other  causes.  Three  copies  of  these  rolls,  sometimes 
more,  were  made,  one  of  which  was  forwarded  to  the  capital  of  the  state  to  which  the  regi 
ment  belonged,  where  it  was  filed  in  the  office;  of  the  state  adjutant-general.  These  regi 
mental  rolls  and  records  may  be  found  carefully  preserved  among  the  archives  of  each  state, 
and  it  is  evident  that  such  of  them  as  were  properly  made  will  show  clearly  and  accu 
rately  the  mortuary  losses  of  the  regiments  to  which  they  pertain. 

The  states  of  Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island,  Connec 
ticut,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  West  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Michigan. 
Wisconsin,  Minnesota,  Iowa  and  Kansas  have  printed  and  published  the  muster-out-mils  of 
the  regiments  which  they  respectively  furnished  to  the  Union  Armies.  The  name  of  each 
and  every  man  who  served  in  these  regiments  is  preserved  in  print ;  the  record  of  his  patriotism 
is  transmitted,  and  in  time  becomes  the  proudest  heir-loom  of  his  family. 

Some  of  these  publications  are,  necessarily,  voluminous.  The  rolls  of  the  Illinois  troops 
fill  eight  octavos  ;  the  Indiana  rolls  require  eight  volumes  of  similar  si/e  ;  the  names  of  the 
men  in  the  Massachusetts  regiments  fill  two  largo  quartos  of  about  one  thousand  pages  each  ; 
the  Pennsylvania  rolls,*  as  printed,  cover  7, Ooo  pages.  Still,  despite  the  tedious  length  of  these 
rolls,  the  patient  student  will  be  able  to  compile  from  them  the  losses  in  nearly  every  regiment. 
The  states  of  New  York,  Delaware  and  Maryland  have  never  attached  enough  value  to  the 
patriotic  services  of  their  troops  to  publish  their  muster-out-rolls. t  The  manuscript  rolls  of 
the  New  York  regiments  are  on  file  at  Albany,  and  the  historian  must  make  a  pilgrimage 
thither  if  he  would  learn  anything  concerning  the  heroes  who  followed  the  colors  of  the 
Empire  State. 

•History  of  the  Pennsylvania  Volunteers:    S.  J'.  Hates. 

tNew  York  published  its  muster-in-rolls.  :i  work  of  little  value,  as  It  is  merely  a  list  of  names  with  no  records  attached  ;  there  I*  nothing  In 
it  to  show  that  New  York  ever  lost  a  man  in  battle,  or  that  the  regiments  ever  left  the  State. 

(57) 


58  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Some  of  the  state  rolls,  both  printed  and  manuscript,  are  defective  ;  many  of  the  men 
are  unaccounted  for,  or  accounted  for  erroneously  ;  and,  for  some  regiments,  the  rolls  are 
missing  entirely.  But,  in  such  cases  the  different  states  have  perfected  their  rolls  through 
information  furnished  by  the  War  Department  at  Washington. 

Owing  to  the  liberal  policy  of  the  Government  in  regard  to  pensions,  the  friends  of 
deceased  soldiers  have  supplied  much  of  the  lacking  information  in  the  prosecution  of  their 
claims.  Of  course,  many  of  those  who  were  unaccounted  for  on  the  rolls  had  no  legal  heirs 
to  present  their  claims  at  the  Pension  Bureau;  men  recorded  as  "  wounded  and  missing  in 
action,"  and  who,  through  lack  of  family  or  social  ties,  disappeared  without  question  or 
remark.  But  the  various  state  adjutant-generals  have  been  untiring  in  their  efforts  to  obtain 
information  in  such  cases,  and  have,  for  the  most  part,  settled  definitely  the  fate  of  the 
missing. 

The  historian  will  find  in  the  muster-out-rolls  a  mine  of  information  valuable  and 
necessary  to  his  task.  He  may  have  already  learned  the  names  of  the  regiments  which  were 
present  at  the  battle,  and  the  movements  of  the  brigade,  division  or  corps.  But  which  of  these 
regiments  did  the  fighting  ?  Which  of  them  were  in  reserve,  and  which  of  them  were  in  the 
first  line  ?  Which  of  them  led  in  the  assault  ?  Which  ones  stood  in  the  breach  ? 

In  these  records  he  will  find  a  clear  and  unequivocal  answer.  The  long  column  of 
names  marked  as  killed  in  some  particular  action  tells  the  story  of  how  well  they  stood. 
More  rolls  are  searched,  and  from  them  he  makes  a  list  of  regiments  whose  losses  map  out 
the  points  of  contact  on  some  field  and  show  plainly  where  the  pressure  was  heaviest. 

He  notes,  also,  that  the  records  do  not  warrant  the  boastful  account  of  some  regimental 
historian,  while  it  reflects  honor  on  the  gallantry  of  some  command  which  has  hitherto  been 
overlooked  and  unrecognized.  He  notes,  again,  that  some  regiment  which  has  figured  con 
spicuously  in  the  official  casualty  list  by  reason  of  its  aggregate  of  losses,  did  so  on  account 
of  its  large  number  of  missing  ;  and,  that  of  these  missing  ones  few  were  killed,  the  remainder 
having  been  captured.  He  notes,  again,  on  examining  some  other  rolls,  that  the  number  of 
killed  is  large  in  proportion  to  the  number  enrolled,  and  so  credits  the  regiment  with  a  per 
centage  of  loss  which  tells  better  than  any  flight  of  rhetoric  how  often  and  how  well  they 
faced  the  enemy's  fire. 

The  story  of  the  muster-out-roll  is,  at  best,  but  a  sad  one.  One  is  carried  back  to  the  war 
and  surrounded  by  its  sad  pictures.  In  scanning  the  remarks  attached  to  the  names  there 
are  the  ever  recurring  phrases  which  recall  vividly  its  thrilling  scenes. 

'  Killed, .  July  3,   1863,   at  Gettysburg;"  and  one   thinks  of  Pickett's  charge,  or  other 
incidents  of  that  historic  field. 

"Killed,  May  3,  1863,  at  Marye's  Heights;"  and  the  compiler  lays  down  his  pencil  to 
dream  again  of  that  fierce  charge  which  swept  upward  over  the  sloping  fields  of  Fredericksburg. 
'  Wounded  and  missing,  May  6,   1864,  at  the  Wilderness,"  suggests  a  nameless  grave 
marked,  if  at  all,  by  a  Government  headstone  bearing  the  short,  sad  epitaph,  "  Unknown." 

'  Killed  at  Malvern  Hill,  July  1,  1862;'"  and  there  rises  a  picture  of  an  artilleryman 
lying  dead  at  the  wheels  of  his  gun. 

"  Died  of  gunshot  wound  before  Atlanta,  August  20,  1864,"  tells  of  some  lad  who  fills  a 
grave  long  miles  away  from  the  village  church-yard  of  his  Northern  home. 

"Wounded  at  Antietam,  September  17,  1862,  and  died  on  the  amputating  table,"  brings 
up  the  dire  vision  of  the  field-hospital,  that  ghastly  sequel  of  every  battle. 

"Killed  at  Appomattox,  April  9,  1865  ;"  and  one  sees  the  dead  cavalryman,  who,  falling 
in  that  closing  battle  of  the  war,  died  with  home  and  victory  in  sight. 

"Died  of  sunstroke,"  recalls  the  long  march,  the  heavy  load,  the  dust,  the  heat,  and  a 
senseless  form  lying  at  the  roadside. 


TUB  STORY  OF  THE  MUSTEK-OUT-ROLL.  :. -.« 

"  Pied  of  fever  at  Young's  Point,  Miss.,"  reminds  one  of  the  campaigns  in  the  bay  cms  and 
poisonous  swamps,  with  the  men  falling  in  scores  before  a  foe  more  deadly  and  remorseless 
than  the  bullet. 

''Executed  on  sentence  of  G.  C.  M. ;  shot  to  death  by  musketry  ;"  and  one  recalls  the 
incidents  of  the  most  trying  of  all  scenes,  a  military  execution. 

"  Killed  on  picket,  September  15,  1863,  on  the  Rappahannock,"  suggests  the  star-lit  river, 
the  lonely  vidette,  an  echoing  shot,  and  a  man  dying  alone  in  the  darkness. 

And  so  it  goes.     There  are  no  war  stories  that  can  equal  the  story  of  the  muster-out-roll. 

And  then,  there  are  facts  recorded  in  them  which  are  curious  and  interesting.  Occasion 
ally  the  sad  record  is  brightened  with  something  akin  to  humor  ;  and,  there  is  much,  at  times, 
which  is  readable.  The  following  extracts,  taken  at  random,  may  give  an  idea  of  what  one  runs 
across  in  examing  these  old  records.  They  are  copied  from  the  muster-out  rolls,  manuscript 
and  printed,  while  some  are  from  the  rolls  appended  to  regimental  histories.  If  at  times  the 
sad  and  the  ridiculous  are  too  closely  intermingled,  it  is  because  tho  story  runs  that  way, 
reflecting  truly  the  peculiarly  intermingled  scenes  of  army  life. 

EXTRACTS  FROM  MUSTER-Ol'T- ROLLS 

Tenth  New  York  Cavalry,  Company  D  :— "Lt.  Wm.  J.  Rabb  ;  killed  at  Brandy  Station, 
by  a  sabre-thrust  through  the  body  while  lying  under  his  horse  ;  he  would  not  surrender." 

Thirty-seventh  Wisconsin,  Company  C  :-  'Sergeant  William  II.  CJreen  ;  recommended 
for  promotion  for  gallantry  in  action,  Petersburg,  Va.,  Juno  17,  ls<;4,  where  he  was  wounded 
in  both  legs,  after  receiving  which  he  crawled  from  the  field,  dragging  his  colors  with  his  teeth ; 
died  July  17,  1864,  of  wounds." 

Twenty-fifth  Wisconsin,  Company  B:-  "Capt.  W.  H.  Itennett ;  wounded  and  prisoner. 
July  22,  1864  ;  leg  amputated  three  times  ;  died  August  1<»,  ls»;4  at  Macon,  Ga.,  of  wounds. 

First  New  Jersey,   Company  A:-    "Jordan  Silvers;  killed  on  picket  near  Alexandria, 

Va.,  October  15,  1861." 

Fifth  New  Hampshire,  Company  (I :-     :  John  Velon  ;  shot  for  desertion  near  Petersburg, 

Va.,  October  28,  1864." 

Fifth  Wisconsin,  Company  A  :-  *  Francis  Lee  ;  first  man  of  regiment  to  reach  enemy': 
works  in  assault  on  Petersburg,  April  2,  186.5.' 

One  Hundred  and  Twelfth  Illinois,  Company  A:  -  '  Lorenzo  Brown  ;  kicked  to  death  by 
a  mule  at  Somerset,  Ky.,  April  23,  1864." 

Sixty-fifth  Ohio,  Company.  H :--"  Corporal  Adam  Glasgow;  discharged  May  27, 
on  surgeon's  certificate ;  both  feet  frozen  while  eu  route  from  Wilmington,  N.  C.,  to  Annapo 
lis,  Md. ;  an  exchanged  prisoner  of  war.'' 

Twenty-first   Massachusetts,  Company  E  : ::         Sergeant  Thomas 
arms  while  carrying  regimental  U.  S.  flag  at  Fredericksburg  ;  discharged 

Twenty-fiivt   Massachusetts,   Company  C:*       'Sergeant    Elbridge 
Fredericksburg  while  carrying  the  State  Hag.' 

Twenty-first  Massachusetts,  Company  A  :  *        Sergeant  Joseph 
1863,  of  wounds  received  at  Fredericksburg  while  carrying  the  colors 

Seventh  Wisconsin,  Company  H  :  -    'Jefferson  Coates  ;  wounded  at 
Gettysburg;  loss  of  both  eyes;  brevetted  Captain,  with  initial  of 

Gettysburg.'' 

Forty-sixth  Pennsylvania,  Company  1):  -    'Charles  ]).  Fuller ;  detected  as 

discharged,  date  unknown." 


•From  tolls  attached  to  regimental  history. 


60  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

One  Hundred  and  Twenty-sixth  Pennsylvania,  Company  F  : — "Sergeant  Frank  May  no  ; 
deserted  Aug.  24,  1802  ;  subsequently  killed  in  battle  in  another  regiment,  and  discovered  to 
be  a  woman  ;  real  name,  Frances  Day." 

Second  Michigan,  Company  F  : — "  Franklin  Thompson  ;  deserted."  (Charge  of  deser 
tion  removed  by  House  Committee  on  Military  Affairs,  Washington,  Feb.  1887,  the  soldier 
having  had  a  good  record  and  had  fought  well  in  several  battles,  but  proved  to  be  a  woman  ; 
real  name  was  Miss  Seelye.) 

Twenty-sixth  North  Carolina  (C.  S.  A.)  Company  F:— "Mrs.  L.  M.  Blaylock  ;  enlisted 
March  20,  1861  ;  discharged  for  being  a  woman."* 

Fifty-sixth  New  York,  Company  F: — "John  Hoffman  ;  killed  by  lightning  at  Cashtown, 
Maryland." 

Second  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  Company  M  :  -  ;  "  executed  at  Mem 
phis,  Tenn.,  June  10,  1864,  for  rape  and  robbery  ;  sentence  G.  C.  M." 

Second  Wisconsin,  Company  B  : — "  Robert  Swartz  ;  discharged  on  account  of  youth." 

Eleventh  Vermont,  Company  B  : — "Lt.  Edward  B.  Parker  ;  died  a  prisoner  at  Colum 
bia,  S.  C.,  Oct.  13,  1864,  from  injuries  received  from  bloodhounds." 

Fourth  New  Jersey,  Company  C  : — "Geo.  W.  Hindley;  died  in  a  fit  at  Alexandria,  Va., 
Oct.  7,  1861." 

Seventh  Wisconsin,  Company  A  : — "Horace  A.  Ellis  ;  awarded  medal  of  honor  for  cap 
ture  of  flag  of  the  Sixteenth  Mississippi  at  Weldon  R.  R.,  Aug.  21,  1864." 

Ninth  New  Jersey,  Company  G  : — "Christian  Huber  ;  shot  by  rebel  sentinel  while  step 
ping  on  dead-line  at  Andersonville,  Aug.  5,  1864." 

First  Indiana  Cavalry,  Company  L  :  — "  Andress  Greene  ;  drafted  for  nine  months  ;  killed 
in  action." 

Twenty-second  Indiana,  Company  C  :  —  "Private  Eli  P.  Wells;  promoted  Chaplain." 

Fifth  New  York  Cavalry,  Company  H  : — "  Lt.  J.  A.  Benedict ;  died  from  amputation  of 
right  arm  resulting  from  the  bite  of  a  man  on  thumb,  Dec.  1.1,  1861."f 

Fifth  New  York  Cavalry,  Company  G  :— "  John  Evans  ;  March  7,  1865,  had  a  ball  pass 
through  a  pack  of  cards  and  a  plug  of  tobacco,  lodging  against  the  skin  opposite  his  heart,  "f 

Twenty-first  Wisconsin,  Company  I : — "August  Meyer  ;  left  camp  while  insane,  and  not 
heard  from  afterwards." 

Thirty-first  Maine,  Company  A:— "Fred  R.  Cole;  killed  in  his  tent,  Aug.  14,  1864, 
before  Petersburg." 

Seventh  Indiana,  Company  E  :  -  - ;  "  Sentenced  by  G.  C.  M.  to 

work  on  fortifications  12  months  after  expiration  of  enlistment." 

Second  Minnesota,  Company  F  :—"  William  Blake,  musician  ;  threw  away  his  drum  and 
took  a  gun  at  Mill  Springs. " 

Eighth  Tennessee  (Union),  Company  C  :— "Sergeant  John  Gossett ;  killed  at  Utoy  Creek 
while  planting  his  colors  on  the  enemy's  works." 

Nineteenth  Wisconsin  :— "  Chaplain  J.  H.  Nichols  ;  died  Jan.,  1863,  in  an  insane  asylum." 

Fifty-second  Indiana,  Company  B  :— "Timothy  Westport ;  discharged  April  27,  1863,  for 
loss  of  speech." 

T wenty- first  Illinois:—  "Colonel  U.  S.  Grant;  enlisted  June  15,  1861;  promoted  Briga 
dier  General,  Aug.  7,  1861." 

*  In  the  printed  rolls  of  the  North  Carolina  regiments  (Confederate)  a  foot-note,  referring  to  this  item,  says:  — "This  lady  had  done  a 
soldier's  duty  without  a  suspicion  of  her  sex  among  her  comrades,  until  her  husband,  L.  M.  Blaylock,  was  discharged,  when  she  claimed  the 
same  privilege,  and  was  sent  home  rejoicing." 

t  Frum  records  attached  to  regimental  history. 


THE  STOKY  OF  THE  MUSTKH-OUT-KOL-L.  61 

Twenty-fifth  Wisconsin,  Company  G:--'4Geo.  W.  Ide ;  died  Juno  2,  1804,  at  Dallas, 
Ga.,  of  sunstroke." 

First  Kentucky  Cavalry  (Union),  Company  H  :  — '"Geo.  \V.  Ellcr;  killed  Feb.  10,  1803, 
in  a  personal  difficulty,*  in  Wayne  Co.,  Ky." 

Fifth  Tennessee  Cavalry  (.Union),  Company  F  :— "  J.  N.  Gilliam  ;  killed  near  Tracy  City, 
Tenn.,  by  guerrillas,*  Aug.  4,  1864." 

Eighteenth  Wisconsin,  Company  B:—  "Redmond  McGuire ;  killed  April  1<>,  1862,  in 
prison,  by  rebel  guard,  Tuscaloosa,  Ala.'' 

Thirty -eighth  Ohio,  Company  K: — "Jacob  Thomas;  killed  Nov.  17,  1861,  by  the  falling 
of  a  tree,  at  Wild  Cat,  Ky." 

One  Hundred  and  Sixty-second  New  York,  Company  E  :  —"John  Murphy  ;  shot  while 
endeavoring  to  escape  the  guard  at  New  Orleans,  April  5,  1863." 

Eighth  New  York,  Company  A: — "A.  Lohman  ;  died  of  poison  while  on  picket,  by 
drinking  from  a  bottle  found  at  a  deserted  house." 

Thirtieth  Wisconsin,  Company  C  : — "  E.  Olson  :  killed  in  a  draft  riot,  Septeml>er  10,  1863, 
at  New  Lisbon,  Wis." 

Eightieth  New  York,  Company  C  :  "  John  Edleman  ;  killed  by  explosion  of  ammuni 
tion,  August  8,  1864,  at  City  Point,  Va." 

Sixteenth  Wisconsin,  Company  A:-  "(Jeorge  Halsey;  drafted  -  ;  died  February  27, 
1865,  Lynch  Creek,  S.  C.,  of  fatigue." 

One  Hundred  and  Seventy-ninth  New  York,  Company  E:  --"  Charles  Clements  ;  killed 
November  14,  1864,  by  falling  from  cars  while  on  furlough."1 

Thirty -ninth  Illinois,  Company  1)  :      "John  Hays  ;  killed  in  a  row,  July  4,  1865." 

Second  Ohio,  Company  B  :--•"  George  I  >.  Wilson;  executed  by  the  Relwls  at  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  June  18,  1862  ;  charged  with  being  a  bridge-burner."  (,One  of  the  famous  party  who 
captured  a  locomotive  at  Big  Shanty,  Ga.  i 

Fifth  New  York  Cavalry,  Company  H  :  "Edgar  C.  Shephard  ;  drowned  April  22,  1863, 
while  en  route  home  on  furlough." 

One  Hundred  and  Fifty-ninth  New  York,  Company  D:  'A.  \V.  Rackett ;  killed  April 
17,  1863,  by  a  shot  from  a  house  while  rilling  his  canteen  at  a  well  near  Yermillion  Bayou,  La." 

Fifth  Ohio,  Company  H  : — "  Thos.  Kelly;  murdered  by  a  comrade."' 

Eighth  Tennessee  (Union).  Company  C  :  %  G.  H.  Houston  ;  dropped  to  rear  sick,  and 
murdered  by  enemy  on  the  Cumberland  Mountains,  August  25,  1863." 

Fourth  Kentucky  Cavalry,  Company  E:  John  Long;  died  of  poison  at  Wartrace, 
Tenn.,  April  IS,  1862." 

Fifty-second  Indiana,  Company  B  :  "William  Tyler  ;  frozen  to  death  near  Fort  Pillow, 
December  31,  1863."  (The  rolls  of  this  company  show  that  Lieutenant  Edwin  Alexander  and 
five  men  were  frozen  to  death  in  a  snow-storm  on  an  island  in  the  Mississippi  river,  while  on 
a  scouting  expedition.) 

Twelfth  Tennessee  Cavalry,  Company  C  :         J.  C.  Clifton  ;  killed  in  a  tight  with  one 
of  his  own  company  February  7,  1865." 

Ninety-second  Illinois,  Company  B  :—"  R.  J.  O'Connor;  shot  by  Lieutenant  Pointer,  C. 
S.  A.,  while  a  prisoner  of  war,  and  died  April  23,  1864.' 

In  the  United  States  Volunteer  Register,  the  officers'  roster  of  the  Indian  (Kansas)  regi 
ments  is  given,  from  which  the  following  items  are  taken  : 

First  Indian  Guards  :  —"Captain  Tul-se-fix-se-ko;  killed  February  1,  ls«2 

First  Indian  Guards  :  — "  Captain  Ah-ha-la-tus-ta-nuk-ke;  died  at  Camp  Moonlight,  Ark., 
March  23,  1863." 

•A  frequent  item  in  the  Tennessee  and  Kentucky  rolls. 


62  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

First  Indian  Guards  : — "  Captain  Ta-ma-tus-ta-iiuk-ka  ;  cashiered  December  3,  1864." 
First  Indian  Guards  :- --"  Captain  Ak-ti-yah-gi-ya-ho-la  ;  deserted  December  27,  1862." 
(It  is  hoped  that  in  the  heat  of  action,  these  officers  did  not  stand  upon  their  dignity  and 
insist  upon  being  addressed  by  their  full  names.) 

Second  Indian  Guards  :—  "Captain  Spring  Frog;  mustered  out  May  31,  1865." 
Second  Indian  Guards  :  — "Captain  Eli  Tadpole  ;  died  of  disease  April  15,  1863." 
Second  Indian  Guards  :— "  Lieutenant  Andrew  Rabbit  ;  resigned  July  12,  1863." 
Second  Indian  Guards  :— "Captain  Jim  Ned;  missing  since  August  31,  1862." 
Second  Indian  Guards  : —"Captain  Dirt  Throw  Tiger  ;  resigned  August  1,  1863." 
Third  Indian  Guards  :  —"Captain  Daniel  Grasshopper  ;  died  October  3,  1862,  of  wounds 
received  in  action." 

Third  Indian  Guards  :  — "  Lieutenant  Jumper  Duck  ;  died  of  disease,  October  20, 1863." 
Third  Indian  Guards  : — "  Lieutenant  Redbird  Sixkiller  ;  mustered  out  May  31,  1865." 
The  muster-rolls  are  provided  with  a  column  in  which  is  entered  the  age  of  each  recruit. 
From  the  figures  in  this  column  it  appears  that  the  mean  age  of  all  the  soldiers  was  25  years. 
When  classed  by  ages,  the  largest  class  is  that  of  18  years,  from  which  the  classes  decrease 
regularly  to  that  of  45  years,  beyond  which  age  no  enlistment  was  received.     Of  1,012,273 
recorded  ages  taken  from  the  rolls,  there  were  133,475  at  18  years  ;  90,215  at  19  years,  and  so 
on.     The  number  at  25  years  of  age  was  46,626  ;  and,  at  44  years,  16,070.* 

The  muster-rolls  also  state  the  nativities  of  the  men  ;  from  which  it  appears  that,  in 
round  numbers,  out  of  2,000,000  men,  three-fourths  were  native  Americans.  Of  the  500,000 
soldiers  of  foreign  birth,  Germany  furnished  175,000  ;  Ireland,  150,000  ;  England,  50,000  ; 
British  America,  50,000  ;  other  countries,  75,000. 

The  average  height  of  the  American  soldiers,  as  shown  by  the  records  of  the  recruiting 
officers,  was  5  feet  8|-  inches.  The  men  from  Maine,  Indiana,  Iowa,  Missouri  and  Kentucky, 
were  slightly  above  this  figure.  The  West  Virginians  averaged  5  feet  9  inches  in  height. 
The  general  average  would  have  been  greater  had  it  not  included  the  measurements  of  recruits 
from  17  to  20  years  of  age,  who  evidently  had  not  attained  their  full  stature  when  their 
measurement  was  recorded.  Out  of  about  1,000,000  recorded  heights  of  soldiers  there  were 
3,613  who  were  over  6  feet  3  inches,  and  among  them  were  some  who  were  over  7  feet.f  By 
selecting  from  the  whole  Army,  there  could  have  been  formed  regiments  and  brigades  of  tall 
men  which  would  have  surpassed  the  famous  giant-guards  of  Frederick  the  Great. 

But  tall  men  proved  to  be  poor  material  for  a  long,  toilsome  campaign.  When,  after  a 
hard,  forced  march,  the  captain  looked  over  his  company  at  nightfall  to  see  how  many  men 
he  had  with  him,  the  "  ponies"  who  trudged  along  at  the  tail  of  the  company  were  generally 
all  there  ;  it  was  the  head  end  of  the  company  that  was  thinned  out. 

The  records  of  the  weights  of  the  soldiers  are  incomplete  ;  but,  such  as  they  are,  they 
indicate  that  the  average  weight  was  143|-  pounds. 

The  descriptive  lists  show  also  the  color  of  hair,  from  which  it  appears  that  13  per  cent, 
of  the  soldiers  had  black  hair  ;  25  per  cent,  had  dark  hair  ;  30  per  cent.,  brown  hair  ;  24  per 
cent.,  light ;  4  per  cent.,  sandy  ;  3  per  cent.,  red  ;  and  1  per  cent.,  gray  hair. 


•Anthropological  Statistics  of  American  Soldiers  :  by  Dr.  Benjamin  Apthorp  Gould. 

f'The  tallest  man  for  whose  stature  the  testimony  is  complete  and  unimpectcnable,  is  Captain  Van  Buskirk,  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Indiana. 
General  Silas  Colgrove,  formerly  colonel  of  that  regiment  writes  that  he  has  frequently  seen  him  measured  and  that  his  stature  was  full  82>£ 
inches,  without  his  shoes,  or  209.5  centimeters.  General  Colgrove  adds  that  he  was  a  brave  man,  and  bore  the  fatigues  of  marching  as  well  as 
most  men  of  ordinary  stature. 

The  shortest  man  for  whom  the  record  is  satisfactorily  verified  was  a  member  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Ninety-second  Ohio.  At  the  time  of 
enlistment  he  was  24  years  old,  and  40  inches  in  height.  Colonel  F.  W.  Butterfleld,  his  commanding  officer,  vouches  for  the  correctness  of  this 
record.  He  also  assures  us  that  he  knew  the  man  well ;  and,  that  there  was  no  soldier  in  his  command  who  could  endure  a  greater  amount  of 
fatigue  and  exposure."— .£>/•.  £.  A.  Gould. 


(  Kvri'ATio.Ns  OK   Mix    \\  ii<>   KM  IM 1  i..  H3 

Also,  that  as  to  color  of  their  eyes,  45  ]HT  cent,  were  blue  ;  24  |HT  cent,  were  gray  ;  18 
per  cent,  were  hazel ;  10  per  cent  were  dark  ;  ami  8  per  cent  were  black. 

Also,  that  in  complexion,  00  |*>r  cent,  were  light ;  M  |>ercent.  were  dark  ;  and  7  JHT  cent, 
were  medium. 

From  statements  as  to  occupation,  it  api>ears  that  4S  JKH*  cent,  were  fanners  ;  24  JMM*  cent, 
were  mechanics  ;  UJ  per  cent,  were  laborei-s  ;  5  per  cent,  were  in  commercial  pin-suits  ;  3  per 
cent,  were  professional  men  ;  4  per  cent,  were  of  miscellaneous  vocations. 


CHAPTER    VIII. 


CORPS    ORGANIZATIONS. 


\\71TH  the  record  of  each  regiment  given  in  these  pages  will  be  found  the  division  and 
corps  to  which  it  belonged.  The  history  of  a  regiment  is  so  largely  identical  with 
that  of  its  corps,  that  such  information  serves  at  once  to  familiarize  the  student  with  the 
part  which  it  played  in  connection  with  the  war.  An  excessive  loss  in  action,  or  an  immunity 
from  the  casualties  of  battle,  requires  but  little  explanation  where  there  is  a  thorough  ac 
quaintance  with  the  history  of  the  division  and  corps  with  which  the  regiment  in  question 
was  connected.  An  additional  interest,  also,  attaches  to  the  record  of  each  command  as  the 
history  of  its  corps  is  fully  understood. 

The  corps  badges,  which  were  worn  by  many  commands,  were  first  ordered  in  the  spring 
of  1863,  and  were  adopted  immediately  by  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  ;  but  in  the  Western 
armies  these  badges  did  not  appear  on  the  men's  caps  until  1864,  and  then  they  were  only 
partially  adopted.  In  some  corps  they  were  not  worn  at  all.  The  badges  were  of  various 
shapes  and  were  stamped  out  of  flannel  cloth  ;  in  size,  they  were  about  an  inch  and  one-half 
across,  and  were  fastened  conspicuously  on  the  men's  caps.  They  were  of  different  colors, 
the  first  division  of  each  corps  wearing  red  badges  ;  the  second,  white  ;  and  the  third,  blue. 
The  idea  originated  in  1862  in  Kearny's  Division,  in  which  the  soldiers  wore  a  diamond- 
shaped  piece  of  flannel  on  their  caps. 

The  corps  badges  which  were  most  conspicuous  during  the  war,  by  reason  of  their  general 
use,  were  :  the  round  or  disc-shaped  badge  of  the  First  Corps  ;  the  trefoil,  or  ace  of  clubs, 
worn  by  the  Second ;  the  lozenge,  or  diamond-shaped  badge  of  the  Third ;  the  triangular 
patch  of  the  Fourth  ;  the  Maltese  cross,  of  the  Fifth  ;  the  Greek  cross,  of  the  Sixth  ;  the 
crescent  of  the  Eleventh  ;  the  star,  of  the  Twelfth  ;  and  the  acorn,  of  the  Fourteenth. 

The  various  corps  were  organized,  for  the  most  part,  with  three  divisions,  each  division 
containing  three  brigades,  and  each  brigade  consisting  of  five  regiments, — making  45  regiments 
of  infantry  in  a  corps,  to  which  were  added  about  nine  batteries  of  light  artillery.  But 
this  form  was  adhered  to  only  as  a  general  rule,  and  was  varied  at  times  to  meet  temporary 
exigencies.  The  greatest  variation  occurred  in  the  brigades,  the  depletion,  at  times,  of  some 
regiments  making  additional  ones  necessary  to  keep  up  a  proper  effective  strength.  During 
the  Atlanta  campaign,  some  brigades  in  the  Fourth  and  Fourteenth  Corps  contained  nine 
regiments.  Then,  again,  a  corps  would  have  occasionally  four  divisions,  and  some  divisions 
would  have  four  brigades  ;  but  such  cases  were  exceptional,  and  generally  proved  to  be  but 
temporary  arrangements. 

In  1S63  the  cavalry  were  organized  into  a  corps  by  themselves  ;  prior  to  that  each  corps 
was  accompanied  by  a  brigade  of  cavalry  regiments. 

Batteries  of  light  artillery,  organized  in  brigades  of  about  five  batteries  each,  were 
attached  to  each  corps,  in  addition  to  which  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  had  an  artillery  reserve 

(64) 


THK  FIRST  COKI*S.  05 

consisting  of  five  brigades— 21  batteries  in  all.     This  Artillery  Corps  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  was  under  command  of  General  Henry  J.  Hunt. 

Prior  to  the  adoption  of  corps  organizations,  the  various  armies  of  the  Union  consisted  of 
divisions  numbered  in  the  order  of  their  formation.  This  plan  was  adhered  to  in  the  Western 
armies  until  December,  18Gi>.  The  Army  of  the  Ohio  contained  several  divisions,  each  division 
containing  three  brigades.  But  these  brigades  were  numt>ered  without  reference  to  their 
divisions,  and  hence,  in  the  roster  of  the  Army  of  Ohio,  at  Shiloh,  we  find,  for  instance,  that 
the  Fourth  Division—Nelson's— was  composed  of  the  loth,  l!»th  and  -J-Jnd  Brigades;  and  at 
Perryville,  in  the  Eleventh  Division  --  Sheridan's  -  the  brigades  were  not  the  1st,  2d,  and  :kl, 
but  the  35th,  30th  and  37th  Brigades.  The  Army  of  the  Tennessee  contained  six  divisions  at 
Shiloh,  and  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi  fought  at  luka  without  any  corps  formation.  This 
lack  of  proper  organization  did  not  last  long,  and  in  18(53  the  Western  armies  took  the  field 
with  corps  organizations  similar  to  those  which  General  McClellan  had  instituted  in  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac,  and  which  were  retained  during  the  remainder  of  the  war. 

KIL'ST    ('(  HvTS. 

CEDAR  MOUNTAIN  ;  RAPPAHANNOCK  ;  GAINESVILLE  ;  GROVETON  ;  SECOND  BULL  RUN  ;  SOUTH 
MOUNTAIN  ;  ANTIETAM  ;  FREDERICKSBURG  ;  FrrzHuGH's  CROSSING  ;  CHANCELLORSVILLE  ;  GET 
TYSBURG  ;  MINE  RUN. 

The  First  Corps,  when  at  its  maximum,  contained  4<>  regiments  of  infantry  and  12  bat 
teries  of  light  artillery.  It  was  organized  in  March,  ISttt,  with  three  divisions,  — King's, 

Mri 'all's,  ami    I- Yank  lin'-.     Genera]    [rwin  McDowell  was   placed! rnmand.     Wlien  Gen 

eral  McClellan  moved  the  Army  to  the  Peninsula,  in  April,  18<>2,  McDowell's  corps  was  left 
in  Northern  Virginia.  Franklin's  Division  was  ordered,  soon  after,  to  the  Peninsula,  where 
it  was  used  in  forming  the  Sixth  Corps,  its  place  in  McDowell's  command  l>eing  taken  by 
Ricketts' Division.  In  June,  McCall's  Division --the  famous  Pennsylvania  Reserves  —  was 
also  sent  to  the  Peninsular  Army,  but  upon  the  return  of  McClellan 's  forces  to  Washington, 
the  Reserves  rejoined  McDowell,  and  fought  under  him  at  Second  Bull  Run.  During  the 
absence  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  McDowell  was  engaged  in  an  active  campaign  which 
culminated  in  the  battles  around  Manassas,  the  first  general  engagement  in  which  the  corps 
participated  ;  loss,  595  killed,  2,853  wounded,  and  2,021  missing,  out  of  alxmt  18,500  effective 
men.  During  the  short  time  in  which  the  army  was  under  Pope,  McDowell's  Corps  was 
officially  designated  as  the  Third  Corps,  Army  of  Virginia;  but  upon  General  McClellan's 
restoration  to  command  it  resumed  its  former  and  proper  title,  — the  First  Army  Corps. 

While  on  the  Maryland  campaign  the  Corps  was  commanded  by  General  Hooker,  and 
the  divisions  by  Generals  Hatch,  Ricketts  and  Meade  ;  it  numbered  14,s50  men.  It  was  prom 
inently  engaged  at  South  Mountain,  and  also  at  Antietam,  where  it  oijened  the  battle,  its 
casualties  in  that  engagement  amounting  to  41 7  killed,  2,051  wounded  and  1-22  missing.  Gen- 
eralJohn  F.  Reynolds  was  in  command  at  Fredericksburg,  with  Doubleday,  Gibbon  and 
Meade  as  division  generals  ;  loss,  347  killed,  i,4i>(.»  wounded,  and  5(51  missing  ;  total,  3,337. 

After  this  battle,  the  division  of  Pennsylvania  Reserves  -Meade's  (3d)  Division - 
withdrawn  from  the  front,  and  ordered  to  Washington  that  it  might  rest  and  recruit.  This 
division,  in  addition  to  the  battles  of  the  First  Corps,  had  served  previously  on  the  Peninsula, 
where  it  had  encountered  hard  fighting  and  heavy  losses.  While  on  the  Peninsula,  the  Re- 
serves  were  attached  to  the  Fifth  Corps.  When  the  division  rejoined  McDowell's  Corps,  at 
Manassas,  it  was  with  depleted  ranks  which  were  still  further  thinned  by  its  subsequent 
battles.  After  taking  its  departure  for  Washington  it  never  rejoined  the  First  Corps,  its 

B 


66  KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

place  being  taken  by  a  division  composed  of  new  troops,  —  Doubleday's  (3d)  Division.  The 
corps  was  only  slightly  engaged  at  Chaiicellorsville,  it  being  held  in  reserve. 

At  Gettysburg,  in  the  battle  of  the  first  day,  this  corps  did  some  of  the  best  fighting  of 
the  war.  The  division  commanders  on  that  field  were  Wads  worth,  Robinson  and  Doubleday; 
General  Reynolds,  who  was  still  in  command  of  the  corps,  was  killed  just  as  he  rode  on  the 
field,  and  before  his  troops  were  fairly  engaged.  General  Doubleday  succeeded  to  the  com 
mand,  and  handled  the  corps  during  that  action  in  a  remarkably  able  manner.  A  noteworthy 
feature  of  that  day  was  that  the  corps,  although  finally  driven  from  the  field  by  a  superior 
force,  succeeded  in  capturing,  at  different  times  and  at  different  points  on  the  field,  parts  of 
three  brigades  of  the  enemy,  --Archer's,  Davis',  and  Iverson's*-  -taking them  in  open  field 
fighting,  where  there  were  none  of  the  usual  accessories  of  breastworks,  intrenchments,  or 
protection  of  any  kind  other  than  that  which  the  field  afforded.  The  First  Corps  fought  that 
day  with  no  other  protection  than  the  flannel  blouses  that  covered  their  stout  hearts.  It  con 
tained  34:  regiments  of  infantry,  and  5  batteries  of  light  artillery,  numbering  9,403  infantry 
"  present  for  duty,  equipped  ;"  loss,  593  killed,  3,209  wounded  and  2,222  missing  ;  total  6,024, 
out  of  less  than  9,000  in  action.  Of  the  missing,  a  large  proportion  were  killed  or  wounded. 

Prior  to  this  battle,  the  roster  of  the  corps  had  undergone  considerable  change.  Eight 
New  York  regiments  had  gone  home,  their  two  years  term  of  service  having  expired;  also,  one 
nine  months  regiment  from  Pennsylvania.  These  changes  reduced  the  First  and  Second 
Divisions  to  two  brigades  each.  The  Pennsylvania  Reserves  had  been  replaced  by  a  new  divis 
ion  of  two  brigades,  to  which  Stannard's  Vermont  Brigade  was  added  just  before  the  battle. 
Stannard's  Brigade  was  composed  of  nine -months  men  whose  term  of  service  expired  just 
after  the  battle  ;  three  of  his  regiments  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  fighting  of  the  third 
day,  in  the  repulse  of  Pickett's  charge. 

Gen.  John  Newton,  a  division  general  in  the  Sixth  Corps,  was  appointed  to  fill  Reynolds' 
place,  assuming  command  during  the  second  day's  battle  at  Gettysburg  an  appointment 
which  appears  as  an  injustice  to  Doubleday,  who  had  displayed  a  marked  ability  in  his  opera 
tions  of  the  first  day.  Newton,  however,  was  one  of  the  ablest  generals  in  the  service,  and 
was  well  fitted  for  so  high  a  command.  At  Mine  Run,  his  division  commanders  were 
Cutler,  Robinson,  and  Kenly.  This  was  the  last  campaign  of  the  First  Corps  ;  for  in  March, 
1S64,  the  organization  was  ordered  discontinued  and  transferred  to  the  Fifth  Corps,  the  brigades 
having  been  consolidated  into  two  divisions,  which,  under  Robinson  and  Wadsworth,  became 
respectively  the  Second  and  Fourth  Divisions  of  the  Fifth  Corps. 

This  was  an  act  of  gross  injustice,  and  a  cruel  violation  of  the  corps  pride.  It  was 
entirely  unnecessary  ;  and  a  serious  blunder,  instead  of  an  improvement  on  the  army  organi 
zation,  f  The  men  were,  however,  allowed  to  wear  their  old  First  Corps  badges,  a  concession 
highly  valued,  as  they  had  made  the  little  flannel  discs  synonymous  with  all  that  was  gallant 
and  grand  in  war. 

The  corps  had  contained  some  exceptionally  good  material.  The  division  composed  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Reserves  had  no  equal  in  the  Army  as  a  division,  while  the  Iron  Brigade  was 
famous  for  its  hard  fighting,  its  percentage  of  killed  exceeding  that  of  any  other  brigade  in 
the  Armies  of  the  Union. 

It  may  be  well  to  note  that  for  a  short  time,  a  few  weeks  only,  during  Pope's  campaign, 
General  Sigel's  troops  were  also  officially  designated  as  the  First  Corps  ;  but,  it  was  the 
First  Corps,  Army  of  Virginia.  Then,  again,  in  November,  1864,  a  few  months  before  the 
close  of  the  war,  the  War  Department  issued  orders  for  the  formation  of  a  new  corps  to  be 
composed  of  veterans  —  selected  men  who  had  served  creditably  a  full  term  in  their  regi- 

*No  one  of  these  brigades  was  captured  entire,  many  of  the  men  escaping. 
1  General  llunipreys:  Virginia  Campaign,  pp.  3  and  4. 


THE  SECOND  Cows.  C7 

monts.  This  corps  was  to  l>e  designated  the  First,  with  General  llancock  in  command, 
but  the  war  closed  Iwfore  a  corps  organization  was  fully  effected,  and  Ix'foro  any  of  tho  nine 
regiments  thus  raised  wore  ready  for  the  field,  leaving  the  gallant  old  First  in  undivided 
possession  of  all  the  laurels  that  clustered  around  that  name. 

SECOND  CORPS. 

SIEGE  OP  YORKTOWX;  FAIR  OAKS;  OAK  GROVK;  ({.VISES'  MILL;  SAVAGE  STATION ; 
PEACH  ORCHARD;  WHITE  OAK  SWAMP;  GLKNDALK;  MAJ.VKRX  HILL;  ANTIKTAM  ;  FRKD- 

ERICKSHURG  ;   ClIANCELLORSVlLLE  ;    GKTTYSHU1W  ;     BuiSTOK    STATION  ;     MlXE     RUN  ;     MoRTOX's 

FORD;  WILDERNESS;  COKBIN'S  BRIDGE;  Po  RIVKR;  SI-OTSYLVAXIA  ;  NORTH  ANNA;  TOTOFO- 
TOMOY  ;  COLD  HARBOR;  ASSAULT  ox  PETERSBURG,  JUNE  ISTII  ;  JERUSALEM  ROAD;  STRAW 
BERRY  PLAINS;  DEEP  BOTTOM;  REAM'S  STATION;  POPLAR  SPUING  CHURCH;  BOYDTON  ROAD  ; 
HATCHER'S  RUN  ;  SIEGE  OF  PETERSBURG  ;  WHITE  OAK  ROAD  ;  SUTHERLAND  STATION  ; 
SAILOR'S  CREEK  ;  FARMVILLE  ;  APPOMATTOX. 

The  second  corps  was  prominent  hy  reason  of  its  longer  and  continuous  service,  larger 
organization,  hardest  fighting,  and  greatest  number  of  casualties.  Within  its  ranks  w;us  the 
regiment  which  sustained  the  largest  percentage  of  loss  in  any  one  action  ;  also,  the  regiment 
which  sustained  the  greatest  numerical  loss  in  any  one  action  ;  als"o,  the  regiment  which 
sustained  the  greatest  numerical  loss  during  its  term  of  service;  while,  of  the  one  hundred 
regiments  in  the  Union  Army  which  lost  the  most  men  in  battle,  thirty-five  of  them  l>elonged 
to  the  Second  Corps. 

The  corps  was  organized  under  General  Orders  No.  l»»l,  March  13,  18<>2,  which  assigned 
General  Edwin  V.  Simmer  to  its  command,  and  Generals  Richardson,  Scdgwick,  and 
Blenker  to  the  command  of  its  divisions.  Within  three  weeks  of  its  organization  the  corps 
moved  Avith  McClellan's  Army  to  the  Peninsula,  excepting  Blenker's  Division,  which  was 
withdrawn  on  March  31st  from  McClellan's  command,  and  ordered  to  ree'nforce  Fremont's 
troops  in  Western  Virginia.  Blenker's  Division  never  rejoined  the  corps,  —  in  fact,  it  had 
never  really  joined.  The  remaining  two  divisions,  which  constituted  the  corps,  numbered 
21,500  men,  of  whom  18,000  were  present  for  duty. 

The  first  general  engagement  of  the  corps  occurred  at  Fair  Oaks,  where  Simmer's  prompt 
and  soldierly  action  brought  the  corps  on  the  field  in  time  to  retrieve  a  serious  disaster,  and 
change  a  rout  into  a  victory.  The  casualties  of  the  two  divisions  in  that  battle  amounted  to 
196  killed,  899  wounded,  and  90  missing.  In  the  Seven  Days'  Battle  it  lost  2<>1  killed.  1.195 
wounded,  and  1,024  missing.  UIKHI  the  withdrawal  of  the  Army  from  before  Rkjimond,  it 
moved  to  the  support  of  Pope  at  Second  Bull  Run,  arriving  on  that  field  in  time  to  go  into 
position  at  Chantilly,  but  was  not  engaged. 

The  corps  then  marched  on  the  Maryland  campaign,  during  which  French's  (Third) 
Division  was  added.  At  Antietam  the  corps  was  prominently  engaged,  its  casualties  amount 
ing  to  more  than  double  that  of  any  other  corps  on  the  field.  Out  of  1 5,000  effectives,  it  lost 
883  killed,  3,859  wounded,  and  390  missing  ;  total,  5, 138.  Nearly  one-half  of  these  casualties 
occurred  in  Sedgwick's  (Second)  Division,  in  its  bloody  and  ill-planned  advance  on  the 
Dunker  church,  an  affair  which  was  under  Simmer's  personal  direction.  The  Irish  Brigade, 
of  Richardson's  (First)  Division,  also  sustained  a  terrible  loss  in  its  fight  at  the  "Bloody 
Lane,"  but,  at  the  same  time,  inflicted  a  greater  one  on  the  enemy.  General  Richardson  was 
killed  in  this  battle,  and  General  Sedgwick  received  three  wounds. 

The  next  battle  was  at  Fredericksburg.  In  the  meantime  Simmer  had  l>een  promoted  to 
the  command  of  a  Grand  Division  —  Second  and  Ninth  Corps— and  General  Darius  N.  Couch, 


68  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

a  division  commander  of  the  Fourth  Corps,  was  appointed  to  his  place.  General  Hancock 
succeeded  to  the  command  of  Richardson's  (1st)  Division,  and  General  Howard  took  Sedg- 
wick's  place,  the  latter  being  absent  on  account  of  wounds.  The  loss  of  the  corps  at  Fred- 
ricksburg  exceeded  that  of  any  other  in  that  battle,  amounting  to  412  killed,  3,214  wounded, 
and  488  missing,  one-half  of  which  fell  on  Hancock's  Division  in  the  unsuccessful  assault  on 
Marye's  Heights.  The  percentage  of  loss  in  Hancock's  Division  was  large,  Cald well's  (1st) 
Brigade  losing  46  per  cent,  killed  and  wounded. 

After  Fredericksburg,  the  Grand  Divisions  were  discontinued,  and  General  Sumner  retiring 
on  account  of  age  and  physical  disabilities,  General  Couch  remained  in  command.  Couch  led 
the  corps  at  Chancellorsville,  with  Hancock,  Gibbon,  and  French  as  his  division  commanders. 
Sedgwick  had  been  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Sixth  Corps,  and  Howard,  who  had 
commanded  Sedgwick's  Division  at  Fredericksburg,  was  promoted  to  the  command  of  the 
Eleventh  Corps.  At  Chancellorsville  the  principal  part  of  the  Second  Corps'  fighting  fell  on 
Hancock's  Division,  its  skirmish  line,  under  Colonel  Nelson  A.  Miles,  distinguishing  itself  by 
a  successful  resistance  to  a  strong  attack  of  the  enemy,  making  one  of  the  most  interesting 
episodes  in  the  history  of  that  battle.  During  the  fighting  at  Chancellorsville,  Gibbon's  (2d) 
Division  remained  at  Fredericksburg,  where  it  supported  Sedgwick's  operations,  but  with 
slight  loss. 

Not  long  after  Chancellorsville,  General  Couch  was  relieved  at  his  own  request,  Hancock 
succeeding  to  the  command  of  the  corps,  and  Cald  well  to  that  of  Hancock's  Division.  While 
on  the  march  to  Gettysburg,  General  Alex.  Hays'  Brigade  joined,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
Third  Division,  Hays  taking  command  of  the  division.  At  Gettysburg,  the  corps  was  hotly 
engaged  in  the  battles  of  the  second  and  third  days,  encountering  there  the  hardest  fighting 
in  its  experience,  and  winning  there  its  grandest  laurels  ;  on  the  second  day,  in  the  fighting 
at  the  wheat-field,  and  on  the  third,  in  the  repulse  of  Pickett's  charge,  which  was  directed 
against  Hancock's  position.  The  fighting  was  deadly  in  the  extreme,  the  percentage  of  loss 
in  the  First  Minnesota,  Gibbon's  Division,  being  without  an  equal  in  the  records  of  modern 
warfare.  The  loss  in  the  corps  was  T96  killed,  3,186  wounded  and  368  missing ;  a  total  of 
4,350  out  of  less  than  10,500*  engaged.  Gibbon's  Division  suffered  the  most,  the  percentage 
of  loss  in  Harrow's  (1st)  Brigade  being  unusually  severe.  Hancock  and  Gibbon  were  seriously 
wounded,  while  of  the  brigade  commanders,  Zook,  Cross,  Willard  and  Sherrill  were  killed. 
The  monthly  return  of  the  corps,  June  30,  1863,  shows  an  aggregate  of  22,336  borne  on 
the  rolls,  but  shows  only  13,056  "present  for  duty."  From  the  latter  deduct  the  usual  pro 
portion  of  non-combatants, — the  musicians,  teamsters,  cooks,  servants  and  stragglers,  and  it 
becomes  doubtful  if  the  corps  had  over  10,000  muskets  in  line  at  Gettysburg. 

General  Hancock's  wounds  necessitated  an  absence  of  severa,  months.  General  William 
Hays  was  placed  in  command  of  the  corps  immediately  after  the  battle  of  Gettysburg, 
retaining  the  command  until  August  12th,  when  he  was  relieved  by  General  Gouverneur  K. 
Warren,  who  was  ordered  to  take  Hancock's  place  during  the  latter's  absence.  Warren  had 
distinguished  himself  at  Gettysburg  by  his  quick  comprehension  of  the  critical  situation  at 
Little  Round  Top,  and  by  the  energetic  promptness  with  which  he  remedied  the  difficulty. 
He  had  also  made  a  brilliant  reputation  in  the  Fifth  Corps,  and  as  the  chief  topographical 
officer  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  was,  subsequently,  in  command  at  Bristoe  Station, 
a  Second  Corps  affair,  and  one  which  was  noticeable  for  the  dash  with  which  officers  and  men 
fought,  together  with  the  superior  ability  displayed  by  Warren  himself.  He  also  commanded 
at  Mine  Run  and  Morton's  Ford,  the  divisions  at  that  time  being  under  Generals  Oaldwell, 
Webb  and  Alex.  Hays. 

Upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  March  23,  1864,  the  Third  Corps 

*  12,363  infantry,  82  cavalry  and  551  artillery  "  present  for  duty,  equipped." 


TUB  SECOND  CORPS.  60 

was  discontinued,  and  two  of  its  three  divisions  worn  ordered  transform!  to  tho  Second. 
Under  this  arrangement  the  Second  Corps  was  increased  to  si  regiments  of  infantry  and  10 
batteries  of  light  artillery.  The  material  of  the  old  Second  Corps  was  consolidated  into  two 
divisions,  under  Generals  Barlow  and  Gibbon;  the  two  divisions  of  tho  Third  Corps  were 
transferred  intact,  and  were  numl>ered  as  the  Third  and  Fourth,  with  Generals  Birney  and 
Mott  in  command.  By  this  accession,  the  Second  Corps  attained  in  April,  1864,  an  aggregate 
strength  of  46,363,  with  28,854  present  for  duty. 

General  Hancock,  having  partially  recovered  from  his  wounds,  resumed  command,  and 
led  his  battle-scarred  divisions  across  the  Rapidan.  In  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness  the  corps 
lost  699  killed,  3,877  wounded,  and  510  missing;  total.  5,092,  half  of  this  loss  falling  on 
Birney's  (Third)  Division.  General  Alex.  Hays,  commanding  the  Second  Brigade  of  Birney's 
Division,  was  among  the  killed. 

At  Spotsylvania  the  Second  Corps  again  attained  a  glorious  place  in  history  by  Han 
cock's  brilliant  and  successful  assault  on  the  morning  of  May  12th.  During  the  lighting 
around  Spotsylvania,  Mott's  (Fourth)  Division  became  so  depleted  by  casualties,  and  by  the 
loss  of  several  regiments  whose  term  of  service  had  expired,  that  it  was  discontinued  and 
merged  into  Birney's  Division,  Mott  retaining  the  command  of  a  brigade.  The  casualties  of 
the  corps  in  the  various  actions  around  Spotsylvania,  from  May  8th  to  the  r.»th,  aggregated 
894  killed,  4,947  wounded,  and  801  missing;  total  0,642,  or  over  one-third  of  the  loss  in  the 
entire  Army  of  the  Potomac,  including  the  Ninth  Corps.  Tho  heaviest  loss  occurred  in  Bar 
low's  (First)  Division.  Up  to  this  time  the  Second  Corps  had  not  lost  a  color  nor  a  gun, 
although  it  had  previously  captured  44  stands  of  colors  from  the  enemy. 

After  more  of  hard  and  continuous  fighting  at  the  North  Anna,  and  along  the  Toto- 
potomoy,  the  corps  reached  the  memorable  h'eld  of  Cold  Harbor.  While  at  Spotsylvania  it  had 
been  reenforced  by  a  brigade  of  heavy  artillery  regiments,  acting  as  infantry,  and  by  the 
brigade  known  as  the  Corcoran  Legion,  so  that  at  Cold  Harbor  it  numbered  53,831,  present 
and  absent,  with  26,900  "present  for  duty/'  Its  loss  at  Cold  Harbor  including  eleven  days 
in  the  trenches,  was  494  killed,  2,442  wounded,  and  574  missing  ;  total.  3,5 10.  Birney's  Division 
was  but  slightly  engaged. 

In  the  assaults  on  the  Petersburg  intrenchments,  June  10th -isth,  the  Corps  is  again 
credited  with  the  largest  casualty  list.  In  one  of  these  attacks,  the  First  Maine  Heavy 
Artillery  sustained  the  most  remarkable  loss  of  any  regimental  organization,  in  any  one 
action,  during  the  war.  At  this  time  the  corps  contained  85  regiments  ;  its  effective  strength, 
however,  was  less  than  at  a  previous  date.  The  corps  recrossed  the  James,  and  fought  at 
Deep  Bottom,  July  26th,  and  again  on  August  14th;  then,  having  returned  to  the  lines  around 
Petersburg,  Barlow's  and  Birney's  Divisions  were  engaged  at  Ream's  Station,  on  August  25th, 
a  disastrous  and  unfortunate  affair,  in  which  it  lost  a  large  number  of  men  captured. 

At  the  battle  of  the  Boydton  Road,  October  27,  1864,  the  division  commanders  were 
Generals  Egan  and  Mott,  the  First  Division  (Miles'),  being  retained  in  the  trenches  In  Novem 
ber,  1864,  General  Hancock  was  assigned  to  other  duty,  and  General  Andrew  A.  Humphreys, 
chief  of  staff  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  succeeded  to  his  position.  He  was  in  command 
during  the  final  campaign,  the  divisions  being  under  Generals  Miles,  William  Hays  and  Mott. 
The  corps  fought  its  last  battle  at  Farmville,  April  7,  1S65,  two  days  tefore  Lee's  surrender. 
In  this  final  action  General  Thomas  A.  Smyth,  a  brigadier  in  Hays'  (2d)  Division,  was  killed. 
Smyth  was  an  officer  with  a  brilliant  reputation,  and  at  one  time  commanded  the  famous  Irish 
Brigade. 

The  history  of  the  Second  Corps  was  identical  with  that  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac:. 
It  needs  110  words  of  praise  •  its  record  was  unsurpassed. 


70  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

THIED  CORPS. 

SIEGE  OF  YORKTOWN  ;  WILLIAMSBURG  ;  FAIR  OAKS  ;  OAK  GROVE  ;  GLENDALE  ;  MALVERN 
HILL;  BRISTOE  STATION;  MANASSAS;  CHANTILLY  ;  FREDERICKSBURG ;  CHANCELLORSVILLE  ; 
GETTYSBURG  ;  WAPPING  HEIGHTS  ;  KELLY'S  FORD  ;  MINE  RUN. 

The  Third  Corps  included  in  its  organization  the  famous  Kearny  Division  ;  also,  Hooker's 
Division,  the  Excelsior  Brigade,  the  Second  Jersey  Brigade,  and  other  well  known  commands. 
Its  brilliant  record  is  closely  interwoven  with  the  history  of  the  Virginia  campaigns  of  1862  - 
63,  in  which  it  fought  during  two  eventful  years. 

It  was  organized  March  13,  1862,  with  Generals  Hooker,  Hamilton  and  Fitz  John  Porter 
as  its  three  division  commanders,  and  General  S.  P.  Heiiitzelman  in  command  of  the  corps. 
It  was  immediately  ordered  to  the  Peninsula,  Hamilton's  Division  embarking  on  the  17th, 
and  leading  the  advance  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  on  that  memorable  campaign.  During 
the  siage  of  Yorktown  the  corps  was  at  its  maximum,  the  morning  reports  of  April  30th 
showing  an  aggregate  of  39,710,  with  64  pieces  of  light  artillery,  and  34,633  reported  as  "pres 
ent  for  duty."  But  this  aggregate  was  maintained  but  for  a  short  time,  as  Porter's 
Division  was  taken  away  soon  after  to  form  part  of  the  newly  organized  Fifth  Corps. 
Hamilton  was  relieved  on  April  30th,  and  General  Philip  Kearny  took  his  place,  Hamilton 
going  to  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  where  he  was  assigned  to  a  division  command. 

Upon  the  evacuation  of  Yorktown,  the  Third  Corps  led  the  pursuit  of  the  retreating 
enemy,  attacking  him,  May  5th,  at  Williamsburg,  with  Hooker's  and  Kearny 's  Divisions. 
This  battle  was  fought  almost  entirely  by  the  Third  Corps  ;  of  the  2,239  casualties  on  that 
field,  2,002  occurred  within  its  ranks  ;  and  three-fourths  of  them  in  Hooker's  Division,  the 
brunt  of  the  battle  having  fallen  on  the  Excelsior  Brigade  and  Jersey  Brigade,  both  in  Hooker's 
command.  Porter's  Division  was  not  engaged,  having  been  left  at  Yorktown  ;  on  May  18th 
it  was  permanently  detached,  leaving  only  two  divisions,  Hooker's  and  Kearny 's  in  the 
corps,  and  reducing  its  aggregate  strength  to  23,331  present  and  absent,  with  34  pieces  of 
field  artillery.  The  two  divisions  numbered  about  17,000  effectives,  out  of  the  18,205  re 
ported  as  "  present  for  duty." 

At  Fair  Oaks,  its  next  battle,  it  lost  209  killed,  945  wounded  and  91  missing,  principally 
in  Jameson's  and  Berry's  Brigades  of  Kearny's  Division.  Five  fresh  regiments  joined  in 
June,  increasing  its  report  of  June  20th  to  27,474  "  present  and  absent, "  of  whom  18,428  were 
reported  "present  for  duty,  equipped  ;"  this  included  eight  batteries  of  light  artillery,  of  40 
guns.  After  deducting  the  large  number  of  non-combatants  and  detailed  men  which  are 
included  in  the  "  present  for  duty, "  the  corps  probably  numbered  at  this  time  about  17,000 
effectives,  available  in  case  of  action. 

The  corps  made  the  opening  fight  in  the  Seven  Days'  Battle,  at  Oak  Grove,  June  25th, 
fighting  again  at  Glendale  011  the  30th,  and  at  Malvern  Hill  on  July  1st ;  its  losses  in  these 
engagements  aggregated  158  killed,  1,021  wounded,  and  794  missing;  total,  1,973.  The 
heaviest  loss  occurred  in  Robinson's  Brigade  of  Kearny's  Division ;  the  First  New  York, 
Berry's  Brigade,  also  encountered  a  hot  fire  at  Glendale. 

Upon  the  withdrawal  from  the  front  of  Richmond,  the  Third  Corps  accompanied  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  to  Manassas,  where  it  was  sent  to  reenforce  Pope.  The  corps  left 
Harrison's  Bar  on  August  14th,  and  marching  to  Yorktown  embarked  on  the  20th  for  Alexan 
dria.  It  arrived  at  Warrenton  Junction  on  the  26th,  and  on  the  following  day  the  Excelsior 
Brigade  had  a  sharp  fight  at  Bristoe  Station.  On  the  29th,  the  corps  was  engaged  at  Grove- 
ton,  Grover's  Brigade,  of  Hooker's  Division,  having  a  desperate  fight  at  the  railroad  embank 
ment,  in  which  the  use  of  bayonets  and  clubbed  muskets  was  officially  reported.  On  the  1st  of 


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September,  Kearny's  Division  was  engaged  at  Chantilly,  Birney's  Brigade  taking  a  prominent 
part ;  Kearny  was  killed  in  this  action.  The  losses  of  the  corps  at  Manassas,  including 
Bristoe,  Groveton  and  Chantilly,  amounted  to  26o  killed,  1,535  wounded  and  458  missing; 
total,  2,238.  Hooker's  Division  numbered  fully  1 0,000  men  at  Yorktown,  and  received  a 
reinforcement  of  about  3,000  more ;  after  Manassas,  it  drew  rations  at  Fairfax  Station  for 
only  2,400  men.  The  arduous  nature  of  its  campaigns,  as  well  as  the  bullets  of  the  enemy,  had 
told  sadly  on  its  numbers. 

The  corps  was  so  reduced  by  its  losses  that  it  was  ordered  into  the  defences  of  Washington 
to  rest  and  recruit,  remaining  there  during  the  Maryland  campaign,  and  hence  was  not  pre 
sent  at  Antietam.  In  November  it  joined  Burnside's  Army,  then  on  its  way  to  Frederieksburg, 
and  arriving  at  Falmouth  on  the  24th,  encamped  there  until  the  battle  of  December  13th.  In 
the  meantime,  General  Hooker  had  l>een  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Centre  Grand 
Division,  composed  of  the  Third  and  Fifth  Corps  ;  General  George  Stoneman  had  l>een  assigned 
to  the  command  of  the  Third  Corps ;  General  Birney  to  that  of  the  First  Division,  vice 
Kearny  killed  ;  General  Sickles  to  the  Second  Division,  vice  Hooker  promoted  ;  and  a  third 
division,  under  General  A.  W.  Whipple  had  been  added.  The  corps  was  not  prominently 
engaged  at  bYedericksburg,  although  under  a  heavj  fire;  still,  its  casualties  amounted  to  it-"' 
killed,  S37  wounded  and  202  missing;  total  1,1S4,  over  half  of  which  occurred  in  Ward's 
Brigade  of  Birney's  Divison.  After  the  battle  the  corps  returned  to  its  quarters  at  Falmouth, 
where  it  spent  the  winter  of  1S62  -  03.  General  Sickles  was  promoted  to  the  command  of  the 
corps,  and  General  Hiram  Berry  to  that  of  Sickles'  Division. 

On  May  1,  1863,  the  corps  broke  camp  and  inarched  to  Chancellorsville,  an  eventful  field 
in  its  history  ;  a  battle  in  which  the  brunt  of  the  fighting  fell  on  the  Third  and  Twelfth 
corps.  It  took  17,568  men,  including  non-combatants,  on  that  campaign,  losing  378  killed, 
2,634  wounded  and  1,090  missing  ;  total  4,102.  Generals  Berry  and  Whipple  were  among  the 
killed. 

The  depleted  ranks  were  still  further  lessened  by  the  loss  of  four  New  York  regiments 
whose  two-years  term  of  enlistment  had  expired  ;  a  nine-months  regiment  from  Pennsylvania 
had  also  gone  home.  The  corps  was  accordingly  consolidated  into  two  divisions  ;  the  First 
under  General  Birney,  and  the  Second  under  General  Andrew  A.  Humphreys,  an  able  officer 
who  had  distinguished  himself  as  a  division  commander  at  Fredericksburg. 

At  Gettysburg,  the  corps  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  battle  of  the  second  day,  and 
although  forced  to  fall  back  from  its  untenable  position  on  the  Eminittsburg  Road,  it  did  not 
do  so  until  it  had  exacted  a  fearful  price  from  its  assailants.  Its  losses  at  Gettysburg  were 
578  killed,  3,026  wounded,  and  606  missing;  total,  4,210  out  of  less  than  10,000  actually 
engaged.  The  morning  report  showed  11,924  present  for  duty  equipped.  General  Sickles 
was  seriously  wounded,  losing  a  leg  ;  he  left  the  corps,  and  General  Birney  succeeded  temi>o- 
rarily  to  the  command. 

In  July,  1863,  the  corps  was  increased  by  the  accession  of  French's  Division,  which  had 
been  in  garrison  at  Harper's  Ferry  and  was  composed,  mostly,  of  regiments  with  comparatively 
full  ranks,  although  they  had  been  in  service  several  months.  General  French  was  assigned 
to  the  command  of  the  corps.  During  the  pursuit  of  Lee,  after  Gettysburg,  a  part  of  the 
corps  was  engaged  at  Wapping  Heights,  Va.,  July  23d,  an  action  in  which  the  Excelsior 
Brigade  was  prominently  engaged.  Another  minor  affair  oecured  at  Kelly's  Ford,  Va., 
November  7,  1863,  in  which  some  regiments  of  Birney's  (First)  Division  were  under  fire. 

In  the  Mine  Run  campaign  a  sharp  fight  took  place  at  Locust  Grove,  Va.,  in  which 
Carr's  (3d)  Division  sustained  considerable  loss,  the  principal  part  of  the  casualties  in  that 
campaign  occurring  in  the  Third  Corps.  At  this  time  General  French  was  still  in  com 
mand  of  the  corps,  with  Generals  Birney,  Prince  and  Carr  in  command  of  the  divisions. 


72  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Upon  the  return  from  Mine  Run,  the  corps  went  into  winter-quarters  at  Brandy  Station. 

On  March  23,  1864,  the  order  was  issued  for  the  discontinuance  of  the  Third  and  First 
Corps.  Unjust  and  ill-advised,  it  awoke  a  feeling  of  indignation  and  bitter  resentment  that 
has  never  been  forgotten  by  the  men.  The  wearers  of  the  diamond  badge  gloried  in  the  record 
of  their  corps  ;  on  all  occasions  they  proudly  avowed  their  connection  with  it ;  they  considered 
it  second  to  none,  and  gazed  with  pride  on  the  historic  names  emblazoned  on  their  flags. 
All  this,  however,  counted  for  naught  at  the  War  Department ;  the  order  was  enforced,  and 
the  war-worn  regiments  marched  away  to  fight  under  other  banners  ;  the  old  corps  lived 
only  in  the  story  of  its  deeds  that  nightly  were  recounted  around  the  camp-fires  of  its 
veterans. 

The  First  and  Second  Divisions  were  transferred  entire  to  the  Second  Corps,  and,  with 
Generals  Birney  and  Mott  in  command,  became  respectively  the  Third  and  Fourth  Divisions 
of  that  corps.  The  men  were  allowed  to  retain  the  old  diamond-shaped,  flannel  badges  on 
their  caps,  a  prudent  concession  under  the  circumstances. 

The  Third  Division  was  transferred  entire  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  where,  under  command  of 
General  Ricketts,  it  became  the  Third  Division  of  that  corps. 

FOURTH  CORPS. 

r 

(ARMY  OF  THE  POTOMAC.) 

SIEGE  OP  YORKTOWN  ;  LEE'S  MILLS  ;  WILLIAMSBURG  ;  SEVEN  PINES  ;  FAIR  OAKS  ;  OAK 
GROVE  ;  SEVEN  DAYS  BATTLE  ;  MALVERN  HILL  ;  ANTIETAM. 

Organized  under  General  Orders  No.  101,  March  13,  1862,  by  which  the  First,  Second,  and 
Third  Corps  were  also  created.  It  was  formed  by  the  divisions  of  Couch,  Smith,  and  Casey, 
with  General  E.  D.  Keyes  in  command  of  the  corps.  The  returns  for  March  31,  1862,  show 
that  the  Fourth  Corps  then  numbered,  in  the  aggregate,  37,910,  with  60  pieces  of  artillery  ; 
of  this  number,  there  were  32,919  present  for  duty.  The  corps  moved  to  the  Peninsula  in 
March,  1862,  with  General  McClellan's  Army,  taking  part  in  the  siege  operations  at  York- 
town,  and  participating  in  the  battle  of  Williamsburg,  where  it  sustained  a  slight  loss  only. 

On  May  18th,  General  Wm.  F.  Smith's  Division  was  detached  and  assigned  to  the  newly 
formed  Sixth  Corps,  leaving  the  Fourth  Corps  to  consist  of  the  divisions  of  Generals  Couch 
and  Casey.  After  this  reduction,  it  numbered  on  May  31st,  25,317  present  and  absent,  with 
17,132  present  for  duty  ;  the  artillery  numbered  38  guns. 

At  the  battle  of  Seven  Pines  (Fair  Oaks)  the  full  force  of  the  Confederate  attack  was 
directed  on  an  advanced  position  held  by  Casey's  Division,  which  stood  its  ground  for  an 
hour,  inflicting  a  severe  loss  on  the  enemy,  and  not  retiring  until  sufficient  supports  had 
arrived  to  save  the  day.  Couch's  Division  was  also  hotly  engaged,  the  losses  in  the  corps 
aggregating  384  killed,  1,747  wounded,  and  466  missing;  total,  2, 597  out  of  less  than  12,000 
engaged.  Over  half  the  loss  at  Fair  Oaks  fell  on  the  Fourth  Corps. 

During  the  Seven  Days  Battle,  the  corps  guarded  the  trains  during  their  withdrawal  to 
the  new  base  of  supplies,  but  Couch's  Division  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  battle  of  Malvern 
Hill,  losing  over  600,  killed  or  wounded  there. 

When  the  army  was  ordered  to  abandon  its  position  before  Richmond,  the  Fourth  Corps 
was  divided.  Couch's  (1st)  Division  accompanied  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  on  the  Maryland 
campaign,  some  of  the  regiments  becoming  slightly  engaged  at  Antietam.  After  that  battle, 
Couch's  Division  was  transferred,  entire,  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  becoming  the  Third  Division  of 
that  corps,  with  General  John  Newton  commanding  the  division.  General  Couch  was  pro 
moted  to  the  command  of  the  Second  Corps. 


FOURTH  CORI»S,  ARMY  OF  THE  CUMBERLAND.  73 

In  the  meantime,  Peck's  (2d)  Division  of  the  Fourth  Corps  was  ordered  to  remain  on  tin- 
Peninsula,  from  whence  it  went,  after  a  few  months  stay,  to  Suffolk,  Va.  The  Fourth  Corps 
was  officially  discontinued  in  August,  1862,  and  its  divisions  were  never  reunited. 


FOURTH  CORPS. 
(ARMY  OF  THE  CUMBERLAND.) 

MISSIONARY  RIDGE  ;  ORCHARD  KNOB  ;  DANDRIDGE  ;  DALTON  ;  ROCKY  FACE  RIDGE  ;  RESACA  ; 
CASSVILLE  ;  ADAIRSVILLE  ;  NEW  HOPE  CHURCH  ;  PICKETT'S  MILLS  ;  KENESAW  MOUNTAIN  ; 
SMYRNA  CAMP  GROUND  ;  VIKING'S  STATION  ;  PEACH  TREE  CREEK  ;  SIEGE  OF  ATLANTA  ; 
JONESBORO;  LOVEJOY'S  STATION  ;  SPRING  HILL  ;  FRANKLIN  ;  NASHVILLE  ;  OCCUPATION  OF  TEXAS. 

This  corps  was  composed  of  fighting  regiments.  Of  the  regiments  in  the  Western 
armies,  take  the  ones  that  sustained  the  greatest  losses  in  battle,  and  it  will  be  found  that 
more  of  them  were  in  the  Fourth  Corps  than  in  any  other.  Although  all  of  their  fighting 
was  not  done  Avhile  in  the  Fourth  Corps,  it  was  done  either  in  it  or  in  the  two  corps  which  were 
consolidated  in  order  to  form  tho  Fourth. 

On  Octol>er  0,  18£3,  the  Fourth  Corps  was  organized  by  the  consolidation  of  the  Twentieth 
(McCook's)  and  Twenty-first  (Crittenden's)  Corps,  in  compliance  with  the  President's  order  of 
September  28th.  Though  newly-formed,  it  was  composed  of  veteran  brigades  whose  battle 
flags  were  scarred  with  the  marks  of  hard  fought  fields  ;  within  this  new  command  they 
were  destined  to  wave  amid  the  smoke  and  fire  of  many  more.  The  command  of  the  Fourth 
Corps  was  given  to  General  Gordon  Granger,  the  man  who  marched  his  division  to  Chicka- 
mauga  with  no  other  orders  or  direction  than  "  the  sound  of  the  enemy's  cannon."  The  three 
divisions  of  this  new  corps  were  placed  under  the  commands  of  Generals  Palmer,  Sheridan, 
and  Wood.  Soon  after  its  organization  the  corps  went  into  action  at  Missionary  Ridge,  where 
it  distinguished  itself  by  its  brilliant  and  successful  charge  up  the  heights.  In  this  battle  the 
two  divisions  of  Sheridan  and  Wood  lost  280  killed,  2,078  wounded,  and  12  missing;  total, 
2,370,  or  more  than  half  the  casualties  at  Missionary  Ridge.  The  first  division,  under  com 
mand  of  General  Cruft,  was  also  engaged. 

During  the  following  winter  the  corps  marched  to  the  relief  of  Knoxville,  a  campaign 
memorable  for  the  suffering,  hunger,  and  hardships  endured  by  the  men.  In  May,  1864,  it 
moved  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  General  Howard  commanding  the  corps,  and  Generals 
Stanley,  Newton,  and  Wood  the  divisions.  Its  hardest  fighting  during  that  campaign 
occurred  at  Pickett's  Mills,  and  in  the  unsuccessful  assault  on  Kenesaw  Mountain. 

After  the  evacuation  of  Atlanta,  the  Fourth  and  Twenty-third  Corps,  under  General 
Thomas,  marched  northward  to  confront  Hood's  forces,  while  Sherman,  with  the  main  army, 
wended  his  way,  unmolested,  to  the  sea.  General  Stanley  was  then  in  command  of  tin- 
Fourth  Corps,  General  Howard  having  been  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Army  of  the 
Tennessee,  upon  the  death  of  MacPherson;  Kimball,  Wagner,  and  Wood  were  in  command  of 
the  divisions.  On  November  20,  18(54,  a  few  days  before  the  battle  of  Spring  Hill,  the  corps 
numbered  14,715  present  for  duty;  about  2,200  more  joined  before  the  battle  of  Franklin,  in 
that  battle  the  Confederates  received  the  bloodiest  repulse  of  the  war,  their  men  fighting  wii 
unusual  desperation,  while  twelve  of  their  generals  were  killed  or  wounded  in  their  unsuccessful 
attack  on  the  Union  intrenchments.  At  Franklin,  Oixlycke's  Brigade  of  the  Fourth  Corps 
won  special  distinction  by  its  promptness  and  gallantry  in  retaking  a  part  of  the  works  whicl 
the  enemy  had  seized.  General  Stanley  was  severely  wounded  in  this  action,  and  General 
Thomas  J.  Wood  succeeded  to  his  place. 


74  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

General  Wood  had  served  with  honor  in  the  armies  of  the  Ohio,  and  the  Cumberland, 
from  the  commencement  of  the  war.  He  commanded  the  Fourth  Corps  in  its  last  battle  —  its 
last  victory,  at  Nashville.  His  division  generals  in  that  engagement  were  Kimball,  Elliott, 
and  Beatty  ;  the  casualties  in  the  corps  were  135  killed,  834  wounded  and  22  missing  ;  total, 
991.  The  corps  joined  in  the  pursuit  of  Hood's  defeated  army,  after  which  General  Wood 
assembled  it  at  Huntsville,  Ala.,  arriving  there  January  5,  1865.  On  March  15th  it  moved 
into  East  Tennessee,  in  order  to  prevent  the  possible  escape  of  Lee's  and  Johnston's  armies, 
returning  in  April  to  Nashville,  where  it  remained  until  June  16th,  when  it  was  ordered  to 
New  Orleans,  en  route  for  Texas.  Although  the  war  had  virtually  ended,  the  Fourth  Corps 
remained  in  Texas  during  the  rest  of  1865,  forming  a  part  of  Sheridan's  Army  of  Occupation. 
The  most  of  the  regiments  were,  however,  mustered  out  in  December,  1865,  in  time  for  the 
men  to  spend  Christmas  in  their  homes. 

FIFTH   CORPS. 

HANOVER  COURT  HOUSE  ;  MECHANICSVILLE  ;  GAINES'  MILL  ;  GLENDALE  ;  MALVERN  HILL  ; 
MANASSAS  ;  ANTIETAM  ;  SHEPHERDSTOWN  FORD  ;  FREDERICKSBURG  ;  CHANCELLORSVILLE  ;  GET 
TYSBURG  ;  RAPPAHANNOCK  STATION  ;  MINE  RUN  ;  WILDERNESS  ;  ALSOP'S  FARM  ;  LAUREL 
HILL  ;  SPOTSYLVANIA  ;  NORTH  ANNA  ;  TOTOPOTOMOY  ;  BETHESDA  CHURCH  ;  COLD  HARBOR  ; 
PETERSBURG  ASSAULT  ;  SIEGE  OP  PETERSBURG  ;  W^ELDON  RAILROAD  ;  POPLAR  SPRING 
CHURCH  ;  HATCHER'S  RUN  ;  DABNEY'S  MILLS  ;  GRAVELLY  RUN  ;  WHITE  OAK  ROAD  ;  FIVE 
FORKS  ;  APPOMATTOX. 

The  Fifth  Corps  was  organized  May  18,  1862,  while  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  to  which 
it  belonged,  was  engaged  on  the  Peninsular  campaign.  It  was  formed  by  taking  Porter's 
Division  away  from  the  Third  Corps,  and  uniting  with  it  Sykes'  Division  of  Regular  troops, 
making  a  provisional  corps  of  two  divisions.  This  action  was  confirmed  by  the  War  Depart 
ment,  July  22,  1862,  whereupon,  the  term  "Fifth  Provisional"  was  dropped,  and  it  became 
the  Fifth  Corps,  Army  of  the  Potomac.  Banks'  Corps  had  been  officially  designated  as  the 
Fifth  Corps,  in  general  orders  No.  101,  March  13,  1862,  but  the  designation  does  not  appear 
to  have  been  used  in  connection  with  Banks'  troops.  The  Fifth  Corps  of  history  is  the  one 
which  wore  the  Maltese  Cross. 

It  was  permanently  organized,  with  General  Fitz  John  Porter  as  the  corps  commander, 
and  with  Generals  Morell  and  Sykes  in  command  of  the  two  divisions. 

The  first  battle  of  the  corps  occurred  at  Hanover  Court  House,  Va.,  May  27,  1862,  an 
engagement  in  which  MorelFs  Division  stood  the  brunt  of  the  fighting,  and  won  a  creditable 
victory.  On  May  31st,  the  returns  showed  17,546  present  for  duty.  On  June  14th  its  ranks 
were  increased  by  the  accession  of  McCalPs  Division  of  Pennsylvania  Reserves,  9,500  strong, 
which  served  with  the  Fifth  Corps  during  the  Peninsular  campaign,  but  left  it  upon  the  return 
to  Washington,  the  Reserves  rejoining  McDowell's  Corps,  from  which  they  had  been  detached. 
The  battle  of  Games'  Mill  was  fought,  almost  entirely,  by  the  Fifth  Corps  and  Slocum's 
Division  of  the  Sixth,  the  whole  under  command  of  General  Porter.  His  troops  held  their 
position  stoutly,  although  the  attacking  forces  comprised  the  entire  Confederate  Army,  with 
the  exception  of  Magruder's  command.  At  Glendale,  the  division  of  Pennsylvania  Reserves 
was  hotly  engaged,  and  at  Malvern  Hill  some  of  Porter's  regiments  were  again  in  the  thickest 
of  the  fight.  The  loss  of  the  corps  in  the  Seven  Days  Battle  was  995  killed,  3,805  wounded, 
and  2,801  captured  or  missing;  totil,  7,601,  or  half  the  entire  loss  of  the  army.  Of  these 
casualties,  6,837  occurred  at  Games'  Mill  ;  the  remainder  at  Mechanicsville,  Glendale,  and 
Malvern  Hill. 


FIFTH  TURPS.  75 

The  next  battle  was  Maoaasas  (Second  Bull  Run),  where  the  corps,  still  under  command  of 
General  Porter,  did  some  of  the  bust  fighting  on  that  field,  the  largest  regimental  loss,  in  killed 
and  wounded,  in  Poj>e's  entire  Army  at  that  battle,  occurring  in  the  Duryee  Zouaves,  one  of 
Porter's  regiments.  The  two  small  divisions  of  Morell  and  Sykes  sustained  a  loss  there  of 
IJ31  killed,  I,  iit'.i*  \voimded,  and  4f>«>  missing;  a  total  of  2,151,  out  of  about  (5,500  engaged; 
Griffin's  Brigade  not  being  in  action. 

At  Antietam,  Porter's  Corps  was  held  in  reserve  ;  still,  it  Was  drawn  on  freely  during  the 
day,  so  that  Sykes' Division  was,  almost  wholly,  in  action.  Soon  after  this  battle  a  third 
division  was  assigned  to  the  corps,  taking  the  place  of  the  Pennsylvania  Reserves.  This  new 
division  was  commanded  by  General  Humphreys,  and  was  composed  of  two  brigades;  the 
regiments  were  all  from  Pennsylvania  and  were  mostly  nine-months  men,  newly  recruited. 

General  Daniel  Buttertield  commanded  the  corps  at  Frederick  si  mrg,  and  Generals  Griffin. 
Sykes,  and  Humphreys  the  divisions;  loss,  ii(Mi  killed,  1,C(JU  wounded,  and  300  missing; 
total,  2,175.  Over  half  of  the  loss  fell  on  Humphreys' new  recruits,  who  made  a  dashing 
attempt,  under  his  personal  leadership,  t<>  carry  Marye's  Heights  after  all  other  efforts  had 
failed. 

General  Meade  succeeded  Butterfield,  and  led  the  corps  to  Chancellorsville,  where  it  was 
but  partially  engaged  ;  loss,  65)  killed,  472  wounded,  and  l.V.»  missing.  The  time  of  the  nine- 
months  regiments  in  Humphreys'  Division  expired  soon  after  Chancellorsville,  and  that  divis 
ion  was  necessarily  discontinued  ;  but  upon  the  news  of  Lee's  invasion,  in  ls<>3,  the  Penn 
sylvania  Reserves,  who  were  then  on  duty  in  Washington,  petitioned  that  they  be  allowed  to 
march  to  the  defence  of  their  state.  Accordingly,  two  brigades  of  the  Reserves  rejoined  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  were  assigned  to  the  Fifth  Corps,  in  which  they  again  served  as  the 
Third  Division,  this  time  under  command  of  General  S.  W.  Crawford. 

General  Meade  having  been  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Army,  just  before  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg,  General  Sykes  succeeded  to  his  place  ;  the  divisions,  were  commanded  at 
Gettysburg  by  Generals  Barnes,  Ayres,  and  Crawford.  The  corps  distinguished  itself  in  that 
battle  by  its  fighting  in  the  wheat-field,  and  also  by  the  gallant  action  of  Vincent's  Brigade 
in  seizing  Little  Round  Top,  just  in  time  to  save  the  Army  from  what  might  have  been  a 
serious  disaster.  The  corps'  loss  at  Gettysburg  was  3(55  killed,  1, (HI  wounded,  and  211  miss 
ing  ;  a  total  of  2,187,  out  of  about  1 1,000  actually  engaged. 

The  regular  troops  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  were  all  in  the  Fifth  Corps,  Second 
(Ayres')  Division,  and  at  Gettysburg  these  two  brigades,  under  Colonels  Day  and  Burbank, 
again  displayed  that  marked  efficiency  which,  at  Games'  Mill  and  on  other  fields,  had  made 
them  famous,  their  thinned  ranks  becoming  again  sadly  depleted  under  the  terrible  fire  which 

they  encountered. 

General  Sykes  remained  in  command,  and  handled  the  corps  on  the  Mine  Run  campaign  ; 
the  division  generals  were  Bartlett,  Ayres,  and  Crawford. 

In  March,  1804,  the  First  Corps  was  transferred  to  the  Fifth,  and  General  G         Warren 
was  assigned  to  the  command.      The  First  and  Second  Divisions  of  the  Fifth  Corps  were 
consolidated,   forming  the  First  Division,  under  General  Griffin,  while  the  Third  Division  - 
Crawford's  Pennsylvania  Reserves  —  remained  unchanged  ;  the  First  Corps  had  l>een  consoli 
dated  into  two  divisions,   prior  to  the  transfer,   which  now  became  the  Second  and  Fourth 
Divisions  of  the  Fifth  Corps,  under  command,  respectively,  of  Generals  Robinson  and  Wadf 
worth.     Under  this  reorganization,  the  Fifth  Corps  contained  <J7  regiments  of  infantry,  ami 
0  batteries  of  light  artillery  (48  guns),  numbering  in  all  25,695  officers  and  men  "  present 

dutv,  equipped." 

General  Wads  worth  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  the  Wildernefi      and  General 
was  severely  wounded,  losing  a  leg  at  Spotsylvania.     General  Cutler,  of  the  Iron  Brigade, 


76  EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

succeeded  to  Wadsworth's  command,  while  Eobinsoii's  Division  was  broken  up,  and  its  regi 
ments  were  distributed  to  the  other  three  divisions.  The  losses  of  the  Fifth  Corps,  at  the 
Wilderness,  May  5th  and  6th,  were  487  killed,  2,817  wounded,  and  1,828  missing  ;  total,  5,132. 
At  Spotsylvania,  May  8th-13th,  it  lost  657  killed,  3,448  wounded,  and  375  missing  ;  total,  4,480. 

During  the  hard  fighting  and  bloody  assaults  at  Cold  Harbor,  the  Fifth  Corps  was  in  line 
at  Bethesda  Church,  a  point  oil  the  extreme  right,  where  it  was  engaged  in  some  sharp  actions 
along  the  skirmish  line,  in  which  it  sustained  a  considerable  loss.  It  also  took  part  in  the 
assaults  on  Petersburg,  June  18,  1864,  losing  389  killed,  1,899  wounded,  and  38  missing  ;  after 
which  it  took  its  place  in  the  trenches  preparatory  to  the  long  siege  which  followed.  During 
the  seige  it  was  engaged,  August  19th,  in  the  battle  at  the  Weldoii  Railroad,  in  which  a  large 
number  of  the  men  were  captured.  In.  this  action  the  divisions  were  commanded  by  Griffin, 
Ay  res,  and  Crawford,  these  officers  remaining  in  command  of  their  divisions  until  the  close  of 
the  war.  On  October  27th  the  Corps  participated  in  the  first  of  the  battles  at  Hatcher's  Run 
(Boydton  Road),  in  which  it  sustained  a  loss  of  279.  On  February  5th,  1865,  it  was  again 
engaged  at  Hatcher's  Run  (Dabney's  Mills),  with  a  loss  of  1,319  killed,  wounded,  and  missing. 

On  March  31,  1865,  just  before  the  final  campaign,  the  morning  reports  show  the  corps 
strength  to  have  been  17,073,  "present  for  duty,  equipped."  In  the  closing  battles  of  the 
war,  from  March  29th  to  April  9th,  1865 --including  Gravelly  Run,  White  Oak  Road,  and 
Five  Forks  —  the  casualties  in  the  corps  aggregated  2,465  in  killed,  wounded,  and  missing. 
Its  last  battle  was  fought  at  Five  Forks,  in  which  action  the  corps,  still  under  Warren, 
captured  3,244  men,  11  flags,  and  1  battery  of  artillery.  The  war  having  ended,  the  organiza 
tion  was  discontinued,  June  28,  1865. 

SIXTH   CORPS. 

WEST  POINT  ;  GAINES'  MILL  ;  GOLDING'S  FARM  ;  GARNETT'S  FARM  ;  SAVAGE  STATION  ; 
WHITE  OAK  SWAMP  ;  MALVERN  HILL  ;  MANASSAS  ;  CRAMPTON'S  GAP  ;  ANTIETAM  ;  FREDERICKS- 
BURG  ;  MARYE'S  HEIGHTS  ;  SALEM  CHURCH  ;  BANKS'  FORD  ;  GETTYSBURG  ;  FUNKSTOWN  ;  RAP- 
PAH  ANNOCK  STATION  ;  MINE  RUN  ;  WILDERNESS  ;  SPOTSYLVANIA  ;  COLD  HARBOR  ;  PETERSBURG  ; 
MONOCACY  ;  FORT  STEVENS  ;  ISLAND  FORD  ;  STRASBURG  ;  WINCHESTER  ;  CHARLESTOWN  ;  OPE- 
QUON  ;  FISHER'S  HILL  ;  CEDAR  CREEK  ;  FALL  OP  PETERSBURG  ;  SAILOR'S  CREEK  ;  APPOMATTOX. 

The  Sixth  Provisional  Corps  was  organized  May  18,  1862,  by  uniting  Franklin's  Division, 
which  had  just  arrived  on  the  Peninsula,  with  General  W.  F.  Smith's  Division,  which  was 
taken  away  from  the  Fourth  Corps  for  this  purpose.  This  provisional  arrangement  having 
been  sanctioned  by  the  War  Department,  the  command  received  its  permanent  designation 
as  the  Sixth  Army  Corps.  General  William  B.  Franklin  was  appointed  corps  commander, 
and  General  H.  W.  Slocum  succeeded  to  the  command  of  Franklin's  Division.  On  June  20, 
1862,  the  corps  numbered  24,911,  present  and  absent,  with  19,405  present  for  duty,  equipped ; 
the  corps  artillery  numbered  40  guns. 

At  Games'  Mill,  Slocum's  Division  was  sent  to  the  support  of  General  Porter,  and  became 
hotly  engaged,  losing  2,021  men  out  of  less  than  8,000  present.  The  Vermont  brigade  of 
Smith's  (2nd)  Division  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  fight  at  Savage  Station,  the  Fifth  Ver 
mont  losing  209  men  in  that  action.  The  corps  fought  at  other  points  during  the  Seven 
Days  Battle,  but  at  Malvern  Hill  it  was  held  in  reserve.  At  Manassas  (Second  Bull  Run)  it 
was  partially  engaged,  the  Jersey  Brigade  of  Slocum's  (1st)  Division  having  a  sharp  fight  on 
August  27th,  at  Bull  Run  Bridge,  in  which  it  lost  339  in  killed,  wounded  and  missing,  Gen 
eral  Taylor,  the  brigade  commander,  receiving  a  mortal  wound.  While  on  McClellan's 
campaign,  Slocum's  Division  made  a  gallant  and  successful  charge  up  the  mountain's  side  at 


SIXTH  Coiii's.  77 

Crampton's  Gap,  driving  the  enemy  from  a  strong  ]x>sition ;  Slocum's  loss  was  m  killed, 
418  wounded,  and  two  missing;  total,  533.  The  corps  was  under  fire  again  at  Antietam, 
but  was  only  partially  engaged ;  the  third  Brigade  (Irwin's)  of  Smith's  Division,  took  an 
active  part,  however,  i In-  Seventh  Maim-  ami  Twentieth  Ne\\  York  sustaining  severe  losse 

Important  changes  in  the  corps  now  took  place.  It  received  a  valuable  accession  by  the 
transfer  of  Couch's  Division  of  the  Fourth  Corps,  which  now  l>ecame  the  Third  Division  of 
the  Sixth,  with  General  John  Newton  in  command.  General  Franklin  was  promoted  to  the 
command  of  the  Left  Grand  Division,  Sixth  and  First  Corps,  and  General  Smith  succeeded 
to  the  command  of  the  corps.  General  Slocum's  able  services  were  acknowledged  by  his 
promotion  to  the  command  of  the  Twelfth  Corps,  and  General  W.  T.  Brooks  succeeded  Slo- 
cum  in  command  of  the  First  Division,  while  General  A.  P.  Howe  succeeded  to  the  com 
mand  of  Smith's  (2nd)  Division. 

The  next  battle  occurred  at  Fredericksburg,  Dec.  18,  18(52,  in  which  only  a  few  regiments 
of  the  corps  were  engaged,  although  all  were  under  a  severe  artillery  lire.  But  the  cori>s 
was  engaged  on  the  same  field,  May  3,  18t>3,  in  an  action  which  made  it  famous  on  account 
of  the  brilliant  display  of  dash  and  daring.  When  Hooker  took  the  Army  to  Chancellors- 
viile  he  left  the  Sixth  Corps  in  front  of  Fredericksburg,  which  was  still  held  by  a  strong  force  of 
the  enemy.  General  Sedgwick,  who  had  succeeded  to  the  corps  command,  ordered  an  assault 
on  Marye's  Heights,  and  that  strong  position  which  had  defied  the  assaults  of  the  previous 
battle,  was  now  carried  by  the  Sixth  Corps  at  the  point  of  the  bayonet.  The  divisions  of 
Newton  and  Howe  were  the  ones  engaged  ;  Brooks'  (1st)  Division  was  engaged  later  in  the 
day,  at  Salem  Church.  The  corps  lost  in  this  battle,  4sr>  killed,  2,<>H>  wounded,  and  1,485 
missing  ;  total  4,589.  The  missing  ones  were,  for  the  most  part,  lost  in  the  action  at  Salem 
Church.  On  the  day  before  this  battle,  the  corps  returns  showed  a  strength  of  23,730,  "present 
for  duty,"  of  whom  less  than  20,000  were  present  in  action. 

The  Gettysburg  campaign  came  next,  in  which  the  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals 
Wright,  Howe,  and  Newton.  The  corps  was  held  in  reserve  at  Gettysburg,  excepting  Shaler's 
Brigade,  which  was  sent  into  action  as  a  support  to  the  Twelfth  Corps;  several  casualties, 
also,  occurred  in  Eustis'  and  Wheatou's  Brigades,  of  Newton's  Division.  During  the  pursuit 
of  Lee's  Army,  after  Gettysburg,  the  Vermont  Brigade  was  engaged  in  a  very  creditable  affair 
at  Funkstown,  Md.,  where  this  one  brigade,  drawn  out  in  a  skirmish  line  of  over  a  mile  in 
length,  alone  and  unassisted,  repelled  a  determined  attack  of  a  vastly  sui>erior  force,  which  in 
massed  columns  charged  this  skirmish  line  repeatedly.  The  Vermonters  sustained  but  slight 
loss,  as  they  occupied  a  strong,  natural  position. 

Having  returned  to  Virginia,  the  corps  participated,  November  7,  18(53,  at  Rappahannock 
Station  in  a  successful  assault  on  the  enemy's  intrenehments.  In  this  affair  there  was  another 
display  of  that  dash  and  gallantry  which  was  so  eminently  characteristic  of  the  Sixth  Corps.* 
The  Sixth  Maine  and  Fifth  Wisconsin  distinguished  themselves  particularly  in  this  action, 
leading  the  storming  party  and  carrying  the  works  with  the  bayonet  only.  It  was  a  brilliant 
success,  resulting  not  only  in  a  victory,  but  in  the  capture  of  a  large  numl>er  of  prisoners, 
small  arms,  artillery  and  battle  fiags. 

On  the  Mine  Run  campaign  the  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals  Wright,  Howe, 
and  H.  D.  Terry,  but  were  not  in  action  to  any  extent.  The  corps  went  into  winter-quarters 
at  Brandy  Station.  Upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Army,  in  March,  ls«H,  several  changes 
were  made.  The  Third  Division  was  broken  up.  Shaler's  Brigade  being  transferred  to  Wright's 
(1st)  Division,  while  the  brigades  of  Eustis  and  \Vheaton  were  placed  in  the  Second  Division, 

•At  Rappahannoek  Station,  Captain  Furlong,  of  the  Sixth  Maine,  leaped  over  the  enemy's  work*,  and  after  emptying  his  revolver,  fought 
with  a  clubbed  musket,  swinging  it  round  his  head  until  he  fell  dead.  After  the  battle  his  body  was  found  among  a  pile  of  dead,  «BTeral  of 
whom  had  been  killed  by  the  blows  of  a  musket  stock. 


78  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

the  command  of  which  was  given  to  General  Geo.  W.  Getty,  an  able  officer  who  had  served 
as  a  division-general  in  the  Ninth  Corps,  and,  also,  in  the  Seventh  Corps  at  theSeigeof  Suffolk. 
The  place  of  the  Third  Division  was  filled  by  the  Third  Division  of  the  Third  Corps,  that 
corps  having  been  discontinued  ;  the  command  of  this  division  was  given  to  General  Ricketts. 
The  corps  now  contained  49  regiments  of  infantry,  an  artillery  brigade  composed  of  8  bat 
teries  of  light  artillery  (48  guns),  and  a  battalion  of  heavy  artillery  acting  as  infantry  ;  number 
ing  in  all,  24,163,  "present  for  duty,  equipped." 

In  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania  it  encountered  the  hardest  contested 
fighting  of  its  experience.  At  the  Wilderness,  the  Vermont  Brigade  —  Getty's  -Division  - 
lost  1,232  men  out  of  the  2,800  effectives  that  crossed  the  Rapidan  on  the  previous  day.  At 
Spotsylvania,  the  Jersey  Brigade  of  Wright's  Division  was  engaged  in  a  deadly  struggle,  the 
percentage  of  killed  in  the  Fifteenth  New  Jersey  being  equalled  in  only  one  instance  during 
the  whole  war.  On  May  10th  —  at  Spotsylvania  —  General  Upton  led  a  storming  party  of 
twelve  picked  regiments  selected  from  the  Sixth  Corps,  which  carried  the  Confederate  works 
after  a  hand-to-hand  fight  in  which  bayonet  wounds  were  freely  given  and  received.*  On 
May  1 2th  -  -  Spotsylvania  —  the  whole  corps  fought  at  the  ' '  Bloody  Angle, "  where  the  fighting 
was  the  closest  and  deadliest  of  any  recorded  in  the  history  of  modern  wars.  General  Sedg- 
wick  was  killed  at  Spotsylvania,  and  General  Wright  succeeded  to  the  command,  General 
Russell  succeeding  Wright  in  the  command  of  the  First  Division.  The  casualties  of  the  corps 
at  the  Wilderness  were,  719  killed,  3,660  wounded,  65u  missing ;  total,  5,035  ;  and  at  Spotsyl 
vania,  688  killed,  2,820  wounded,  534  missing ;  total,  4,042. 

In  the  assault  at  Cold  Harbor,  June  1st,  1864,  the  corps  sustained  another  severe  loss, 
2,715  of  its  number  falling,  killed  or  wounded  in  that  ill-advised  attempt.  Accompanying 
the  Army  to  Petersburg  it  participated  in  the  preliminary  operations  incidental  to  the  invest 
ment  of  that  stronghold.  But  its  stay  was  of  short  duration,  Early's  invasion  of  Maryland 
necessitating  a  transfer  of  troops  to  confront  him,  and  the  heroes  of  Marye's  Heights  were 
selected  for  that  duty.  On  July  6th,  Ricketts'  (3d)  Division  embarked  at  City  Point,  and, 
landing  at  Baltimore  on  the  8th,  marched  out  to  meet  Early.  This  division  took  part  in  the 
battle  at  Monocacy  on  the  following  day,  and,  although  unable  to  defeat  Early,  checked  his 
advance.  The  other  two  divisions  embarked  on  the  10th  and,  landing  at  Washington,  attacked 
Early,  whose  advance  had  reached  Fort  Stevens,  within  the  city  limits.  The  brunt  of  this 
fight  fell  to  the  lot  of  BidwelPs  (3d)  Brigade,  of  Getty's  (3d)  Division,  every  regimental  com 
mandant  in  this  brigade,  but  one,  being  either  killed  or  wounded. 

The  corps  followed  in  pursuit  of  Early  through  Maryland,  into  Virginia,  and  up  the 
Sheiiandoah  Valley.  Sheridan  was  placed  in  command  of  the  Army  of  the  Shenaiidoah, 
which  was  composed  of  the  Sixth,  Eighth,  and  Nineteenth  Corps,  and  its  campaign  of  1864, 
in  the  Valley,  was  a  memorable  one  by  reason  of  the  victories  at  Opequoii,  Fisher's  Hill,  and 
Cedar  Creek.  In  the  latter  battle  occurred  the  famous  incident  of  Sheridan's  Ride  from 
Winchester;  and,  in  justice  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  it  should  be  noted  in  connection  with  that 
affair,  that  General  Wright  had  already  given  Early  a  successful  check,  had  made  the  disposi 
tions  for  a  counter  advance,  and  was  about  to  move  forward  when  Sheridan  resumed  command. 

*  Extract  from  a  private  letter  from  General  Upton  : 

MY  DEAR  SIR  —  Your  letter  of  the  7th,  enclosing  extract,  is  received.  Bayonet  wounds  and  sabre  cuts  are  very  rare.  But  at  Spotsyl 
vania  there  were  plenty  of  bayonet  wounds ;  and,  no  picture  could  Rive  too  exalted  an  idea  of  the  gallantry  of  the  TJlst  New  York,  5th  Maine 
and  96th  Pennsylvania,  as  they  led  the  assaulting  column  of  twelve  picked  regiments  over  the  formidable  entrenchments  which  confronted 

them.        *       *       *  Sincerely  your  friend,  E.  UPTON. 

To  BKAYTON  G.  PRIERT,  Theresa,  N.  Y. 

*  From  a  letter  in  the  National  Tribune,  May  20,  1887  : 

UPTON'S  CHARGE,  May  12th— "J.  W.  Johnson,  and  Thomas  Ilassatt,  of  the  121st  New  York,  received  severe  bayonet  wounds. 
Simon  Mann,  of  Company  G,  of  the  same  regiment,  fell  on  the  works,  shot  dead,  but  had  a  Rebel  impaled  on  his  bayonet." 

(Signed.)       J.  M.  LOVEJOY,  Company  G,  121st  New  York,  South  Valley,  N.  Y. 


TUB  SIXTH  ('OKI'S.  79 

General  Russell  was  killed  at  the  Opequon,  and  the  gallant  Hid  well  at  C<nlar  Crock.  Tin- 
casualties  of  the  corps  at  the  O|>e<nion  aggregated  211  killed,  1,442  wounded,  and  40  missing  ; 
total,  1,OM.  At  Cedar  Creek,  it  lost  208  killed,  1,02S  wounded,  and  200  missing  ;  total,  2,120. 
Its  total  lossin  the  Shenandoah  campaign,  Aug.  22d  to  Oct.  2<>th.  was  4,81  w,  out  of  12, (515 
"  present  for  duty,"  in  August.  General  Wheaton  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  lamented 
Russell,  while  General  Truman  Seymour  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Third  Division, 
in  place  of  General  Rieketts,  who  was  seriously  wounded  at  Cedar  Creek. 

In  Decemher.  1804,  the  Sixth  Corps  returned  to  the  Petersburg  trenches,  built  their 
winter-quarters,  and  went  into  position  near  the  Weldon  Railroad.  On  the  2d  of  April,  1S05, 
occurred  the  grand,  final,  and  successful  assault  on  the  fortifications  of  Petersburg,  in  which 
the  corps  was  assigned  a  prominent  and  important  part.  Then  came  the  hot  pursuit  of  Ijee's 
retreating  veterans,  during  which  the  corps  fought  at  Sailor's  Creek.  This,  the  last  battle  of 
the  Sixth  Corps,  was  marked  by  the  same  features  which  had  so  largely  characterized  all  its 
battles, —  dash,  hard  fighting  —  some  of  it  with  the  bayonet, —  victory,  and  large  captures 
of  men,  Hags,  guns,  and  material. 

The  history  of  the  Sixth  Corps,  more  than  any  other,  is  replete  with  fascinating  interest. 
Its  record  is  invested  with  more  of  the  romance  and  brillancy  of  war.  There  was  the 
successful  assault  of  Marye's  Heights  ;  the  briJlant  dash  into  tin*  rifle  pits  at  Rappahannock 
Station  ;  the  deadly  hand-to-hand  lighting  in  the  gloomy  thickets  of  Spotsylvania  ;  the  breath 
less  interest  which  attaches  to  their  lone  tight  at  Fort  Stevens,  where,  under  the  eye  of  the 
President,  they  saved  the  National  Capital  from  the  hand  of  the  invader  ;  the  victories  in  the 
Valley,  with  the  dramatic  incident  at  Cedar  Creek  ;  and  the  crowning  success  at  the  storming 
of  Petersburg.  Over  all  these  scenes  the  Greek  Cross  waved  proudly  on  the  banners  of  the 
corps,  while  its  veteran  legions  wrought  deeds  which  linked  that  badge  with  an  unfading  glory 
and  renown. 

SEVENTH  CORPS. 

(DEPARTMENT  OF  VIRGINIA.) 

DESERTED  HOUSE;  SIEGE  OF  SUFFOLK. 

This  corps  was  organized  under  General  Orders  No.  84,  War  Department,  dated  July  22, 
1802,  and  was  formed  from  the  troops  then  under  command  of  General  .John  A.  Dix  at  Foit 
Monroe,  Norfork,  Portsmouth,  Suffolk,  and  vicinity.  Soon  after  its  organization,  its  returns 
showed  a  strength  of  0,574,  "  present  for  duty,  equipjied,"  with  an  aggregate  of  1 1,73S,  "  pre 
sent  and  absent.''  In  April,  ISC,:',,  it  comprised  the  divisions  of  Corcoran,  Getty,  and  Gurney, 
including,  also,  two  brigades  which  were  stationed  at  Yorktown,  under  General  Keyes,  and 
one  brigade  at  Norfolk,  under  General  Viele  ;  in  all,  52  regiments  of  infantry,  t>  batteries  of 
light  artillery,  and  5  battalions  of  cavalry.  The  corps  return  for  March  31,  IV-:?,  showed  an 
aggregate  of  32,741  present  and  absent,  with  24,127  present  for  duty,  equip]>ed. 

Corcoran's  Division  was  in  action,  January  30,  1803,  in  an  atfair  at  Deserted  House,  Va., 
in  which  it  lost  23  killed,  los  wounded,  and  12  missing.  Both  Corcoran's  and  Getty's  Divisions 
were  engaged  in  the  defence  of  Suffolk,  losing  41  killed,  223  wounded,  and  2  missing,  the 
principal  loss  falling  on  Getty's  Division. 

In  July,  1863,  the  brigade  known  as  the  Corcoran  Legion  was  ordered  on  duty  in 
defences  of  Washington  ;  a  part  of  the  troops  which  had  been  engaged  on  the  Peninsular  march 
of  June,  1803,  were  ordered  to  join  the  Army  of  tlu  Pofconric  ;  other  detach  in  «nb 
made,  after  which  the  remaining  troops  were  ordered  transferred  to  the  Eighteenth  Corps,  and 
the  Seventh  Corps  was  discontinued  August  1st,  1803.     On  May  31,  180;^ 


80  EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

had  attained  a  strength  of  32, 397  present  for  duty,  with  an  aggregate,  present  and  absent, 
of  43,648.  Getty's  Division  was  composed  largely  of  veteran  regiments  which  had  served 
previously  in  the  Ninth  Corps. 

SEVENTH  CORPS. 

(DEPARTMENT  OF  ARKANSAS.) 

ARKADELPHIA  ;  OKALONA  ;  ELKIN'S  FORD  ;  PRAIRIE  D'ANN  ;  Moscow;  CAMDEN  ;  POISON 
SPRINGS  ;  MARKS'  MILLS  ;  JENKINS'  FERRY. 

As  a  result  of  the  juggling  with  corps  numbers  by  the  Washington  authorities,  there 
occurs  another  duplication  of  titles.  This  corps  was  organized  Jan.  6,  1864,  and  was  formed 
by  the  consolidation  of  the  troops  in  the  Department  of  Arkansas.  The  command  of  the 
corps  was  given  to  Major-General  Frederick  Steele ;  the  divisions  were  commanded  by 
Generals  Salomon  and  Thayer,  with  a  cavalry  division  attached,  under  General  E.  A.  Carr. 
The  corps  was  continued  in  service  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

The  principal  part  of  its  fighting  was  done  in  Arkansas  while  on  Steele's  Expedition, 
during  which  a  general  engagement  occurred  at  Jenkins'  Ferry,  on  the  Saline  Kiver.  In  this 
action  the  corps  lost  64  killed,  378  wounded,  and  86  missing  ;  total,  528.  General  Samuel  A. 
Eice,  commanding  the  First  Brigade  of  Salomon's  (1st)  Division,  was  mortally  wounded  in  this 
battle.  At  this  time  the  corps  was  composed  of  17  regiments  of  infantry,  5  batteries  of  light 
artillery,  and  10  regiments  of  cavalry. 

EIGHTH  COEPS. 

CLOYD'S  MOUNTAIN  ;  NEW  MARKET  ;  PIEDMONT  ;  LYNCHBURG  ;  MONOCACY;  ISLAND  FORD  ; 
CARTER'S  FARM  ;  MARTINSBURG  ;  HALLTOWN  ;  WINCHESTER  ;  BERRYVILLE  ;  OPEQUON  ;  FISHER'S 
HILL  ;  CEDAR  CREEK. 

These  battles,  which  occurred  between  May  9th  and  October  19th,  1864,  were  fought 
wholly,  or  in  part,  by  the  Army  of  West  Virginia,  which  was,  for  the  most  part,  identical 
with  the  forces  in  the  two  divisions  under  General  George  Crook.  These  two  divisions,  by  a 
provisional  arrangement,  formed  a  part  of  the  Eighth  Corps,  and  eventually  came  to  be 
known  as  the  corps  itself. 

The  Eighth  Corps  proper  was  created  by  General  Orders  No.  84,  July  22,  1862,  which 
designated  the  troops  under  Major-General  John  E.  Wool  as  the  Eighth  Corps.  These  forces 
were  stationed  in  Maryland,  at  Annapolis,  Baltimore,  Harper's  Ferry,  along  the  Baltimore  & 
OhioE.  E.,  east  of  Cumberland,  and  along  the  railroad  from  Harper's  Ferry  to  Winchester,  Va. 

During  the  summer  of  1864, and,  also,  in  Sheridan's  campaigns  in  the  Valley,  the  Eighth 
Corps  was  commanded  by  General  George  Crook ;  the  First  Division,  comprising  three 
brigades,  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Joseph  Tboburn  ;  the  Second  Division,  containing  two 
brigades,  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Isaac  H.  Duval.  There  were  22  regiments  of  infantry 
in  the  two  divisions.  Colonel  Thoburn  was  killed  at  Cedar  Creek,  the  last  battle  in  which  the 
corps  participated.  Colonel  Duval  was  wounded  at  Opequon,  whereupon  Colonel  Euther- 
ford  B.  Hayes  succeeded  to  the  command  of  Duval's  (2d)  Division.  The  field  return  of  troops, 
dated  September  10,  1864,  shows  that  the  Army  of  West  Virginia  —  Crook's  two  divisions  - 
had  only  7,507  effective  men. 

At  the  battle  of  Winchester,  however,  July  24,  1864,  Crook's  command  contained  three 
divisions,  Sullivan's,  Duval's,  and  Mulligan's.  Colonel  Mulligan,  the  hero  of  Lexington,  was 
killed  in  that  battle,  and  his  division  was  cut  up  so  badly  that  it  was  consolidated  into  one 
brigade,  which  was  transferred  to  the  First  Division,  where  it  became  the  Third  Brigade 
(Campbell's)  of  that  division. 


THE  NINTH  COUPS.  81 

The  corps  lost  about  1,200  men  at  Winchester ;  at  tho  Opequon  it  lost  104  killed,  683 
wounded,  and  7  missing  — a  total  of  794  ;  at  Cedar  Creek  it  lost  48  killed,  270  wounded,  and 
540  captured,  or  missing  ;  total,  858. 

General  Lew.  Wallace  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  tho  Eighth  Corps  on  March  12, 
1863,  and  was  in  command  at  the  battle  of  Monocacy,  July  !»,  isr.4.  But  that  battle  was 
fought  chiefly  by  Ricketts'  Division  of  the  Sixth  Corps  ;  tho  only  troops  of  the  Eighth  Corps 
which  were  engaged,  were  some  regiments  from  the  Baltimore  garrison,  organized  as  the  First 
Separate  Brigade  of  the  Eighth  Corps,  General  E.  B.  Tyler  commanding.  On  July  llth, 
General  Ord  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  corps,  but  on  the  28th  it  WJIH  restored  to 
General  Wallace.  In  December,  18(54,  the  First  and  Third  Brigades  of  the  First  Division 
(Thoburn's)  were  transferred  to  the  Army  of  the  James,  then  near  Richmond,  and  were 
designated  as  the  Independent  Division  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  General  J.  W.  Turner 
commanding. 

The  Eighth  Corps  proper  remained  in  service  until  August  1,  18G5,  when  its  existence 
terminated. 

NINTH  CORPS. 

ROANOKE  ISLAND  ;  NEW  BERNE  ;  CAMDEN  ;  WILMINGTON  ISLAND  ;  JAMES  ISLAND  ;  MAN- 
ASSAS  ;  CHANTILLY  ;  SOUTH  MOUNTAIN  ;  ANTIETAM  ;  FREDEKICKSBURG  ;  SIEGE  OP  VICKHBURG  ; 
JACKSON  ;  BLUE  SPRINGS  ;  LENOIR  STATION  ;  CAMPBELL'S  STATION  ;  FORT  SANDERS  ;  SIEGE  OF 
KNOXVILLE  ;  STRAWBERRY  PLAINS  ;  WILDERNESS  ;  NY  RIVER  ;  SPOTSYLVANIA  ;  NORTH  ANNA  ; 
BETHESDA  CHURCH;  COLD  HARBOR;  ASSAULT  ON  PETERSBURG,  JUNE  I~TH;  PETERSBURG 
TRENCHES  ;  PETERSBURG  MINE  ;  WELDON  RAILROAD  ;  POPLAR  SPRING  CHURCH  ;  BOYDTON 
ROAD  ;  HATCHER'S  RUN  ;  FORT  STEDMAN  ;  FALL  OF  PETERSBURG. 

A  wandering  corps,  whose  dead  lie  buried  in  seven  states.  Although  the  official  order 
designating  its  number  was  not  issued  until  July  22,  181)2,  still,  the  corps  organization  might 
properly  be  considered  as  dating  back  to  the  Burnside  expedition  to  North  Carolina,  in  Feb 
ruary,  1862,  and  to  the  operations  about  Hilton  Head,  S.  C. ;  because,  the  troops  engaged  in 
these  movements  were  the  only  ones  used  in  the  formation  of  the  corps.  In  July,  1862,  two 
of  Burnside's  brigades  left  North  Carolina  and  proceeded  to  Newport  News,  Va. ;  at  the  same 
time,  Stevens'  Division  left  Hilton  Head  and  repaired  to  the  same  place.  From  these  troops, 
thus  assembled,  General  Burnside  organized  his  famous  Ninth  Corps  on  July  22,  1>62,  the 
command  consisting  of  three  divisions,  under  Generals  Stevens,  Reno,  and  Parke. 

After  a  short  stay  at  Newport  News  the  corps  was  ordered  to  ivenforce  Pope,  and  at 
Manassas  it  fought  its  first  battle  as  the  Ninth  Corps.  Only  the  two  divisions  of  Stevens  and 
Reno  were  engaged  in  this  action;  they  numbered  12  regiments  and  2  batteries,  - 
than  5,000  men,  all  told.  General  Reno  was  in  command  of  both  divisions,  Burnsido  having 
been  engaged  at  Fredericksburg  in  attending  to  the  forwarding  of  troops.  The  losses  in  this 
small  command  at  Manassas  amounted  to  904  killed,  1,000  wounded,  and  31!)  missing  ;  total. 
1,523.  Some  of  the  regiments  encountered  a  severe  fire,  the  Twenty-eighth  Massachusetts 
losing  234  men.  General  Stevens  was  killed  at  Chantilly. 

General  Reno  retained  command  of  the  corps  on  the  Maryland  campaign.  General 
side  having  charge  of  the  right  wing  of  the  Army,  which  was  composed  of  the  Firs 
Ninth  Corps.     General  Willcox  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  Stevens' 
while  the  Second  and  Third  Divisions  were  commanded,  respectively,  by  Generals 
Rodman.     During  this  campaign  Cox's  Kanawha  Division  was  temporarily  attached  tot 
corps.     The  command  had  also  been  greatly  strengthened  by  the  accession  of  several  n« 


82  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

regiments,  just  organized  under  the  recent  call  for  troops,  and  its  four  divisions  now  numbered 
29  regiments,  and  5  batteries,  with  13,819  present  for  duty,  including  the  non-combatants. 

The  battle  of  South  Mountain  was  fought  wholly  by  Burnside's  two  corps,  the  Ninth 
Corps  losing  157  killed,  691  wounded,  and  41  missing  ;  total,  889.  The  loss  in  the  First  Corps 
was  about  the  same.  General  Reno  was  killed  in  this  action,  upon  which  General  Cox  suc 
ceeded  to  his  command.  At  Antietam  the  corps  lost  438  killed,  1,796  wounded,  and  115 
missing  ;  total,  2,349,  out  of  about  8,500  in  action.  General  Rodman  was  among  the  mortally 
wounded.  In  October,  Cox's  Division  returned  to  West  Virginia,  whence  it  had  been  with 
drawn  to  reenforce  Pope,  and  its  brief  connection  with  the  corps  terminated.  This  division 
had  made  a  brilliant  record  by  its  gallant  services  at  South  Mountain  and  Antietam. 

Upon  the  departure  of  General  Cox  the  command  of  the  corps  fell  to  General  Willcox. 
General  W.  W.  Burns  was  appointed  to  fill  the  vacancy  thus  caused  in  the  First  Division,  and 
General  George  W.  Getty  was  placed  in  command  of  the  Third  Division,  formerly  Rodman's. 
On  November  5,  1862,  General  Burnside  was  made  commander-in-chief  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac. 

At  Fredericksburg,  the  casualty  lists  indicate  that  the  corps  took  into  action  31  regiments 
and  5  batteries,  with  a  loss  of  111  killed,  1,067  wounded,  and  152  missing  ;  total,  1,330.  Not 
long  after  this  battle  General  Sedg wick  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  corps,  and  General 
Willcox  returned  to  the  command  of  his  division,  relieving  General  Burns.  On  February  5, 
1863,  Sedgwick  was  succeeded  by  General  W.  F.  Smith,  and  on  the  12th  the  corps  was  ordered 
to  Newport  News,  where  it  was  pleasantly  encamped  for  a  month.  General  Smith's  stay  with 
the  corps  was  of  short  duration,  for  he  was  succeeded  in  the  following  month  by  General  John 
G.  Parke.  While  at  Newport  News,  Getty's  (3d)  Division  was  detached  and  ordered  to  Suffolk, 
N.  C.,  where  it  was  subsequently  incorporated  in  the  Seventh  Corps.  It  never  rejoined  its  old 
command,  although,  in  1864,  one  of  its  regiments,  the  Fourth  Rhode  Island,  was  restored  to 
the  Ninth  Corps. 

In  the  meantime,  General  Burnside  had  been  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Department 
of  Ohio,  a  district  which  included  Kentucky  and  East  Tennessee.  He  obtained  permission  for 
the  transfer  of  his  old  corps  to  this  field  of  operations,  and,  so,  on  the  19th  of  March,  1863, 
General  Parke  was  ordered  to  proceed  there  with  his  two  remaining  divisions,  Willcox's  and 
Sturgis's.  Just  prior  to  the  departure  from  Virginia,  General  Sturgis  was  relieved,  and  General 
Robert  B.  Potter  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Second  Division.  The  Ninth  Corps 
was  stationed  in  Kentucky  for  two  months,  during  which  it  served  as  an  army  of  occupation, 
its  pleasant  quarters  and  light  duty  making  it  the  most  enjoyable  period  within  its  experience. 
In  June  it  was  ordered  to  the  support  of  Grant,  who  was  then  besieging  Vicksburg,  and  pro 
ceeding  there  promptly,  it  participated  in  the  investment  of  that  place,  although  not  under 
fire.  Upon  the  surrender  of  Vicksburg,  Parke's  two  divisions  joined  the  main  army  in  its 
movement  on  Jackson,  and  became  engaged  in  the  fighting  there,  with  a  loss  of  34  killed,  229 
wounded,  and  28  missing  ;  total,  291.  The  First  Division  was  then  under  command  of  General 
Thomas  Welsh,  General  Willcox  having  been  assigned  to  duty  in  Indiana.  Although  the 
Vicksburg  campaign  had  not  cost  the  corps  the  bloody  tribute  exacted  in  previous  campaigns, 
still  it  was  no  less  destructive  of  life,  as  disease  made  fearful  inroads  in  the  ranks.  Among 
those  who  succumbed  to  the  deadly  malaria  of  the  Vicksburg  camps,  was  General  Welsh, 
who,  soon  after,  went  home  to  die. 

The  corps  left  Mississippi  in  August,  1863,  and  returned  to  Kentucky,  where,  after  a  short 
rest,  it  joined  in  Burnside's  advance  into  East  Tennessee,  a  movement  which  had  already  been 
commenced.  The  two  divisions  were  now  reduced  to  about  6,000  men.  General  Parke  having 
been  made  chief  of  staff  of  the  Army  of  the  Ohio,  General  Robert  B.  Potter  succeeded  to  the 
command  of  the  corps,  with  Generals  Hartrauf  t  and  Ferrero  in  command  of  the  two  divisions. 


THE  NINTH  COUPS.  *:i 

Ferrero's  Division  had  a  sharp  littlo  fight  at  Blue  Springs,  Tenn.,  October  10,  1863,  and  the 
whole  corps  was  engaged,  November  Itith,  at  Campbell's  Station.  This  was  followed  by  the 
occupation  of  Knoxville  and  the  gallant  defence  against  Longstreet's  forces,  terminating, 
December  5th,  in  the  defeat  and  withdrawal  of  the  enemy.  The  campaign  in  East  Tennessee 
was  a  memorable  one  by  reason  of  the  Siege  of  Knoxville,  and  the  unparalleled  privations 
endured  by  the  men.  General  \Villcox  resumed  command  of  the  corps  on  January  17,  18«4, 
relieving  General  Potter  ;  on  the  2l»th,  Parke  relieved  \Villcox,  who  then  took  command  of 
the  Second  Division. 

General  Bnrnside  was  again  assigned  to  duty  as  commander  of  his  old  corps,  which 
was  ordered  to  repair  to  Annapolis,  Md.,  for  reorganization.  In  April,  the  corps  was  assem 
bled  there,  and  was  comi>osed  of  the  four  divisions  of  Stevenson,  Potter,  Willcox,  and 
Ferrero,  the  latter  division  being  composed  wholly  of  colored  troops.  The  corps  numbered 
19,331,  present  for  duty,  with  42  pieces  of  field  artillery  ;  but  this  number  was  soon  increased, 
the  return  of  May  10th  showing  a  strength  of  22, 70S.  In  addition  to  the  four  divisions,  with 
their  two  batteries  each,  there  was  a  brigade  of  reserve  artillery  of  (5  batteries,  and,  also,  a 
provisional  brigade  of  heavy  artillerymen  and  dismounted  cavalry.  In  all,  there  were  42 
regiments  of  foot,  and  14  batteries  of  light  artillery.  Ferrero's  Colored  Division  had  never 
been  under  fire,  while  many  of  the  white  regiments  in  the  corps  were  newly  organized,  or 
had  served  previously  on  garrison  duty  only.  In  the  ranks  of  the  old  regiments  were  many 
recruits  and  conscripts. 

In  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness  the  corps  lost  240  killed,  1,232  wounded,  Ids  missing ; 
total,  1,640;  and,  at  Spotsylvania,  48(J  killed,  2, 119  wounded,  4»59  missing;  total,  3,146; 
the  heaviest  loss  at  Spotsylvania  occurring  in  the  action  of  May  12th.  General  Stevenson 
was  killed  at  Spotsylvania,  May  10th,  and  Major-General  Thomas  L.  Crittenden,  formerly 
commander  of  the  Twenty-first  Corps,  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  Stevenson's  (1st) 
Division.  During  the  Wilderness  campaign,  prior  to  the  battle  of  the  North  Anna,  the 
Ninth  Corps  was  not  included  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  but  was  a  separate,  independent 
command,  reporting  directly  to  General  Grant.  This  proved  to  l>e  a  faulty  arrangement, 
and,  so,  General  Burnside,  with  General  Parke,  his  chief -of -staff,  waived  the  question  of  their 
superiority  of  rank  over  General  Meade,  in  order  that  the  corps  might  serve  under  that 
officer  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  At  Burnside's  suggestion,  an  order  was  issued  by 
General  Grant,  on  May  25th,  incorporating  the  Ninth  Corps  with  the  main  Army. 

On  the  9th  of  June,  while  at  Cold  Harbor,  General  Crittenden  was  relieved  at  his  own 
request,  and  General  Ledlie  was  placed  in  command  of  the  First  Division.  In  the  first 
assault  on  Petersburg,  June  17th,  the  corps  made  a  brilliant  attack,  Potter's  Division  gaining 
possession  of  the  works ;  unfortunately,  the  division  was  obliged  to  relinquish  its  foothold 
for  want  of  proper  support.  The  corps  was  engaged  in  a  similar  attempt  on  the  following 
day,  the  losses  in  Potter's  and  Willcox's  Divisions  being  unusually  severe  in  proportion  to  the 
number  engaged.  Loss,  497  killed,  2,232  wounded,  and  202  missing  ;  total,  2,991. 

The  enemy's  works  proving  too  strong  for  assault,  the  army  intrenched  itself  prepara 
tory  to  the  ten  months  siege  which  followed.     On  June  19th,  Ferrero's  (4th)  Division  of  colored 
troops  rejoined  the  corps,  having   been  absent  during  the  whole  of   the  previous  campaign, 
engaged  on  duty  at  the  rear.     Ferrero's  men  were  now  placed  in  the  trenches  with 
three  divisions.     The  part  of  the  line  occupied  by  the  Ninth  Corps  was  very  near  the  enemy 
works,  and  an  incessant  firing  was  kept  up  during  the  siege,  resulting  in  a  daily  loss  of  mei 
killed  or  wounded.     While  there  was  a  comparative  quiet  in  front  of  the  other  corps  IK 
tions,  the  men  of  the  Ninth  were  subjected  to  the  terrible  strain  of  a  constant  watchfulne 
and  deadly  exposure.     The  enemy  seemed  to  l>e  excited  to  an  undue  activity  by  the  present 
of  Ferrero's  Colored  Division. 


S-i  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

The  Ninth  Corps  was  prominently  connected  with  the  siege,  by  reason  of  the  immense 
mine  which  was  dug  from  within  and  in  front  of  its  line.  This  mine,  which  was  excavated 
by  the  48th  Pennsylvania,  of  Potter's  Division,  was  successfully  exploded,  but  the  assault 
Avhich  followed  was  a  failure.  During  this  assault  Ferrero's  colored  regiments  went  into 
action  and  fought  well,  acquitting  themselves  creditably  ;  their  failure,  like  that  of  the  white 
regiments  in  this  affair,  resulted  from  causes  outside  of  the  regiments  themselves.  The  loss 
in  the  Ninth  Corps  at  the  mine,  was  473  killed,  1,646  wounded,  1,356  missing  ;  total,  3,475. 
Immediately  after  this  engagement,  General  Ledlie  was  relieved  from  command  of  the  First 
Division,  and  General  Julius  White,  of  the  Twenty-third  Corps,  was  assigned  to  Ledlie's  place. 

On  the  13th  of  August,  1864,  General  Burnside  was  granted  a  leave  of  absence  ;  he  never 
rejoined  the  corps,  but  was  succeeded  by  General  Parke,  who  remained  in  command  until  the 
close  of  the  war.  At  the  battle  of  the  Weldon  Railroad,  August  19-21,  1864,  the  three  divis 
ions  of  White,  Potter,  and  Willcox  were  engaged  with  considerable  loss,  although  the  three 
combined  numbered  less  than  6,000  muskets  ;  casualties,  60  killed,  315  wounded,  and  218 
missing.  By  this  time  the  divisions  had  become  so  reduced  in  numbers  that  a  reorganization 
of  the  corps  became  necessary,  and  so  the  regiments  in  White's  Division  were  transferred  to 
the  divisions  of  Potter  and  Willcox.  Under  this  arrangement  Willcox's  Division  was  num 
bered  as  the  First ;  Potter's,  as  the  Second  ;  Ferrero's  colored  troops  were  designated  as  the 
Third  Division.  But,  in  December,  Ferrero's  Division  was  permanently  detached,  and  most 
of  his  regiments  were  transferred  to  the  newly-organized  Twenty-fifth  Corps,  which  was 
composed  entirely  of  colored  troops.  General  Ferrero,  himself,  was  assigned  to  a  provisional 
command  at  Bermuda  Hundred. 

The  vacancy  caused  by  detaching  Ferrero's  Division  was  filled  by  six  new  regiments  of 
Pennsylvanians  —  one-year  men  —  organized  into  a  division  of  two  brigades,  the  command 
of  which  was  given  to  General  John  F.  Hartranft.  This  division  rendered  gallant  service  at 
Fort  Stedman,  and  Hartranft  added  to  his  laurels  by  the  ability  displayed  at  that  critical 
juncture. 

The  morning  report  for  March  31,  1865,  showed  a  corps  strength  of  18,153,  "present  for 
duty,  equipped,"  and  36  pieces  of  light  artillery.  With  this  force  the  Ninth  Corps  entered  upon 
the  final  campaign,  taking  a  prominent  part  in  the  storming  of  Petersburg,  April  2,  1865, 
which  resulted  in  the  evacuation  of  Richmond  and  the  downfall  of  the  Confederacy.  The 
corps  was  not  only  among  the  foremost  in  this  brilliant  assault,  but  its  flags  were  the  first  to 
wave  over  the  public  buildings  of  Petersburg.  This  was  the  last  battle  in  which  the  corps 
participated,  and  on  July  27,  1865,  the  existence  of  the  Ninth  Corps  was  officially  terminated. 


TENTH  CORPS. 

JAMES  ISLAND  ;  POCOTALIGO  ;  MORRIS  ISLAND  ;  FORT  WAGNER  ;  OLUSTEE  ;  WALTHALL 
JUNCTION  ;  CHESTER  STATION  ;  PROCTOR'S  CREEK  ;  DREWRY'S  BLUFF  ;  COLD  HARBOR  ;  BER 
MUDA  HUNDRED  ;  WARE  BOTTOM  CHURCH  ;  PETERSBURG  ;  STRAWBERRY  PLAINS  ;  DEEP  BOT 
TOM  ;  CHAFFIN'S  FARM  ;  NEW  MARKET  ROAD  ;  DARBYTOWN  ROAD  ;  CHARLES  CITY  ROAD  ; 
FAIR  OAKS  (1864);  FORT  FISHER;  SUGAR  LOAF  BATTERY  ;  FORT  ANDERSON;  WILMINGTON. 

Organized  under  General  Orders  No.  123,  September  3,  1862,  which  designated  the  forces 
in  the  Department  of  the  South  as  the  Tenth  Army  Corps,  and  assigned  Major-General  0. 
M.  Mitchelto  its  command.  These  troops  were  stationed  principally  at  Hilton  Head,  S.  C., 
and  Beaufort,  S.  C.,  the  order  including  also  the  troops  at  Fort  Pulaski,  Ga.,  Key  West,  Fla., 
Femandina,  Fla.,  and  St.  Augustine,  Fla.  ;  in  all,  14,602,  present  and  absent,  with  10,190 


THK  TKNTII  (.'OKI'S.  85 

pi-csent  for  duty.     There  were  14  regiments  of  infantry,  1  of  engineei-s,  a  battalion  of  cavalry, 
and  the  usual  compliment  of  light  batteries. 

General  Mitchel  died,  October  30,  1802,  and  was  succeeded  by  General  J.  M.  Brannun.  In 
January,  1863,  General  David  Hunter  relieved  Brannnn,  and  assumed  command  of  the 
department;  Hunter  was  relieved  on  June  3,  1803,  and  General  Quiney  A.  Gillmore  was 
assigned  to  the  command  of  the  corps.  The  total,  present  for  duty,  in  June,  1803,  was  10*3:2!), 
including  artillery  and  cavalry.  The  troops  at  Hilton  Head  were  commanded  by  General 
Alfred  H.  Terry  ;  those  on  Folly  Island,  by  General  Israel  Vogdes  ;  those  at  Beaufort,  by 
General  Rufus  Saxton  ;  at  Seabrook  Island,  by  General  T.  J.  Stevenson  ;  at  St.  Helena  Island, 
by  Colonel  H.  R.  Guss. 

These  forces  were  all  under  General  Gillmore,  and  participated  in  the  various  operations 
about  Charleston  Harbor  in  the  summer  of  1803,  the  principal  event  being  the  bloody  assault 
on  Fort  Wagner,  July  18,  1803.  This  assault  was  made  by  a  column  of  three  brigades,  - 
Strong's,  Putnam's,  and  Stevenson's,  the  whole  undor  command  of  General  Truman  H.  Sey 
mour.  General  Strong's  brigade  led  the  assault,  with  the  54th  Massachusetts  (Colored)  at  the 
head  of  his  column.  The  attack  was  a  failure,  resulting  in  a  loss  of  '240  killed,  880  wounded, 
and  389  missing  ;  total,  1,51").  The  most  of  the  missing  were  killed  or  wounded,  but  few  of 
them  ever  returning.  To  this  loss  should  be  added  330  casualties,  which  occurred  in  an  attack 
on  Fort  Wagner,  July  llth,  a  week  before,  an  attempt  made  by  three  regiments  only.  Two 
of  the  three  brigade  commanders,  General  Strong  and  Colonel  Putnam,  were  killed  in  the 
assault  of  the  18th,  Putnam  falling  after  he  had  effected  an  entrance  into  the  fort.  Steven 
son's  Brigade  was  held  mainly  in  reserve. 

In  February,  1804,  Seymour's  Division,  of  about  7,000  men,  sailed  for  Florida,  where  it 
was  engaged  on  the  20th  in  the  battle  of  Olustee,  a  defeat  in  which  some  of  the  regiments 
suffered  terribly.  In  April,  1804,  the  Tenth  Corps  was  ordered  to  Virginia,  where  it  was 
placed  in  General  Butler's  Army  of  the  James,  which  was  composed  of  the  Tenth  and 
Eighteenth  Corps.  The  Tenth  assembled  at  Yorktown,  Va.,  where  it  was  organized  into  the 
three  divisions  of  Terry,  Turner,  and  Ames,  numbering,  as  present  for  duty,  10,812  infantry, 
and  1,114  artillerymen,  with  40  guns. 

The  Army  of  the  James  landed  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  May  0,  1804,  and  a  month  of  active 
service  and  bard  fighting  immediately  commenced,  the  Tenth  Corps  losing  in  its  operations 
around  Drewry's  Bluff,  374  killed,  2,475  wounded,  and  8o7  missing  ;  total,  3,050.  Butler's 
operations  resulting  in  nothing  but  failures,  General  Grant  ordered  the  greater  part  of  his  forces 
to  the  support  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  Accordingly,  on  the  2i»th  of  May,  General  W. 
F.  Smith,  commanding  the  Eighteenth  Corps,  took  the  First  (Brooks')  and  Second  (Martin- 
dale's)  Divisions  of  his  own  corps,  and  the  Second  (Devens')  and  Third  (Ames')  Divisions  of 
the  Tenth  Corps,  and  proceeded  to  Cold  Harbor,  where  these  divisions  cooperated  with  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  in  the  terrible  fight  ing  which  commenced  immediately  upon  their  arrival . 
While  at  Cold  Harbor,  these  two  divisions  of  the  Tenth  Corps  were  known  as  part  of  the 
Eighteenth  Corps,  forming  the  Third  Division,  under  command  of  General  Devens.  Upon  the 
close  of  the  fighting  at  Cold  Harbor,  the  two  divisions  returned  by  water  transports  to 
Bermuda  Hundred,  but  consolidated  as  the  Second  Division.  Tenth  A.  ('. 

On  the  14th  of  August,  the  Tenth  Corps,  under  command  of  General  David  B.  Birney, 
crossed  the  James  and  became  engaged  with  the  enemy  at  Deep  Bottom,  General  Terry 't 
division  taking  a  prominent  part  in  this  action.  The  casualties  in  the  corps  were  :  213  killed, 
1,154  wounded,  311  missing  ;  total,  1,078.  On  Septemlier  2!>th,  Birney  crossed  again  with  his 
corps,  and  fought  at  Chaffin's  Farm,  his  command  consisting  of  Terry's  and  Ames' divisions, 
together  with  a  brigade  of  colored  troops,  under  General  William  Birney.  Loss  :  74  killed, 
587  wounded,  302  missing ;  total,  003.  In  the  unsuccessful  attack  on  Fort  Gilmer,  and  at 

»A  division  of  Ohio  troopa  -  hundred^)-*'  men  -  was  attached  temporarily  to  the  oori*  on  June  1U.  1864,  n  •  Third  Division. 


86  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Newmarket  heights,  these  colored  troops  displayed  great  gallantry.  General  David  B.  Birney 
died  at  Philadelphia,  October  18,  1861,  and  was  succeeded  by  General  Terry,  who  was  in 
command  of  the  corps  during  the  fighting  on  the  Darbytown  Eoad,  and  at  the  battle  of  Fair 
Oaks,  October  27,  1864. 

On  December  3,  1864,  the  corps  was  discontinued,  and  its  regiments  were  assigned  to  the 
newly  formed  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  which  was  composed  of  the  white  troops  from  the  Tenth 
and  Eighteenth  Corps.  But  immediately  after  this  transfer,  Ames'  Division,  together  with 
Abbott's  Brigade  of  this  new  corps,  were  detached  and  ordered  on  the  Fort  Fisher  expedition. 
After  the  brilliant  capture  of  Fort  Fisher  by  these  troops,  they  remained  in  North  Carolina, 
and,  in  March,  1865,  the  Tenth  Corps  was  revived.  As  reorganized,  it  consisted  of  Birge's 
(1st)  Division,  composed  of  three  brigades  taken  from  Grover's  Division  of  the  Nineteenth 
Corps,  then  stationed  at  Savannah  ;  of  Ames'  (2nd)  Division,  composed  of  the  troops  which 
fought  at  Fort  Fisher  ;  of  Paine's  (3d)  Division,  colored  troops  ;  and  of  Abbott's  Separate 
Brigade,  numbering  in  all  12,099  men.  General  Terry,  who  was  in  command  at  the  victory 
of  Fort  Fisher,  was  placed  at  the  head  of  the  corps.  But  the  war  was  then  near  its  close, 
and  in  August,  1865,  the  organization  was  discontinued. 

ELEVENTH  CORPS. 

MCDOWELL  ;  CROSS  KEYS  ;  CEDAR  MOUNTAIN  ;  FREEMAN'S  FORD  ;  SULPHUR  SPRINGS  ; 
MANASSAS  ;  CHANCELLORSVILLE  ;  GETTYSBURG  ;  WAUHATCHIE  ;  LOOKOUT  MOUNTAIN  ;  MIS 
SIONARY  RIDGE. 

On  June  26,  1862,  President  Lincoln  ordered  that  "the  troops  of  the  Mountain  Depart 
ment,  heretofore  under  command  of  General  Fremont,  shall  constitute  the  First  Army  Corps, 
under  the  command  of  General  Fremont."  The  corps  thus  formed  was,  for  the  most  part,  the 
same  as  the  one  afterwards  known  as  the  Eleventh  Corps,  and  within  a  short  time  it  was 
officially  designated  as  such.  This  order  of  President  Lincoln  was  included  in  the  one  con 
stituting  Pope's  Army  of  Virginia,  which  was  formed  from  the  three  commands  of  Fremont, 
Banks,  and  McDowell.  Fremont's  troops  had  seen  considerable  service  in  Western  Virginia, 
having  done  some  hard  fighting  at  McDowell,  and  at  Cross  Keys.  General  Franz  Sigel 
succeeded  to  Fremont's  command  on  June  29,  1862,  and  was  in  command  at  Manassas,  where 
the  corps  encountered  more  hard  fighting,  losing  295  killed,  1,361  wounded,  and  431  missing  ; 
total,  2,087.  At  this  time  the  three  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals  Scheiick,  Von 
Stein wehr,  and  Schurz  ;  there  was,  also,  an  independent  brigade  attached,  under  command  of 
General  Milroy. 

By  General  Orders  No.  129,  September  12,  1862,  its  designation  was  changed  to  that  of 
the  Eleventh,  a  necessary  change,  as  McDowell's  command  had  resumed  its  original  title  of 
the  First  Army  Corps.  During  General  McClellaii's  Maryland  campaign,  and  during  the"  fall 
of  1862,  the  Eleventh  Corps  remained  in  Northern  Virginia,  in  front  of  Washington,  occupy 
ing  various  important  outposts  in  the  vicinity  of  Centreville.  In  December,  it  marched  to 
Fredericksburg  in  support  of  Burnside,  but  was  not  present  at  the  battle,  after  which  it  went 
into  winter-quarters  at  Stafford,  Va.  General  Sigel  having  asked  to  be  relieved,  General  0. 
0.  Howard  was  appointed  in  his  place. 

General  Howard  commanded  the  corps  at  Chancellorsville,  May  1-3,  1863,  at  which  time 
it  numbered  12,169  effectives,  and  was  composed  of  the  divisions  of  Generals  Deveiis,  Von 
Stein  wehr,  and  Schurz.  It  contained  27  regiments  of  infantry,  of  which  13  were  German 
regiments.  The  men  of  the  Eleventh  Corps  were  good  soldiers, —for  the  most  part  tried  and 
veteran  troops,  and  were  in  no  way  responsible  for  the  disaster  which  befell  them  at  Chan 
cellorsville.  Their  commander  in  that  battle  allowed  himself  to  be  surprised.  He  was  not 


TllK    TWELFTH    C 'OKI'S.  S7 

only  surprised,  but  he  had  made  a  very  faulty  disposition  of  his  troops.  The  men  were  not 
only  attacked  without  a  warning  shot,  but  were  taken  at  a  terrible  disadvantage.  Anything 
beyond  a  brief  resistance  was  impossible,  and  they  were  obliged  to  abandon  their  |>ositicm  as 
any  other  corps  must  have  done  under  the  same  circumstances.  Still,  some  of  the  brigades 
changed  front  under  the  attack,  and  made  a  gallant  resistance  for  over  an  hour,  seriously 
retarding  the  enemy's  onset,  after  which  they  retired  slowly  and  in  good  order.  The  loss  of 
the  corps  at  Chancellorsville  was  217  killed,  1,218  wounded,  and  1)72  captured  or  missing  ; 
total,  2,407. 

At  Gettysburg  the  corps  was  still  under  the  command  of  Howard;  the  divisions  were 
under  Generals  Barlow,  Stein  web  r,  and  Schurx,  and  contained  26  regiments  of  infantry 
and  5  batteries.  It  was  engaged,  in  company  with  the  First  Corps,  in  the  battle  of  the 
first  day,  and,  on  the  second  day,  it  participated  in  the  gallant  defence  of  Cemetery  Hill. 
On  the  day  before  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  the  corps  reported  1<>,576  officers  and  men  for 
duty;  its  loss  in  that  battle  was  368  killed,  l,l>22  wounded,  and  1,511  captured  or  missing; 
total,  3,801,  out  of  less  than  0,000  engaged. 

It  accompanied  the  Army  on  the  return  to  Virginia  after  Gettysburg,  and,  on  August 
7th,  the  First  Division  (Schimmelfennig's)  was  permanently  detached,  having  lx»en  ordered 
to  Charleston  Harbor.  On  the  24th  of  September,  the  Second  and  Third  divisions  (Stein- 
wehr's  and  Schurz')  were  ordered  to  Tennessee,  together  with  the  Twelfth  Corps.  These 
two  corps,  numbering  over  20,000  men,  were  transported,  within  a  week,  over  1,200  miles, 
and  placed  on  the  banks  of  the  Tennessee  River,  at  Bridgeport,  without  an  accident  or  deten 
tion. 

During  the  following  month,  on  October  2Sth,  Howard's  two  divisions  were  ordered  to 
the  support  of  the  Twelfth  Corps,  in  the  midnight  battle  at  Wauhatchie,  Tenn.  Arriving 
there,  Smith's  Brigade  of  Steinwehr's  Division  charged  up  a  steep  hill  in  the  face  of  the 
enemy,  receiving  but  not  returning  the  fire,  and  drove  Longstreet's  veterans  out  of  their 
Entrenchments,  using  the  bayonet  alone.  Some  of  the  regiments  in  this  affair  suffered  a 
severe  loss,  but  their  extraordinary  gallantry  won  extravagant  expressions  of  praise  from 
various  generals,  high  in  rank,  including  General  Grant.  A  part  of  the  Eleventh  Corps  was 
also  actively  engaged  at  Missionary  Ridge,  where  it  cooperated  with  Sherman's  forces  on  the 
left.  After  this  battle  it  was  ordered  to  East  Tennessee  for  the  relief  of  Knoxville,  a  cam 
paign  whose  hardships  and  privations  exceeded  anything  within  the  previous  experience  of 
the  command. 

In  April,  1864,  the  two  divisions  of  the  Eleventh  Corps  were  broken  up  .and  transferred 
to  the  newly-formed  Twentieth  Corps.  General  Howard  was  transferred  to  the  command  of 
the  Fourth  Corps,  and,  subsequently,  was  honored  by  a  promotion  to  the  command  of  the 
Army  of  the  Tennessee. 

TWELFTH    CORPS. 

WINCHESTER  ;  PORT  REPUBLIC  ;  CEDAR  MOUNTAIN  :  MANASSAS  :  ANTIETAM  ;  CHAN 
CELLORSVILLE  ;  GETTYSBURG  ;  WAUHATCHIE  ;  LOOKOUT  MOUNTAIN  ;  MISSIONARY  RIDGE  ;  RING- 
GOLD. 

The  corps  that  never  lost  a  color  or  a  gun.  When  its  designation  was  changed  to  the 
Twentieth,  it  still  preserved  unbroken  the  same  grand  record.  The  veteran  divisions  of 
Williams  and  Geary  wore  their  star-badges  through  all  the  bloody  battles  of  the  Atlanta 
campaign  and  the  Carolinas,  and  still  kept  their  proud  claim  good,  marching  northward 
to  the  grand  review  with  the  same  banners  that  had  waved  at  Antietam  and  Lookout 


88  EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Mountain  ;  -with  the  same  cannon  which  had  thundered  on  the  battle-fields  of  seven  states. 
None  were  missing.. 

The  organization  of  the  Twelfth  Corps  may  be  considered  as  dating  from  the  General 
Order  of  March  13,  1862,  under  which  the  corps  formation  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  was 
first  created.  By  that  order,  five  different  corps  were  constituted,  one  of  which,  composed 
of  the  divisions  of  Williams  and  Shields,  and  commanded  by  General  Banks,  was  designated 
as  the  Fifth.  These  divisions  were  then  operating  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  On  the  26th 
of  June,  the  President  ordered  that  "the  troops  of  the  Shenandoah  Department,  now  under 
General  Banks,  shall  constitute  the  Second  Army  Corps"  of  the  Army  of  Virginia.  On 
September  12th,  General  Order  129,  it  was  ordered  that  its  designation  be  changed  to  that  of 
the  Twelfth  Corps,  and  that  General  Joseph  K.  Mansfield  be  placed  in  command. 

In  the  meantime  the  corps  had  done  considerable  hard  fighting  under  its  former  title. 
Shields'  Division  won  a  brilliant  victory  over  Stonewall  Jackson  at  Kernstown,  Va. ,  on  the 
23d  of  March,  and  Williams'  Division  fought  well  at  Winchester,  May  25th,  while  oil  Banks' 
retreat.  The  battle  of  Cedar  Mountain  was  also  fought  by  this  corps,  alone  and  unassisted  ; 
and,  although  defeated  by  the  overwhelming  force  of  the  enemy,  the  record  shows  that  the 
two  divisions  did  there  some  of  the  best  fighting  of  the  War.  In  that  battle  the  divisions 
were  commanded  by  Generals  Williams  and  Augur  ;  loss,  302  killed,  1,320  wounded,  and  594 
missing  ;  total,  2,216,  out  of  less  than  6,000  engaged.  This  loss  fell  on  four  brigades,  Craw 
ford's  Brigade  losing  867  men  out  of  1679,  reported  by  Crawford  as  "present  in  engagement." 
At  Manassas  the  corps  was  held  in  reserve. 

It  participated  in  the  Antietam  campaign  under  its  proper  designation,  as  the  Twelfth 
Corps,  with  the  veteran  Mansfield  in  command.  Its  division  and  brigade  organization  was 
the  same  as  at  Cedar  Mountain  ;  General  George  S.  Greene  had  succeeded  General  Augur  in 
the  command  of  the  Second  Division.  Its  depleted  columns  had  been  strengthened  by  the 
accession  of  five  new  regiments  of  volunteers,  fresh  from  the  North,  three  of  which  were 
composed  of  Pennsylvanians,  enlisted  for  nine  mouths  only.  The  corps  now  numbered  12,300 
present  for  duty,  including  the  non-combatants  ;  it  contained  22  regiments  of  infantry,  and  3 
batteries  of  light  artillery.  It  was  the  smallest  corps  in  the  Army. 

It  was  not  engaged  at  South  Mountain,  although  it  marched  thither  in  plain  view  of  the 
battle  which  was  raging  on  the  mountain's  side,  ahead  of  its  dusty  columns.  '  At  Antietam, 
it  entered  the  fight  early  in  the  morning,  and  carried  a  position  near,  and  in  front  of,  the 
Dunker  Church.  General  Mansfield  fell,  mortally  wounded,  while  deploying  his  columns,  and 
the  command  of  the  corps  during  the  battle  devolved  on  General  Williams.  The  two  divisions 
lost  in  this  battle,  275  killed,  1,386  wounded,  and  85  missing  ;  total,  1,746,  out  of  about  8,000 
present  in  action. 

The  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  General  Mansfield  was  filled  by  the  appointment  of 
Major-General  Henry  W.  Slocum,  a  division  general  of  the  Sixth  Corps,  who  had  already 
achieved  a  brilliant  reputation  by  his  services  on  the  Peninsula,  and  at  the  successful  storming 
of  Crampton's  Gap.  The  Twelfth  Corps  remained  in  the  vicinity  of  Harper's  Ferry  until 
December,  when  it  moved  into  Virginia,  and  made  its  winter-quarters  at  Stafford  Court  House. 

The  brunt  of  the  battle  of  Chancellorsville  fell  on  the  Third  and  Twelfth  Corps  ;  and  yet 
amid  all  the  rout  and  confusion  of  that  disastrous  battle  the  regiments  of  the  Twelfth  Corps 
moved  steadily  with  unbroken  fronts,  retiring  at  the  close  of  the  battle  without  the  loss  of  a 
color,  while  the  corps'  artillery,  after  having  been  engaged  in  the  close  fighting  at  the  Chan 
cellor  House,  withdrew  in  good  order,  taking  every  gun  with  them.  In  this  campaign 
Slocum's  troops  were  the  first  to  cross  the  Rapidan,  and  the  last  to  re-cross  the  Rappahannock. 
The  corps  at  this  time  contained  30  regiments  of  infantry,  with  5  batteries  of  light  artillery, 
numbering  in  all  12,929  present  for  duty,  Its  losses  at  Chancellorsville  amounted  to  260 


THK  TWELFTH  COUPS.  -:» 

killed,  MM  wounded,  and  1,118  missing;  total,  2,814.  The  hardest  fighting  and  heaviest 
losses  fell  on  Ruger's  and  Candy's  brigades.  The  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals 
Williams  and  Geary. 

At  Gettysburg,  the  Twelfth  Corps  distinguished  itself  by  its  gallant  defence  of  Culp's 
Hill.  At  one  time  during  the  battle,  the  corps  having  been  ordered  to  reenforee  a  distant  part 
of  the  line,  Greene's  Brigade,  of  Geary's  Division,  was  left  behind  to  hold  this  important 
point.  While  occupying  this  position  on  Culp's  Hill,  with  no  other  troops  in  support,  Greene 
was  attacked  by  Johnson's  Division,  but  the  attack  was  successfully  repulsed.  The  details  of 
this  particular  action  form  an  interesting  chapter  in  the  history  of  the  war.  Still,  some  of 
Johnson's  troops  effected,  without  opposition,  a  lodgment  in  the  vacated  breastworks  of  the 
Twelfth  Corps,  and  upon  the  return  of  those  troops  a  desperate  battle  ensued  to  drive  tho 
Confederates  out.  After  a  long,  hard  tight  the  corps  succeeded  in  re-occupying  its  works. 
On  no  part  of  the  field  did  the  Confederate  dead  lie  thicker  than  in  front  of  the  Twelfth  Corps 
position.  Johnson's  Division,  containing  22  regiments,  lost  in  this  particular  action,  221»  killed, 
1,269  wounded,  and  375  missing  ;  total,  1,873.*  To  this  must  be  added  whatever  loss  occurred 
in  Smith's,  Daniel's,  and  O'Xeil's  brigade,  —  containing  14  regiments, —  which  were  sent  to 
Johnson's  support.  The  Twelfth  Corps,  containing  28  regiments,  lost  204  killed,  810  wounded, 
and  G7  missing  ;  total,  1,081.  General  Slocum  was  in  command  of  the  right  wing  at  Gettys 
burg,  which  left  General  A.  S.  Williams,  of  the  First  Division,  in  command  of  the  corps  ; 
General  Thos.  H.  Ruger  of  the  Third  Brigade,  First  Division,  took  Williams'  place  as  com 
mander  of  the  "Red  Star*'  Division  ;  -General  Geary  commanded  the  "White  Star,"  or  Second 
Division. 

The  Army  followed  Lee  into  Virginia,  the  Twelfth  Corps  joining  in  the  pursuit,  and 
pushing  forward  until  it  reached  the  Rappahannock.  While  encamped  there,  on  the  23d  of 
September,  1863,  the  Eleventh  and  Twelfth  corps  were  detached  from  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  and  ordered  to  Tennessee  as  a  reinforcement  for  Rosecrans.  The  two  corps  were 
placed  under  command  of  General  Hooker.  Arriving  in  Tennessee,  Geary's  Division  moved 
to  the  front,  while  Williams'  Division  was  stationed  along  the  railroad  from  Murfreesboro  to 
Biidgeport.  Geary  pushed  on  in  order  to  effect  a  junction  with  the  beleaguered  army  at 
Chattanooga.  On  the  night  of  Oct.  27th,  his  division,  the  "  White  Stars,"  bivouacked  in  Look 
out  Valley,  in  an  advanced  and  isolated  position,  where  he  was  attacked  at  midnight  by  a 
part  of  Longstreet's  command.  But  Geary  had  taken  proper  precautions  against  surprise, 
and  the  enemy  were  defeated,  Geary  receiving  in  this  affair  a  prompt  and  gallant  support 
from  part  of  the  Eleventh  Corps.  General  Thomas,  commanding  the  Army  of  the  Cumber 
land,  stated  in  his  official  report  that  "the  repulse  by  Geary's  Division  of  greatly  superior 
numbers  who  attempted  to  surprise  him,  will  rank  among  the  most  distinguished  feats  of 
arms  of  this  war." 

The  midnight  battle  of  Wauhatchie  was  followed  in  the  next  month  by  the  brilliant 
victory  at  Lookout  Mountain,  where  the  "  White  Star"  Division  fought  its  famous  battle  above 
the  clouds.  Geary  was  assisted  in  this  engagement  by  Whitaker's  Brigade,  of  the  Fourth 
Corps,  one  of  Whitaker's  regiments,  the  Eighth  Kentucky,  being  the  first  to  plant  its  flag 
on  the  summit  of  the  mountain. 

In  April,  1804,  the  designation  of  the  corps  was  changed  to  that  of  the  Twentieth. 
Generals  Williams  and  Geary  still  retained  command  of  their  divisions,  and  the  men  still 
wore  their  Twelfth  Corps  badge.  This  badge  (the  star)  was  adopted  by  the  reorganized 
corps.  The  new  organization  was  formed  by  the  consolidation  of  the  Eleventh  and  Twelfth 
corps,  to  which  was  added  some  minor  commands.  The  action  of  the  War  Department  in 


*  I'ickutfs  Division  l,m  233  kille  1,  1.157  wounded,  aii.l  1.499  captured  or  niLalug.     (Official  Keport.) 


90  KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

striking  out  the  Twelfth  Corps  number  was  stupid,  unnecessary,  and  unjust.  If  done  out 
of  consideration  for  the  Eleventh,  it  was  a  mistake  ;  for  the  men  of  that  corps  expressed 
themselves  freely  that,  their  own  divisions  having  been  broken  up,  they  would  have  gladly 
taken  the  Twelfth  Corps  title  as  well  as  its  honored  badge.  They  knew  that  corps  ;  they  had 
fought  by  its  side.  They  knew  nothing  of  the  Twentieth. 

Upon  the  discontinuance  of  the  Twelfth  Corps,  General  Slocum  was  assigned  to  the 
command  of  the  District  of  Vicksburg,  but  resumed  the  corps  command— of  the  Twentieth 
Corps  — during  the  Atlanta  campaign,  General  Hooker  having  been  relieved.  Slocum  after 
wards  commanded  the  Army  of  Georgia  while  on  the  March  to  the  Sea,  and  in  the  battles  of 
the  Carolinas.  He  was,  pre-eminently,  one  of  the  ablest  generals  of  the  war  ;  he  made  no 
mistakes  ;  wherever  he  was  in  command,  everything  went  well.  His  troops  had  unbounded 
confidence  in  his  ability,  and  always  went  into  action  with  perfect  confidence  ;  they  felt  that 
with  him,  there  would  be  no  surprise,  no  rout,  no  defeat. 

The  Twelfth  Corps  was  small,  but  was  composed  of  excellent  material.  Among  its 
regiments  were  the  Second  Massachusetts,  Seventh  Ohio,  Fifth  Connecticut,  One  Hundred 
and  Seventh  New  York,  Twenty-eighth  Pennsylvania,  Third  Wisconsin,  and  others  equally 
famous  as  crack  regiments ;  all  of  them  with  names  familiar  as  household  words  in  the 
communities  from  which  they  were  recruited. 

THIRTEENTH  CORPS. 

CHICK  AS  AW  BLUFFS  ;  ARKANSAS  POST  ;  PORT  GIBSON  (MAGNOLIA  HILLS)  ;  CHAMPION'S 
HILL  ;  BIG  BLACK  RIVER  BRIDGE  ;  VICKSBURG  ASSAULT,  MAY  19TH ;  VICKSBURG  ASSAULT, 
MAY  22ND ;  SIEGE  OF  VICKSBURG  ;  SIEGE  OF  JACKSON  ;  HELENA  ;  GRAND  COTEAU  ;  CANE 
RIVER  ;  CLOUTIERSVILLE  ;  SABINE  CROSS  ROADS  ;  SPANISH  FORT  ;  FORT  BLAKELY. 

The  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth  corps  were  the  first  ones  organized  in  the  Western  armies. 
They  were  created  on  the  same  date,  October  24,  1862,  by  General  Order  No.  108,  War  Depart 
ment,  which  ordered  that  "the  troops  under  the  command  of  Major-General  Grant  will 
constitute  the  Thirteenth  Army  Corps."  As  these  troops  included  the  whole  Army  of  the 
Tennessee,  it  became  necessary  to  subdivide  the  corps,  which  was  done  December  18, 1862,  and 
four  organizations,  the  Thirteenth,  Fifteenth,  Sixteenth,  and  Seventeenth  corps  were  accord 
ingly  formed,  with  General  John  A.  McClernand  in  command  of  the  Thirteenth.  In  the 
meantime,  General  Sherman,  with  a  portion  of  the  Thirteenth  Corps,  the  right  wing, 
embarked  at  Memphis  011  the  Yazoo  Expedition,  during  w^hich  he  made  an  unsuccessful 
assault  on  the  outer  works  of  Vicksburg,  at  Chickasa vv  Bluffs.  Loss,  208  killed,  1, 005  wounded, 
and  563  missing;  total,  1,776,  out  of  33  regiments  engaged.  The  forces  consisted  of  the 
divisions  of  Generals  A.  J.  Smith,  Morgan  L.  Smith,  George  W.  Morgan,  and  Frederick 
Steele,  numbering  30,075  men.  The  regiments,  with  a  few  exceptions,  were  under  fire  for 
the  first  time.  There  was  some  close  fighting  done;  "the  flag  of  the  Sixteenth  Ohio  was 
shot  to  tatters,  only  shreds  remaining  on  the  staff ;  and  the  flag  of  the  Twenty-second 
Kentucky  was  scarcely  less  torn,  and  not  less  dripping  with  blood."  -  [Official  Report.] 

In  January,  McClernand  moved  on  an  expedition  against  Arkansas  Post,  taking  with  him 
the  Thirteenth  and  Fifteenth  corps.  He  styled  his  forces,  "the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,"  and 
designated  them  as  the  First  and  Second  corps  of  the  same.  He  placed  General  Morgan  in 
temporary  command  of  his  own  corps  -  -  the  Thirteenth  ;  General  Sherman  was  in  command 
of  the  Fifteenth.  The  Confederate  works  at  Arkansas  Post  were  carried  by  storm,  the  losses 
in  the  Thirteenth  Corps  amounting  to  48  killed,  307  wounded,  and  18  missing  ;  total,  463,  the 
bulk  of  which  fell  on  Burbridge's  Brigade  of  A.  J.  Smith's  Division.  Only  two  divisions 


THF,  THIKTKKXTH  CORPS.  91 

of  the  Thirteenth  Corps — A.   J.  Smith's  and  Osterhaus'-- participated  in  this  expedition. 

Upon  the  opening  of  the  campaign  against  Vicksburg,  May  1,  1863,  the  Thirteenth  Corps 
was  composed  of  the  four  divisions  of  Osterhans,  A.  J.  Smith,  Hovey,  and  Carr  ;  these  were 
also  known,  respectively,  as  the  Ninth,  Tenth,  Twelfth,  and  Fourteenth  Divisions,  having 
l>een  numbered  thus  while  in  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee.  The  corps,  as  thus  comjiosed,  con 
tained  40  regiments  of  infantry,  1 1  hatteries  of  light  artillery,  and  6  companies  of  cavalry  ; 
numbering  in  all  32,648,  present  and  absent,  with  is, 245  present  for  duty.  To  this  should  he 
added  Ross's  (13th)  Division,  stationed  in  Arkansas,  which  also  belonged  to  the  Thirteenth 
Corps,  but  which  did  not  take  part  in  the  Vicksburg  campaign.  This  division  fought  the 
battle  of  Helena,  Ark  ,  July  4,  1863. 

The  battle  of  Port  Gibson,  May  1,  1863,  was  fought  almost  entirely  by  the  Thirteenth 
Corps,  its  losses  in  that  action  aggregating  1*25  killed,  07*  wounded,  and  23  missing ;  total, 
826.  The  battle  of  Champion's  Hill  was  fought  by  the  Thirteenth  and  Seventeenth  Corps, 
the  former  losing  231  killed,  987  wounded,  and  145  missing;  total,  1,363.  The  fighting  at 
the  Big  Black  River  Bridge  was  a  brilliant  affair,  in  which  the  Thirteenth  Corps  alone  par 
ticipated  ;  loss,  3D  killed,  237  wounded,  and  3  missing ;  total,  270,  the  bulk  of  which  occurred 
in  Lawler's  Brigade  of  Carr's  Division.  In  the  first  assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  19th,  the 
corps  sustained  a  slight  loss  only;  but  in  the  grand  assault  of  May  22d  it  suffered  severely, 
losing  202  killed,  1,004  wounded,  and  60  missing;  total,  1,275.  During  the  first  twenty-two 
days  of  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  the  corps  lost  3,893  men  in  action,  which  was  supplemented 
during  the  siege  by  heavy  losses  in  the  trenches. 

General  McClernand  was  relieved  from  command  on  June  10th,  by  order  of  General 
Grant,  and  General  E.  O.  Ord  was  appointed  in  his  place.  Grant  was  displeased  with  the 
tone  and  character  of  a  congratulatory  order  issued  by  McClernand  to  his  troops,  and  as 
McClernand  declined  to  amend  it  he  was  relieved.  After  tho  capitulation  of  Vicksburg  the 
Thirteenth  Corps,  under  General  Ord,  moved  with  the  Army  to  Jackson,  Miss.,  and  assisted 
in  the  investment  of  that  place.  Carr's  Division  at  this  time  was  commanded  by  General 
William  P.  Benton.  In  the  operations  about  Jackson  tin;  corps  lost  85  killed,  501  wounded, 
and  165  missing:  total,  751.  This  includes  the  loss  in  Lauman's  Division,  of  the  Sixteenth 
Corps,  which  was  temporarily  attached  to  the  Thirteenth. 

Upon  the  evacuation  of  Jackson  and  retreat  of  the  enemy,  the  corps  returned  to  Vicksburg, 
and  in  the  following  month  (August,  1863)  moved  on  transports  down  the  Mississippi  to  New 
Orleans.  The  troops  were  assigned  to  duty  at  various  places  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf, 
-in  Texas  and  Louisiana.  General  Osterhaus  was  succeeded  in  command  of  his  division  by 
General  C.  C.  Washburn.  The  Third  and  Fourth  Divisions  fought  at  Grand  Coteau,  La., 
November  3,  1863.  The  winter  of  1863-4  was  spent  in  the  vicinity  of  New  Orleans  and  the 
Lower  Mississippi,  a  part  of  the  corps  being  stationed  in  Texas.  Corps  headquarters  were  in 
Texas,  but  were  moved  to  Alexandria,  La.,  on  the  18th  of  April,  as  the  Third  and  Fourth 
Divisions  had  accompanied  Banks  on  his  Red  River  Expedition  of  April,  1864.  General 
McClernand  was  again  in  command  of  the  corps ;  the  Third  Division  was  commanded  by 
General  Cameron,  and  the  Fourth,  by  General  Landram.  Tho  First  and  Second  Divisions 
remained  in  Texas  during  the  Red  River  Expedition,  excepting  Lawler's  (2d)  Brigade,  of  the 
First  Division,  which  joined  Banks'  Army  about  the  20th  of  April.  The  Third  and  Fourth 
Divisions  of  the  Thirteenth  Corps  were  actively  engaged  at  the  battle  of  Sabine  Cross  Roads, 
La.,  April  8,  1864,  in  which  they  sustained  considerable  loss.  They  were  also  engaged  at  Cane 
River,  and  at  Clout  iersville,  La. 

The  corps  organization  was  discontinued,  June  11,  1SU4,  and  the  troops  transferred  to 
other  commands.  It  was  reorganized,  Feb.  18, 1865,  and  Major-General  Gordon  Granger,  of 
Chickamauga  fame,  was  placed  in  command ;  the  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals 


92  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Veatch,  Andrews,  and  Benton.  The  corps  proceeded  to  Mobile,  and  it  participated  in  the 
investment  of  that  city,  and  in  the  storming  of  Fort  Blakely,  April  9,  1865,  which  was  the 
last  general  engagement  of  the  war. 

The  Thirteenth  Corps  then  moved  to  Selma,  Ala.,  and  thence  to  Galveston,  Texas.  Its 
existence  terminated  officially  on  the  20th  of  July,  1865.  The  men  of  the  Thirteenth  never 
wore  any  corps  badge ;  neither  was  there  any  badge  designated  in  official  orders  for  their 
use. 

FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 

CHAPLIN  HILLS  ;  KNOB  GAP  ;  STONE'S  RIVER  ;  HOOVER'S  GAP  ;  CHICKAMAUGA  ;  MISSIONARY 
RIDGE  ;  BUZZARD  ROOST  ;  TUNNEL  HILL  ;  RESACA  ;  ROME  ;  NEW  HOPE  CHURCH  ;  KENESAW 
MOUNTAIN  ;  PEACH  TREE  CREEK  ;  UTOY  CREEK  ;  SIEGE  OF  ATLANTA  ;  JONESBORO  ;  LOVEJOY'S 
STATION  ;  SHERMAN'S  MARCH  ;  SIEGE  OF  SAVANNAH  ;  AVERASBORO  ;  BENTONVILLE. 

The  Fourteenth  Corps  was  constituted  under  General  Orders  No.  168,  Oct.  24,  1862, 
which  directed  that  the  troops  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  should  be  designated  as  the 
Fourteenth  Corps,  and  that  General  Rosecrans  be  placed  in  command.  These  forces  had 
hitherto  been  styled  the  Army  of  the  Ohio,  and  had  been  under  the  command  of  General 
Buell.  It  had  fought  under  him  at  Shiloh,  and  at  Chaplin  Hills,  the  latter  battle  occurring 
October  8th,  just  prior  to  the  order  designating  this  army  as  the  Fourteenth  Corps.  At  the 
time  of  the  battle  of  Chaplin  Hills,  the  Army  of  the  Ohio  had  been  divided,  by  order  of  Gen 
eral  Buell,  into  the  First,  Second,  and  Third  Corps,  commanded  respectively  by  Major- Gener 
als  McCook,  Crittenden  and  Gilbert.  Its  losses  at  Chaplin  Hills  —  or  Perry ville  —  aggregated 
845  killed,  2,851  wounded,  and  515  missing  ;  total,  4.211.  Over  three-fourths  of  these  casual 
ties  occurred  in  McCook's  Corps,  the  loss  in  some  of  his  regiments  being  unusually  large. 

The  Fourteenth  Corps,  at  the  time  when  it  was  first  designated  as  such,  embraced  twelve 
divisions,  containing  155  regiments  of  infantry,  1  regiment  of  engineers,  35  batteries  of  light 
artillery,  and  6  regiments  of  cavalry.  There  are  no  returns  showing  its  numerical  strength 
at  this  time  ;  but,  a  return  in  December,  1862,  shows  an  aggregate  of  123,402,  present  and 
absent,  with  66,T95  present  for  duty.* 

Like  the  Thirteenth  Corps,  which  was  also  constituted  by  General  Order  168,  the  Four 
teenth  embraced  an  entire  army  ;  and  hence,  like  the  Thirteenth,  some  further  subdivision 
became  necessary.  On  November  7th,  General  Rosecrans  ordered  that  the  corps  be  divided 
into  the  right  wing,  centre,  and  left  wing,  to  the  command  of  which  Major-Generals  McCook, 
Thomas,  and  Crittendeii  were  respectively  assigned.  The  centre  contained  five  divisions, 
while  the  right  and  left  wings  contained  three  divisions  each.  Three  of  the  centre  divisions 
were  detached  by  General  Rosecrans  to  protect  his  line  of  communications,  and  so  the  Four 
teenth  Corps  took  8  divisions  into  action  at  Stone's  River.  The  centre,  under  Thomas,  was 
composed  of  Rousseau's  and  Negley's  Divisions  ;  the  right  wing,  under  McCook,  of  Davis', 
Johnson's,  and  Sheridan's  Divisions  ;  the  left  wing,  under  Crittenden,  of  Wood's,  Palmer's, 
and  Van  Cleve's  Divisions.  Walker's  Brigade  of  the  Third  Division,  centre,  was  also  present 
at  Stone's  River.  These  troops  numbered  43,400  present  for  duty  ;  the  loss  in  that  battle 
amounted  to  1,730  killed,  7,802  wounded,  and  3,717  captured  or  missing  ;  total,  13,249.  Over 
25  per  cent,  were  killed  or  wounded. 

By  authority  of  the  War  Department  —  General  Order  No.  9  — January  9,  1863,  the  right 
wing,  centre,  and  left  wing  of  the  Fourteenth  Corps  were  designated  respectively  as  the 
Twentieth,  Fourteenth  and  Twenty-first  Army  Corps,  the  commanding  officers  remaining 

*Official  Records,  Vol.  xx,  Part  ii,  p.  285. 


THE  FOURTEENTH  COKPS.  03 

unchanged.  As  before,  these  three  corps  constituted  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland.  From  this 
time  on,  the  history  of  the  Fourteenth  Corps  is  limited  to  the  movements  of  the  particular 
divisions  under  command  of  General  Thomas.  After  the  battle  of  Stone's  River,  Rosecrans 
advanced  his  army  to  Murfreesboro,  and  encamped  there.  On  June  23,  1803,  orders  were  issued 
for  another  advance,  during  which  the  Fourteenth  Corps  was  engaged  in  the  fighting  at 
Hoover's  Gap,  June  24  -  25.  It  was  then  composed  of  the  four  divisions  of  Rousseau,  Negley, 
Brannan,  and  Reynolds.  Its  losses  at  Hoover's  Gap  amounted  to  27  killed,  177  wounded,  and 
2  missing;  total,  200. 

Pushing  on  across  the  Cumberland  Mountains  in  pursuit  of  Bragg,  the  Fourteenth  was 
next  engaged  at  Chickamauga.  General  Baird  had  succeeded  Rousseau  in  command  of  the 
First  Division.  The  four  divisions  then  contained  51  regiments  of  infantry,  and  12  batteries 
of  light  artillery.  In  the  First  Division  was  the  Brigade  of  Regulars  which  had  distinguished 
itself  by  its  gallantry  and  good  fighting  at  Stone's  River.  The  Fourteenth  Corps  numl>ered 
19,920  at  Chickamauga  ;  it  lost  there  004  killed,  3,555  wounded,  and  1,1)25  missing  ;  total,  0,144. 

In  pursuance  of  an  order  from  the  President,  dated  Sept.  2S,  1803,  the  Army  of  the 
Cumberland  was  reorganized.  General  Thomas  succeeded  Rosecrans,  and  Major-General 
John  M.  Palmer  was  placed  in  command  of  the  Fourteenth  Corps.  Under  this  reorganization 
the  corps  contained  three  divisions,  —  Johnson's,  Davis' and  Baird's, — and  each  division  con 
tained  three  brigades.  Some  of  the  brigades  contained  nine  regiments  ;  but  the  regiments 
were  small,  and  many  of  them  sadly  depleted.  The  corps  roster  on  Oct.  20,  1803,  showed  04 
regiments  of  infantry,  and  9  batteries  of  light  artillery.  The  corps  fought  at  Missionary 
Ridge,  Nov.  25,  1803,  where  it  lost  140  killed,  787  wounded,  and  14  missing;  total,  941.  In 
February,  18(54,  it  was  engaged  in  a  sharp  reconnoissance  at  Dalton,  Ga. 

On  May  5,  1804,  it  moved  with  Sherman's  Army  on  the  advance  which  was  to  culminate 
in  the  possession  of  Atlanta.  The  Fourteenth  Corps  took  part  in  the  opening  battle  of  this 
campaign  at  Resaca,  and  was  prominently  engaged  in  the  final  victory  at  Jonesboro.  During 
the  intervening  four  months  it  was  actively  engaged  in  the  continuous  marching  and  fighting 
which  was  so  characteristic  of  that  brilliant  campaign.  In  August,  while  on  the  Atlanta 
campaign,  General  Palmer,  the  corps  commander,  was  relieved  upon  his  own  request,  and 
General  Jefferson  C.  Davis,  the  commander  of  the  Second  Division,  was  appointed  by  the 
President  to  take  Palmer's  place.  General  James  D.  Morgan  succeeded  to  the  command  of 
the  Second  Division.  During  the  four  months  of  the  Atlanta  campaign,  the  Army  of  the 
Cumberland --then  composed  of  the  Fourth,  Fourteenth  and  Twentieth  Corps-- lost  3,041 
killed,  15,783  wounded,  and  2,7o7  missing  ;  total,  21,531.  Of  these  casualties  fully  one-third 
occurred  in  the  Fourteenth  Corps.  To  this  total  must  be  added  the  heavy  losses  of  the  Army 
of  the  Tennessee,  and  the  Army  of  the  Ohio,  in  order  to  understand  the  extent  of  the  fight 
ing  while  on  that  campaign. 

After  a  short  rest  at  Atlanta,  and  a  short  campaign  in  pursuit  of  Hood,  the  Fourteenth 
Corps  moved  with  Sherman's  Army,  Nov.  15,  1804,  on  its  march  to  the  sea,  the  three  divis 
ions  of  the  corps  being  under  command  of  Generals  Carlin,  Morgan  and  Baird,  and  num 
bering  13,902  present  for  duty.  The  march  through  Georgia  to  the  sea  was  an  uneventful  one, 
and  no  fighting  occurred.  Savannah  was  occupied  Deceml>er  20th,  and  in  February,  1805, 
Sherman  started  on  his  march  through  the  Carolinas.  The  Fourteenth  Corps,  together  with 
the  Twentieth,  formed  the  Army  of  Georgia,  General  Slocum  commanding  both  corps.  On 
entering  the  Carolina  campaign,  February  1,  1805,  the  Fourteenth  reported  its  strength  at 
14, 420, infantry  and  artillery,  and  contained  47  regiments  of  infantry,  with  4  batteries  of  light 
artillery.  The  battle  of  Bentonville,  N.  C.,  occurred  March  19,  1805,  while  on  this  campaign. 
It  was  a  hard  fought  battle,  in  which  the  divisions  of  Carlin  and  Morgan,  assisted  by  two 
brigades  from  Williams'  (Twentieth)  Corps,  did  most  all  the  fighting.  This  was  the  last  hat- 


94  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL 

tie  in  which  the  corps  participated,  and  the  veteran  columns  marched  gayly  on  to  the  final 
review  at  Washington.     The  organization  was  ordered  discontinued  August  1,  1865. 

FIFTEENTH  CORPS. 

CHICKASAW  BLUFFS  ;  ARKANSAS  POST  ;  DEER  CREEK  ;  BLACK  BAYOU  ;  SNYDER'S  BLUFF  ; 
JACKSON  ;  ASSAULT  ON  VICKSBURG,  MAY  19TH  ;  ASSAULT  ON  VICKSBURG,  MAY  22ND ;  VICKS- 
BURG  TRENCHES  ;  CLINTON  ;  JACKSON  ;  BRANDON  ;  CHEROKEE  ;  TUSCUMBIA  ;  LOOKOUT  MOUN 
TAIN  ;  MISSIONARY  RIDGE  ;  RINGGOLD  ;  RESACA  ;  DALLAS  ;  BIG  SHANTY  ;  KENESAW  MOUN 
TAIN  ;  NICKAJACK  CREEK  ;  BATTLE  OF  ATLANTA  ;  EZRA  CHURCH  ;  JONESBORO  ;  LOVEJOY'S 
STATION  ;  SIEGE  OF  ATLANTA  ;  ALLATOONA  PASS  ;  TAYLOR'S  RIDGE  ;  GRISWOLDVILLE  ;  FORT 
MCALLISTER  ;  RIVER'S  BRIDGE  ;  CONGAREE  CREEK  ;  COLUMBIA  ;  LYNCH  CREEK  ;  BENTONVILLE. 

The  Fifteenth  Corps  was  one  of  the  organizations  resulting  from  the  partition  of  the 
Thirteenth  Corps,  December  18,  1862.  General  William  T.  Sherman  was  assigned  to  its 
command.  Part  of  the  Fifteenth  Corps  —  the  divisions  of  Generals  Steele  and  Morgan  L. 
Smith, together  with  other  troops  —  were  engaged  under  Sherman  at  Chickasaw  Bluffs  in  the 
first  attempt  on  Vicksburg.  These  two  divisions  lost  in  that  action,  144  killed,  579  wounded, 
and  189  missing  ;  total,  912.  The  entire  loss  of  the  Army  at  Chickasaw  Bluffs  was  1,776. 

A  few  day  slater  these  two  divisions  accompanied  McClernand's  expedition  to  Arkansas 
Post,  a  successful  affair  which  resulted  in  the  capture  of  that  place.  General  Sherman  was 
present  with  these  two  divisions  of  his  corps  ;  General  M.  L.  Smith  having  been  severely 
wounded  at  Chickasaw  Bluffs,  his  division  was  commanded  at  Arkansas  Post  by  General 
David  Stuart.  The  loss  of  the  Fifteenth  Corps  in  this  affair  was  86  killed,  501  wounded,  and 
11  missing  ;  total,  598.  The  loss  of  the  entire  Army  was  1,001. 

During  the  spring  of  1863  the  corps  participated  in  the  Bayou  expeditions  about  Vicks 
burg,  preceding  the  campaign  in  the  rear  of  that  city.  On  that  campaign  the  corps  was 
composed  of  the  three  divisions  of  Steele,  Blair,  and  Tuttle,  numbered  respectively  as  the 
First,  Second,  and  Third  Divisions  ;  they  were  previously  known  as  the  Eleventh,  Fifth,  and 
Eighth,  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee.  These  three  divisions  contained  41  regiments  of 
infantry,  7  batteries  of  light  artillery  (36  guns),  and  5  companies  of  cavalry,  numbering  in  all, 
15,975  present  for  duty,  out  of  19,238  present  in  the  aggregate.  Present  and  absent,  it 
numbered  27,416  men. 

Of  the  series  of  battles  in  the  rear  of  Vicksburg,  the  battle  of  Jackson,  May  14,  was  the 
only  one  in  which  the  Fifteenth  Corps  took  part.  In  that  action  Tuttle's  Division  was  slightly 
engaged,  losing  6  killed,  22  wounded,  and  4  missing.  The  corps  was  engaged,  next,  in  the 
investment  of  Vicksburg.  In  the  assault  of  May  19th,  it  lost  134  killed,  571  wounded,  and  8 
missing  ;  total,  713.  In  this  assault  the  Fifteenth  sustained  the  principal  loss,  the  total  of  the 
casualties  amounting  to  942.  In  the  general  assault  which  occured  three  days  later  -  -  May 
22d--the  corps  lost  150  killed,  666  wounded,  and  42  missing  ;  total,  858.  After  the  surren 
der  of  Vicksburg,  the  Army  moved  on  Jackson  and  invested,  that  place,  the  corps  losing- 
there,—  July  10-1 6th,— 10  killed,  32  wounded,  and  38  missing.  During  the  latter  movement 
the  First  Division  was  commanded  by  General  John  M.  Thayer. 

After  the  evacuation  of  Jackson  by  the  enemy,  the  Army  returned  to  Vicksburg  and  its 
vicinity,  the  Fifteenth  Corps  encamping  there  until  the  latter  part  of  September,  when  it 
moved  to  Memphis.  The  Third  Division  (Tuttle's)  was  left  behind  at  Vicksburg,  and  it  never 
rejoined  the  corps.  Its  place  was  taken  by  John  E.  Smith's  Division  (formerly  Quinby's), 
Seventeenth  Corps,  which  joined  at  Memphis  and  remained  permanently  attached,  as  the 
Third  Division.  William  S.  Smith's  Division  was  detached  from  the  Sixteenth  Corps,  in 


THE  FIFTEENTH  CORPS.  ... 

September,  and  was  also  added  to  the  Fifteenth  Corps,  becoming  the  Fourth  Division.  The 
four  divisions  having  been  concentrated  at  Memphis,  moved  thence  to  Chattanooga,  where 
they  participated  in  the  battles  of  Lookout  Mountain  and  Missionary  Ridge,  November  23- 
25,  1863.  General  Frank  P.  Blair  was  in  command  of  the  corps,  General  Sherman  having 
been  promoted,  October  27,  1803,  to  the  command  of  the  three  corps  composing  the  Army  <rf 
the  Tennessee.  The  four  divisions  of  the  Fifteenth  Corps  were  commanded  at  Missionary 
Ridge  by  Generals  Osterhaus,  Morgan  L.  Smith,  John  E.  Smith,*and  Hugh  Ewing.  The 
losses  of  the  corps  in  that  battle,  and  in  the  minor  actions  connected  with  it,  aggregated  295 
killed,  1,402  wounded,  and  292  missing;  total  1,989.  After  this  battle  the  corps  marched  to 
the  relief  of  Knoxville,  arriving  there  December  0,  1803,  two  days  after  Longstreet's  retreat. 
The  corps  then  returned  to  Chattanooga,  moving  thence  into  Northern  Alabama,  where  it 
went  into  winter  quarters. 

Under  command  of  General  Logan,  it  was  actively  engaged  on  the  Atlanta  campaign  of 
1864 ;  its  division  commanders  were  Generals  Osterhaus,  Morgan  L.  Smith,  John  E.  Smith, 
and  Harrow.  The  Third  Division  (John  E.  Smith's)  garrisoned  points  on  Sherman's  line  of 
communication,  and  so  was  not  present  with  the  advancing  columns.  After  the  fall  of 
Atlanta,  Harrow's  (4th)  Division  was  consolidated  with  the  others,  and  its  place  was  taken  by 
Corse's  Division  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps.  General  Corse,  with  a  provisional  command  from 
the  Fifteenth  Corps,  made  the  famous  defense  of  Allatoona  Pass,  an  affair  remarkable  for 
the  courageous,  desperate  fighting  of  commander,  officers  and  men. 

On  the  12th  of  November,  1804,  the  corps  started  with  Sherman's  Army  on  the  march 
through  Georgia  to  the  sea.  General  Logan  being  absent,  the  corps  was  under  the  command 
of  General  Osterhaus  ;  the  four  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals  C.  R.  Woods,  Hazen, 
John  E.  Smith,  and  Corse.  They  contained  60  regiments  of  infantry,  and  4  batteries,  the 
infantry  numbering  15,894,  present  for  duty  ;  it  was  the  largest  corps  in  the  Army  that 
marched  to  the  sea. 

The  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  under  General  Howard,  formed  the  right  wing  of  Sherman's 
Army  as  it  marched  through  Georgia  on  its  way  to  the  sea,  and  was  composed  of  the  Fifteenth 
and  Seventeenth  Corps,  only,  that  part  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps  —  2  divisions  -  -  which  had 
served  with  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  on  the  Atlanta  campaign  having  been  consolidated 
with  the  two  other  corps.  Although  the  three  other  corps  in  Sherman's  Army  marched 
uninterrupted  to  the  sea,  the  Fifteenth  had  a  brisk  engagement  at  Griswoldville,  in  which 
Walcutt's  Brigade,  of  Woods'  Division,  repelled  a  determined  attack  ;  and,  again,  upon 
reaching  the  sea,  Hazen's  Division  was  the  one  selected  for  the  storming  of  Fort  McAllister. 

Savannah  was  evacuated  December  21,  1804,  after  a  short  siege,  and  on  the  1st  of  Feb 
ruary,  Sherman's  Army  started  on  its  grand,  victorious  march  through  the  Carolinas.  General 
Logan  having  returned,  he  was  again  in  command  of  his  corps,  which  now  numbered  15,755, 
infantry  and  artillery.  It  encountered  some  fighting  in  forcing  disputed  crossings  at  some  of 
the  larger  rivers,  and  captured  Columbia,  S.  C.,  General  C.  R.  Woods'  Division  occupying  the 
city  at  the  time  it  was  burned.  The  corps  was  also  in  line  at  the  battle  of  Bentonville,  N.  C., 
March  19,  1865  ;  but  General  Slocurn  had  won  a  substantial  victory  with  his  wing  of  the  Army, 
and  but  little  fighting,  comparatively,  devolved  upon  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee. 

Johnston's  Army  having  surrendered  April  20th,  the  corps  continued  its  north  ward  march, 
and,  arriving  at  Washington  May  20th,  participated  in  the  Grand  Review  of  May  24,  1805. 
It  proceeded,  June  2d,  to  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  in  the  latter  part  of  that  month  the  Second 
Division  was  ordered  to  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  where  it  served  with  the  Army  of  Occupation. 
The  organization  was  discontinued  August  1,  1805.  

•Smith's  Division  was  still  known,  officially,  as  the  Second  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps. 


96  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

SIXTEENTH  COEPS. 

HERNANDO  ;  COLDWATER  ;  TOWN  CREEK  ;  SIEGE  OF  VICKSBURG  ;  JACKSON  ;  COLLIER- 
VILLE  ;  MERIDIAN  MARCH  ;  SNAKE  CREEK  GAP  ;  RESACA  ;  LAY'S  FERRY  ;  ROME  (/ROSS  ROADS  ; 
DALLAS  ;  BIG  SHANTY  ;  KENESAW  MOUNTAIN  ;  RUFF'S  MILLS  ;  BATTLE  OF  ATLANTA  ;  EZRA 
CHURCH  ; '  JONESBORO  ;  SIEGE  OF  ATLANTA  ;  PLEASANT  HILL  ;*  BAYOU  DE  GLAIZE  ;  LAKE 
CHICOT  ;*  TUPELO  ;*  TALLAHATCHIE  RIVER  ;*  OXFORD  ;*  BRICE'S  CROSS  ROADS  ;  NASHVILLE  ;* 
SPANISH  FORT  ;*  FORT  BLAKELY.* 

Organized  December  18,  1862,  with  Major-General  S.  A.  Hurlbut  in  command,  and  was 
composed  of  the  four  divisions  of  Generals  W.  S.  Smith,  Dodge,  Kimball,  and  Lauman.  It 
numbered  50,659,  present  for  duty  in  April,  1863,  with  72.569  present  and  absent.  These 
troops  were  stationed  in  the  vicinity  of  Memphis,  La  Grange,  and  Corinth  until  June,  1863, 
when  the  divisions  of  Smith,  Kimball,  and  Lauman  were  ordered  to  Vicksburg  in  response 
to  Grant's  call  for  re-inforcements,  and  participated  in  the  investment  of  that  place.  This 
detachment  of  the  corps,  while  at  Vicksburg,  was  placed  under  command  of  Major-General 
C.  C.  Washburn. 

It  would  be  impossible  to  give  anything  like  a  connected  history  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps 
from  this  time  on,  so  many  were  the  changes  in  its  ranks,  and  so  widely  were  its  divisions 
scattered.  The  Sixteenth  suffered  more  than  any  other  corps  by  transfers  of  its  di  visions,  - 
changes  which  prevented  anything  like  a  continuous  organization,  and  well  nigh  destroyed 
its  identity.  Part  of  the  corps  served  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  while  the  other  part  was 
fighting  in  the  Mississippi  Valley.  It  was  ordered  discontinued  in  November,  1864,  but  was 
re-established  within  a  few  weeks.  An  organization  would  be  perfected  one  month,  only  to 
be  broken  up  the  next.  The  War  Department  evinced  no  conception  of  what  was  due  to 
corps  organization  or  corps  pride,  and  the  unfortunate  brigades  and  divisions  were  transferred 
hither  and  thither,  with  as  little  consideration  as  if  they  were  squads  from  some  recruiting 
rendezvous  instead  of  battle-tried  divisions. 

The  three  divisions  at  Vicksburg  were  not  engaged  in  any  active  fighting  while  there, 
having  arrived  after  the  seige  was  well  under  way.  Lauman's  and  Smith's  divisions,  how 
ever,  fought  at  the  Siege  of  Jackson,  July  10-16,  the  former  division  being  attached  tempo 
rarily  to  the  Thirteenth,  and  the  latter,  to  the  Ninth  Corps.  Smith's  Division  lost  at  Jack 
son  12  killed,  124  wounded,  and  13  missing  ;  total,  149.  Lauman's  Division  lost  68  killed,  338 
wounded,  and  149  missing  ;  total,  555.  Nearly  all  of  Lauman's  loss  occurred  in  an  ill- 
advised  attack  made  by  three  regiments  of  Pugli's  Brigade,  for  which  Lauman  was  relieved 
from  command.  Many  of  Lauman's  officers,  however,  have  stoutly  contended  that  he  was 
not  to  blame.  The  enemy  having  evacuated  Jackson,  the  Army  returned  to  Vicksburg, 
where  the  troops  remained  for  several  weeks.  In  September,  W.  S.  Smith's  Division  was 
transferred  to  the  Fifteenth  Corps,  and  Lauman's  Division  was  transferred  to  the  Seventeeth. 
In  return,  when  the  Fifteenth  Corps  moved  to  Chattanooga,  Tuttle's  Division  of  that  corps 
was  left  at  Vicksburg  and  assigned  to  the  Sixteenth  Corps.  This  latter  division  was  com 
manded,  subsequently,  by  General  Joseph  A.  Mower. 

Dodge's  Division  did  not  take  part  in  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  but  remained  at  Corinth 
until  November,  when  it  moved  with  Sherman  to  the  relief  of  Chattanooga,  marching  from 
Corinth  to  Pulaski,  Tenn.,  where  it  was  left  to  guard  the  Nashville  &  Decatur  R.  R.,  while 
Sherman  with  the  Fifteenth  corps  moved  on  to  Chattanooga.  Two  divisions,  the  Second 
and  Fourth,  commanded  respectively  by  Generals  Sweeny  and  Veatch,  participated  in  the 
Atlanta  campaign,  May  1  to  September  4, 1864.  These  two  divisions,  or  the  Sixteenth  Corps 
as  it  was  designated,  were  under  the  command  of  Major-General  Grenville  M.  Dodge,  and 

*Major-General  A.  J.  Smith's  command. 


THE  SEVENTEENTH  CORPS.  07 

formed  one  of  the  three  corps  constituting  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee.  During  the  Atlanta 
campaign  General  Veatch  was  succeeded  in  the  command  of  his  division  by  General  John 
W.  Fuller. 

General  Dodge's  command  was  prominently  engaged  at  Lay's  Ferry,  and  in  the  bloody 
battle  of  Atlanta,  July  t>2,  1804.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta  his  two  divisions  were  transferred, 
Sweeny's  (or  Corse's)  to  the  Fifteenth,  and  Fuller's  to  the  Seventeenth  C  orps. 

In  the  meantime  the  right  wing  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps,  as  it  was  called,  had  l>een  left  in 
the  Mississippi  Valley  ;  it  was  composed  of  the  First  (Mower's)  and  Second  (A.  J.  Smith's) 
Divisions,  the  former  being  the  one  which  was  transferred,  in  September,  is«3,  from  the 
Fifteenth  Corps.  The  greater  part  of  Kimball's  Division  had  been  ordered  into  Arkansas, 
where  it  became  incorporated  in  the  Seventh  Corps.  In  February,  18(54,  A.  J.  Smith's  and 
Veatch's  Divisions  accompanied  Sherman  on  his  Meridian  expedition.  In  April,  Mower's  and 
A.  J.  Smith's  Divisions  moved  with  Banks' expedition  up  the  Red  River,  fighting  at  the  battle 
of  Pleasant  Hill  and  in  the  various  minor  engagements  incidental  to  that  campaign.  These 
two  divisions  had  been  "loaned"  to  General  Banks  by  Sherman,  with  an  understanding  that 
they  should  soon  return  ;  but  the  disasters  of  Banks'  campaign  prolonged  their  stay  until  it 
was  too  late  to  rejoin  the  corps  in  time  for  the  Atlanta  campaign.  Hence,  the  divided  oj ora 
tions  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps  in  1804;  the  First  and  Third  Divisions,  under  General  A.  J. 
Smith,  fighting  along  the  Mississippi,  while  the  Second  and  Fourth  Divisions,  under  Dodge, 
fought  from  Chattanooga  to  Atlanta. 

On  November  7,  1864,  orders  were  issued  for  the  discontinuance  of  the  organization  ;  but 
in  December,  1864,  General  A.  J.  Smith  and  his  two  divisions  turned  up  at  the  defense  of 
Nashville,  and  participated  in  the  victory  over  Hood's  Army  ;  casualties,  750.  In  this  battle 
Smith's  two  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals  McArthur  and  Kenner  Garrard.  His 
command  was  designated  as  a  "  Detachment,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,"  although  it  was  still 
known  as  the  Sixteenth  Corps. 

It  was  reorganized  Feb.  18,  1805,  under  its  old  designation  and  with  Major-General  A.  J. 
Smith  in  command.  As  reorganized,  it  had  three  divisions  which  were  commanded  by  Gen 
erals  McArthur,  Garrard  and  E.  A.  Carr.  Proceeding  to  Mobile,  it  was  engaged  in  the  siege, 
and  in  the  fighting  at  Spanish  Fort  and  Fort  Blakely,  the  latter  being  the  last  infantry 
engagement  of  the  war.  Fort  Blakely  was  carried  by  assault,  April  9,  1865,  the  day  on 
which  Lee  surrendered  at  Appomattox.  The  corps  organization  was  finally  discontinued 
July  20,  1865. 

The  men  of  the  Sixteenth  had  for  the  most  part  seen  plenty  of  service  before  the  organi 
zation  of  the  corps.  They  had  fought  well  at  luka,  Corinth  and  Hatchie  River,  and  many  of 
the  regiments  had  been  engaged  at  Fort  Donelson  and  Shiloh. 


SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 

PORT  GIBSON  ;  HANKINSON'S  FERRY  ;  RAYMOND;  JACKSON  (May  14th);  CHAMPION'S  HILL; 
ASSAULT  ON  VICKSBUKG,  MAY  I'.»TH  ;  ASSAULT  ON  VICKSBURG,  MAY  ±ii> ;  FORT  HILL;  VICKS- 
BURG  TRENCHES  ;  SIEGE  OF  JACKSON  ;  MERIDIAN  EXPEDITION  ;  MISSIONARY  RIDGE  ;  BIG  SHANTY; 
KENESAW  MOUNTAIN  ;  CHATTAHOOCHIE  RIVER  ;  NICKAJACK  CREEK  ;  BATTLE  OF  ATLANTA  ; 
EZRA  CHURCH;  JONESBORO;  LOVEJOY'S  STATION;  SHERMAN'S  MARCH;  OGEECHEE  RIVER; 
SIEGE  OF  SAVANNAH  :  COMBAHEE  RIVER;  POCATALIGO  ;  RIVER'S  BRIDGE;  EDISTO  RIVER; 
ORANGEBURG  ;  CHERAW  ;  FAYETTEVILLE  ;  BENTONVILLE  ;  BENTON  ;*  VAUGHN'S  STATION  ;* 


'Second,  or  Ked  Hirer  Division. 

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JACKSON  (July  6,  1864)  ;*  FORT  DE  RUSSY  ;  *    CLOUTIERSVILLE  ;*  CANE  RIVER  ;*  MARKSVILLE  ;* 
BAYOU  DEGLAIZE;*  NASHVILLE.* 

The  Seventeenth  Corps  was  organized  December  18,  1862,  under  the  same  order  which 
created  the  Fifteenth  and  Sixteenth  Corps.  It  was  composed  of  the  divisions  of  Logan, 
Me  Arthur  and  Quinby, —  formerly  the  Third,  Sixth  and  Seventh  Divisions  of  Grant's  Army, 
-and  Major-General  J.  B.  McPherson  was  assigned  to  its  command.  It  was  engaged  in  the 
operations  on  the  Mississippi  River  prior  to  the  campaign  in  the  rear  of  Vicksburg,  and  then 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  series  of  battles  which  resulted  in.  the  investment  of  that  place. 
Its  three  divisions  entered  upon  that  campaign  with  37  regiments  of  infantry,  and  12  batteries 
(60  guns)  of  light  artillery, —  numbering,  in  all,  15,848  officers  and  men  present  for  duty.  Its 
total  enrollment,  present  and  absent,  amounted  to  23,154. 

Logan's  Division  was  engaged  at  the  battle  of  Port  Gibson  (Magnolia  Hills),  where  it  lost 
6  killed,  41  wounded,  and  2  missing  ;  also  at  Raymond,  where  it  was  the  only  division  in 
action,  losing  there  66  killed,  339  wounded,  and  37  missing.  At  the  battle  of  Jackson,  May 
14th,  the  brunt  of  the  fight  fell  on  the  Seventeenth  Corps  and  011  Quinby's  Division,  which 
lost  36  killed,  229  wounded,  and  3  missing  ;  total,  268.  General  Quinby  being  absent  on 
account  of  illness,  his  division  was  commanded  there  by  General  Crocker.  At  Champion's 
Hill,  both  Logan's  and  Crocker's  Divisions  were  engaged,  losing  in  the  aggregate  179  killed, 
857  wounded,  and  42  missing  ;  total,  1,078.  During  these  battles  McArthur's  Division  had 
been  absent  on  duty,  but  joined  the  corps  in  time  for  the  first  assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  19, 
in  which  it  lost  16  killed  and  113  wounded.  In  the  general  assault  of  May  22d,  the  corps  lost 
150  killed,  880  wounded,  and  36  missing  ;  total,  1,066.  It  also  sustained  a  severe  loss  in  the 
trenches  during  the  siege,  and  was  engaged  in  the  affair  at  Fort  Hill,  a  strong  earth- work  in 
front  of  the  corps  position.  This  fort  was  successfully  mined  and  blown  up,  June  25th,  but 
the  assaulting  column  was  unable  to  retain  their  lodgment  in  the  crater.  Upon  the  surrender 
of  Vicksburg,  Logan's  Division  was  accorded  the  honor  of  first  entering  and  occupying  the 
city,  while  the  rest  of  the  corps  marched  away  with  Sherman's  Expedition  against  Jackson. 

That  place  having  been  captured,  the  Army  returned  to  Vicksburg,  where,  in  September, 
1863,  the  Fourth  Division  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps  (formerly  Lauman's)  was  transferred  to  the 
Seventeenth,  and  placed  under  command  of  General  M.  M.  Crocker.  At  the  same  time, 
Quinby's  Division  was  transferred  to  the  Fifteenth  Corps.  During  the  fall  of  1863,  the  corps 
took  part  in  various  raids  and  marches,  and  in  February,  1864,  Crocker's  and  Leggett's  Divis 
ions  accompanied  Sherman's  Army  on  the  expedition  from  Vicksburg  to  Meridian,  Miss.,  and 
on  the  return.  Soon  after  this  the  corps  became  divided,  two  divisions  joining  Sherman's 
Army  in  the  advance  on  Atlanta,  while  the  rest  of  the  corps  remained  in  the  Mississippi 
Valley. 

In  May,  1864,  the  Third  and  Fourth  Divisions  were  assembled  at  Huntsville,  Ala.,  from 

whence  they  marched  through  Georgia,  and  joined  Sherman's  Army  on  the  8th  of  June,  at 

Ack worth,  Ga.     The  corps  was  under  the  command  of  Major-General  Frank  P.  Blair,  General 

McPherson  having  been  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  which 

comprised  the  Fifteenth,  Sixteenth,  and  Seventeenth  Corps.     Blair's  two  divisions  —  the  ones 

with   Sherman's  Army-  -were  commanded   by  Generals  Leggett  and   Gresham,  the  latter 

succeeding  General  Crocker,  who  relinquished  his  command,  May  27th,  on  account  of 

health.     Although  Sherman's  Army  was  well  on  its  way  to  Atlanta,  there  was  plenty  of 

fighting  left  for  the  Seventeenth  Corps.     It  was  engaged  with  honor  in  the  battle  of 

Atlanta,  July  :  :2nd,  which  was  one  of  the  hardest  contested  fields  in  that  campaign.     General 

Gresham  was  badly  wounded  in  this  action,  and  General  Giles  A.   Smith  succeeded  to  the 


*  Second,  or  Kcd  River  Division. 


THE  SEVENTEENTH  CORPS.  09 

command  of  the  Fourth  Division.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  Fuller's  Division  of  the  Six 
teenth  Corps  was  transferred  to  the  Seventeenth,  becoming  its  First  Division,  to  the  command 
of  which  General  Joseph  A.  Mower  was  soon  after  assigned. 

While  on  the  March  to  the  Sea,  and  during  Sherman's  march  through  the  Carolinas,  the 
corps  remained  under  the  command  of  General  Blair,  with  its  three  divisions--  First,  Third, 
and  Fourth  —  under  Generals  Mower,  Leggett,  and  Giles  A.  Smith.  Just  before  starting  on 
the  March  to  the  Sea  its  morning  reports  showed  11,732  present  for  duty  ;  it  then  contained 
32  regiments  of  infantry  and  five  light  batteries.  It  encountered  little  or  no  fighting  as  it 
went  marching  through  Georgia,  but  its  advance  through  the  Carolinas  was  marked  by  several 
minor  engagements,  culminating  in  the  battleof  Bentonvillein  which  it  was  partially  engaged. 
There  were  long,  toilsome  marches,  also,  with  wide  rivers  to  cross  and  swamps  to  wade,  many 
of  which  were  forded  under  the  enemy's  fire. 

After  participating  in  the  Grand  Review  at  Washington  at  the  close  of  the  war,  the  Army 
of  the  Tennessee --Fifteenth  and  Seventeenth  Army  Corps  —  was  ordered  in  June,  is<»f>,  to 
Louisville,  Ky.  On  the  Oth  of  July,  orders  were  issued  to  prepare  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee 
for  muster-out  ;  in  a  few  weeks  the  ranks  which  had  fought  at  Donelson,  Shiloh,  Corinth, 
Vicksburg,  Atlanta,  and  in  the  Carolinas,  moved  northward  and  disappeared. 

When  the  Seventeenth  Corps  started  on  the  Atlanta  campaign  it  left  the  First  and  Sec 
ond  Divisions  in  the  Mississippi  Valley,  and  the  corps  thus  separated  was  not  reunited.  The 
place  of  the  Fii-st  Division  was  filled  at  Atlanta  by  the  transfer  from  the  Sixteenth  Corps  ; 
the  place  of  the  Second  Division  remained  vacant,  for  that  division  continued  to  serve  in  the 
Department  of  the  Mississippi  as  a  part  of  the  Seventeenth  Corps.  Six  regiments  from  this 
division  served  on  Banks'  Red  River  Expedition  in  April,  1864,  the  six  regiments --formed 
into  two  brigades --being  known  then  as  a  Provisional,  or  as  the  Red  River  Division  of  the 
Seventeenth  Corps.  It  was  commanded  by  General  T.  K.  Smith.  Parts  of  this  division 
served,  also,  on  McArthur's  Yazoo  City  Expedition,  May  4-13,  1804,  and  on  General  Slocum's 
Expedition  to  Jackson,  July  5-6,  1864.  A  few  regiments  were  engaged,  also,  under  Sturgis, 
at  Brice's  Cross  Roads,  and  in  General  A.  J.  Smith's  Expedition  to  Tupelo.  The  fighting  in 
some  of  these  campaigns  was  severe  on  certain  regiments. 

In  November,  1864,  the  Red  River  Division  of  the  Seventeenth  Corps  accompanied  General 
A.  J.  Smith's  forces  to  Nashville,  and  took  part  in  that  famous  battle  and  victory.  Smith's 
troops  consisted  of  two  divisions  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps  and  this  provisional  division  of  the 
Seventeenth  ;  but  the  whole  command  was  officially  designated  as  a  "  Detachment,  from  the 
Army  of  the  Tennessee,"  instead  of  by  their  corps  numbers.  Upon  the  reorganization  of  the 
Sixteenth  Corps,  prior  to  the  Mobile  campaign  of  1865,  this  division  of  the  Seventeenth  was 
merged  in  the  larger  organization  of  tlrj  Sixteenth  ;  hence,  the  Seventeenth  Corps,  in  1S65, 
consisted  of  the  three  divisions  then  marching  with  Sherman  northward  through  the  Carolinas. 

EIGHTEENTH  CORPS. 

KINSTON  ;  WHITEHALL  ;  GOLDSBOKO  ;  SIEGE  OF  WASHINGTON'  (1» .  C.       SIEOE  OF  SUFFOLK  : 
QUAKER  BRIDGE  ;  GUM  SWAMP  ;  BACHELOR'S  CREEK  ;    WINTON  ;    PORT  WALTHALL;   ARROW 
FIELD    CHURCH;    DREWRY'S    BLUFF;    BERMUDA    HUNDRED;    COLD    HARBOR; 
PETERSBURG,  JUNE  15TH  ;  MINE  EXPLOSION  ;  PETERSBURG  TRENCHES  ;  CHAFFIN'S  FARM  ;  FAIR 
OAKS  (1864);  FALL  OF  RICHMOND. 

On  December  24,  1862,  the  President  ordered  that  the  troops  in  the  Department  of  North 
Carolina  should  be  organized  into  a  corps  and  designated  as  the  Eighteenth.     Tin-so 
were  stationed  at  Newbern,  Plymouth,  Beaufort,  and  vicinity.     They  included  Peel  *  Division, 


100  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

formerly  of  the  Fourth  (Peninsular)  Corps  ;  also,  some  regiments  which  had  fought  under 
Burnside  at  Roanoke  Island  and  New  Berne.  There  were,  also,  twelve  regiments  of  nine- 
months  men —  six  of  them  from  Massachusetts,  and  six  from  Pennsylvania-- whose  terms 
of  enlistment  expired  in  the  summer  of  1803.  Some  of  these  nine  months  regiments  had 
fought  creditably  at  Kinston,  Whitehall,  and  Goldsboro,  in  December,  1862,  the  same  month 
in  which  the  corps  was  organized. 

In  February,  1863,  the  roster  showed  five  divisions,  commanded  respectively  by  Generals 
Palmer,  Naglee,  Ferry,  Wessells,  and  Prince,  with  General  J.  G.  Foster  in  command  of  the 
corps.  Ferry's  and  Naglee's  Divisions  —  containing  sixteen  regiments  —  were  detached  in 
February,  1863,  and  ordered  to  Charleston  Harbor,  where  they  were  attached  to  the  Tenth 
Corps,  becoming  subsequently  a  part  of  that  organization.  In  June,  1863,  the  twelve  regi 
ments  which  had  been  enrolled  for  nine  months  only  took  their  departure,  their  term  of  service 
having  expired.  In  place  of  these  losses  the  troops  of  the  Seventh  Corps  were  transferred, 
that  organization  having  been  discontinued  August  1,  1863.  With  the  Seventh  Corps  came  a 
valuable  accession  of  veteran  material  in  Getty's  Division,  formerly  of  the  Ninth  Corps.  This 
division  had  been  left  in  South-eastern  Virginia  when  the  Ninth  Corps  went  to  the  West,  and 
had  been  engaged,  in.  the  spring  of  1863,  in  the  defense  of  Suffolk  against  Longstreet's 
besieging  Army. 

After  the  withdrawal  of  the  enemy  from  the  vicinity  of  Suffolk,  there  were  110  operations 
of  consequence  during  the  year  1863  in  the  Department  of  North  Carolina,  and  the  corps 
was  left  in  quiet  possession  of  the  territory.  There  were,  however,  occasional  reconnois- 
sances  into  the  enemy's  country,  and  some  skirmishing  at  the  outposts. 

In  April,  1864,  the  corps  was  concentrated  at  Yorktown,  preparatory  to  the  spring  cam 
paign  of  the  Army  of  the  James.  That  army  was  commanded  by  General  Butler,  and  was 
composed  of  the  Tenth  and  Eighteenth  Corps.  The  Eighteenth,  as  organized  for  this  cam 
paign,  contained  15,972  officers  and  men  present  for  duty,  including  the  artillery,  which  carried 
36  guns.  It  was  commanded  by  William  F.  Smith,  a  Sixth  Corps  general,  who  had  fought 
under  McClellan,  and  who,  later  on,  had  achieved  distinction  through  his  successful  plan  of 
the  battles  of  Chattanooga.  The  corps  contained  three  divisions,  commanded  by  Generals 
Brooks,  Weitzel  and  Hinks,  the  division  of  the  latter  being  composed  of  colored  troops. 
Butler's  Army  landed  at  Bermuda  Hundred  May  6,  1864,— the  same  day  that  Grant  was 
fighting  in  the  Wilderness,— and  a  series  of  bloody  battles  immediately  followed,  the  princi 
pal  one  occurring  May  16th,  at  Drewry's  Bluff.  The  campaign  was  a  short  one,  resulting  in 
defeat,  and  Butler  withdrew  to  his  original  position  on  the  James  River,  the  corps  losing  in 
these  operations  213  killed,  1,224  wounded  and  742  missing  ;  total,  2,179.  General  Grant  then 
ordered  the  Eighteenth  Corps  to  reinforce  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  on  May  27th  it 
moved  by  transports  down  the  James  and  up  the  York  River  to  White  House  Landing,  from 
whence  it  marched  to  Cold  Harbor.  Hinks'  Division  was  left  behind,  and  in  its  place,  two  divis 
ions  of  the  Tenth  Corps,  under  General  Devens,  temporarily  attached  to  the  Eighteenth  as  a 
third  division,  moved  with  General  Smith's  command,  the  three  divisions  being  commanded 
at  Cold  Harbor  by  Generals  Brooks,  Martindale  and  Devens.  In  that  battle  the  Eighteenth 
Corps  made  a  gallant  attack  on  the  enemy's  intrenchments  ;  but,  like  the  various  other  corps 
engaged,  it  was  obliged  to  abandon  the  assault  with  heavy  loss,  its  casualties  at  Cold  Harbor 
amounted  to  448  killed,  2,365  wounded,  and  206  missing  ;  total,  3,019. 

On  June  12th,  General  Smith's  command  withdrew  from  Cold  Harbor,  and,  re-embarking, 
sailed  for  Bermuda  Hundred,  arriving  there  on  the  14th.  On  the  following  day  the  Eighteenth 
Corps  advanced  to  Petersburg  and  assaulted  the  works  that  evening,  Hinks'  Colored  Division 
gaining  a  partial  success  and  capturing  several  pieces  of  artillery.  This  was  the  first  time  in 
the  war  in  which  colored  troops,  to  the  extent  of  a  brigade,  were  engaged  in  battle. 


THE  NINKTKENTH  Coin's. 

After  the  failure  of  the  assaults  on  Petersburg  the  Eighteenth  Corps  wont  into  position 
in  the  trenches,  .and  participated  in  the  siege.  It  held  tho  extreme  right  of  the  line,  at  which 
l>oiiit  the  contending  armies  were  nearest  each  other.  The  proximity  of  tin;  enemy's  pickets 
and  the  incessant  firing  occasioned  large  losses,  daily,  in  killed  and  wounded. 

On  August  26th  it  was  relieved  by  the  Tenth  Corps,  and  ordered  within  the  defenses  of 
Bermuda  Hundred.  In  the  latter  part  of  September  it  was  ordered  to  the  north  bank  of  the 
James,  where,  on  the  29th,  the  First  Division  (Stamiard's)  participated  in  the  brilliant  and 
successful  assault  on  Fort  Harrison,  at  Chaffin's  Farm.  At  this  time,  General  Stannard  com 
manded  the  First  Division,  General  Brooks  having  resigned  in  July;  General  Paine  had 
succeeded  Hinks  in  command  of  the  colored  (Third)  division  ;  and  while  at  Chaffin's  Farm, 
General  Weitzel,  who  had  been  acting  as  chief  of  staff  to  General  Butler,  succeeded  Orel  in 
command  of  the  corps.  The  Eighteenth,  under  Weitzel,  was  also  engaged  at  the  battle  of 
Fair  Oaks.  October  27,  1864,  which  was  fought  on  the  old  battle  h'eld  of  1862. 

On  December  3,  1864,  the  corps  was  ordered  discontinued.  The  white  troops  of  the 
Tenth  and  Eighteenth  Corps  were  organized  into  one  corps,  designated  as  the  Twenty- 
fourth  ;  the  colored  troops  belonging  to  the  Tenth  and  Eighteenth  were  organized  as  another, 
which  was  designated  the  Twenty-fifth.  The  regiments  of  the  Eighteenth  were  formed  into 
a  division  of  three  brigades,  which  became  Devens'  (3d)  Division  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps. 

As  the  Eighteenth  Corps  was  to  remain  in  Virginia  with  the  Army,  it  is  difficult  to  under 
stand  what  good  reason  the  War  Department  could  have  had  for  thus  wiping  out  the  honored 
name  under  which  the  corps  had  fought  so  long  and  well. 

NINETEENTH  CORPS. 

BATON  ROUQK  ;  GEORGIA  LANDING  ;  BAYOU  TECHE  ;  FORT  BISLAND  :  IRISH  BEND;  PLAINS' 
STORE  ;  ASSAULT  ON  PORT  HUDSON,  MAY  27TH  ;  ASSAULT  ON  PORT  HUDSON,  JUNE  UTH  ;  PORT 
HUDSON  TRENCHES;  THIBODEAUX  ;  BRASHEAR  CITY  ;  DONALDSONVILLE  ;  SABINE  CROSSROADS; 
PLEASANT  HILL  ;  (JANE  RIVER  ;  CLOUTIERVILLE  ;  ALEXANDRIA  ;  M ANSURA  ;  YELLOW  BAYOU  ; 
ATCHAFALAYA:  BERRY VILLE  ;  OPEQUOX  ;  FISHER'S  HILL;  CEDAR  CREEK. 

Organized  under  General  Order  No.  5,  dated  at  Washington,  Jan.  5, 1863 :— "  By  direction 
of  the  President,  the  troops  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf  will  constitute  the  Nineteenth 
Army  Corps,  to  date  from  December  14,  1862,  and  Major-General  N.  P.  Banks  is  assigned  to 
the  command." 

At  this  time  the  troops  of  the  Nineteenth  Corps  were,  for  the  most  part,  just  arriving 
from  the  North  on  ocean  transports,  and  some  of  the  regiments  which  had  been  assigned  to 
the  corps  had  not  landed  at  this  date.  There  had  been  some  Union  troops  in  Louisiana 
since  the  occupation  of  New  Orleans,  one  brigade  of  which,  under  command  of  General 
Thomas  Williams,  fought  at  Baton  Rouge,  August  5,  18C2,  making  a  gallant  and  successful 
defence  against  the  attack  of  B  reck  en  ridge's  Division.  General  Williams  was  killed  in  this 
battle.  Another  brigade,  under  General  Weitzel,  was  engaged  in  a  hot  fight,  October  27, 
1862,  at  Georgia  Landing  (Labadiesville)  in  the  LaFourche  district. 

Soon  after  the  date  of  the  order  creating  the  Nineteenth  Corps,  an  organization  was 
effected.  The  returns  for  April,  1863,  show  four  divisions,  commanded  resi>ectively  by  Generals 
Augur,  Sherman  (Thos.  W.),  Emory  and  Grover.  In  addition,  the  corps  command  included 
seven  unassigned  regiments. stationed  at  Brashear  City,  Key  West,  Tortugas  and  West  Florida; 
in  all,  65  regiments  of  infantry,  19  batteries  of  light  artillery,  one  regiment  of  heavy  artil 
lery,  and  5  regiments  of  cavalry.  It  numbered,  all  told -- present  and  absent- -  55,229  ; 
present,  44,832  ;  present  for  duty,  35,670.  Forty  of  these  regiments  had  been  organized  in 


102  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

the  fall  of  1862,  under  the  second  call  for  troops,  and  twenty-two  of  them  were  enlisted  for 
nine  months  only,  the  terms  of  the  latter  expiring  in  July,  1863.  There  were  also  six  newly 
organized  regiments  of  colored  troops  from  Louisiana.  The  New  England  States  contributed 
39  regiments,  21  of  which  were  nine-months  men  ;  there  were  22  regiments  from  New  York, 
and  1  from  Pennsylvania,  the  latter  (47th  Penn.)  being  the  only  Keystone  regiment  in  the 
Department  of  the  Gulf. 

Active  operations  were  soon  commenced,  and  on  April  12,  1863, the  corps  encountered  the 
enemy  at  Fort  Bisland,  La.,  with  a  loss  of  40  killed,  and  184  wounded ;  and  on  the  14th,  at 
Irish  Bend.  La.,  with  a  loss  of  49  killed,  274  wounded,  and  30  missing;  total  casualties  in 
both  actions,  577.  The  investment  of  Port  Hudson  was  accomplished  in  the  following 
month,  and  on  May  27th  a  gallant  but  unsuccessful  attempt  was  made  to  carry  the  enemy's 
works  by  storm,  the  corps  losing  in  this  action  293  killed,  1,545  wounded,  and  157  missing  ; 
total,  1,995.  Another  general  assault  was  made  on  June  14th,  but  without  success  ;  loss, 
203  killed,  1,401  wounded,  and  201  missing  ;  total,  1,805.  In  the  meantime,  the  constant  fir 
ing  from  the  trenches  resulted  in  additional  daily  losses  in  killed  and  wounded.  The  Confed 
erate  garrison,  learning  of  the  fall  of  Vicksburg,  surrendered  on  July  9th.  The  losses  in  the 
corps  during  the  siege  —  including  the  assaults  of  May  27th  and  June  14th — amounted  to 
707  killed,  3,336  wounded,  and  319  missing  ;  total,  4,362.  The  heaviest  loss  fell  on  Augur's 
(1st)  Division.  Fearing's  Brigade,  of  Paine's  (3d)  Division,  also  sustained  a  severe  loss,  and 
one  of  the  Louisiana  (colored)  regiments  suffered  severely  in  the  assaults. 

Soon  after  the  surrender  of  Port  Hudson  and  termination  of  that  campaign,  the  22  regi 
ments  which  had  been  recruited  for  nine  months  left  for  their  homes,  their  term  of  service 
having  expired.  The  loss  of  these  troops  necessitated  a  reduction  of  the  organization  to 
three  divisions.  The  ensuing  nine  months  —  July,  1863,  to  March,  1864 — were  spent  in  post 
or  garrison  duty,  with  some  reconnoissances  and  minor  expeditions  into  the  enemy's  country. 
On  the  15th  of  March,  1864,  the  troops  started  on  Banks'  Eed  River  Expedition,  his  Army 
consisting  of  parts  of  the  Thirteenth,  Sixteenth,  Seventeenth  and  Nineteenth  Corps.  Major- 
General  William  B.  Franklin  commanded  the  Nineteenth  Corps  on  this  expedition,  and  took 
with  him  the  First  (Emory's)  and  Second  (Grover's)  Divisions;  the  Third  Division  was  left  in 
the  defenses  of  New  Orleans.  Upon  the  arrival  of  Bank's  Army  at  Alexandria  the  Second 
Division  was  left  there,  while  the  First  moved  on  and  fought  at  Sabine  Cross  Roads.  In 
addition  to  the  battles  of  Sabine  Cross  Roads  and  Pleasant  Hill,  the  corps  was  engaged  in 
several  minor  actions  while  on  this  expedition. 

In  July,  1864,  the  First  and  Second  Divisions  proceeded  to  New  Orleans,  and  embarked 
for  Virginia,  leaving  the  rest  of  the  corps  in  Louisiana.  On  arriving  at  Washington  the  two 
divisions  were  ordered  into  Maryland  to  confront  Early's  invasion,  after  which  they  served  in 
the  Shenandoah  Valley,  in  Sheridan's  Army.  The  Nineteenth  Corps,  or  this  part  of  it,  was 
now  under  the  command  of  General  William  H.  Emory  ;  the  First  Division,  containing  17 
regiments,  was  commanded  by  General  William  Dwight  ;  the  Second  Division,  containing 
4  brigades,  21  regiments,  was  commanded  by  General  Cuvier  Grover.  The  returns  from  these 
two  divisions  for  August,  1864,  show  an  aggregate  of  21,640,  present  and  absent ;  14,645 
present,  with  13,176  present  for  duty.  Of  the  latter,  the  corps  lost  over  5,000  men  in  the 
Shenandoah  campaign.  It  lost  at  the  Opequon,  September  19th,  314  killed,  1,554  wounded, 
and  206  missing  ;  at  Fisher's  Hill,  September  22d,  15  killed,  86  wounded,  and  13  missing  ;  at 
Cedar  Creek,  October  19th,  257  killed,  1,336  wounded,  and  790  missing  ;  in  skirmishes  and 
on  the  picket  lines,  57  killed,  446  wounded,  and  13  missing  ;  in  all,  5,087  casualties.  At  the 
Opequon,  Grover's  Division  lost  1,527  men  out  of  6,797  taken  into  action,  or  present  for  duty 
before  the  battle. 

The  fighting  in  the  Valley  having  ended,  Grover's  (2d)  Division  was  ordered,  in  January, 


TUB  TWKNTIKTH  CORPS. 

1865,  to  proceed  to  Savannah,  where  it  was  followed  hy  the  First  Division,  which  left  the 
Valley  in  April.  The  latter  division  made  a  short  stay  at  Washington  hefore  sailing  for 
Savannah,  during  which  it  participated  in  the  Grand  Review  of  May  24,  1805.  The  Second 
Division  having  arrived  at  -Savannah,  General  G rover  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the 
district,  and  General  H.  W.  Birge  to  the  command  of  the  division.  In  March,  1S05,  Dirge's 
Division,  containing  three  brigades,  eighteen  regiments,  was  ordered  to  North  Carolina, 
where  it  was  attached  temporarily  to  the  Tenth  Corps  and  was  designated  as  the  First  Division 
of  that  corps.  The  Fourth  Brigade  of  Birge's  Division  was  left  at  Savannah,  the  whole 
division  returning  there  in  May.  The  Nineteenth  corps  remained  at  Savannah  and  vicinity 
until  August,  1805  ;  some  of  the  regiments  remained  until  1800.  The  corps  organization, 
however,  was  officially  discontinued  March  20,  1805. 

The  portion  of  the  corps  left  behind  at  New  Orleans  remained  in  the  Department  of  the 
Gulf,  and,  in  the  spring  of  18(55,  participated  with  the  Thirteenth  and  Sixteenth  corps  in 
General  Canby's  operations  against  Fort  Blakely,  Spanish  Fort,  and  Mobile. 

TWENTIETH  CORPS. 

(McCooK's.) 
STONE'S  RIVER  ;  LIBERTY  GAP  ;  CHICKAMAUOA. 

4 

Tins  corps  was  identical  with  that  part  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  or  Fourteenth 
Corps,  which  had  been  designated  as  the  Right  Wing  until  January  !',  ISO;},  when,  under 
General  Order  No.  9,  the  War  Department  directed  that  the  Right  Wing  be  set  apart  and 
designated  as  the  Twentieth  Corps.  Major-General  A.  McD.  McCook,  its  former  com 
mander,  and  Generals  Davis,  Johnson,  and  Sheridan,  its  former  generals  of  division,  were 
retained  in  command. 

The  troops  composing  u  McCook's  Corps,"  as  it  was  generally  called  in  the  army,  were 
veterans  who  li;id  \\-iili-liMp.l  ilir  fire  of  li.-ml  fought  fields.  Many  of  the  regiments  had 
fought  at  Shiloh,  and  at  Chaplin  Hills,  and  all  of  them  were  engaged  at  Stone's  River. 
McCook  had  distinguished  himself  at  Shiloh,  where  his  division  contributed  largely  to  Buell's 
success  in  the  second  day's  battle;  also  at  Chaplin  Hills,  in  which  battle  his  command  was 
almost  the  only  force  engaged.  The  Twentieth  Corps,  at  the  time  it  was  so  designated,  con 
tained  the  same  troops  which  fought  at  Stone's  River,  with  the  same  organization  of  divis 
ions  and  brigades.  There  were  three  divisions,  each  containing  three  brigades  ;  in  all,  37  regi 
ments  of  infantry,  and  9  batteries  of  light  artillery,  one  battery  being  attached  to  each 
brigade.  It  numbered,  just  before  the  battle  of  Stone's  River,  13,77!)  present  for  duty. 

After  Rosecrans'  victory  at  Stone's  River,  the  Twentieth  Corps  advanced  with  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland  and  occupied  Murfreesboro,  where  it  remained  until  June,  1803.  The 
advance  on  Chattanooga  then  commenced,  during  which  the  corps  encountered  the  enemy  at 
Liberty  Gap,  Tenn.,  on  the  25th  of  June.  Its  casualties  in  that  action  amounted  to  42  killed, 
231  wounded,  and  1  missing ;  total,  274. 

It  accompanied  Rosecrans  across  the  Cumberland  Mountains  in  his  inn-suit  of  Bragg,  and 
on  Sept.  19th  fought  at  Chickamauga.  In  this  battle  McCook's  Corps  took  eight  brigades, 
12,480  men,  into  action  ;  it  lost  423  killed,  2, OD8  wounded,  and  1,215  missing  ;  total,  4, 33<-,. 
One  brigade --Post's  (1st)  Brigade,  Davis'  (1st)  Division  --  was  not  engaged,  l>eing  absent 
guarding  a  supply  train. 

On  September  28th,  1803,  the  Twentieth  and  Twenty-first  Corps  were  consolidated,  form 
ing  the  Fourth  Corps,  Army  of  the  Cuml»erland.  .  By  this  arrangement  General  McCook 
was  left  without  a  command. 


104  REGIMENTAL    LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

TWENTIETH  CORPS. 
(HOOKER'S). 

ROCKY  FACE  RIDGE  ;  RESACA  ;  CASSVILLE  ;  NEW  HOPE  CHURCH  ;  DALLAS  ;  PINE  KNOB  ; 
GOLGOTHA;  CULP'S  FARM  ;  KENESAW  MOUNTAIN  ;  PEACH  TREE  CREEK  ;  SIEGE  OF  ATLANTA  ; 
MARCH  TO  THE  SEA  ;  SIEGE  OP  SAVANNAH  ;  ARGYLE  ISLAND  ;  MONTEITH  SWAMP  ;  AVERASBORO  ; 
BENTONVILLE  ;  NASHVILLE.* 

This  corps  was  formed  April  4,  1864,  by  taking  the  Twelfth  Corps,  which  was  composed 
of  the  veteran  divisions  of  Williams  and  Geary,  and  adding  to  it  Butterfield's  newly  organ 
ized  division.  At  the  same  time,  two  divisions  of  the  Eleventh  Corps  f  were  broken  up  and 
distributed  to  the  divisions  of  Williams,  Geary  and  Butter-field.  The  badge  of  the  Twelfth 
Corps  was  retained,  and  there  was  no  good  reason  why  its  number  should  not  have  been 
retained  also  ;  the  brigade  and  division  generals  of  the  Twelfth  Corps  retained  their  respect 
ive  commands,  and  little  change  was  made  other  than  the  increase  by  accessions  of  trans 
ferred  material. 

Each  division  now  contained  three  brigades,  containing  in  all  52  regiments  of  infantry, 

and  6  batteries  of  light  artillery,  numbering  21,280  officers  and  men  present  for  duty.  It  was 
all  veteran  material,  the  most  of  the  regiments  having  served  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
in  many  of  the  greatest  battles  of  the  war,  and,  later  on,  at  Wauhatchie  and  Lookout 
Mountain.  Major-General  Joseph  Hooker  was  placed  in  command.  It  was  a  grand  corps,  and 
worthy  of  the  hero  who  was  to  lead  it. 

In  addition  to  the  three  divisions  of  Williams,  Geary  and  Butterfield,  there  was  a  Fourth 
Division,  under  command  of  Major-General  Lovell  H.  Rousseau.  This  division  was 
detached  on  post  or  garrison  duty  and  never  joined  the  corps ;  in  fact,  the  men  of  the 
Twentieth  were  unaware  of  the  existence  of  a  Fourth  Division.  A  part  of  Rousseau's 
Division  was  engaged  in  the  Tennessee  campaign  against  Hood,  in  1864,  and  was  present  at 
the  battle  of  Nashville. 

The  Twentieth  Corps  started,  May  4,  1864,  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  and  during  the  next 
four  months  participated  in  all  the  important  battles,  its  hardest  fighting  occurring  at  Resaca, 
May  15th,  at  New  Hope  Church,  May  25th,  and  at  Peach  Tree  Creek,  July  20th.  It  was 
also  actively  engaged  in  the  investment  and  siege  of  Atlanta,  sustaining  losses  daily  in  killed 
and  wounded  while  occupying  the  trenches.  During  the  four  months  fighting  from  Chatta 
nooga  to  Atlanta,  it  lost  over  7,000  men  killed,  wounded  and  missing.  Before  reaching 
Atlanta,  Hooker  had  a  disagreement  with  Sherman,  and  asked  to  be  relieved.  He  was  suc 
ceeded  by  Major-General  Henry  W.  Slocum,  the  former  commander  of  the  Twelfth  Corps, 
and  one  of  the  ablest  generals  in  the  Union  armies.  General  Butterfield,  commanding  the 
Third  Division,  was  succeeded  during  the  campaign  by  General  William  C.  Ward.  Upon  the 
evacuation  of  Atlanta,  some  troops  of  the  Twentieth  Corps — Coburn's  Brigade  of  Ward's 
Division — were  the  first  to  enter  and  occupy  the  city,  the  entire  corps  remaining  there  to  hold 
their  important  prize,  while  Sherman  and  the  rest  of  the  Army  marched  in  pursuit  of  Hood. 

On  November  15,  1864,  Sherman  and  his  men  started  on  their  grand  march  through 
Georgia  to  the  Sea,  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland -- Fourteenth  and  Twentieth  Corps  - 
forming  the  Right  Wing,  under  command  of  General  Slocum.  General  A.  S.  Williams,  of 
the  First  Division,  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  corps,  with  Jackson,  Geary,  and  Ward  as 
division  generals.  When  it  started  on  this  march,  the  corps  numbered  13,741,  present  for 
duty,  and  contained  47  regiments  of  infantry,  1  of  engineers,  1  of  pontoniers,  and  4  batteries 

*  Rousseau's  Fourth  Division  (20th  A.  C.)  participated  in  the  battle  of  Nashville. 

t  One  division  of  the  Eleventh  Corps  (Sehimmelfennig's)  had  been  sent  to  South  Carolina, 


TllK   TWKNTY-FlKST   CORPS.  105 

of  light  artillery.  It  was  actively  engaged  at  the  siege  of  Savannah,  and  upon  Hartley's 
evacuation,  Decemher  20th,  Geary's  Division  was  the  first  to  enter  the  city. 

Leaving  Savannah  in  February,  1805,  the  Army  marched  northward  through  the  Caro- 
linas,  and  at  the  battle  of  Averasboro  (N.  C.),  the  Twentieth  Corps  was  the  only  infantry 
engaged  ;  loss,  77  killed,  and  47.~>  wounded.  Three  days  later,  Jackson's  and  Ward's  Divis 
ions  were  hotly  engaged  in  General  Slocum's  battle  at  Bentonville.  At  the  close  of  the  cam 
paign,  in  April,  1865,  Major-General  Joseph  A.  Mower  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the 
corps,  whereupon  General  Williams  resumed  his  old  command,  that  of  the  First,  or 
KVd  Si;ir  I  MYI-IMII. 

Williams,  whose  commission  as  brigadier  dated  May  17,  istil,  had  commanded  tliis  division 
from  the  beginning  of  the  war.  It  was  remarkable  as  being  the  only  division  which  served 
during  the  war  without  a  change  of  commander.  Williams  commanded  it  at  Winchester,  May, 

1862,  and  rode  at  its  head  in  the  Grand  Review  of  May,  1865  ;  lie  was  absent  only  when  in 
temporary  command  of  the  corps.     He  commanded  the  Twelfth  Corps  at  Antietam,  Mansfield 
having  been  killed  while  going  into  action  ;  also,  at  Gettysburg,  Slocum  being  in  command 
then  of  the  Right  Wing.     He  also  commanded  the  Twentieth  Corps  while  on  the  March  to  the 
Sea  and  through  the  Carolinas ;  at  the  battles  of  Averasboro  and  Bentonville.     He  was  an 
able  officer,  enjoying  to  the  fullest  extent  the  respect  and  confidence  of  every  officer  and  man 
in  his  division.     Denied  the  commission  of  a  major-general  which  he  had  earned  so  well,  and 
superseded  in  command  of  his  corps,  the  gallant  old  patriot  made  no  sign  of  complaint,  and 
continued  to  serve  his  country    faithfully  and  well.     The  persistent   refusal   to   recognize 
Williams'  services  together  with  the  influence  and  motives  which  prompted  such  action  were 
discreditable,  to  say  the  least. 

The  campaign  in  the  Carolinas  having  ended  in  Johnston's  surrender,  the  Twentieth 
Corps  marched  oil  to  Washington,  where  it  participated  in  the  Grand  Review,  and  was  then 
disbanded. 

TWENTY-FIRST  CORPS. 
STONE'S  RIVER  ;  CHICKAMAUGA. 

On  the  7th  of  November,  1862,  General  Rosecrans  divided  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland 

-then  known  as  the  Fourteenth  Army  Corps --into  the  Right  Wing,  Centre,  and  Left  Wing. 

The  organization  of  the  left  wing,  as  then  arranged,  remained  unchanged  until  January  9, 

1863,  when,  by  authority  of  the  War  Department,  General  Order  No.  9,  its  designation  was 
changed  to  that  of  the  Twenty-first  Corps.     No  other  change  was  made,  the  different  brigades 
and  divisions  remaining  as  before. 

The  left  wing,  or  Twenty-first  Corps,  was  organized  with  Major-General  Thomas  L. 
Crittenden  in  command,  and  contained  the  three  divisions  of  W.  S.  Smith,  Van  Cleve,  and 
Hascall.  At  the  battle  of  Stone's  River  the  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals  Thos.  J. 
Wood,  Palmer,  and  Van  Cleve.  The  three  divisions  contained  three  brigades  each  ;  in  all, 
38  regiments  of  infantry,  and  8  batteries  of  light  artillery.  The  losses  of  the  left  wing  at 
Stone's  River  amounted  to  650  killed,  3,006  wounded,  and  873  missing  ;  total,  4,529,  out  of 
12,909  officers  and  men  engaged. 

After  this  battle  the  enemy  fell  back,  whereupon  Rosecrans'  Army  occupied  Murf reesboro, 
remaining  encamped  there,  or  in  its  vicinity,  until  June,  1S63,  when  another  forward  move 
ment  took  place  which  ended  in  the  battle  of  Chickamauga  and  in  the  permanent  occupation 
of  Chattanooga.  The  Twenty-first  Corps  fought  at  Chickamauga  under  the  same  corps  and 
division  generals  as  at  Stone's  River.  The  organization  was  the  same,  3  divisions  of 
brigades  each  ;  the  regiments,  however  (38  in  number),  had  diminished  in  size.  The  corps 


106  EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

numbered,  at  Chickamauga,  14,040  present  for  duty.  Wagner's  (2d)  Brigade,  of  Wood's  (1st) 
Division,  was  not  engaged,  having  been  left  on  duty  at  Chattanooga.  Two  regiments  were 
also  detailed  elsewhere,  leaving  11,480  men  in  action.  Of  this  number,  the  corps  lost  322 
killed,  2,382  wounded,  and  699  missing  ;  total,  3,403. 

There  seems  to  be  a  general  impression  that,  after  the  disaster  at  Chickamauga,  the  day 
was  saved  solely  by  Thomas'  Corps.  In  justice  to  the  gallant  men  of  Crittenden's  command, 
it  should  be  stated  that  Palmer's  Division  of  the  Twenty-first  Corps  fought  with  Thomas  during 
the  whole  battle ;  and  that  General  Wood  with  two  brigades  of  his  own  division,  and  one 
from  Van  Cleve's  which  was  not  cut  off,  went  to  the  aid  of  Thomas  on  the  second  day. 

Soon  after  this  battle  the  Twentieth  and  the  Twenty-first  Corps  were  consolidated, 
forming  the  Fourth  Corps.  General  Crittenden  was  left  without  a  command,  but  was  subse 
quently  assigned  to  a  division  in  the  Ninth  Corps,  Army  of  the  Potomac,  while  on  the 
Wilderness  campaign  of  the  following  spring. 


TWENTY-SECOND  CORPS. 
FORT  STEVENS. 

This  organization  comprised  the  troops  occupying  the  defenses  of  Washington.  It  was 
organized  February  2,  1863,  with  Major-General  S.  P.  Heintzelman.  in  command.  He  was 
succeeded  by  Major-General  C.  C.  Augur,  who  was  in  command  at  the  time  of  Eaiiy's  in 
vasion  in  July,  1864. 

At  that  time  the  Confederate  troops  advanced  within  the  limits  of  the  city  of  Washing 
ton,  and  a  severe  battle  was  fought  at  Fort  Stevens,  in  the  outskirts  of  the  city.  In  this 
battle  the  principal  part  of  the  fighting  devolved  upon  the  Sixth  Corps  ;  but  prior  to  its 
arrival,  Hardin's  Division  of  the  Twenty -second  Corps  held  the  skirmish  line  and  the  outer 
line  of  works,  confronting  Early's  advance,  Hardin's  troops  were  under  fire  and  became 
engaged  at  various  points  on  the  line,  their  losses  amounting  to  Y3,  killed  and  wounded. 

The  roster  of  the  corps  was  continually  changing,  as  the  Department  was  being  con 
tinually  drawn  upon  for  reinforcements  for  the  field,  thereby  preventing  anything  like  a 
continuous  organization.  At  one  time,  the  corps  was  commanded  by  Major-General  Jno.  G. 
Parke,  while  among  its  various  division  commanders  were  Generals  Hardin,  De  Russy  and 
Hascall. 

TWENTY-THIRD   CORPS. 

LENOIR  ;  BLUE  SPRINGS  ;  CAMPBELL'S  STATION  ;  KNOXVILLE  ;  MOSSY  CREEK  ;  DANDRIDGE  ; 
WALKER'S  FORD  ;  STRAWBERRY  PLAINS  ;  ROCKY  FACE  RIDGE  ;  RESACA  ;  CASSVILLE  ;  DALLAS  ; 
PINE  MOUNTAIN  ;  LOST  MOUNTAIN  ;  GULP'S  FARM  ;  KENESAW  ;  CHATTAHOOCHIE  ;  DECATUR  ; 
SIEGE  OF  ATLANTA  ;  UTOY  CREEK  ;  LOVEJOY'S  STATION  ;  COLUMBIA  ;  SPRING  HILL  ;  FRANKLIN  ; 
NASHVILLE  ;  FORT  ANDERSON,  N.  C. ;  TOWN  CREEK  ;  WILMINGTON  ;  KINSTON  ;  GOLDSBORO. 

General  Burnside  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Department  of  the  Ohio  in  the 
spring  of  1863,  his  district  including  Kentucky  and  East  Tennessee.  The  Ninth  Corps  left 
Virginia  at  this  time  and  was  assigned  to  his  command  ;  but,  having  planned  an  active  cam 
paign  in  East  Tennessee,  and  needing  additional  troops,  he  organized  the  Twenty-third  Corps 
from  the  regiments  then  stationed  in  Kentucky. 

This  new  corps  was  formed  April  27,  1863,  with  Major- General  George  L.  Hartsuff  in 
command.  Generals  Julius  White  and  Milo  S.  Hascall  were  assigned  to  division  commands. 


THK  TWENTY-THIRD  CORPS.  107 

The  proposed  campaign  in  East  Tennessee  was  postponed,  as  the  Ninth  Corps  was  ordered  to 
Vicksburg,  to  reinforce  Grant's  army  ;  but  in  August,  the  Ninth  Corps  returned  to  Ken 
lucky,  and  the  advance  of  the  Twenty-third  commenced.  The  Second  Division  (\VhiteV) 
made  its  rendezvous  at  New  Market,  from  whence  it  marched  on  the  10th,  arriving  at  London, 
Tenn.,  on  the  4th  of  September.  General  Longstreet's  Corps  had  been  detach**!  from  Lee's 
Army,  and,  in  Octol>er,  1803,  marched  into  East  Tennessee  to  drive  out  Bnrnside's  Army  <»f 
the  Ohio,  as  the  united  forces  of  the  Ninth  and  Twenty-third  Corps  were  then  designated. 
The  fighting  was  continuous,  minor  engagements  occurring  almost  daily,  and  on  November 
16th  a  spirited  battle  occurred  at  Campbell's  Station,  in  which  White's  Division  was  actively 
engaged.  Burnside  moved  next  to  Knoxville,  which  place  was  invested  and  finally  assaulted 
by  Longstreet,  but  without  success.  At  Campbell's  Station,  and  at  Knoxville,  the  corps  was 
commanded  by  General  Mahlon  D.  Manson. 

In  August,  1863,  Mahan's  Brigade?  of  Indiana  troops  was  assigned  to  the  Third  Division. 
These  regiments  were  recruited  for  six  months'  service  only,  and  returned  to  Indiana  in  Feb 
ruary,  1864.  They  served  in  East  Tennessee,  and  were  present  at  Blue  Springs  and  Walker's 
Ford. 

On  the  4th  of  April,  1*64,  Major-General  John  M.  Schofield  was  assigned  to  the  corps,  and 
he  commanded  it  during  the  Atlanta  campaign,  which  was  the  most  eventful  period  of  its  exist 
ence.  In  the  spring  of  18f!4,Hovey's  Division  of  Indiana  troops,  newly  recruited,  joined  the  corps 
at  Charleston,  Tenn.,  and  was  designated  as  the  First  Division.  The  Second  Division  was 
commanded  by  General  Henry  M.  Judah,  and  the  Third  Division  by  General  Jacob  I).  Cox, 
with  which  organization  it  started  on  the  Atlanta  campaign.  But  on  June  (5,  1804,  the  First 
Division  was  broken  up  and  divided  between  the  other  two  divisions.  While  on  the  Atlanta 
campaign.  General  Judah  was  succeeded  by  General  Hascall  in  the  command  of  the  Second 
Division.  The  greatest  loss  of  the  corps  during  that  campaign  was  sustained  May  14,  180:, 
at  the  battle  of  Resaca.  It  also  encountered  some  hard  fighting  near  Kenesaw  and  at  Utoy 
Creek. 

After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  and  while  Sherman's  Army  was  wending  its  way  to  the  Sea, 
the  Twenty-third  Corps  joined  Thomas'  Army  in  the  Tennessee  campaign  against  Hood.  Tin- 
corps  was  still  under  the  command  of  General  Schofield,  while  the  two  divisions,  Second  and 
Third,  were  commanded,  respectively,  by  Generals  Ruger  and  Cox.  These  two  divisions 
ontained  30  regiments  of  infantry  and  4  batteries  of  light  artillery.  Their  returns  for 
October  31,  18(54, —  just  before  stalling  on  the  Tennessee  campaign  show  1 0,0:24  officers  and 
men  present  for  duty.  The  corps  was  actively  engaged  at  the  battle  of  Franklin,  but  at 
Nashville  it  was  largely  held  in  reserve.  In  the  latter  action,  Ruger's  (2d)  Division  was  com 
manded  by  Major-General  Darius  N.  Couch. 

In  January,  1865.  the  corps  moved  from  Nashville,  via  Washington,  to  North  Carolina, 
Cox's  Division  landing  at  Fort  Fisher,  February  i»,  1865.  Moving  up  the  river,  the  corps  fought 
at  Fort  Anderson,  and  at  Wilmington,  February  ^Ist,  capturing  the  latter  place.  In  the 
meantime,  another  division  was  formed,  and  designated  as  the  First  Division,  with  General 
Ruger  in  command.  This  division  was  actively  engaged  in  the  victory  at  Kinston,  N.  C. 
(Wise's  Forks),  which  resulted  in  the  occupation  of  Goldsboro.  General  Cox  succeeded 
Schofield,  the  latter  having  been  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Army  of  the  Ohio,  which, 
since  the  arrival  of  the  Twenty-third  Corps  in  North  Carolina,  comprised  two  corps  —  the 
Tenth  (Terry's)  and  Twenty-third.  On  the  loth  of  April,  1805,  the  Twenty-third  Corps 
numbered  14,21)3  present  for  duty,  and  was  composed  of  three  divisions  -  -Ruger's,  Couch's, 
and  Carter's.  It  remained  in  North  Carolina  while  Sherman's  Army,  with  which  it  had 
made  a  junction  at  Goldsboro,  marched  northward  to  Washington.  The  corps  was  discon 
tinued  on  August  1,  1865,  many  of  the  regiments  having  Ixnm  mustered  out  before  that. 


108  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

TWENTY-FOURTH   CORPS. 

BERMUDA  HUNDRED  ;  FORT  FISHER  ;  PETERSBURG  ;  HATCHER'S  RUN,  March  30th  ;  FORT 
GREGG  ;  RICE'S  STATION  ;  FALL  OF  RICHMOND  ;  CLOVER  HILL  ;  APPOMATTOX. 

The  white  troops  of  the  Tenth  and  Eighteenth  Corps  were  assembled  in  one  command, 
and  organized,  December  3,  1864,  as  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  with  Major-General  Edward 
O.  Ord  in  command.  The  troops  of  the  Tenth  Corps  were  assigned  to  the  First  and  Second 
Divisions,  while  the  regiments  of  the  Eighteenth  Corps  were  placed  in  the  Third  Division. 
The  three  divisions  were  commanded  by  Generals  Foster,  Ames  and  Devens,  and  were 
stationed  on  the  north  bank  of  the  James,  in  front  of  Richmond.  As  before  the  consolida 
tion,  these  troops  remained  in  the  Army  of  the  James. 

Ames'  (2d)  Division  did  not  remain  long  in  the  corps  In  December,  1864,  it  left  its 
quarters  and  embarked  for  North  Carolina,  forming  part  of  Butler's  expedition  to  Fort 
Fisher.  Butler's  troops  returned  without  having  accomplished  anything  ;  but,  in  January, 
Ames'  three  brigades  were  ordered  to  return  to  Fort  Fisher,  this  second  expedition  being 
entrusted  to  the  command  of  General  Alfred  H.  Terry,  the  former  commander  of  the  Tenth 
Corps.  Abbott's  Brigade,  of  the  First  Division,  also  accompanied  Terry's  Expedition.  These 
troops  — Ames'  Division  and  Abbott's  Brigade  -  -  were  the  ones  which  won  the  famous  victory 
at  Fort  Fisher,  January  15,  1865.  They  never  rejoined  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  but 
remained  in  North  Carolina,  where  they  formed  a  nucleus  for  a  revival  of  the  organization  of 
the  Tenth  Corps. 

In  December,  1864,  while  Ames'  Division  was  absent  on  the  first  expedition  to  Fort 
Fisher,  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps  was  reinforced  by  the  First  Division,  Eighth  Corps.  This 
was  a  veteran  body  of  troops  -  -  formerly  Thoburn's  Division  -  -  which  had  seen  long  and 
active  service  in  West  Virginia  and  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  It  was  transferred  to  the 
Twenty-fourth  Corps,  the  fighting  in  the  Valley  having  ended,  and  arrived  December  25th  on 
the  banks  of  the  James,  where  it  took  possession  of  the  abandoned  quarters  of  the  Fort 
Fisher  division.  These  troops  from  West  Virginia  (t)  regiments)  were  designated  an  Inde 
pendent  Division,  and  General  John  W.  Turner,  formerly  a  division-general  in  the  Tenth 
Corps,  was  assigned  to  its  command.  The  Twenty-fourth  Corps  now  consisted  of  three 
divisions,  Foster's,  Devens'  and  Turner's,  containing  42  infantry  regiments,  and  numbering 
18,148  present  for  duty,  equipped. 

On  January  1,  1865,  General  Butler  was  relieved  from  the  command  of  the  Army  of  the 
James -- Twenty-fourth  and  Twenty-fifth  Corps  —  and  General  Ord  was  appointed  in  his 
place.  Major-General  John  Gibbon,  an  able  and  distinguished  division-general  of  the  Second 
Corps,  became  the  commander  of  the  Twenty-fourth.  But  little  fighting  had  occurred  on  the 
north  bank  of  the  James  since  the  organization  of  the  corps,  except  a  minor  affair  at  Spring 
Hill,  December  10,  1864,  in  which  Longstreet  made  a  sortie  against  the  extreme  right  of  the 
Union  line. 

On  the  27th  of  March,  1865,  Foster's  and  Turner's  Divisions  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps, 
with  one  division  of  the  Twenty-fifth,  all  under  command  of  General  Ord,  Army  of  the  James 
(General  Gibbon  commanding  his  corps),  crossed  to  the  south  banks  of  the  James  and  Appo- 
mattox  Rivers,  and  joined  the  main  army  at  Hatcher's  Run,  where  they  participated  in  the 
preliminary  movements  of  the  final,  grand  campaign.  In  the  general  and  victorious  assault 
on  Petersburg,  April  2,  1865,  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps  was  assigned  to  the  duty  of  assaulting 
Forts  Gregg  and  Whitworth,  which  they  carried  by  a  determined  and  brilliant  attack  ;  but 
not  without  a  serious  loss,  and  a  final  struggle  in  which  bayonets  were  used.  General  Gibbon 
describes  this  assault  as  one  of  the  most  desperate  in  the  war. 


THK  TWENTY-FIFTH  CORPS.  109 

The  full  of  Petersburg  immediately  followed  as  the  result  of  the  victorious  assaults  of  the 
Twenty-fourth,  Sixth,  and  Ninth  Corps,  after  which  the  Twenty-fourth  joined  in  tin*  pursuit 
of  Lee's  Army.  During  this  pursuit  it  had  a  sharp  tight,  April  Oth,  at  Rice's  Station,  or  Higli 
Bridge.  On  April  Dth,  the  day  of  Lee's  surrender,  the  corps  was  sharply  engaged  in  the 
forenoon,  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps  having  the  honor  of  making  the  last  infantry  fight  of  that 
campaign,  and  of  the  war.  Gibbon  arrived  at  Appomattox  Court  House  about  ten  o'clock, 
and  intercepted  Lee's  troops  who  were  driving  the  cavalry  back  in  their  attempt  to  escape. 
General  Ord,  commanding  at  that  time  the  Twenty-fourth,  Fifth,  and  Twenty-fifth  (colored) 
Corps,  states  that  the  arrival  of  his  command  was  opportune;  that  "in  spite  of  General 
Sheridan's  attempts,  the  cavalry  was  falling  back  in  confusion  before  Lee's  infantry;"  and 
that  his  troops  "soon  deployed  and  went  in,  Gibbon  at  double-quick,  with  Foster's  and 
Turner's  Divisions  in  beautiful  style."  After  a  short,  sharp  action  a  white  flagapi>eared  at  an 
adjoining  part  of  Ord's  line,  whereupon  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps  was  ordered  to  cease  firing. 
The  last  infantry-volley  of  the  war  had  been  fired.  This  fight,  on  the  day  of  Leo's  surrender, 
was  known  by  the  troops  as  Clover  Hill.  During  this  campaign,  March  2'.»th  to  April  »th, 
-  from  Hatcher's  Run  to  Appomattox -- the  Twenty-fourth  Corps  lost  1-i'J  killed,  and  505 
wounded  ;  total,  714. 

When  General  Ord  moved  the  Army  of  the  James  to  Petersburg,  March  27,  1805,  ho  left 
Devens'  (3d)  Division  of  the  Twenty-fourth,  and  one  division  of  the  Twenty-fifth,  in  front  of 
Richmond,  on  the  north  bank  of  the  James.  Upon  the  fall  of  Petersburg  these  troops,  under 
General  Weitzel,  the  commander  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Corps,  marched  on  Richmond,  and 
encountering  little  or  no  opposition  entered  that  city  on  the  3d  of  April.  Foster's  and  Turner's 
Divisions  returned  to  Richmond  after  the  victory  at  Appomattox,  and  the  corps  remained  in 
Virginia  until  August  1,  1S05,  when  the  existence  of  the  organization  ceased  officially,  many 
of  the  regiments  having  already  returned  to  their  homes.  Although  this  corps  does  not  dis 
play  any  long  list  of  battles,  it  should  be  remembered  that  its  regiments  were  veterans  of 
many  hard-fought  fields  before  they  were  assigned  to  it.  They  had  withstood  the  shock  of 
many  battles,  and  their  banners  were  inscribed  with  the  names  of  historic  fields. 

TWENTY-FIFTH  CORPS. 

BERMUDA  HUNDRED  ;  FORT  FISHER  ;  PETERSBURG  ;  HATCHER'S  RUN*  ;  FORT  GREGG  ;  FALL 
OP  RICHMOND  ;  RICE'S  STATION  ;  CLOVER  HILL  ;  APPOMATTOX. 

This  organization  was  composed  of  the  colored  troops  previously  belonging  to  the  Tenth 
and  Eighteenth  Corps,  and  which  were  consolidated  for  the  purpose  of  forming  an  Army 
Corps  composed  entirely  of  black  regiments.  It  was  organized  December  3,  1804,  and  Major- 
General  Godfre)  Weitzel  was  placed  in  command.  1 1  was 'composed  of  the  divisions  of  Gi  n 
erals  Kautz,  Birney  (Wm.),  and  Paine,  containing  in  all  32  regiments  of  infantry  and  1  of 
cavalry.  Its  returns  for  February,  1805,  show  a  strength  of  13,030  —  infantry,  cavalry,  and 
artillery,  the  latter  carrying  5(5  guns. 

In  January,  1805,  Paine's  Division  sailed  with  Terry's  Expedition  to  Fort  Fisher,  where 
it  rendered  effective  service  during  that  memorable  action,  although  it  did  not  form  a  part  of 
the  column  of  assault.  Paine's  Division  did  not  rejoin  the  corps,  but  remained  in  North  Car 
olina,  and  when  the  Tenth  Corps  was  reorganized  became  the  Third  Division  of  that  corps. 

On  the  27th  of  March,  1805,  Birney 's  (2d)  Division  accompanied  the  Army  of  the  James 

-General  Ord's  command --on  its  marcl i  from  the  James  River  to  Hatcher's  Run,  Kautz' 

(1st)  Division  remaining  in  the  defenses  of  Bermuda  Hundred.     Birney 's  Division  was  present 

in  the  fighting  at  the  fall  of  Petersburg,  after  which  it  joined  in  the  pursuit  of  Lee's  Army, 

and  participated  in  the  closing  battle  at  Clover  Hill,  April  yth,  the  day  of  Lee's  surrender. 


110  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

In  the  meantime,  Kautz'  Division  accompanied  General  Weitzel  to  Richmond,  the  colored 
troops  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Corps  being  the  first  to  enter  that  city.  In  May,  1805,  the  corps 
accompanied  General  Weitzel  to  Texas,  where  it  joined  the  Army  of  Occupation,  and 
remained  until  January  8,  1860,  when  the  corps  was  discontinued,  it  being  the  last  corps 
mustered  out.  Many  of  the  regiments  had  been  previously  mustered  out  in  the  summer  and 

fall  of  1865. 

In  addition  to  the  list  of  battles  belonging  properly  to  the  Twenty-fifth  Corps,  the  col 
ored  regiments  of  that  command  had  fought  with  honor  at  the  Petersburg  Assault,  the  Mine 
Explosion  at  Deep  Bottom,  Chaffiirs  Farm,  Fort  Gilmer,  Darbytowii  Road,  and  Fair  Oaks. 


CAVALRY  CORPS. 
(ARMY  OF  THE  POTOMAC.) 

STONEMAN'S  RAID  ;  CHANCELLORSVILLE  ;  GREENWICH  ;  BEVERLY  FORD  ;  ALDIE  ;  MIDDLE- 
BURG  ;  UPPERVILLE  ;  HANOVER  ;  GETTYSRURG  ;  MONTEREY  ;  FAIRFIELD  ;  HAGERSTOWN  ;  WIL- 
LIAMSPORT  ;  BOONSBORO  ;  FALLING  WATERS  ;  SHEPHERDSTOWN  ;  MANASSAS  GAP  ;  KELLY'S 
FORD  ;  BRANDY  STATION  :  CULPEPER  ;  RACCOON  FORD  ;  WHITE'S  FORD  ;  RAPIDAN  ;  JAMES 
Cm  ;  WHITE  SULPHUR  SPRINGS  ;  BUCKLAND'S  MILLS  ;  STEVENSBURG  ;  MINE  RUN  ;  AVERELL'S 
RAID  ;  BARNETT'S  FORD  ;  KILPATRICK'S  RAID  ;  KAUTZ'  RAID  ;  PARKER'S  STORE  ;  TODD'S  TAV 
ERN  ;  NORTH  ANNA  ;  SOUTH  ANNA  ;  YELLOW  TAVERN  ;  MEADOW  BRIDGE  ;  MILFORD  STATION  ; 
HAWES'  SHOP  ;  HANOVER  COURT  HOUSE  ;  ASHLAND  ;  OLD  CHURCH  ;  COLD  HARBOR  ;  TREVIL- 
IAN  STATION  ;  ST.  MARY'S  CHURCH  ;  WHITE  HOUSE  LANDING  ;  NOTTOWAY  COURT  HOUSE  ;  STONY 
CREEK  ;  WILSON'S  RAID  ;  REAM'S  STATION  ;  STAUNTON  BRIDGE  ;  MOOREFIELD  ;  LURAY  ;  WHITE 
POST  ;  SMITHFIELD  ;  BERRYVILLE  ;  OPEQUON  ;  WOODSTOCK  ;  WAYNESBORO  ;  NEW  MARKET  ; 
TOM'S  BROOK  ;  CEDAR  CREEK  ;  HATCHER'S  RUN  ;  NEWTOWN  ;  ROOD'S  HILL  ;  DARBYTOWN 
ROAD  ;  BKLLEFIELD  ;  SHERIDAN'S  RAID  ;  MOUNT  CRAWFORD  ;  DINWIDDIE  COURT  HOUSE  ;  FIVE 
FORKS  ;  AMELIA  SPRINGS  ;  SAILOR'S  CREEK  ;  CLOVER  HILL  ;  APPOMATTOX. 

This  list  covers  only  the  more  important  of  the  numerous  battles  in  which  the  Cavalry  of 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac  were  engaged.  It  would  be  almost  impossible  to  enumerate  all  the 
minor  actions  and  affairs  in  which  it  participated,  as  not  a  day  passed  but,  somewhere,  at 
least,  a  battalion  or  regiment  was  under  fire.  From  Beverly  Ford  to  Appomattox,  a  "dead 
cavalryman  "  could  have  been  seen  any  day  of  the  year  in  answer  to  Hooker's  famous  query. 

The  first  organization  of  the  cavalry  into  one  command  was  made  in  April,  1803,  and 
Major-General  George  Stoneman  was  placed  at  its  head.  It  numbered  11,402  men  present 
for  duty,  and  was  divided  into  three  commands  under  Generals  Pleasanton,  Buford  and 
Averell.  Stoiieman's  corps  made  a  raid  on  the  enemy's  rear  during  the  Chancellorsville  cam 
paign,  but,  owing  to  various  causes,  the  movement  did  not  produce  the  favorable  results 
expected.  Hooker,  being  dissatisfied,  relieved  Stoneman  and  put  Major-General  Alfred  Pleas 
anton  in  his  place. 

On  June  9,  1803,  the  corps  was  engaged  at  Beverly's  Ford.  Va.,  in  a  battle  which  was 
largely  a  cavalry  affair  on  both  sides.  From  this  battle  dates  the  efficiency  of  the  cavalry  arm 
of  the  service  in  the  war.  Particular  regiments  had  often  demonstrated  their  efficiency  on 
previous  occasions,  but  until  this  battle  the  cavalry  had  not  shown  its  ability  to  act  as  an 
independent  body.  Pleasanton  took  about  9,000  sabres  to  Beverly  Ford,  one-third  of  which, 
however,  were  not  engaged  ,  Duffle's  Division  having  been  detached  to  hold  a  position  else 
where.  The  three  divisions  were  commanded  bv  Generals  Buford,  Duffle  and  Gregg.  A 


CAVALRY  CORPS.  1 1 1 

proper  compliment  of  horse  artillery  was  attached,  and  two  brigades  of  infantry  were  also 
present  in  support.  Casualties  at  Beverly's  Ford,  484  killed  and  wounded,  not  including  cap 
tured  or  missing. 

More  hard  fighting  occurred  at  Aldie  and  Middleburg(June  1 7th  and  I'.'th),  one  of  the  passes 
of  the  mountains  which  screened  Lee's  advance  into  Pennsylvania,  the  cavalry  losing  in  these 
two  actions  6*3  killed,  177  wounded,  and  10 1  missing;  total,  404.  At  Gettysburg,  the  Cav 
alry  Corps  was  still  under  Pleasanton's  command,  with  Buford,  Gregg  and  Kilpatrick  as 
division-generals,  and  numbered  11,000  sabres  and  27  guns.  Two  brigades  of  horse  artillery 
-  Robertson's  and  Tidball's,  9  batteries  -  -  were  attached  to  the  corps  previous  to  this  cam 
paign.  Cavalry  fought  with  cavalry  at  Gettysburg,  the  fighting  occurring  mostly  on  the 
extreme  right  of  the  Union  line.  Kilpatrick  had  a  fight,  also,  on  the  left,  in  which  General 
Farnsworth  was  killed.  The  casualties  in  the  Cavalry  Corps  at  Gettysburg  amounted  to  no 
killed,  352  wounded,  and  199  captured  or  missing;*  total,  (541,  the  heaviest  loss  falling  on 
Ouster's  Michigan  Brigade.  Buford's  Division  had  the  honor  of  opening  this  historic  battle, 
his  long  skirmish-line  of  dismounted  troopers  holding  the  enemy  at  bay  until  the  First  Corps 
arrived  on  the  field.  The  Cavalry  made  some  brilliant  charges  during  the  course  of  this  bat 
tle,  in  which  sabre  cuts  were  freely  exchanged. 

Upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  in  April,  1804,  Major-General 
Philip  H.  Sheridan  was  placed  in  command  of  the  Cavalry  Corps.  The  three  divisions  were 
commanded  by  Generals  Torbert,  Gregg  (D.  M.),  and  Wilson,  and  contained  32  regiments  of 
cavalry,  numbering  12,424,  "present  for  duty,  equipped."  This  does  not  include  the  cavalry - 
1812  in  number  —  attached  to  the  Ninth  Corps  ;  nor  the  horse  artillery  which  acted  in  con 
junction  with  the  mounted  troops.  The  campaign  of  1804  was  marked  by  the  hardest  fighting 
and  greatest  loss  of  life  which  had  hitherto  fallen  to  the  lot  of  this  arm  of  service.  Most  of 
the  time  it  was  cavalry  fighting  cavalry,  in  large  numbers,  by  brigades  and  divisions.  As  the 
men  fought  dismounted  and  with  carbines,  the  battles  closely  resembled  infantry  engagements, 
and  being  well  supplied  with  horse  artillery  there  was  but  little  difference  in  the  character  of 
the  fighting.  Among  the  more  important  of  these  dismounted  cavalry  battles  in  Grant's 
campaign,  might  be  mentioned  Todd's  Tavern,  May  8  ;  Hawes'  Shop,  May  28  ;  Trevilian 
Station,  June  11  ;  St.  Mary's  Church,  June  24  ;  Dinwiddie  Court  House,  March  31  ;  Five 
Forks,  April  1  ;  and  Appomattox,  April  9,  1805. 

In  August,  1804,  Sheridan  was  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Army  of  the  Shenandoah, 
and  took  with  him  the  First  and  Third  Cavalry  Divisions -- Merritt's  and  Wilson's.  General 
Torbert  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  cavalry  forces  in  the  Shenandoah,  and  his  two 
divisions  were  reenforced  by  Duftie's  and  Averell's  Cavalry  Divisions  of  the  Army  of  West 
Virginia.  The  cavalry  fighting  in  the  Shenandoah  was  a  series  of  brilliant  affairs,  interspersed 
with  skirmishes,  which  cost  the  corps  a  serious  loss  of  life. 

Upon  Sheridan's  return  to  Petersburg  he  brought  back  with  him  Devin's  and  Ouster's 
Divisions,  which,  added  to  Crooks'  (formerly  Gregg's)  Division,  restored  the  organization  to  its 
original  formation,  General  Merritt  being  in  command  of  the  three  divisions.  The  corps 
started  on  the  final  campaign  of  1805  with  37  regiments  of  cavalry,  numbering  13,820  present 
for  duty,  or  about  11,000  carbines  available  for  action.  During  the  last  ten  days  of  the  cam 
paign -- from  Five  Forks  to  Appomattox --the  corps  took  a  prominent  and  meritorious  part 
in  the  operations  which  culminated  in  the  surrender  of  lyre's  Army.  The  cavalry  were  a 
conspicuous  and  attractive  feature  of  the  Grand  Review  at  Washington,  after  the  close  of  the 
war.  Soon  after  that  event,  most  of  the  regiments  were  mustered  out  of  service. 

Among  the  heavy  losses  of  the  cavalry  the  following  casualties  are  worthy  of  note  ;  they 
indicate  clearly  the  hard  fighting  done  by  this  arm  of  the  service. 

*  Not  includhiK  loss  of  captured  men  (6th  U.  S.  Cavalry)  at  Fairfickl,  Fa. 


112  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Captured 
Killed.         Wounded,     and  Missing.      Total. 

Beverly   Ford,  Va.,  June  9,  1863_  81  403  382  866 

Gettysburg,  Pa.,  July   1-i,  1863.  90  352  407  849 

Gettysburg  campaign,  June  12— July  24,  not  including  Get 
tysburg  219  866  1,471  2,556 

Brandy  Station,  Va.,  Aug.  1,  1863.  21  104  20  145 

Mine  Run,  Va.,  Nov.  26— Dec.  2,  1863.  28  119  77  224 

Wilderness,  Va.,  May  5-7,  1864.  97  416  197  710 

Hawes'  Shop,  Old  Church,  Ashland;  Aeiion  Church,  Va., 

etc.,  May  25-30,  1864.  110  450  96  656 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  May  31— June  6,  1864.  51  70  449 

Sheridan's  First  Expedition,  Va.,  May  9-24,  1864,  Beaver 

Dam  Station,  Yellow  Tavern,  Meadow  Bridge,  etc. .  64  337  224  625 

Trevilian  Raid,  Va.,  June  7-24,  1864.  150  738  624  1,512 

Wilson's  Raid,  Va.,  June  22-30,  1864.  71  262  1,119  1,452 

Deep  Bottom,  Weldon  Railroad,  Reams'  Station,  Petersburg, 

etc.,  Va.,  August  1-30,  1864.  64  269  122  455 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Peebles'  Farm,  etc.,  Va.,  Sept.  1-30,  1864.  24  121  336  481_ 

Shenandoah  campaign,  1864;  Opequon,  Tom's  Brook,  Cedar 

Creek,  and  26  other  engagements.  454  2,817  646  3,917 

Fall  of  Petersburg  and  Pursuit  of  Lee,  March  29 — April  9, 

1865 221  930  339          1,490 

It  will  be  observed  that  over  one-fourth  of  these  losses  are  made  up  of  captured,  or 
missing,  men.  This  was  unavoidable,  as  the  cavalry  operated  almost  entirely  within  the 
enemy's  lines,  and  without  the  support  of  other  troops.  Repeatedly,  they  made  daring  raids, 
which  carried  them  a  long  distance  from  their  own  army,  and  in  which  any  small  detachment 
was  always  liable  to  be  cut  off  by  the  vigilant  enemy  which  hovered  around  the  flanks  and  rear 
of  the  raiding  column. 

The  cavalry  of  the  Union  Armies,  including  both  Eastern  and  Western,  lost  10,596  officers 
and  men  killed  or  mortally  wounded  in  action,  and  about  26,490  wounded  who  survived. 

CAVALRY  CORPS. 
(ARMIES  OF  THE  WEST.) 

STONE'S  RIVER,  TENN.  ;  MCMINNVILLE,  TENN.  ;  PEA  RIDGE,  ARK.  ;  LONE  JACK,  Mo. ;  PRAIRIE 
GROVE,  Mo. ;  STREIGHT'S  RAID  ;  MIDDLETON,  TENN.  ;  FRANKLIN,  TENN.  ;  TRIUNE,  TENN.  ; 
SHELBYVILLE,  TENN.;  JACKSON,  TENN.;  SPARTA,  TENN.;  CANTON,  Miss.;  GRENADA,  Miss.; 
GRIERSON'S  RAID  ;  GRAYSVILLE,  GA.  ;  CHICKAMAUGA,  GA.  ;  CARTER'S  STATION,  TENN.  ;  MUR- 
FREESBORO  ROAD,  TENN.;  FARMINGTON,  TENN.;  BLUE  SPRINGS,  TENN.;  BYHALIA,  MlSS. ; 
AVYATT'S  FORD,  Miss.;  MAYSVILLE,  ALA.;  BLOUNTSVILLE,  TENN.;  SWEETWATER,  TENN.; 
Moscow,  TENN.;  CLEVELAND,  TENN.;  RIPLEY,  Miss.;  SALISBURY,  TENN.;  BEAN'S  STATION, 
TENN.  ;  MORRISTOWN,  TENN.  ;  MOSSY  CREEK,  TENN.  ;  DANDRIDGE,  TENN.  ;  FAIR  GARDENS,  TENN.  ; 
ARKADELPHIA,  ARK.  ;  CAMDEN,  ARK.  ;  PRAIRIE  D'ANN,  ARK.  ;  JENKINS'  FERRY,  ARK.  ;  NATCHI- 
TOCHES,  LA.;  WILSON'S  FARM,  LA.;  SABINE  CROSS  ROADS,  LA.;  CANE  RIVER,  LA.;  RED  CLAY, 
GA.  ;  RESACA,  GA.  ;  VARNELL'S  STATION,  GA.  ;  TILTON,  GA.  ;  ROME,  GA.  ;  DALLAS,  GA.  ;  KINGS 
TON,  GA.;  KENESAW,  GA.;  DECATUR,  GA.;  ACKWORTH,  GA.;  MCAFFEE'S  CROSS  ROADS,  GA.; 
POWDER  SPRINGS,  GA.;  NOONDAY  CREEK,  GA. ;  LOVEJOY'S  STATION,  GA.;  NEWNAN,  GA.; 
HILLSBORO,  GA.  ;  FAIRBURN,  GA.  ;  RED  OAK,  GA.  ;  JONESBORO,  GA.  ;  PULASKI,  TENN.  ;  CYPRESS 
RIVER,  GA.  ;  BRICE'S  CROSS  ROADS,  Miss. ;  TUPELO,  Miss. ;  HURRICANE  CREEK,  Miss. ;  BOONE- 


CAVALRY  CORPS.  113 

VILLE,  Mo.;  LITTLE  BLUE,  Mo.;  INDEPENDENCE,  Mo.;  Bio  BLUK,  Mo.;  OSAGK  RIVER,  Mo.; 
FRANKLIN,  TENN.;  NASHVILLE,  TENN.  ;  RUTHERFORD'S  CRKKK,  TKXN.;  PULASKI,  TENN.;  EGYPT 
STATION,  Miss.;  MOUNT  STERLING,  KY.;  SALTVILLK,  VA.;  SHERMAN'S  MARCH  TO  THE  SEA.; 
GRISWOLDVILLE,  GA.;  WAYNESBORO,  GA.;  OGEECHEE  RIVER,  (JA.;  THE  CAROLINAS;  SALKA- 
HATCHIE  RIVER,  S.  C.;  ROCKINGHAM,  N.  C.;  SOLEMN  GROVE,  N.  C.;  AVERASBORO,  N.  C.; 
BENTONVILLE,  N.  C.;  STONEMAN'S  RAID;  PLANTERSVILLE,  ALA.;  SELMA,  ALA.;  TUSCALOOSA, 
ALA.;  MONTGOMERY,  ALA.;  COLUMBUS,  GA. ;  MACON,  GA.;  TALLADEGA,  ALA.;  IRWINSVILLE, 
GA.  (CAPTURE  OF  JEFFERSON  DAVIS). 

In  the  Western  Armies  there  was  no  corps  organization  composed  of  cavalry  until 
Dcn-mlirr.  lM'4,  ah  h< >u-li  there  were  divisions  of  mounted  troops  in  each  military  depart 
meiit.  Hence  the  list  of  cavalry  battles  given  here  embraces  those  which  occurred  in  all  the 
operations  west  of  the  Allcghanies.  It  includes  only  the  more  important  engagements  of  the 
cavalry ;  it  would  be  impossible  to  give  all  of  them.  The  constant  activity  of  scouting 
parties  ;  the  aggressive  vigilance  of  the  mounted  troops  at  the  outposts ;  the  daring  raids 
through  hostile  territory  ;  and  the  continuous  forays  incidental  to  border  warfare,  resulted  in 
countless  fights  which  cannot  be  enumerated  here.  These  minor  affairs  were  characterized 
by  courageous,  desperate  fighting,  and  though  the  casualty  lists  were  small,  the  loss  of  life  in 
the  aggregate  was  a  serious  feature  of  the  war.  Many  fell  in  contests  which  are  umnen- 
tioned  in  history,  fighting  in  nameless  battles,  and  filling  unmarked  graves. 

In  December,  18(54,  while  on  Thomas's  campaign  in  Tennessee  against  Hood,  the  mounted 
troops  were  formed  into  an  Army  Corps  of  seven  divisions,  and  Major-General  J.  H.  Wilson 
was  assigned  to  its  command.  At  the  battle  of  Nashville,  four  of  these  divisions--  McCook's, 
Hatch's,  Johnson's  and  Knipe's  —  were  present.  After  the  defeat  and  dismemberment  of 
Hood's  Army,  Wilson  entered  Alabama  with  his  corps  of  troopers  in  March,  18(55,  and 
there  fought  the  closing  battles  of  the  war.  His  four  divisions  were  there  commanded  by 
Generals  McCook,  Hatch,  Long  and  Upton.  Although  the  last  infantry  engagement  of  the 
war  occurred  April  S),  18(55,  Wilson's  Corps  fought  at  Columbus,  Ga.,  on  the  10th  of  April, 
1865,  in  a  spirited  engagement  with  Forrest's  command.  The  most  of  Wilson's  men  fought 
dismounted,  and  the  affair-- during  which  a  daring  and  successful  assault  was  made 
on  the  enemy's  works — was  one  of  the  brilliant  achievements  of  the  war.  About  this  time, 
also,  General  Stoneman,  with  a  body  of  cavalry  under  Generals  Gillem  a-nd  Burbridge,  made 
a  raid  through  East  Tennesee  into  Virginia. 

During  Sherman's  Atlanta  campaign,  the  cavalry  attached  to  his  army  was  divided  into 
four  columns,  commanded  by  Generals  Stoneman,  Kilpatrick,  Garrard  and  McCook  (E.  M.). 
Kilpatrick's  Division  afterwards  accompanied  that  part  of  Sherman's  Army  which  marched 
through  Georgia  to  the  Sea,  and  thence  through  the  Carolinas. 

In  1803,  the  cavalry  attached  to  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  operated  as  a  separate 
command,  instead  of  being  parceled  out  to  brigades  as  previously.  At  Stone's  River  it  was 
massed  under  the  command  of  General  David  S.  Stanley,  its  casualties  in  that  battle  amount 
ing  to  38  killed,  103  wounded,  and  215  missing  or  captured  ;  total,  350.  It  also  lost  37  hoi-ses 
killed  and  40  wounded.  At  Chickamauga,  the  cavalry  forces  were  commanded  by  General 
Robert  B.  Mitchell,  and  comprised  two  divisions  under  Generals  E.  M.  McCook  and  George 
Crook.  The  casualties  in  the  Cavalry  Corps  at  that  battle  aggregated  32  killed,  130  wounded, 
and  300  captured  or  missing  :  total,  4(58. 

In  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  the  cavalry  attached  to  Banks's  Red  River  Expedition, 
April,  1864,  was  commanded  by  General  All>ert  L.  Lee,  and  comprised  five  brigades.  Gen 
eral  Lee  was  succeeded  by  General  Richard  Arnold.  During  Grant's  Mississippi  campaigns, 
Generals  W.  S.  Smith  and  Cyrus  Bussey  were  entrusted  with  important  cavalry  commands. 

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CHAPTER  IX. 


FAMOUS  DIVISIONS  AND  BEIGADES. 


V\/'ITH1N  the  corps  organizations  there  were  certain  divisions  and  brigades  which  also 
achieved  distinction,  sometimes  greater  than  that  of  the  corps  to  which  they  belonged. 
Prominent  among  these  was  the  famous  division  of  the  Pennsylvania  Reserves  -  -  the  only 
division  of  three  years'  men  in  the  Union  Armies  which  was  composed  entirely  of  troops  from 
one  State. 

PENNSYLVANIA  RESERVES. 

The  Reserves  included  thirteen  regiments  of  infantry,  divided  into  three  brigades.  The 
Thirteenth  Reserves  was  the  celebrated  regiment  known  as  the  Bucktails,  or  First  Pennsylva 
nia  Rifles.  In  addition  to  the  infantry,  two  other  regiments  were  organized  in  connection 
with  the  division, —  the  First  Pennsylvania  Cavalry  and  the  First  Pennsylvania  Light  Artil 
lery  -  -  but  after  a  few  months  they  were  detached,  and  the  division  proper  included  only  the 
three  brigades  of  infantry.  The  Reserves  were  prominently  engaged  at  Dranesville,  Mechan- 
icsville,  Gaines's  Mill,  Charles  City  Cross  Roads  (Glendale),  Manassas,  South  Mountain,  Antie- 
tam,  Fredericksburg,  Gettysburg,  and  in  the  Wilderness  campaign.  At  Fredericksburg  the 
division  made  a  gallant  fight,  the  losses  being  unusually  severe  in  proportion  to  the  number 
engaged.  The  division  was  commanded  in  turn  by  Generals  McCall,  Reynolds,  Meade,  and 
Crawford.  It  was  attached,  originally,  to  the  First  (McDowell's)  Corps,  but  while  on  the 
Peninsula  it  served  in  the  Fifth  Corps.  At  Manassas,  Antietam,  and  Fredericksburg,  it  was 
again  in  the  First  Corps.  After  Fredericksburg  it  was  ordered  to  Washington  to  rest  and 
recruit  its  shattered  regiments,  but  it  rejoined  the  Army  on  the  Gettysburg  campaign,  when 
it  was  assigned  to  the  Fifth  Corps,  in  which  it  remained  until  mustered  out. 

The  casualties  in  this  division  do  not  amount  to  the  heroic  aggregate  shown  by  some 
other  divisions,  but  the  percentage  of  loss  was  heavy  ;  the  regiments  became  reduced  in 
numbers,  received  but  few  recruits,  and  did  not  re-enlist.  Governor  Curtin  requested  the 
War  Department  to  furlough  the  regiments,— a  few  at  a  time  —  promising  that  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania  would  return  them  to  the  field  with  full  ranks  ;  but  the  Government  refused. 
Many  of  the  men,  however,  reenlisted,  and  when  the  division  returned  home  at  the  expira 
tion  of  its  three  years,  these  reenlisted  veterans,  together  with  the  recruits,  were  organized 
into  two  regiments,— the  One  Hundred  and  Ninetieth  and  One  Hundred  and  Ninety-first 
Pennsylvania --which  served  until  the  war  ended.  The  battle  of  Bethesda  Church,  June  1, 
]  864,  was  the  last  action  in  which  the  Reserves,  as  a  division,  were  engaged. 

Two  of  the  Reserve  regiments  served  in  West  Virginia  during  the  early  part  of  1864,  dis 
tinguishing  themselves  at  the  battle  of  Cloyd's  Mountain.  The  eleven  remaining  regiments 
were  formed  into  two  brigades,  constituting  Crawford's  (3d)  Division,  Fifth  Corps. 

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FAMOUS  DIVISIONS  AND  BUKJADES.  us 


SYKES'S    DIVISION. 

Another  division  remarkable  for  superiority  in  discipline  and  efficiency,  was  Sykes's 
Division  of  Regulars.  The  regular  troops  of  the  United  States  Army  serving  in  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac  were  formed  into  one  division  of  two  brigades,  under  command  of  Major-General 
George  Sykes,  who  was  succeeded  in  1803  by  General  Romeyn  B.  Ayres.  This  division  in 
cluded  the  Second,  Third,  Fourth,  Sixth,  Tenth,  Eleventh,  Twelfth,  Fourteenth,  and  Seven 
teenth  United  States  Infantry.  The  regiments  were  small,  seldom  having  over  eight 
companies  to  a  regiment,  and  often  only  three.  At  Gaines's  Mill,  and  at  Gettysburg,  they 
sustained  a  terrible  percentage  of  loss.  The  division  became  so  reduced  in  numbers  that  it 
was  withdrawn  from  the  field  in  1864.  The  largest  losses  in  the  division  occurred  in  the 
Fourteenth  Infantry  ;  but  that  might  have  been  due  to  larger  numbers.  The  Regular  Division 
was,  undoubtedly,  the  best  officered  of  any  division  in  the  Army,  the  officers  being  selected 
solely  with  reference  to  their  ability.  In  addition  to  those  from  the  National  Military 
Ac;id«Mii\ .  a  large  miiiilii-r  were  |u-«nii. >!.•(!  from  ili«'  ranks. 

Attached  to  the  division  of  Regulars  was  an  additional  brigade,  composed  of  volunteer 
regiments,  which  had  demonstrated  by  their  discipline  and  efficiency  their  tit  ness  to  1x3  asso 
ciated  with  the  Regulars.  Conspicuous  among  the  volunteer  regiments  thus  attached  to  the 
Regular  Division  was  the  Fifth  New  York,  or  Duryee  Zouaves —General  Wan-en's  old 
regiment. 


HANCOCK'S  DIVISION. 

But  the  hardest  fighting  and  greatest  loss  of  life  occurred  in  the  First  Division  of  the 
( 'or].-.  -  Hancock's  old  division --in  which  more  men  were  killed  and  wounded  than 
in  any  other  division  in  the  Union  Army,  east  or  west.  Its  losses  aggregated  2.2*7  killed, 
11,72-4  wounded,*  and  4,833  missing  ;  total,  18,844.  This  division  was  the  one  which  Rich 
ardson --its  first  commander  —  led  on  the  Peninsula,  and  at  whose  head  he  fell  at  Antietam  ; 
the  one  which,  under  Hancock,  made  the  bloody  assault  on  Ma  rye's  Heights;  which,  under 
Caldwell,  fought  so  well  in  the  Gettysburg  wheat-field  ;  which,  under  Barlow,  surged  over 
the  enemy's  works  at  Spotsylvania  ;  and  which,  under  Miles,  was  in  at  the  death  in  18(55. 
Within  its  ranks  were  the  Irish  Brigade,  and  crack  regiments  like  the  Fifth  New  Hampshire, 
the  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Sixty-fourth  New  York.  Over  14,<mo 
men  were  killed  or  wounded  in  this  division  "during  the  war  ;  yet  it  never  numbered  8,0oo 
muskets,  and  often  could  muster  only  half  of  that.  After  the  charge  on  Marye's  Heights 
it  numbered  only  2,800. 

Close  to  it,  however,  in  point  of  loss  stands  Gibbon's  (2d)  Division  f  of  the  Second  Corps, 
and  Griffin's  (1st)  Division:}:  of  the  Fifth  Corps. 

The  heaviest  loss  sustained  by  any  division  in  anyone  battle,  occurred  in  Getty's  (2di 
Division,  Sixth  Corps,  at  the  Wilderness,  where  that  divison  lost  480  killed,  2,318  wounded, 
and  196  missing  ;  total,  2,994. 

Gibbon's  Division,  at  Gettysburg,  lost  344  killed,  1.1  :»7  wounded,  and  101  missing  ;  total, 
i,642,  out  of  3,773  engaged  —  a  loss  of  43.5  per  cent. 


« Including  the  mortally  wounded,  t  Formerly  Sudgwick's.  J  Formerly  Morell'n. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  i\  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


VERMONT  BRIGADE. 

The  greatest  loss  of  life  in  any  one  brigade  during  the  war  occurred  in  the  Vermont 
Brigade  of  the  Second  (Getty's)  Division,  Sixth  Corps.  The  regiments  composing  this  organ 
ization,  and  their  losses  were  :  - 

Killed  or 
Died  of  Wounds. 

2d    Vermont  Infantry 224 

3d    Vermont  Infantry 206 

4th  Vermont  Infantry 162 

5th  Vermont  Infantry 213 

6th  Vermont  Infantry  . . .  203 

llth  Vermont  (1st  H.  Art'y)  ...  164 

Total  (during  the  war) 1,172 

Its  hardest  fighting  occurred  at  the  Wilderness,  May,  5-6,  1864,  in  which  action  it 
lost  195  killed,  1,017  wounded,  and  57  missing;  total,  1,269.  Within  a  week  it  lost  at  the 
two  actions  of  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania,  266  killed,  1,299  wounded,  and  80  missing; 
a  total  of  1,645,  out  of  the  2,800  effective  men*  with  which  it  crossed  theRapidan,  and  a  loss 
of  58  per  cent.  This  loss  fell  on  the  first  five  regiments,  as  the  Eleventh  did  not  join  the 
brigade  until  May  15,  1864.  The  brigade  also  distinguished  itself  by  valuable  services  ren 
dered  in  the  minor  actions  of  Banks's  Ford,  Va.,  and  Funkstowii,  Md. 

It  acquired  a  distinctive  reputation,  not  only  by  its  gallantry,  but  by  reason  of  its  being 
composed  entirely  of  troops  from  one  state.  State  brigades  were  rare  in  the  Union  Armies, 
the  policy  of  the  Government  being  to  assign  regiments  from  different  states  to  the  same 
brigade.  Carroll's  Brigade  (Second  Corps)  contained,  at  one  time,  regiments  from  seven  dif 
ferent  states.  In  the  Confederate  Army  an  opposite  policy  prevailed,  and,  so  far  as  possible, 
regiments  from  the  same  states  were  grouped  in  brigades.  Another  thing  which  enabled  the 
Vermont  Brigade  to  win  its  prominent  place  in  history  was  its  continuous,  unbroken  organi 
zation.  It  was  formed  at  the  beginning  of  the  war  with  five  regiments  which  served 
together  through  the  entire  war.  When  their  term  of  enlistment  expired,  in  1864,  they 
re-enlisted,  and  thus  preserved  the  existence  of  the  brigade.  The  only  change  in  the  organi 
zation  was  the  addition  of  the  Eleventh  Regiment  (1st  Vt.  H.  Art'y)  which  joined  in  May, 
1864,  it  having  served  previously  in  the  forts  about  Washington.  This  feature  of  a  continu 
ous  organization  is  an  important  one  in  view  of  the  fact  that  it  was  the  only  one,  out  of  two 
hundred  or  more  brigades,  which  served  through  the  war  without  being  broken  up,  or  reor 
ganized.  The  same  five  regiments  of  the  old  Vermont  Brigade  which  picketed  the  Potomac 
in  1861,  marched  together  at  the  Grand  Review  in  1865.  It  was  commanded  successively  by 
General  Wm.  F.  Smith,  formerly  of  the  Third  Vermont ;  General  W.  T.  Brooks  ;  Col.  Henry 
Whiting,  Second  Vermont  ;  and  General  Lewis  A.  Grant,  formerly  of  the  Fifth  Vermont. 
At  one  time  the  Twenty-sixth  New  Jersey,  a  nine  months  regiment, was  attached  to  the  brig 
ade  for  a  few  months,  but  it  was  a  temporary  arrangement  only.  The  "old"  Brigade 
should  not  be  confounded  with  the  Vermont  Brigade  (Stannard's)  which  was  so  prominently 
engaged  at  Gettysburg.  This  latter  organization  was  in  the  First  Corps,  and  was  composed 
of  nine  months  troops,  Gettysburg  being  its  only  battle. 

*  Adjuttmt'Gonerars  liuport,  Vermont ;  1SC4. 


FAMOUS  DIVISIONS  AND  BKIUADKS.  117 

IRON  BRIGADE. 

Equally  good  fighting  was  done  by  the  famous  4i  Iron  Brigade  of  the  West,"  First  Divis 
ion,  First  Corps.     Its  record  is,  also,  a  heroic  one. 

Killed  ami 
Died  of  Wounds. 

2d    Wisconsin  Infantry 238 

6th  Wisconsin  Infantry  244 

7th  Wisconsin  Infantry  I'M 

19th  Indiana  Infantry  IT1.* 

24th  Michigan  Infantry  1-:* 


Total  (during  the  war) 1,131 

• 

In  proportion  to  its  numbers  this  brigade  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  in  the  war. 
The  brigade  proper  contained  only  the  five  regiments  mentioned  ;  and,  yet,  its  aggregate  of 
losses  is  exceeded  in  only  one  instance.  At  Manassas,  under  command  of  General  (ribbon, 
the  first  four  regiments  named  lost  148  killed,  626  wounded,  and  120  missing ;  total,  894,  out 
of  about  2,000  engaged.  At  Gettysburg,  General  Meredith  commanding,  the  five  regi 
ments  were  engaged,  losing  162  killed,  724  wounded,  and  267  missing ;  a  total  of  1,153  casual 
ties,  out  of  1,883  engaged,  or  61  percent.  Most  of  the  missing  at  Gettysburg  were  killed  or 
wounded.  The  Iron  Brigade  was  also  hotly  engaged  at  South  Mountain,  Antietam,  The 
Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania.  It  was  organized  in  August,  1861,  at  which  time  it  was  com 
posed  of  the  three  Wisconsin  regiments  and  the  Nineteenth  Indiana.  In  October,  1862,  the 
Twenty-fourth  Michigan  was  added.  The  Second  Wisconsin  and  Nineteenth  Indiana  did  not 
reenlist,  and  so  were  mustered  out,  respectively,  in  June  and  August,  1864.  During  the  Wil 
derness  campaign  the  Seventh  Indiana  was  attached  to  the  brigade,  but  it  was  mustered  out 
in  August.  The  First  New  York  Shaq)shooters'  Battalion  was  also  attached  to  the  brigade  at 
one  time,  joining  it  in  the  fall  of  1863.  In  February,  1865,  the  brigade  was  broken  up,  the 
Twenty-fourth  Michigan  having  been  ordered  to  Baltimore.  The  Sixth  and  Seventh  Regi 
ments  remained  in  the  First  Brigade,  Third  Division  (Crawford's),  Fifth  Corps,  while  the 
Sharpshooters'  Battalion  was  assigned  elsewhere.  General  John  Gibbon  commanded  the 
Iron  Brigade  at  Manassas,  South  Mountain,  and  Antietam  ;  General  Meredith,  at  Gettys 
burg ;  and  General  Cutler  at  the  Wilderness.  Cutler  was  succeeded  in  1864,  by  General 
Edward  S.  Bragg, —  formerly  Colonel  of  the  Sixth  Wisconsin --an  officer  of  marked  ability 
and  an  intrepid  soldier. 

There  was  another  organization,  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  known  as  the  Iron  Brigade, 
and  it  was  in  the  same  division  with  the  "  Iron  Brigade  of  the  West."  It  was  composed  of  the 
Second  United  States  Sharpshooters,  the  Twenty-second,  Twenty-fourth,  Thirtieth,  and 
Eighty-fourth  New  York,  forming  Hatch's  (1st)  Brigade,  First  Division,  First  Corps.  But 
the  Twenty -second,  Twenty-fourth,  and  Thirtieth  New  York  were  two  years  regiments,  and 
were  mustered  out  in  May,  1863,  thereby  breaking  up  the  organization.  The  Eighty-fourth 
New  York  (14th  Brooklyn)  was  an  exceptionally  fine  regiment,  while  the  other  regiments  in 
the  brigade  made  a  reputation,  also,  as  efficient  commands.  It  seems  strange  that  two 
brigades  in  the  same  division  should  adopt  like  synonyms  ;  but,  in  justice  to  Hatch's  Brigade, 
it  should  be  stated  that  it  was  the  original  Iron  Brigade,  and  that  Gibbon's  Brigade  was  not 
known  by  that  title  until  after  Antietam,  at  which  time  it  was  so  designated  by  a  war  cor 
respondent,  who  was  apparently  unaware  of  his  lack  of  originality. 


REGIMENTAL    LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


IRISH  BRIGADE. 

The  Irish  Brigade  was,  probably,  the  best  known  of  any  brigade  organization,  it  having 
made  an  unusual  reputation  for  dash  and  gallantry.  The  remarkable  precision  of  its  evolu 
tions  under  fire  ;*  its  desperate  attack  on  the  impregnable  wall  at  Marye's  Heights  ;  its 
never  failing  promptness  on  every  field  ;  and  its  long  continuous  service,  made  for  it  a 
name  inseparable  from  the  history  of  the  war.  It  belonged  to  the  First  Division  of  the 
Second  Corps,  and  was  numbered  as  the  Second  Brigade.  The  regiments  which  properly 
belonged  to  the  Irish  Brigade,  together  with  their  losses,  were  :  - 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wounds. 

63d    New  York  Infantry _  156 

69th  New  York  Infantry,-  259 

88th  New  York  Infantry,  151 

28th  Massachusetts  Infantry  _  250 

116th  Pennsylvania  Infantry  .  145 

Total  (during  the  war) 961 

The  Irish  Brigade  lost  over  4,000  men  in  killed  and  wounded  ;  it  being  more  men  than 
ever  belonged  to  the  brigade  at  any  one  time.  With  the  exception  of  the  Twenty-eighth 
Massachusetts,  the  regiments  were  small.  At  the  start  they  were  not  recruited  to  the 
maximum,  but  left  New  York  with  about  800  men  each.  The  three  New  York  regiments 
became  so  reduced  in  numbers  that,  at  Gettysburg,  they  were  consolidated  into  two  com 
panies  each  ;  the  One  Hundred  and  Sixteenth  Pennsylvania  had  been  consolidated  into  four 
companies. 

The  brigade,  which  was  organized  in  1861,  consisted  originally  of  three  New  York  regi 
ments,  which  selected  numbers  corresponding  to  those  of  certain  famous  Irish  regiments 
in  the  British  Army.  The  One  Hundred  and  Sixteenth  Pennsylvania  and  Twenty-eighth 
Massachusetts  were  added  in  the  fall  of  1862.  Each  of  the  five  regiments  carried  green  flags, 
in  addition  to  the  national  colors.  While  on  the  Peninsular  and  Antietam  campaigns,  the 
Twenty-Ninth  Massachusetts  was  attached  to  the  brigade,  but  after  Antietam  it  was  detached 
and  its  place  was  taken  by  the  Twenty-eighth  Massachusetts.  In  September,  1864,  the 
remnant  of  the  Seventh  New  York  Heavy  Artillery  was  added  ;  but  it  was  detached  in 
February,  1865,  and  the  Fourth  New  York  Heavy  Artillery  took  its  place.  In  July,  1864,  the 
One  Hundred  and  Sixteenth  Pennsylvania  was  transferred  to  the  Fourth  Brigade.  But  the  Irish 
Brigade  was  composed,  substantially,  as  above  ;  and,  each  of  the  regiments  having  reenlisted, 
its  service  was  continuous  and  unbroken.  It  was  commanded,  in  turn,  by  General  Thomas 
Francis  Meagher,  Colonel  Patrick  Kelly  (killed),  General  Thos.  A.. Smyth  f  (killed),  Colonel 
Richard  Byrnes  (killed),  and  General  Robert  Nugent. 

Mention  should  also  be  made  of  the  following  named  brigades,  and  their  losses  :— 


"A  severe  and  well-sustained  musketry  contest  then  ensued,  continuing  until  the  ammunition  was  nearly  expended,  after  which  this 
brigade  (Meagher's  Irish  Brigade),  having  suffered  severely,  losing  many  valuable  officers  and  men,  was  relieved  by  the  brigade  of  General 
Caldwell,  which  until  this  time  had  remained  in  support.  Caldwell's  Brigade  advanced  to  within  a  short  distance  of  the  rear  of  Meagher's 
Brigade.  The  latter  then  broke  by  companies  to  the  rear,  and  the  former  by  companies  to  the  front,  and  in  this  manner  passed  their  respective 
lines."— [Hancock's  Official  Report.— Antietam.] 

t  Killed  while  in  command  of  another  brigade. 


FAMOUS  DIVISIONS  AND  BRIGADES.  119 

«ITRST  JERSEY  BRIGADE. 
FIRST    DIVISION,   SIXTH    CORPS. 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wounds. 

1st  New  Jersey  Infantry.  1.,:; 

2d   New  Jersey  Infantry.  <»<; 

3d    New  Jersey  Infantry.  1.,; 

4th  New  Jersey  Infantry.  IGl 

10th  New  Jersey  Infantry.  93 

15th  New  Jersey  Infantry.  240 

Total  (during  the  war) 900 

THE  EXCELSIOR  BRIGADE.  (SICKLES'). 
HOOKER'S  I^D)  DIVISION,  THIRD  CORPS. 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wounds, 

70th  New  York  Infantry . .     190 

7 1st  New  York  Infantry  .  88 

72d    New  York  Infantry  161 

73d    New  York  Infantry  156 

74th  New  York  Infantry  .  130 

120th  New  York  Infantry  .  151 

Total  (during  the  war) 876 

THE  PHILADELPHIA  BRIGADE. 
GIBBON'S    (2o)    DIVISION,   SECOND   CORPS. 

This  brigade  was  commanded  at  Gettysburg  by  General  Alex.  S.  Webb,  and   was  the 
one  which  so  successfully  withstood  the  brunt  of  the  attack  made  by  Pickett's  Division  : 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wounds. 

69th  Pennsylvania  Infantry 178 

71st   Pennsylvania  Infantry.  101 

72d    Pennsylvania  Infantry. .  I1'- 

106th  Pennsylvania  Infantry.  104 

Total  (during  the  war).  636 

The  gallant  little  Iowa  Brigade  (Belknap's)  of  the  Seventeenth  Corps  :- 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wounds. 

llth  Iowa  Infantry.  93 

13th  Iowa  Infantry.  I  in 

15th  Iowa  Infantry.  126 

16th  Iowa  Infantry.  105 

Total  (during  the  war).  443 


120  EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Ouster's  famous  Cavalry  Brigade,  which  sustained  the  highest  percentage  of  loss  of  any 
brigade  in  the  mounted  service  :- 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wounds, 

1st  Michigan  Cavalry 164 

5th  Michigan  Cavalry 141 

6th  Michigan  Cavalry 1 35 

7th  Michigan  Cavalry -  -  85 

Total  (during  the  war) 525 

THE  "STAR"  BRIGADE  — HECKMAN'S. 
EIGHTEENTH  CORPS. 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wotinds. 

25th  Massachusetts  Infantry -  -  -  161 

27th  Massachusetts  Infantry 137 

23d    Massachusetts  Infantry 84 

9th  New  Jersey  Infantry 96 

55th  Pennsylvania  Infantry 208 

Total  (during  the  war) 686 

In  each  of  these  brigades  there  were,  at  times,  slight  changes,  unnecessary  to  specify 
here,  as  they  were  but  temporary  arrangements  ;  the  brigades  proper  were  organized  as 
stated.  Then  there  was  the  Maryland  Brigade  ;  the  Second  Jersey  Brigade  ;  the  Eagle 
Brigade -- Mower's,  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps,— which  carried  the  live  eagle;  Wilder's  Light 
ning  Brigade,  composed  of  mounted  infantry  ;  and  several  crack  brigades  whose  total  losses, 
as  brigades,  cannot  well  be  stated,  owing  to  the  many  changes  in  their  organizations. 

Here  are  three  fine  brigades,  with  rosters  showing  their  organizations  as  they  stood 
October  20,  1863,  at  the  time  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  was  reorganized.  The  losses 
credited  each  regiment  were  incurred  during  their  entire  term  of  service,  during  which  they 
served  in  other  brigades  and  corps.  These  brigade  organizations  were  not  continuous  and 
unchanged  like  those  previously  cited  ;  they  are  mentioned  in  this  connection  because  they 
were  noted  brigades. 

STEEDMAN'S*  (!ST)  BRIGADE. 

SHERIDAN'S  f  (2o)  DIVISION,  FOURTH  CORPS. 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wotinds. 

36th  Illinois 204 

44th  Illinois-  ..     135 

73d    Illinois.  114 

74th  Illinois.--.  83 

88th  Illinois.  103 

22d    Indiana.  153 

2.1st  Michigan.  83 

2d    Missouri  _  91 

15th  Missouri  .  115 

24th  Wisconsin  .  Ill 


Total  (during  the  war) 1,192 


*  Known,  also,  as  Kimball's  ;  and  Opdycke's.  t  Afterwards,  Newton's  Division. 


FAMOUS  DIVISION'S  AND  BRIGADES.  121 

WILLICH'S*  (1ST)  BRIGADE. 
WOOD'S  (3D)  DIVISION,  FOURTH  CORPS. 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wounds. 

25th  Illinois. 

35th  Illinois.  109 

89th  Illinois.  133 

32d    Indiana...  171 

68th  Indiana ...  39 

8th  Kansas 105 

15th  Ohio 179 

49th  Ohio 

15th  Wisconsin  .  '•'* 

Total  (during  the  war) 1,115 

BARKER'S  (3D)  BRIGADE. 
SHERIDAN'S  (2o)  DIVISION,  FOURTH  CORPS. 

Killed  and 
Died  of  Wounds. 

22d    Illinois  Infantry.  I*" 

27th  Illinois  Infantry.  112 

42d    Illinois  Infantry. 

51st  Illinois  Infantry 

79th  Illinois  Infantry. 
3d    Kentucky  Infantry. 

64th  Ohio  Infantry.  114 

65th  Ohio  Infantry. 
125th  Ohio  Infantryf- 

Total  (during  the  war).  1,107 

The  greatest  percentage  of  loss  in  any  brigade,  in  any  one  action  during  the  war,  occurred 
at  Gettysburg,  in  Harrow's  (1st)  Brigade,  Gibbon's  (2d)  Division,  Second  Corps.  Its  loss,  as 
officially  reported,  was  :  - 

Killed.  Wounded. \         Missing.  Aggregate. 

19th  Maine .  -"•'  1«« 

15th  Massachusetts  . .  23  97 

1st   Minnesota.  50  173 

82d    New  York  (2d  N.  Y.  S.  M.) .  45  132 

Total -    147  568  48  763 

The  four  regiments  took  1,246  officers  and  men  into  action—  a  loss  of  61  per  cent.' 
At  Stone's  River,  the  Regular  Brigade  (15th,  16th,  18th,  19th  United  States 

of    Rousseau's  Division,    Fourteenth  Corps,  lost  94  killed,   489  wounded,  and  47  nm 

total,  630,  out  of  1,566  engaged. 

*  Willich  was  wounded  at  Resaca,  and  succeeded  by  Col.  William  H.  Gibson. 

t  Transferred  subsequently  to  the  First  Brigade. 

t  Including  the  mortally  wounded. 

§The  Iron  Brigade,  also,  lost  61  per  cent,  at  Gettysburg ;  but,  the  loss  Includes  267,  captr 


CHAPTER    X. 


I 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


T  is  not  claimed  that  these  are  the  Three  Hundred  Fighting  Regiments  of  the  Army  ;  but, 
that  they  are  three  hundred  regiments  which  evidently  did  considerable  fighting.  There  were, 
undoubtedly,  others  which  did  equally  good  or,  perhaps,  better  fighting,  and  their  gallant  ser 
vices  will  be  fully  recognized  by  the  writers  who  are  conversant  with  their  history.  But,  for 
lack  of  other  information,  this  chapter  deals  only  with  those  which  sustained  the  heaviest 
losses  in  battle.  It  includes  every  regiment  in  the  Union  Armies  which  lost  over  130  in 
killed  and  died  of  wounds  during  the  war,  together  with  a  few  whose  losses  were  somewhat 
smaller,  but  whose  percentage  of  killed  entitles  them  to  a  place  in  the  list.  It  may  be  sug 
gested  that  large  casualty  lists  are  not  necessarily  indicative  of  the  fighting  qualities  of  a 
regiment ;  that  on  many  occasions  regiments  have  rendered  valuable  service  and  achieved  a 
brilliant  success  with  but  slight  loss.  Granted,  as  regards  some  particular  action  or  instance  ; 
but,  in  the  long  run  active  service  brings  its  many  scars  ;  where  the  musketry  was  the  hot 
test,  the  dead  lay  thickest ;  and  there  is  no  better  way  to  find  the  fighting  regiments  than  to 
follow  up  the  bloody  trail  which  marked  their  brave  advance. 

The  losses  in  these  three  hundred  regiments  have  been  compiled  from  their  muster-out- 
rolls,  and  counted  name  by  name  ;  the  total  of  the  deaths  is,  in  each  case,  correct.  At  times, 
it  was  difficult  to  decide  as  to  the  company  to  which  a  death  should  be  tallied  :  for  men  were 
often  transferred  from  one  company  to  another,  and,  where  companies  were  consolidated,  a 
dead  man's  name  often  appeared  in  two  or  more  companies  in  the  same  regiment. 

Then,  again,  in  dividing  the  deaths  among  the  different  battles  it  was  sometimes  difficult 
to  ascertain  the  action  in  which  the  wound  was  received,  as  the  date  of  death  was  often 
given,  instead  of  the  date  when  the  wound  was  received.  In  such  cases  the  death  was  tallied 
to  the  last  battle  previous  to  the  man's  death,  that  is,  the  last  battle  in  which  his  regiment 
was  engaged.  In  some  instances  the  rolls  bear  the  names  of  men  marked  simply  as  "  killed 
in  action  ;"  these  are  recorded  here  as  killed  at  Place  Unknown.  But  these  inaccuracies  are 
few  and  slight,  leaving  the  main  result  substantially  correct  as  to  each  regiment. 

In  some  regiments  the  rolls  were  in  such  condition,  owing  to  the  consolidation  of  com 
panies  and  accessions  of  new  companies  bearing  the  same  letters  as  the  old  ones,  or  to  the 
reorganization  consequent  upon  the  reeiilistment  of  the  regiment,  that  the  regular  form  of 
tabulation  was  not  practicable,  and,  so,  after  stating  the  total  number  of  deaths --omitting 
company  losses  —  the  list  of  battles  is  given,  accompanied  by  the  official  casualty  lists  of 
killed,  wounded,  and  missing,  instead  of  the  number  of  "  killed  and  died  of  wounds."  Where 
the  casualties  are  stated  thus,  in  "killed,  wounded,  and  missing,"  the  wounded  includes  the 
mortally  wounded.  This  must  be  borne  in  mind  to  properly  understand  the  nature  of  the  loss. 

Where  it  could  be  done  with  accuracy,  the  number  of  killed  and  mortally  wounded  in 
each  action  is  given  in  the  regimental  tabulations  of  these  three  hundred  regiments  ;  and  this 
is  done  without  confusing  it  with  an  additional  statement  of  wounded  and  missing.  The 

(122) 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  123 

number  of  wounded  is  not  always  an  exact,  definite  statement,  owing  to  the  slightly  wounded 
which  are  counted  in  some  regiments  and  not  in  others.  It  is  sometimes  difficult  to  draw  the 
line  between  wounds,  slight  injuries,  and  lack  of  injury.  The  missing  is  a  still  more  indefinite 
quantity,  including,  as  it  does,  the  captured,  the  missing,  the  stragglers,  and,  very  often,  many 
of  the  killed  and  wounded.  But  there  is  nothing  indefinite  ahout  the  status  of  the  dead 
soldier,  and,  so,  for  purpose  of  comparison,  it  is  better  that  the  losses  of  the  various  regiments 
be  stated  in  ''killed  or  died  of  wounds,"  and  in  that  only. 

When  the  total  of  the  killed  and  died  of  wounds  in  any  regiment  is  known,  it  is  very  easy 
to  arrive  at  the  number  of  its  wounded,  for  the  proportion,  in  the  aggregate,  is  a  definite  and 
well  known  one,  as  has  been  previously  shown.*  True,  this  proportion  will  not  always  hold 
good  for  a  regiment  in  the  instance  of  some  one  battle  ;  but,  in  all  the  battles  of  a  regiment  it 
will  be  found  correct,  the  variations  correcting  themselves  in  the  aggregate. 

In  these  three  hundred  regiments,  the  title  of  each  is  accompanied  by  the  name  of  its 
brigade,  division,  and  corps.  Of  course,  many  regiments  served  in  more  than  one  brigade, 
and  each  brigade  had  several  commanders.  Still,  in  each  case,  the  brigade  mentioned  will 
assist  largely  in  identifying  the  regiment,  or  recalling  to  the  hasty  reader  the  campaigns  in 
which  it  served.  Lack  of  space  debars  the  tedious  details  necessary  to  trace  properly  the 
changing  organizations  to  which  most  regiments  belonged. 

The  loss  by  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  is  stated  in  many  instances,  but,  at  the  same 
time,  it  is  included  in  the  column  of  ''loss  by  disease,  accidents,  &c." 

In  stating  the  total  enrollments,  care  has  been  taken  to  subtract  transferred  men  who 
were  shifted  from  one  company  to  another  in  the  same  regiment.  Deductions  are  also  made 
for  men  transferred  to  a  regiment  after  the  war  had  closed,  many  regiments  having  received 
large  accessions  from  disbanded  organizations  just  before  their  own  muster-out.  In  com 
paring  these  enrollments  with  the  muster-out-rolls,  this  fact  must  receive  attention;  other 
wise,  there  would  be  an  apparent  discrepancy. 

The  bands  are  also  omitted  in  the  enrollments  as  stated  here,  as  all  regimental  bands 
were  ordered  discontinued,  and  were  mustered  out  during  the  summer  of  1802.  After  that, 
no  bands  were  enlisted,  or  paid  as  such,  except  brigade  bands  ;  and,  if  a  regiment  had  a  band, 
it  was  formed  of  enlisted  men,  or  company  musicians,  detailed  for  that  purpose. 

In  addition  to  the  battles  mentioned,— in  which  a  regiment  lost  men  killed  or  mortally 
wounded, — the  engagements  at  which  the  regiments  was  "  present "  are  also  given.  In  some 
of  the  latter,  losses  were  often  sustained  in  wounded  or  missing  men,  but,  as  none  of  these 
wounded  or  missing  are  recorded  among  those  who  died  of  wounds,  the  battle  does  not 
appear  in  the  tabulated  list.  In  giving  these  additional  battles  at  which  a  regiment  was 
"Present,  also,"  intentional  omission  is  made  of  a  certain  class  of  minor  affairs  which  are 
often  used  by  regimental  historians  to  unduly  swell  their  list  of  battles,  but  which,  if  given 
here,  would  only  confuse  or  mislead  a  disinterested  reader. 

In  the  cavalry,  however,  these  minor  actions  were  so  frequent,  and  resulted  in  so  many 
casualties  in  wounded  and  captured  men,  that  they  form  an  important  feature  in  the  history 
of  each  mounted  regiment.  But  the  brief  sketches  given  in  the  succeeding  pages  afford  no 
room  for  the  long  and  honorable  list  of  additional  actions  in  which  each  cavalry  regiment 
participated, —  actions  replete  with  meritorious  details,  although  they  did  not  result  in  any 
loss  of  life.  Still,  the  reader  should  tear  these  facts  in  mind  to  rightly  appreciate  the  services 
rendered  by  the  mounted  regiments. 

In  most  of  the  three  hundred  regiments  mentioned  in  this  chapter  the  figures  opposite 
the  list  of  battles  show  only  the  number  who  were  killed  or  who  died  of  wounds.  The  num 
ber  of  the  killed,  wounded,  and  missing,  for  the  more  important  losses  of  each  regiment,  will 
be  found  in  the  notes  appended  in  each  case. 

•See  Page  94. 


124 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIRST   MAINE   CAVALRY. 
J.  I.  GREGG'S  BRIGADE,  D.  M.  GREGG'S  DIVISION,  CAVALRY  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  GODDARD. 

(2)  COL.  SAMUEL  II.  ALLEN. 


(3)  COL.  CALVIN  S.  DOUTY  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  CHARLES  H.  SMITH,  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED       DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  <fcc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Offlcerr. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

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8 

7 

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21 

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24 
36 
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2,895 

BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Middletown,  Va.,  May  24,  1862 3 

Manassas,  Va.,  Aug.  28,  1862 i 

South  Mountain,  Md.,  Sept.   14,  1862 i 

Louisa  C.  H.,  Va.,  May  2,  1863 2 

Brandy  Station,  Va.,  June  9,  1863 i 

Aldie,  Va.,  June  1 7,  1 863 8 

Middleburg,  Va.,  June  19,  1863 u 

Gettysburg,  Pa.,  July  3,  1863 i 

Shepherdstovvn,  Va.,  July  16,  1863 9 

Manassas,  Va.,  Oct.  15,   1863 i 

Dahlgren  Raid,  Va.,  March  -,  1864 10 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va.,  May  8,   1 864 i 

South  Anna,  Va.,  May  10,  1864 2 

Ashland,  Va.,  May  u,  1864 9 

Meadow  Bridge,  Va.,  May  12,  1864 i 

Hawes'  Shop,  Va.,  May  28,  1864 i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  2,  1864 2 

Skirmish,  Va.,  June   19,1864 x 


White  House,  Va.,  June  21,1864 I 

St.  Mary's  Church,  Va.,  June  24,  1864 17 

Gurley  Farm,  Va.,  June  25,  1864 i 

Picket,  Va.,  Aug.  9,  1 864 i 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  Aug.  14,  1 864 i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va.,  Aug.  16,  1864 4 

Charles  City  Road,  Va.,  Aug.  1 8,  1864 3 

Reams'  Station,  Va.,  Aug.  25,  1864 3 

Yellow  Tavern,  Va.,  Sept.  29,  1864 i 

Boydton  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 16 

Bellefield,  Va.,  Dec.  10,  1864 i 

Dinwiddie  C.  H.,  Va.,  March  31,  1865 27 

Deatonsville,  Va.,  April  6,  1865 7 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va.,  April  6,  1865 4 

Farrnville,  Va.,  April  7,  1865 2 

Appomattox,  Va.,  April  9,  1865 7 

Picket  Duty 2 

Place  Unknown 1 1 


NOTES. — This  regiment  sustained  the  heaviest  loss,  killed  in  action,  of  any  cavalry  regiment  in  the  entire  army. 
Besides  the  actions  mentioned,  it  participated  in  several  in  which  it  lost  men  wounded  or  captured.  Like  all 
cavalry  commands  the  First  Maine  lost  many  who  were  captured  while  on  outpost  duty,  or  while  foraging  and 
raiding. within  the  enemy's  lines.  Of  these,  145  died  of  disease  while  in  Confederate  prisons. 

Colonel  Douty,  a  brave  and  gallant  officer,  was  killed  while  leading  a  successful  charge  at  Aldie,  Va.  At  St. 
Mary's  Church,  Va.,  the  First  Maine  made  a  desperate  fight  against  great  odds,  losing  10  officers  and  56  men, 
killed,  wounded,  and  missing,— out  of  260  who  were  engaged.  Another  hard  fight  occurred  at  the  Boydton 
Road  ;  and  at  Cat  Tail  Run  — March  31,  1865  —the  regiment  sustained  its  severest  loss.  In  September,  1864, 
the  First  D.  C.  Cavalry  was  consolidated  with  it,  bringing  its  numbers  up  to  1,800  men. 


TMKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


125 


FIRST  MAINE  HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 
MOTT'S  BRIGADE,  BIKNEY'S  DIVISION,  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)Coi..  DANIEL  CHAPLIN  (Killed)  ;  BVT.  MAJ.  GEN. 


(5)Coi..  RI'SSELL  B.  SIIKI'IIKHD ;  BREV.  Bni«.  (JEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DIHEASK,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PHI.HOX,  A  • 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

•     • 

3 

2 

I 
2 

I 

3 

2 

2 
2 

4 

•    • 

•    • 

20 
46 

39 
3' 
39 
36 

31 

28 

39 
28 
40 

23 

I 
20 

49 
4i 
32 
4i 
37 
34 
3° 
4' 
3° 
44 
23 

I 

•    • 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 
•    * 

I 

•    • 

•    • 

•    • 

2 

29 
19 

3° 

'9 
20 

18 

23 
33 

I  2 

16 

20 

I? 

3 
29 

'9 
30 

'9 
20 

18 

23 
33 
'3 
16 
20 

'7 

22 

'95 
198 

189 
,85 
.76 

'83 

,85 

202 
172 
172 

161 

162 

B  

c  

D  

E  . 

y  

G  

H  

I 

K  

I  

M  

Totals  

23 

400 

423 

2 

258 

260 

2.2O2 

423  killed  —  19.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  1,283.      Died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  21. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fredericksburg  Pike,  Va 147 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Totopotomoy,  Va 3 

Petersburg  Assault,  June   i6th,  i  7th 12 

Petersburg  Assault,  June  iSth 210 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 5 

Siege  of  Petersburg 7 

Present,  also,  at  Cold  Harbor  ;  Vaughn  Road  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 


BATTLES.  K.&.M.\V. 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 5 

Weldon  Railroad 5 

Boydton  Road,  Va i  o 

Hatcher's  Run,  March  25,  1 865 6 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 5 

Picket  Line 2 

Place  Unknown 


NOTES. — Of  the  2,047  regiments  in  the  Union  Army,  the  First  Maine  Heavy  Artillery  sustained  the  greatest 
loss  in  battle.  Not  only  was  the  number  killed  the  largest,  but  the  percentage  of  killed  was  exceeded  in  only 
one  instance.  Again,  its  loss  at  Petersburg,  June  i8th,  was  the  greatest  of  any  one  regiment  in  any  one  action, 
during  the  war.  It  made  the  charge  that  day  with  about  900  muskets,  losing  632*  in  killed  and  wounded.  Only 
a  month  previous,  the  regiment  had  suffered  a  terrible  loss  in  its  gallant  fight  on  the  Fredericksburg  Pike,  near 
Spotsylvania,  May  19,  1864,  where  it  lost  82  killed  and  394  wounded  ;  total,  476.  Amjng  the  killed  were  six 
officers,  and  in  the  battle  of  June  i8th,  just  referred  to,  thirteen  officers  were  killed  or  mortally  wounded,  besides 
twelve  others  who  were  hit.  This  regiment  was  raised,  principally,  in  the  Penobscot  Valley,  and  was  organized 
August  21,  1862,  as  the  Eighteenth  Maine  Infantry.  Major  Daniel  Chaplin,  of  the  Second  Maine,  was  appointed 
Colonel.  He  fell,  mortally  wounded,  August  18,  1864,  at  Strawberry  Plains,  Va.  (Deep  Bottom).  The  regiment 
left  the  State  on  August  24,  1862,  and  was  changed  to  heavy  artillery  in  December.  It  remained  in  the  defences 
of  Washington  until  May,  1864,  when  it  joined  Grant's  Army  at  Spotsylvania.  All  its  losses  occurred  within  a 
period  of  ten  months.  During  the  spring  campaign  of  1865,  it  was  in  De  Trobriand's  Brigade  of  Mott's  Divi 
sion,  Second  Corps. 

*  The  official  report  states  the  loss  at  580 ;  the  Stato  Reports  put  it  at  60t 


126 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRD  MAINE  INFANTRY. 
WARD'S  BRIGADE,  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION,  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  Coi..  OLIVER  O.  HOWARD,  OT.  $.,  BVT.  MAJOK-GEN.  U.  S.  A.        (2)  COL.  HENRY  G.  STAPLES.         (3)  COL.  MOSES  B.  LAKEMAN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  ETC. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  . 

2 

l 

2 

•      • 
t      • 

I 

•      • 

I 

3 

1 
12 
12 
IO 
12 
1  I 
2O 

'5 
10 

12 

9 

1 

o 
T3 

M 

10 
12 
I  2 
2O 

15 
10 

13 

1  2 

•     • 
•     • 

•     • 

1 

•     • 

•  • 

9 

15 
1  1 

15 
*5 
19 
'7 
17 
T5 
i5 

•    • 

9 

'5 
1  1 

i5 
i5 
J9 
18 

i? 
IS 
15 

2O 

159 

I65 
M7 
154 
149 
166 

156 

146 

161 
163 

B 

c 

D  

K 

F 

G  . 

H  

T 

K  

Totals  

10 

124 

'34 

I 

148 

149 

1,586 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  489 ;   Died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons,  33. 


BATTLE?.  K.  &M.W. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 8 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 14 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va 5 

Chantilly,  Va 8 

Fredericksburg,  Va 6 


Chancellorsville,  Va 6 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M. W. 

Gettysburg,  Pa 30 

Mine  Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 24 

Spotsylvania,  Va 15 

North  Anna,  Va 9 

Totopotomoy,  Va 6 

Gunboat  Service,  Miss i 


Present,  also,  at  Bailey's  Cross  Roads  ;  Yorktown  ;  Williamsburg  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Glendale  ;  Wapping 
Heights  ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Cold  Harbor. 


NOTES. — Recruited  mostly  from  the  Kennebec  lumbermen  ;  the  men  were  of  a  large,  powerful  type,  their  aver 
age  weight  in  one  company  being  1 70  pounds.  The  regiment  was  organized  at  Augusta,  arriving  at  Washington 
June  7,  1861.  It  fought  at  First  Bull  Run,  and  a  year  later  was  engaged  in  another  bloody  contest  on.  the  same 
field.  During  1862  it  served  in  Birney's  Brigade  of  Kearny's  Division;  it  was  in  that  command  at  Fair  Oaks, 
where  it  made  a  gallant  and  successful  charge,  but  lost  nearly  one-third  of  the  number  engaged  ;  the  loss  was  8 
killed,  71  wounded,  and  3  missing.  It  participated  in  all  the  battles  and  marches  of  the  Third  Corps,  becoming 
sadly  reduced  in  number  by  deaths,  wounds,  and  the  sickness  incidental  to  arduous  campaigns.  When  it  entered 
the  field  at  Gettysburg,  it  numbered  14  officers  and  196  rifles ;  of  this  number  it  lost  18  killed,  59  wounded,  and 
45  missing.  Under  command  of  Colonel  Lakeman,  it  lendered  good  service  in  that  battle  ;  on  the  second  day, 
in  company  with  Berdan's  Sharpshooters,  it  made  an  advance  outside  the  lines  which  developed  the  enemy's 
position  and  elicited  timely  warning  of  the  attack  on  Sickles'  Corps.  The  tenacity  with  which  the  Third  Maine 
held  that  skirmish  line  at  Gettysburg  is  worthy  of  note.  The  regiment  did  some  more  hard  fighting  in  the 
Wilderness  campaign,  during  which  it  fought  in  Hancock's  Second  Corps.  Lt.  Col.  Edwin  Burt  was  killed  at  the 
Wilderness,  and  Major  William  C.  Morgan  at  the  North  Anna.  While  inline  at  Cold  Harbor,  the  regiment  was 
ordered  homo,  and  the  recruits  transferred  to  the  Seventeenth  Maine. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


12; 


FOURTH   MAINE  INFANTRY. 
WARD'S  BRIGADE,  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION,  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HIRAM  G.  BKKKY,  MAJ.  (!KN.  (Killed). 


(8)  COL.  ELIJAH  WAI.KKK. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OK  WOUNDS. 

DIKI>  or  DI.XKAMK,  ArriiHCNTs,  IN  PIUMIX,  A 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

•     • 

'4 

12 

'3 

14 

'4 
•5 
'4 
•5 
'3 
'3 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

•    * 

I 
I 
I 
I 
I 
I 
2 
I 
2 

I 

5 
10 

27 

'9 

24 
1  1 

16 
10 
14 

*9 

4 

5 
1  1 

28 
20 

25 

12 

17 
12 

'5 

21 

•    • 

I 

•    • 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    * 
*    * 
•    • 

i 

•    • 

'3 

12 

'3 
'4 
'4 
15 
M 
'5 
'3 

1  2 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

'4 

156 

I70 

2 

'35 

'37 

Total 
Knnillinent 


'7 
'3° 

!33 
140 

169 
126 

138 
149 

•38 
'5° 
'5° 

1,440 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  613.      Died  of 


BATTLES.  K.*M.W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 33 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3 

Gettysburg,   Pa 27 

Wilderness,  Va 46 


Po  River,  Va 

Spotsylvania,  Va 

North  Anna,  Va 

Gunboat  Service,  Miss. 


170  killed  =  ii. 8  per  cent. 

Of  the    1,002  originally  enrolled,    141    were  kilk-d  ;    or,    14.0  per  cent, 
disease  in  Confederate  prisons,  40. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.NV. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 21 

Vorktown,  Va i 

Williamsburg,  Va i 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 2 

Picket,  Va.,  June,  1 862 2 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va i  o 

Chantilly,  Va 12 

Present,  also,  at  Oak  Grove  ;  Glendale  ;  Mine  Run;  Totopotomoy ;  Cold  Harbor. 

Organi/.ed  at  Rockland,  Me.,  May  8,  1861.  Leaving  the  State  on  June  2oth,  it  went  into  action,  a  month 
later,  at  First  Bull  Run.  In  September,  1861,  a  mutiny  occurred  in  the  regiment,  which  resulted  in  the  transfer 
of  about  100  men  to  another  command.  The  men  mutinied  because  they  had  enlisted  for  three  months,  or 
supposed  the  regiment  was  a  three-months  one,  and  so  objected  to  being  held  for  three  years.  Similar  irregu 
larities  on  the  part  of  recruiting  and  mustering-in  officers  had  become  a  frequent  cause  for  complaint  throughout 
the  Army.  In  this  case  Company  H  was  disbanded,  and  its  place  filled,  in  November  by  a  new  company  of 
recruits.  The  regiment  entered  upon  the  Peninsular  campaign  in  Birney'  Brigade  ol  Kearny's  Division,  Third 
Corps.  It  fought  in  this  command,  also,  during  Pope's  campaign,  its  losses  at  Manassas — including  Chantilly- 
amounting  to  14  killed,  85  wounded,  and  15  missing.  At  Fredericksburg,  it  lost  22  killed,  66  wounded,  and  32 
missing;  at  Gettysburg,  n  killed,  59  wounded,  and  74  missing.  In  1864,  the  division  was  transferred  to  the 
Second  Corps.  In  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness  the  regiment  was  badly  cut  up;  32  were  killed,  136  wounded, 
and  3  missing.  The  Fourth  Maine  lost  three  Majors  killed  in  action  :  Major  Pitcher  was  killed  at  Fredericksburg  ; 
Major  Whitcomb  fell,  mortally  wounded,  at  Gettysburg,  and  Major  Grey  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness.  The  term 
of  service  of  the  regiment  expired  on  the  i5th  of  June,  1864,  when  it  was  ordered  home  for  muster-out,  and  the 
recruits  remaining  in  the  field  were  transferred  to  the  Nineteenth  Maine. 


128 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTH  MAINE    INFAOTBY. 
KUSSELL'S  BRIGADE,  WRIGHT'S  DIVISION,  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ABNER  KNOWLES.          (3)  COL.  HIRAM  BURNIIAM,  BRIO.  GEN.  (Killed).  (3)  COL.  BENJAMIN  F.  HARRIS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  ETC. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  . 

I 

2 

•     • 

I 
2 
I 
I 

2 

I 
I 

I  I 

16 

8 

13 

16 

13 

15 

*7 

1S 

17 

I 
J3 

16 

9 
15 
i7 
M 
i? 

17 

16 

18 

2 

•      • 

•      • 
•      • 

•      • 

I 

8 

9 
9 

7 
6 

21 
12 
12 
II 

4 

3 

8 

9 
9 

7 
6 

21 
12 
12 
I  I 

4 

*9 
126 

122 

IJ5 

122 
107 
129 
112 
132 
II9 

no 

B 

r 

D  . 

K 

F 

G 

H  

I     

K 

Totals  . 

12 

141 

153 

2 

IOO 

IO2 

1,213 

153  killed  =  12.6  percent. 
Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  519.     With  the  killed  are   included   18  men,  missing  in  action. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Siege  of  Yorktown,  Va 2 

Williamsburg,  Va i 

Garnett's  Farm,  Va 4 

Seven  Days  Battle,  Va 3 

Antietam,  Md i 

Fredericksburg,  Va.  (1863; 38 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Rappahannock  Station 56 

\Vilderness,  Va i 

Spotsylvania,  Va 37 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 7 

Petersburg,  Va 2 

Picket  Duty i 


Present,  also,  at  White  Oak  Swamp;  Malvern  Hillj  Fredericksburg,  1862;  Gettysburg;  Fort  Stevens. 

NOTES. — There  was  no  more  brilliant  action  in  the  war  than  the  affair  at  Rappahannock  Station,  Va.,  Nov.  7, 
1863.  The  Sixth  Maine  was  the  most  prominent  in  that  successful  fight,  although  gallantly  assisted  by  the  other 
regiments  of  the  brigade.  The  enemy,  about  2,000  strong,  occupied  an  intrenched  position;  the  Sixth  Maine, 
with  uncapped  muskets,  supported  by  the  Fifth  Wisconsin,  stormed  their  works,  and  springing  over  them  were 
engaged  in  a  desperate  struggle,  some  of  the  fighting  being  hand  to  hand  ;  bayonets  were  freely  used,  and  in  one 
case  an  officer  thrust  his  sabre  through  an  antagonist.  Good  fighting  was  also  done  at  other  points  of  the  line, 
the  total  result  being  a  brilliant  victory,  with  large  captures  of  men  and  material.  But  the  brunt  of  the  fight  fell 
on  the  Sixth.  It  lost  38  killed,  and  101  wounded,  out  of  the  321  present  in  action  ;  and  of  21  officers  engaged, 
16  were  killed  or  wounded.  This  was  not  the  first  time  that  the  Sixth  had  leaped  the  enemy's  breastworks 
against  the  blazing  muzzles  of  a  line  of  rifles.  In  the  successful  assault  on  Marye's  Heights,  May  3,  1863,  the 
flag  of  the  Sixth  was  the  first  to  wave  over  the  enemy's  works.  The  regiment  was  then  in  the  famous  "  Light 
Division  "  of  the  Sixth  Corps,  and  did  not  fire  a  shot  during  the  charge,  but  carried  the  works  with  the  bayonet ; 
and  mention  is  made  of  one  man  in  the  Sixth  who  bayoneted  two  adversaries,  and  then  brained  a  third  with  the 
butt  of  a  musket.  The  loss  of  the  regiment  in  that  battle  was  23  killed,  in  wounded,  and  35  missing.  Major 
Haycock  and  four  captains  were  among  the  killed.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  August  15,  1864,  its  three 
years  term  of  service  having  expired. 


TllUEE   Hl'NDRRD    FldHTINU    ItKUlMENTS. 


SEVENTH   MAINE  INFANTRY. 
NEIL'S  BRIGADE,  HOWE'S  DIVISION,  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  H.  MAItSIIALL  (Died).  (2)  COL.  EDWIN  c.  MASON,  B.  *. ;  BVT.  Bnio.  GKN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OK  \V<>i  M>- 

DIED  or  DINKABE,  A<VU>ENTS,  IN  I'KIIMIN,  Ac. 

Total 
Kiirollmrnt. 

Oflficcrs. 

Meu. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

T..tal. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

•     • 

2 
I 

3 

2 

I 

'3 
1  1 

1  1 
10 
6 

'7 
10 

6 
10 
18 

3 

!3 

'3 

12 
13 

7 
18 

I  2 

1 
I  I 

!9 

I 

•    * 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 

I 

•    • 

I 

I 

19 
27 

23 

19 
12 

35 
!3 

12 

23 
25 

2 

»9 

27 

23 
19 

I  2 

35 
»3 
13 

23 
26 

18 
91 
'75 

'45 
149 

7' 

I05 
in 

90 

91 
119 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

15 

"3 

128 

3 

2O(; 

212 

1,165 

128  killed  —  10.9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  555.     Died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously    included)  19. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Siege  of  Yorktown,  Va . 3 

Lee's  Mills,  Va 

Antietam,  Md 25 

Fredericksburg,  Va.   (1863) 20 

Gettysburg,  Pa i 

Wilderness,  Va 36 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May   loth 2 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  1 2th , . .  .  27 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May   i8th 6 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 2 

Petersburg,  Va i 

Fort  Stevens,  I ).  C 3 


Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg ;  Mechanicsville  (May  24th)  ;  Golding's  Farm ;  Garnett's  Hill ;  Savage 
Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Crampton's  Pass  ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Shenandoah 
Valley. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Augusta,  Me.,  August  21,  1861,  from  companies  recruited  in  various  parts  of  the  State. 
It  proceeded  immediately  to  Baltimore,  and  thence,  after  a  two  weeks'  stay,  to  Washington.  It  encamped  there 
two  weeks,  and  then,  on  Nov.  7,  1861,  marched  to  Lewinsville,  Va.,  where  it  performed  outpost  duty  until  the 
spring  of  1862.  It  joined  in  the  advance  on  Manassas,  and  then  embarked  for  the  Peninsula.  It  was  then  in 
Davidson's  (3d)  Brigade,  Wm  F.  Smith's  Division,  Fourth  Corps  ;  this  division  was  transferred  in  May  to  the 
newly-formed  Sixth  Corps.  The  loss  by  disease  and  sickness  was  so  great  that  the  regiment  took  only  181  men 
into  action  at  Antietam  ;  it  was  commanded  in  that  battle  by  Major  Hyde,  and  lost  there  1 2  killed,  63  wounded, 
and  20  missing, —  over  half  of  those  engaged.  Becoming  much  reduced  in  numbers,  it  was  ordered  home  to 
Maine,  in  October,  1862,  to  recruit.  Five  companies  —  B,  C,  I),  I  and  K. —  under  command  of  Lt.-Col.  Selden 
Conner,  rejoined  the  corps  in  January,  1863,  and  were  engaged  at  Fredericksburg,  May  3,  1863,  with  a  loss  of  12 
killed,  49  wounded,  and  31  missing.  In  May,  1864,  the  regiment  —  then  in  Getty's  Division  —  entered  the 
Wilderness  campaign,  where  it  took  part  in  the  bloody  contest  which  was  waged  by  the  Sixth  Corps.  From  May 
5th  to  May  i8th,  it  lost  310  in  killed  and  wounded.  Its  last  battle  occurred  at  Fort  Stevens,  within  the  city 
limits  of  Washington,  where  it  assisted  in  repulsing  Early's  attack.  Major  Jones  was  killed  in  this  action.  Its 
term  of  service  expired  August  21,  1864,  while  in  the  Shenandoah,  and  the  recruits  were  transferred  to  the  First 
Maine  Veteran  Infantry. 
9 


130 


BEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


EIGHTH   MAINE  INFANTRY. 
WHITE'S  BRIGADE  —  AMES'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  LEE  STRICKLAND. 

(2)  COL.  JOHN  D.  KUST  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  HENRY  BOYNTON ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 

(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  M.  McARTIIUR ;  BVT.  BKIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

I 

•    * 
•    • 
•    • 

•     • 

2 
2 

9 

J3 

8 

10 

IS 

JO 

16 

!9 

M 

M 

IO 
!3 

9 
10 

J5 

IO 

16 

21 

16 

M 

•     • 
•     • 

I 
I 
I 

•    • 
•     • 
*    • 

I 

•     • 

•    • 

I 

18 
18 

21 

18 

32 
33 
36 
26 

20 

2O 

I 

18 
'9 

22 

J9 
32 
33 
36 

27 

20 
2O 

23 

'54 
162 

'51 
146 

149 
!57 

*73 

149 
166 
'56 

B  

r  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  

G  

H. 

T  , 

K  

6 

128 

J34 

4 

243 

247 

1,586 

Total  loss  in  killed  and  wounded,  489.     Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  35. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


BATTLES. 


Jacksonville,  Fla 2 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 14 

Gill's  Farm,  Va 4 

Ware  Bottom  Church,  Va 19 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.  (assault) 22 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.  (trenches) 4 

Picket,  July  4,  1 862 i 


Petersburg,  Va.   (assault) 

Petersburg,  Va.  (trenches) 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va 

Fair  Oaks,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864. . 
Spring  Hill,  Va.,  Dec.   10,  1864. 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va , 

Rice's  Station,  Va 


K.  &  M.W. 
...  27 
...  21 
...  2 

7 

•••        5 
4 

.  .  .  2 


Present,  also,  at  Fort  Pulaski ;  Arrowfield  Church  ;  Chester  Station  ;  Petersburg  Mine  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — The  regiment  left  the  State  Sept.  10,  1 86 1,  and  in  the  following  month  sailed  from  Annapolis  with  Gen 
eral  T.  W.  Sherman's  expedition  to  Port  Royal,  S.  C.  Landing  at  Hilton  Head,  Nov.  8,  1861,  it  remained  on 
duty  in  that  Military  Department  over  two  years.  During  its  stay  there  it  took  part  in  the  reduction  of  Fort 
Pulaski,  the  occupation  of  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  and  was  present  at  the  bombardment  of  Fort  Sumter.  Most  of  the 
time,  however,  was  passed  in  garrison  duty  at  Hilton  Head,  and  Beaufort,  S.  C.  In  the  meantime,  the  regiment 
received  about  300  recruits  and  200  conscripts,  which  kept  its  ranks  up  to  the  maximum,  although  the  loss  by 
disease  had  been  very  large.  In  March,  1864,  the  proposal  for  reenlistment  was  accepted  by  16  officers  and  330 
men,  who  returned  to  Maine  on  the  thirty  days'  furlough  granted  in  such  cases.  On  April  26,  1864, tne  regiment 
joined  Butler's  Army,  then  on  the  James  River,  Va.,  and  entered  upon  the  campaign  against  Richmond,  having 
been  assigned  to  White's  (3d)  Brigade,  Ames's  (3d)  Division,  Tenth  Corps.  It  was  actively  engaged  at  Drewry's 
Bluff,  where  it  lost  3  killed,  64  wounded,  and  29  missing.  Colonel  Boynton,  who  was  in  command,  was  severely 
wounded,  and  Major  Me  Arthur  succeeded  to  the  command.  Four  days  later  it  was  engaged  at  Ware  Bottom 
Church,  with  a  loss  of  83,  out  of  the  190  present  in  action.  At  Cold  Harbor,  the  regiment  was  in  Stedman's 
Brigade,  2d  Division,  Eighteenth  Corps,  and  sustained  there  a  loss  of  12  killed,  87  wounded,  and  2  missing.  In 
December,  it  was  assigned  to  Fairchild's  (4th)  Brigade,  Foster's  (ist)  Division,  Twenty- fourth  Corps,  in  which 
command  it  fought  in  the  final  battles  of  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FRUITING  REGIMENTS. 


131 


NINTH   MAINE  INFANTRY. 
DRAKE'S  BRIGADE-    AMES'S  DIVISION -- TENTH  CORPS. 


(I)  COL.  HORATIO  BISBEE. 

(4)  COL  ZINA  II.  ROBINSON. 


(2)  COL.  MsmVOHTH  KICH.  (3)  Coi..  SAI1IXK  RMRKY. 

(5)  COL.  UKORGE  F.  GRANUKK  ;  HVT.  Hum.  (iEN. 


CUM  PA  Nl  EH. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  »>r  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DINKAUC,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'HINO.V,  Ac. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Mon.                    Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

•    • 

I 

I 

•    • 

I 
I 

i 
i 

3 
i 

•     • 

'5 

I  2 
IO 

18 

20 

19 
2O 

16 
20 

22 

•    • 

16 
M 

IO 

19 

21 
2O 

21 

16 

23 
23 

i 

i 

•    • 

i 

•    • 

*    • 

22 
2O 

23 

33 

25 
27 

16 

'9 

24 

27 

i 

22 
2O 

24 

33 
26 

27 
16 

19 

24 

*y  *1 

-  i 

239 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

10 

172 

182 

3 

236 

Total 

KnrolliiH-iii. 


21 

'95 
191 

180 

»9S 
216 

•83 

'93 

i 

197 

2I.S 


'.973 


Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  644. 


BATTLM.  K.  &M.W. 

Fernandina,  Fla i 

Morris  Island,  S.  C.,  July  10,  1863 3 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.,  July  1 1,  1863 5 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.,  July  18,  1863 24 

Siege  of  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C i  o 

Port  Walthal,  Va i 

Arrowfield  Church,  Va i 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 10 

Ware  Bottom  Church,  Va 1 6 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Cold  Harbor,  Va., 23 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  30,  1864 20 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 1 1 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 19 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 9 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va 1 6 

Darbytown  Road,  Va 10 

Guard  duty,  April  10,  1862 i 

Picket,  Va.,  May  23,  1 864 2 


Present,  also,  at  Bermuda  Hundred  ;  Wilmington,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — The  Ninth  left  the  State  Sept.  24,  1861,  and  in  the  next  month  sailed  from  Fort  Monroe  for  Hilton 
Head,  S.  C.  The  year  1862  was  spent  in  garrison  duty  at  Fernandina,  Fla. ;  in  January,  1863,  it  returned  to  Hilton 
Head,  where  it  remained  on  picket  duty  until  June  ;  then  it  joined  the  forces  operating  in  Charleston  Harbor. 
Led  by  Colonel  Emery,  it  participated  in  the  assault  of  Strong's  Brigade  on  Fort  Wagner,  and  in  the  opening 
fight  on  Morris  Island  captured  two  of  the  enemy's  flags.  During  the  Siege  of  Fort  Wagner  its  casualties,  in 
the  assaults  and  in  the  trenches,  amounted  to  189  in  killed,  wounded,  and  missing.  In  October,  1863,  the  regi 
ment  moved  to  Black  Island,  S.  C.  While  there,  416  of  the  original  members  reenlisted  and  received  their 
furlough.  On  April  18,  1864,  the  Ninth  proceeded  to  Gloucester  Point,  Va.,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Ames's 
Division,  Tenth  Corps.  Ascending  the  James  River,  the  troops  landed  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  and  advanced 
immediately  on  the  enemy's  lines.  Severe  fighting  followed,  and  in  the  battle  of  May  2Oth,  the  casualties  in  the 
regiment  were  9  killed,  39  wounded,  and  4  missing.  At  Cold  Harbor,  having  been  transferred  to  the  Eighteenth 
Corps,  it  joined  in  the  assault  with  a  loss  of  12  killed,  55  wounded,  and  5  missing.  While  in  the  trenches  before 
Petersburg,  on  June  3oth,  1864,  in  an  affair  on  the  picket  line,  there  was  a  loss  of  7  killed,  34  wounded,  and  5 
missing,  out  of  102  who  went  into  the  fight.  The  loss  at  Deep  Bottom  was  5  killed,  21  wounded,  and  29  missing. 
Only  201  were  present  for  duty  when  ordered  to  Chaffin's  Farm  ;  in  that  battle,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Gray  fell  at 
the  head  of  the  regiment. 


132 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTEENTH   MAINE   INFANTRY. 
PAUL'S  BRIGADE  —  ROBINSON'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ASA  W.  WILDES. 


(2)  COL.  CHARLES  W.  TILDEN  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

2 

• 

2 
I 

I 

• 

I 

I 

16 

12 
28 

17 

18 

12 

25 
I  I 

12 
2O 

2 

17 

14 

28 

*9 
19 

12 

25 
12 

12 
21 

• 

I 
I 

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

16 

20 

31 

25 
29 

25 

27 

29 

35 

20 

•    • 

17 
2O 

31 
26 

29 

2S 
27 
29 

35 
20 

13 

183 
1  80 

2O2 
177 
205 
169 
211 
194 

1  88 
185 

B  

c  

D. 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

172 

181 

2 

257 

259 

1,907 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  759  ;    Died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons,  76. 


K.  &M.W. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M. W. 

Siege    of  Petersburg,  Va 14 

Weldon   Railroad,  Va 10 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 1 1 

Gravelly  Run,  Va 2 

Five  Forks,  Va 2 

Skirmish  Line,  Va.,  June  21,  1864 i 

Skirmish  Line,  Va.,  Oct.  8,  1864 i 


BATTLES. 

Fredericksburg,  Va *j6 

Gettysburg,  Pa 27 

Wilderness,  Va 3 

Spotsylvania,  Va 25 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

f  Bethesda  Church,  Va 3 

1  Cold  Harbor,  Va 3 

Picket,  Va.,  June  6,  1864 i 

Present,  also,  at  Chancellorsville  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES.— Organized  August  14, 1862,  with  Captain  C.  W.  Tilden,  of  the  Second  Maine,  as  its  Colonel,  who  com 
manded  it  during  its  entire  service.  Arriving  at  Washington  on  August  21,  1862,  it  was  ordered  immediately  on 
active  duty  in  Maryland.  The  fatigue  and  exposure  of  a  campaign  without  the  customary  preparatory  service 
cost  the  regiment  many  lives,  and  sent  large  numbers  to  the  hospital.  It  was  assigned  to  Root's  (ist)  Brigade, 
Gibbon's  (2d)  Division,  First  Corps,  and  marched  to  Fredericksburg  with  that  command.  This  was  its  first  bat 
tle  ;  but  its  ranks  had  become  so  reduced  by  the  sickness,  common  among  raw  troops  in  active  service,  that  only 
427  were  present  in  that  action,  of  which  it  lost  27  killed,  170  wounded,  and  34  missing;  of  the  latter  none 
returned.  Another  severe  loss  was  sustained  at  Gettysburg.  Of  the  248  officers  and  men  engaged  in  that  bat 
tle,  the  casualties  amounted  to  9  killed,  59  wounded,  and  164  captured.  At  the  close  of  the  fight,  2  officers  and 
15  men  alone  remained;  Colonel  Tilden  was  taken  prisoner  with  his  men.  Many  of  the  wounded  died  and 
nearly  all  the  amputations  proved  fatal.  In  March,  1864,  the  division  was  transferred  to  the  Fifth  Corps;  in 
June  the  regiment  was  transferred  to  Crawford's  (3d)  Division,  and  to  Baxter's  (2d)  Brigade  of  the  same  corps. 
It  fought  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Fifth  Corps  in  1864-5,  its  hardest  fighting  occurring  at  Spotsylvania,  where 
Major  Leavitt  fell,  mortally  wounded.  Another  severe  fight  took  place  at  Hatcher's  Run  (Dabney's  Mills)  Feb 
ruary  6,  1865,  in  which  the  regiment  lost  3  killed,  60  wounded,  and  n  missing. 


*  Regimental  history  says  90 ;-  killed  50,  mortally  wounded  34. 


TllKKK    HUN1)KKI>    FuiII'l'lNO    ItKUIMKNTS. 


laa 


SEVENTEENTH  MAINE  INFANTRY. 

PE  TKOBRIAND'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  — THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  A.  ROBERTS.     (2)  COL.  GEORGE  W.  WEST ;   BVT.  Bm.i.  OKX.      (8)  COL.  CHARLES  P.  MATTOCKS  ;  Bvr.  BRIO.  OKN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DIXKANK,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKIHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  ind  Staff.  . 

• 
2 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 

3 
3 

2 

•    • 

22 

1  8 

J9 
20 

18 
16 

21 

23 
2  I 

'7 

•    • 

24 
19 

'9 

20 

19 

16 

24 
26 

21 
19 

I 

• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

12 
'4 
23 
9 

18 

12 
M 
19 

'9 

19 

I 
12 

'5 

23 
IO 

19 

I  2 
'4 

'9 
'9 
'9 

19 

'45 

'32 

•5<> 
129 

128 
126 

I25 

'35 
1  29 

'47 

B  

c  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G. 

H. 

I 

K  

Tot-ils  . 

12 

195 

207 

4 

159 

,63 

I>371 

207  killed  —  15   per  cent. 
Total  loss  in   killed  and  wounded,  759  ;  Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  31. 


BATTIJM.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 4 

Chancellorsville,  Va 14 

Gettysburg,  Pa 40 

Wapping  Heights,  Va i 

Mine  Run,  Va 12 

Wilderness,  Va 54 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 6 

North  Anna,  Va 7 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 22 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 20 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 3 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March,  25,  1865 2 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 6 

Farmville,  Va 2 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.    2,  1864 i 


Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  1 7,  1864 i 

Present,  also,  at  Auburn,  Va. ;  Po  River;  Totopotomoy ;  Strawberry  Plains;  Deep  Bottom;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Recruited  in  the  counties  of  York,  Cumberland,  Oxford,  and  Androscoggin.  It  arrived  at  Washington 
August  23,  1862,  where  it  was  engaged  in  drill  and  garrison  duty  until  October,  when  it  crossed  into  Virginia  and 
joined  Berry's  (3d)  Brigade,  Birney's  (ist)  Division,  Third  Corps.  The  regiment  made  a  creditable  record  at 
Fredericksburg,  and  at  Chancellorville  it  sustained  a  loss  of  10  killed,  65  wounded  and  38  missing.  At  Gettys 
burg,  Lt.-Col.  C.  B.  Merrill  commanding,  it  was  engaged  in  Sickles's  fight  on  the  second  day,  losing  18  killed, 
112  wounded,  and  3  missing.  In  March,  1864,  Birney's  Division  was  transferred  to  the  Second  Corps,  the  regi 
ment  being  placed  in  General  Alex.  Hays's  Brigade  of  that  division  —  Second  Brigade,  Third  Division,  Second 
Army  Corps.  Led  by  Colonel  West,  it  crossed  the  Rapidan  with  507  men,  and  fought  under  Grant  at  the  battle 
of  the  Wilderness,  where  its  casualties  amounted  to  22  killed,  155  wounded,  and  15  missing;  total,  192.  In 
June  it  was  transferred  to  the  First  Brigade,  with  which  it  took  part  in  the  storming  of  Petersburg,  June  16-18, 
1864.  Its  losses  in  those  bloody  and  disastrous  assaults  were  13  killed,  66  wounded,  and  5  missing.  In  June, 
1 29  men  were  received  by  a  transfer  from  the  Third  Maine,  the  term  of  that  regiment  having  expired  ;  even 
with  this  accession,  the  ranks  showed  but  little  over  200  muskets  in  line.  The  Seventeenth  sustained  the  heaviest 
loss  in  battle  of  any  infantry  regiment  from  Maine.  It  was  mustered  out  on  June  4,  1865. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


NINETEENTH   MAINE   INFANTRY. 
HARROW'S  BRIGADE  —  GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  Coi.  FREDERICK  D.  SEWELL.          (3)  COL.  FRANCIS  E.  HEATH ;  BVT.  Bitio.  GEM.         (3)  COL.  SELDEN  CONNER  ;  Bum.  GEN. 
(4)  COL.  JAMES  W.  WELCH.  (5)  COL.  ISAAC  W.  STARBIRD  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  TN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 

• 

2 

• 

•     • 

'7 

25 
M 

2  I 

J9 
1  1 

1  6 

18 

23 

25 

•     * 

>7 
26 

M 

21 

T9 
1  1 

16 

18 

25 

25 

* 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 

I 

* 

I 

23 

T5 
16 

16 

*7 

18 

'3 
15 
31 
T7 

I 

23 

16 
16 
16 

J7 
18 

13 
T5 

31 
18 

18 
140 

'49 
149 

139 

128 

139 

T35 
149 

'51 
144 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I    

K 

Totals  

3 

189 

192 

2 

182 

184 

1,441 

192  killed  =•  13.3  per  cent. 
Total  loss  in  killed  and   wounded,  693  ;    Died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously   included),  47. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Gettysburg,  Pa 68 

Haymarket,  Va i 

Bristoe  Station,  Va i 

Mine  Run,  Va i 

Morton's  Ford,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 37 

Spotsylvania,  Va 17 

North  Anna,  Va 8 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Totopotomoy,  Va 3 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 9 

Siege  of  Petersburg,   Va 29 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 2 

Ream's    Station,  Va 7 

Boydton  Road,  Va 2 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 4 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.,  1864 2 


Present,  also,  at  Charlestown,  W.  Va. ;  First  Fredericksburg  ;  Second  Fredericksburg  ;   Po  River  ;  Strawberry 
Plains  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Farmville  ;   Appomattox. 


NOTES.— Recruited  in  the  counties  of  Knox,  Waldo,  Kennebec,  and  Sagadahoc.  The  field  officers  had  already 
served  with  honorable  distinction  in  other  Maine  regiments.  It  arrived  at  Washington  August  29,  1862,  having 
been  recruited,  organized,  and  equipped  within  four  weeks,  a  characteristic  common  to  most  of  the  regiments 
raised  under  the  second  call  for  troops.  It  was  assigned  to  Gorman's  (rst)  Brigade,  Howard's  (2d)  Division, 
Second  Corps,  with  which  command  it  was  under  fire  for  the  first  time,  in  a  reconnoissance  at  Charlestown,  W.  Va., 
October  16,  1862  ;  and,  again,  in  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  where  several  of  the  men  were  wounded.  Under 
command  of  Colonel  Heath,  the  regiment  was  conspicuously  engaged  at  Gettysburg,  where  it  faced  a./eu  cT  enfer 
that  cost  it  29  killed,  166  wounded,  and  4  missing ;  a  total  of  199,  out  of  440  present,  all  told.  During  Grant's 
opening  campaign  the  brigade  was  commanded  by  General  Alex.  S.  Webb,  of  Gettysburg  fame.  The  regiment 
entered  this  campaign  with  22  officers  and  468  men;  losing  at  the  Wilderness  22  killed,  130  wounded,  and 
6  missing.  The  recruits  left  in  the  field  by  the  Fourth  Maine  were  transferred  to  the  Nineteenth  in  June,  1864 ; 
there  were  277  of  them,  nominally,  but  only  57  of  them  actually  joined. 


THUEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


135 


TWENTIETH  MAINE  INFANTRY. 
VINCENT'S  BRIGADE --GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION --FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL,  ADF.LBERT  AMKS.  13H.  $.,  B.  *.;  BVT.  MA.IOII  GEN.  U.  8.  A. 
(3)  COL.  JOallUA  L  CHAMBERLAIN  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  U.  8.  V. 


(8)  COL.  CHARLES  D  OILMORB. 

(4)  COL.  ELLIS  SPEAR  ;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN.  U.  8.  V. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIKD  OK  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  Ac. 

Total 

Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

M.  ii 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 
I 
1 

I 

I 

2 

1 

i  i 

'5 
'7 

16 

'3 

'9 
'4 

I  2 

9 

1  2 

•    • 

•3 
16 

18 

'7 
'3 

20 

16 

I  2 

9 
'3 

• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
* 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

'9 
i  i 

10 

'5 

18 

'5 
8 

20 

'5 
'4 

'9 
I  I 

IO 

'5 
18 

1  6 
8 
20 

'5 
14 

'9 
164 

•5° 
169 

170 

140 

*74 

'47 
170 

'57 
161 

1,62  i 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

9 

13S 

'47 

I 

'45 

146 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  528.      Died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons,  15. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Fredericksburg,  Va 8 

Aldie,  Va.,  June  21,  1863 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 41 

Sharpsburg  Pike,  Md.  (1863) i 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 21 

Spotsylvania,  Va 12 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 5 


BATTLES.  K.&MW. 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 14 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 4 

Peebles  Farm,  Va 13 

Boydton  Road,  Va 2 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 2 

Gravelly  Run,  Va 3 

Five  Forks,  Va 13 

Appomattox,  Va i 

Place  Unknown 2 


Present,  also,  at  Antietam  ;  Chancellorsvillc  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Weldon  Railroad  ;  Hatcher's  Run. 

NOTES. — The  Twentieth  Maine  could  not  well  be  other  than  a  good  regiment,  under  the  tuition  and  lead  of  such 
colonels  as  Ames  and  Chamberlain.  Ames,  who  was  destined  to  renown  as  the  central  figure  at  Fort  Fisher,  left  the 
regiment  in  a  few  months,  but  not  until  he  had  lead  the  men  in  battle,  and  given  them  the  benefit  of  his  military 
training  and  experience.  Colonel  Chamberlain,  a  professor  at  Bowdoin,  left  his  chair  in  spite  of  strenuous  re 
monstrance  and  opposition,  and  tendered  his  services  to  the  State.  He,  also,  made  a  brilliant  reputation  as  a 
colonel  and  a  general,  and  is  quoted  as  having  said  that  "  he  never  left  one  of  his  wounded  in  the  hands  of  the 
enemy,  nor  one  of  his  dead  without  fitting  burial."  Chamberlain  anil  his  men  did  much  to  save  the  day  at 
Gettysburg,  by  their  prompt  and  plucky  action  at  Little  Round  Top.  Holding  the  extreme  left  on  that  field,  they 
repulsed  a  well-nigh  successful  attempt  of  the  enemy  to  turn  that  flank,  an  episode  which  forms  a  conspicuous 
feature  in  the  history  of  that  battle.  Their  loss  at  Gettysburg  was  29  killed  and  96  wounded.  General  Bartlett 
commanded  the  brigade  — 3d  Brigade,  ist  Division,  5th  A.  C.— at  the  Wilderness,  where  the  regiment  was 
hotly  engaged,  May  5th  and  6th,  with  a  loss  of  13  killed,  82  wounded,  and  16  missing.  About  200  recruits  were 
received  in  1864;  in  June,  1864,  there  were  only  about  275  muskets  for  duty.  It  was  engaged  at  Five  Forks, 
with  a  heavy  percentage  of  loss,  and  was  skirmishing  under  fire  when  the  surrender  took  place  at  Appomattox. 
After  the  war  closed,  the  rolls  were  swelled  by  accessions  from  disbanded  regiments. 


136 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-FIRST  MAINE  INFANTRY. 
GRIFFIN'S  BRIGADE  —  POTTER'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  RIGHT,  W&.  P.,  &.  a. 


(2)  COL.  DANIEL  WHITE  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  . 

I 

2 
2 

3 
I 

I 

3 

i 

• 

3 

i 

• 

I 
2O 
16 
12 

16 

19 

M 

20 

I? 

IO 

13 

4 
3 

2 
22 

18 

J5 
17 

20 

17 
21 

I? 
13 

14 

4 
3 

• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 

I 

I? 

17 
*4 
14 
25 
M 
19 
15 
14 
14 

7 
5 

I 

I? 
17 

14 
14 
25 
14 
19 
15 
14 
H 
7 
5 

18 
142 

J51 

i35 
128 

»43 

J37 
I25 

139 

126 

128 
1  08 

^5 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I    

K  . 

L  

M  

Totals  . 

18 

165 

183 

• 

176 

176 

i,595 

Original  enrollment,  939;  killed,  158  ;  percentage,  16.8. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  628  ;  Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  34. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.w. 

Wilderness,  Va 12 

Spotsylvania,  Va 29 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Totopotomoy,  Va 3 

Bethesda  Church,  June  3,  1864 29 

Cold  Harbor  Trenches,  Va 6 

Picket,  Va.,  June,  1 864 3 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Petersburg,  Va.  (June  1 7,  1864) 19 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 23 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 24 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 14 

Picket,  Va.,  Dec.  i,  1864 i 

Fall  of  Petersburg 18 


Present,  also,  at  Boydton  Road  ;  Weldon  Railroad  ;  Fort  Stedman. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Augusta,  Me.,  in  March  and  April,  1864.  Leaving  the  State,  April  i8th,  it  proceeded  to 
Alexandria,  Va.,  where  it  was  assigned  to  the  2nd  Brigade  (General  S.  G.  Griffin's),  2d  Division  (General  R.  B. 
Potter's),  Ninth  Corps.  In  less  than  a  month  after  leaving  home  the  regiment  went  into  action  at  the  Wilder 
ness,  and  on  May  i2th  was  hotly  engaged  at  Spotsylvania,  where  it  lost  n  killed,  94  wounded,  and  i  missing. 
In  the  fighting  at  Bethesda  Church,  June  3d,  it  lost  15  killed  and  39  wounded,  and  behaved  with  such  gallantry 
that  General  Griffin  complimented  it  in  orders.  Under  command  of  Colonel  White,  the  regiment  rendered 
efficient  service  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  1 7th,  and  at  the  Mine  explosion  it  was  among  the  first  to  enter 
the  enemy's  works.  Its  losses  at  the  Mine  were  9  killed,  26  wounded,  and  51  captured  or  missing.  In  October 
there  were  only  about  60  men  left  on  duty  ;  then  two  new  companies  joined  the  regiment,  which  were  designated 
as  L  and  M,  and  in  December  the  regiment  received  an  accession  by  the  consolidation  with  it  of  the  Thirty- 
second  Maine  ;  485  men  were  thus  transferred  on  the  rolls,  of  whom  only  1 8 1  were  present  for  duty.  In  less 
than  one  year's  time  the  Thirty-first  Maine  lost  674  men,  killed  or  wounded  in  action,  three-fourths  of  this  loss 
occurring  in  May,  June  and  July,  1864.  After  the  war  had  ended  the  regiment  was  transferred  to  the  Nineteenth 
Corps,  and  stationed  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  until  August  2oth,  1865,  when  it  was  mustered  out. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


SECOND  NEW  HAMPSHIRE  INFANTRY. 
BURLING'S  BRIGADE  -  -  HUMPHREYS^  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  Coi..  OILMAN  MARSTON;  Buio.  GlH. 


(2)  Coi..  EDWAKD  L.  BAILEY. 


(3)  COL.  JOAB  N.  PATTERSON  ;  BVT.  BRIO.  OB*. 


COMPANIES. 

KM  i.i  i>  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIKU  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENT*.  IN  I'KIMON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  XHcera. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

4 
i 

• 

3 

2 

2 

• 

2 
\ 

I 

9 

12 

8 

7 
1  1 

9 

I  2 
1 

8 
9 

I 

9 
1  6 

9 

7 
M 
1  1 

14 

7 
10 

10 

I 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
* 

1 
1 
I 

• 

•  • 

>4 
7 

5 
8 

8 
1  1 
10 

I  2 

7 
9 

I 
M 
9 

5 
8 

8 
1  1 
1  1 

13 
8 

9 

'3 

102 
IOI 
IOO 
IOO 
98 
96 
IO2 
IOO 
IOI 
IOO 

B  

c 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I 

K  

Totals  . 

'5 

•  • 

93 
70 

1  08 
70 

6 

• 

91 

75 

97 

75 

1,013 
1,639 

'5 

163 

178 

6 

1  66 

172 

2,652 

Of  the  1,013  originally  enrolled,  108  were  killed  —  10.6  per  cent.     Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  658. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.NV. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 14 

Williamsburg,  Va 23 

Oak  Grove,  Va 9 

Glendale,    Va i 

Manassas,  Va 37 

Fredericksburg,  Va 3 


BATTLM.  K.  &  M  W 

Gettysburg,  Pa 48 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 22 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 10 

Fair  Oaks,  Va.  ( 1 864) 2 

Scouting,  Va.  (April  2,  1862) i 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown ;  Fair  Oaks  (1862);  White  Oak  Swamp;  Malvern  Hill;  Chantilly;  Wapping 
Heights  ;  Bermuda  Hundred  ;   Fall  of  Richmond. 

NOTES. — Arriving  at  Washington  June  23, 1861,  it  encamped  there  a  few  weeks,  and  then  marched  away  to  First 
Bull  Run,  with  Burnside's  Brigade  of  Hunter's  Division.  It  passed  the  succeeding  fall  and  winter  in  Maryland,  on  the 
lower  Potomac.  In  the  spring  of  1862  it  took  the  field,  then  in  Grover's  (ist)  Brigade,  Hooker's  (zd)  Division, 
Third  Corps.  Hooker  withstood  the  brunt  of  the  attack  at  the  battle  of  Williamsburg,  in  which  the  Second  lost 
1 6  killed,  68  wounded,  and  19  missing.  Upon  its  return  from  the  Peninsula,  Grover's  Brigade  was  hotly  engaged 
at  Manassas,  where  the  regiment,  fighting  on  that  familiar  field,  lost  16  killed,  87  wounded,  and  30  missing,  out  of 
332  present  in  action.  The  Second  was  ordered  home  on  February  26,  1863,  and  was  absent  a  couple  of  months, 
rejoining  the  Army  in  June,  while  on  its  way  to  Gettysburg,  at  which  time  it  was  assigned  to  the  Jersey  Brigade  of 
Humphreys's  (2d)  Division.  It  fought  in  the  Peach  Orchard,  at  Gettysburg,  and  while  there,  just  before  the 
opening  of  the  fight  on  the  second  day,  the  roll  was  called.  Only  eight  men  were  absent  from  their  places,  while 
24  officers  and  330  men  answered  to  their  names.  Of  that  number,  the  regiment  lost  20  killed,  137  wounded, 
and  36  missing ;  of  the  24  officers,  7  were  killed  and  14  wounded.  One  wounded  captain,  shot  in  the  forehead, 
wandered  into  the  enemy's  lines,  where  he  died  and  was  buried  by  some  brother  masons.  In  August,  the  regiment 
was  assigned  to  guard  duty  at  Point  Lookout,  Md.,  where  it  remained  until  May,  1864,  when  it  took  the  field  as 
a  part  of  Weitzel's  (2d)  Division,  Eighteenth  Corps. 


138 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRD  NEW  HAMPSHIRE  INFANTRY. 
HAWLEY'S  BRIGADE — TERRY'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ENOCH  Q.  FELLOWS. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  II.  JACKSON. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  BEDELL;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEX. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 

Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2. 

I 
2 
I 

3 

2 
I 

*    • 

2O 
18 
l6 

25 
T9 

J7 
16 

21 

16 

18 

2 
2O 

18 
T7 
25 

21 
I? 

X7 
24 

18 
'9 

I 

• 
• 
• 
,    • 
• 
• 
* 
• 

I 

• 

•    • 

15 

16 

16 
M 

12 

15 
24 

14 

14 
12 

I 
15 

16 
16 

M 

12 

IS 

24 

M 

15 
12 

J7 
169 

172 
171 
1  68 
166 

i?4 

1  68 

171 

173 

176 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  . 

G. 

H  

T  . 

K  

Totals  . 

12 

1  86 

198 

2 

J52 

'54 

i,725 

198  killed  =  11.4  per  cent. 

Of  the  1,028  originally  enrolled,  132  were  killed,  and  88  died  of  disease.       Total  killed  and  wounded,  685  ;  Died  in  Con 
federate  prisons  (previously  included),  31. 


BATTLES. 

Secessionville,  S.  C 

Pinckney  Island,  S.  C 

Morris  Island,  S.  C 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.  (assault) 

Siege  of  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C 

Chester  Station,  Va 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va 


K.  &M.W. 
.       27 

5 

7 

12 

5 
i 

66 


BATTLES. 

Ware  Bottom  Church,  Va 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  16,  1864. 
Deep  Bottom,  Va. 


K.&M.W 

3 
...      16 

28 


New  Market  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  7,  1864 5 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  13,  1864 i 

Charles  City  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 8 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 5 

Sugar  Loaf  Hill,  N.  C i 


Present,  also,  at  Pocotaligo  ;  St.  John's  River  ;   Pilatka. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Concord  in  August,  1 86 1 ,  and  left  the  State  on  Sept.  3d.  After  a  short  stay,  successively, 
at  Long  Island,  Washington,  Annapolis,  and  Fort  Monroe,  it  arrived  November  4th  at  Port  Royal,  S.  C.  Re 
maining  at  Hilton  Head  and  its  vicinity,  the  regiment  was  not  under  fire  until  the  affair  at  Secessionville,  June 
1 6,  1862,  where,  under  command  of  Colonel  Jackson,  it  established  a  reputation  for  gallantry  and  efficiency.  It 
took  623  officers  and  men  into  that  action,  sustaining  a  loss  of  9  killed,  93  wounded,  and  2  missing;  total  104. 
In  1863  it  participated  in  the  operations  in  Charleston  Harbor,  and  in  April,  1864,  sailed  from  Florida  to  join  the 
Army  of  the  James  in  Virginia.  On  the  6th  of  May,  1864,  it  landed  at  Bermuda  Hundred  with  about  800  men, 
Lt.-Col.  Josiah  J.  Plimpton  in  command.  It  was  engaged  at  Drewry's  Bluff,  May  i4th,  a  memorable  day  in  the 
history  of  the  Third  New  Hampshire.  In  that  battle  it  made  a  brilliant  and  successful  charge,  but  with  a  loss  of 
over  200  men,  the  loss  occurring  in  less  than  twenty  minutes' time.  In  July  it  was  armed  with  Spencer  rifles, 
a  breech-loader  of  rapid  and  effective  fire.  At  Deep  Bottom  the  regiment  lost  half  its  number  (12  killed,  71 
wounded,  and  9  missing),  Colonel  Plimpton  falling,  with  a  bullet  through  his  heart,  while  leading  a  charge.  The 
regiment  was  ordered  home  a  few  days  later ;  the  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  remaining  in  the  field  preserved 
the  organization.  The  Third  fought  at  Fort  Fisher — then  in  Abbott's  Brigade  —  and  on  July  2oth,  1865,  was 
mustered  out  of  service. 


THKKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


FIFTH   NEW  HAMPSHIRE  INFANTRY. 
CROSS'S  BRIGADE  —  CALDWELL'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EDWARD  E.  CROSS  ;  B.  *.  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  CHARLES  E.  HAPOOOD. 


(3)  COL.  WEI.COMK  A.  CRAFTS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLRD  AND  DIED  or  WOITNDH. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACTIDKNTX,  IN  I'KIHON,  Ac. 

Total 

Kiir.  Hint-lit. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 
2 
I 
I 

3 
i 

3 

2 

3 

I 

16 

10 

'9 

10 

20 

*4 
18 

'7 
'5 
17 

3 

18 

1  1 

20 

13 

21 

M 

21 

!9 

15 
20 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

5 
'3 

13 

8 

1  1 

9 
6 

9 
'3 
19 

•    • 

6 

'3 

'3 

8 

1  1 

10 

6 

9 
13 
'9 

»3 
101 

87 

101 

85 

101 

9> 

IOI 

95 

IOI 
IOO 

fomtvinv   A  . 

B  

c  

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

18 

•  • 

!57 
1  20 

»75 

1  20 

2 

• 

1  06 
7° 

1  08 

70 

976 
1,520 

Totals  . 

18 

277 

295 

2 

176 

178 

2,496 

Of  the  original  enrollment,  175  were  killed  — »  17.9  per  cent.     Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  1,051  ;    died  in  Confed 


erate  prisons  (previously  included),  8. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 33 

Allen's  Farm,  Va 8 

Glendale,    Va 8 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 2 

Antietam,  Md 13 

Fredericksburg,  Va 51 

Chancellorsville,  Va 5 

Gettysburg,  Pa 34 

Picket,  Va.,  June  10,  1862 i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 69 

Petersburg,  Va.,  Assault  of  June    1 6th 15 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 14 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 4 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va 2 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 5 

Reams'  Station,  Va 5 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 6 

Farmville,  Va 20 


Present,  also,  at  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Sutherland  Station  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Sustained  the  greatest  loss  in  battle  of  any  infantry  or  cavalry  regiment,  in  the  whole  Union  Army. 
Known  to  the  corps  and  division  commanders  as  a  reliable  regiment,  it  was  the  more  often  called  upon  to  face  the 
enemy's  fire,  or  assigned  to  the  post  of  danger.  The  rolls  were  encumbered  in  1864  with  the  names  of  conscripts  and 
mercenaries ;  420  of  them  deserted,  most  of  them  before  joining  the  command.  The  regiment  was  always  well 
handled.  Colonel  Cross  was  an  experienced  officer  who  sustained  an  excellent  reputation  in  the  corps ;  he  fell  at 
Gettysburg  while  in  command  of  the  brigade,  having  remarked  to  Hancock  as  he  entered  the  field,  that  it  would 
be  his  last  fight.  Colonel  Crafts,  formerly  a  sergeant  in  the  Second,  passed  through  all  the  gradations  of  rank  to  the 
colonelcy.  The  greatest  loss,  numerically,  occurred  at  Cold  Harbor,  where  the  regiment,  under  Colonel  Hapgood, 
entered  the  enemy's  works,  but  for  a  lack  of  support,  was  forced  to  relinquish  its  position.  Hapgood  took  577  men 
into  that  action,  of  whom  202  were  killed  or  wounded.  At  Fredericksburg,  under  Cross,  the  regiment  lost  20  killed, 
154  wounded,  and  19  missing ;  total,  193,  out  of  303  present.  At  Gettysburg,  Hapgood  commanding,  it  lost  27 
killed,  and  53  wounded,  out  of  the  12  officers  and  165  men  engaged.  The  regiment  served  throughout  the 
war  in  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Second  Corps. 


140 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTH  NEW  HAMPSHIRE   INFANTRY. 
GRIFFIN'S  BRIGADE  —  POTTER'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  NELSON  CONVERSE. 


(2)  COL.  SIMON  G.  GRIFFIN  ;  BVT.  MAJ.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  PHINEAS  BIXBY. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

t 
• 

I 

I 
I 
I 

2 

• 

2 

I 

• 

8 

J3 

7 

13 

ii 

ii 

7 
J9 
7 
iS 

I 

8 

J3 

8 

M 

12 
12 

9 
19 

9 
16 

I 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

•    • 

22 

J9 
ii 

12 

*9 

12 

18 

J5 
J9 
13 

I 
22 
20 
II 
12 

J9 
12 

18 
16 

r9 
T3 

13 

1  08 

IOI 
IOI 
IOI 

IO2 

95 
99 
1  08 

IOI 
IOI 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

*     • 

in 
66 

121 

66 

3 

• 

160 
68 

163 
68 

1,030 

1,544 

AppPTe2rate  . 

10 

177 

187 

3 

228 

231 

2>574 

Of  the  original  enrollment,  121  were  killed  =  11.7  per  cent.      Loss  in  killed  and  wouded,  679. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W. 


Camden,  N.  C i 

Manassas,Va 67 

Chantilly,  Va i 

South  Mountain,  Md i 

Antietam,  Md 7 

Fredericksburg,  Va 15 

Wilderness,  Va 6 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 8 


North  Anna,  Va i 

Bethesda   Church,  Va 7 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 2 

Petersburg,  Va 20 

Mine  Explosion,  Va 20 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va i 

Peebles  Farm,  Va 1 6 

Fall  of  Petersburg 4 


Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Vicksburg ;  Jackson,  Miss. ;  Totopotomoy ;  Hatcher's  Run. 

NOTES.— Organized  at  Keene,  N.  H.,  leaving  the  State  Dec.  25,  1861.  It  sailed  from  Annapolis,  Jan.  7, 
1862,  with  the  Burnside  expedition,  disembarking  at  Hatteras  Island,  where  it  went  into  a  camp  of  instruction. 
After  some  active  service  with  Reno's  Brigade  in  North  Carolina,  it  returned  to  Virginia  with  the  Ninth  Corps,  in 
August,  1862.  It  had  been  assigned  in  the  meantime  to  Nagle's  (ist)  Brigade,  Reno's  (2d)  Division,  in  which 
command  it  fought  at  Manassas,  where  it  lost  30  killed,  1 1  7  wounded,  and  70  missing,  out  of  450  engaged ;  the 
missing  ones  were  killed  or  wounded  men  who  fell  into  the  enemy's  hands.  In  March,  1863,  the  Ninth  Corps 
was  transferred  to  the  West,  where  the  regiment  spent  two  pleasant  months  on  post  duty  in  Kentucky.  It  then 
went  to  Mississippi  where  it  participated  in  the  siege  operations  about  Vicksburg  and  Jackson  ;  thence  it  returned 
to  Kentucky,  and  in  the  spring  of  1864  rejoined  the  army  of  the  Potomac  in  Virginia.  While  in  Kentucky— 
December,  1863  —  two  hundred  and  eighty-eight  of  the  men  reenlisted,  and  were  furloughed,  leaving  the 
recruits  in  camp.  The  regiment  took  the  field  with  Grant,  in  May,  1864,  as  a  part  of  General  S.  G.  Griffin's 
(2d)  Brigade,  Potter's  (2d)  Division.  Lt.-Col.  Henry  H.  Pearson  was  killed  at  the  North  Anna.  In  the  siege 
of  Petersburg,  the  regiment  occupied  an  exposed  position  in  the  trenches,  losing  men  daily ;  its  losses  there, 
from  June  2oth  to  August  2oth,  1864,  amounted  to  18  killed  and  108  wounded;  being  under  fire  constantly,  the 
nervous  strain  and  fatigue  was  terrible. 


THKKE  HUNDKED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


141 


SEVENTH  NEW  HAMPSHIRE  INFANTRY. 
HAWLEY'S  BRIGADE  —  TERRY'S  DIVISION -- TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  Cot..  HALDINANI)  S.  PUTNAM, 


.  (Killed). 


(2)Coi..  JOSEPH  ('.  AHHOTT;  HVT.BIIHI.OEH. 


1    "MI-AM  t.- 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIKD  or  DIHEAPK,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  PIIIMON,  &<•. 

ToUl 
Enrollment. 

O  (fleers. 

Men. 

Total.  • 

(  Xllcers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

2 

3 

i 

2 

• 

I 
2 
I 

I 

•     • 

22 

'9 
10 

18 

*9 
16 

16 

20 
18 

1  1 

2 
22 
21 

"3 

*9 

21 

16 
'7 

22 

19 

12 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

•  • 
26 
22 

30 
20 

1  8 

23 

3  2 

23 

16 

3i 

I 
26 
22 

3° 
20 

18 

23 
32 
23 
16 

,3' 

16 
'73 
•75 
•47 
172 

169 
171 
.76 

'75 
1  68 

176 

B  

c  

1)  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

'5 

169 

184 

I 

241 

242 

1,718 

184  killed  —  10.7  per  cent. 


Of  the  1,024  originally  enrolled,    116   were   killed— 11.3  per  cent. 
Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  56. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.  (assault)   77 

Siege  of  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C 4 

Olustee,  Fla 51 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 4 

Ware  Bottom  Church,  Va 4 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  1 6,  1 864 1 1 

Picket,  Va.,  June   18,   1864 2 


Total    of   killed    and    wounded,    668.     Died    in 


BATTLK8.  K.&M.W. 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 5 

New  Market  Heights,  Va 2 

Laurel  Hill,  Va.,  Oct.  7,  1 864 9 

Darbytown  Road,  Va 2 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 6 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 4 

Picket,  Va.,  Aug.  25,  1864 i 

Picket,  Va.,  Sept.  13,   1864 i 


Present,  also,  at  Morris  Island  ;  Arrowfield  Church  ;  Wilmington. 

NOTES. — Eleven  officers  of  the  Seventh  New  Hampshire  were  killed  in  the  assault  on  Fort  Wagner.  This  was 
the  largest  number  of  officers  killed  in  any  one  action  of  the  war,  belonging  to  any  one  regiment.  After  the  naval 
bombardment  of  Fort  Wagner  had  ceased  —  July  i£,  1863  —  the  assaulting  column  of  troops  was  formed  on  the 
beach  in  the  fast-deepening  gloom  of  the  southern  twilight,  and,  then,  when  the  night  had  already  set  in,  advanced 
against  the  fort,  guided  only  by  the  flashes  of  the  garrison's  rifles  and  the  fire  which  streamed  from  the  rmu/les 
of  the  heavy  guns.  Although  the  assault  was  a  failure,  some  of  the  men  succeeded  in  forcing  an  entrance, 
Colonel  Putnam,  who  commanded  the  Second  Brigade,  falling  dead  within  the  fort.  The  casualties  amounted  to 
41  killed,  1 19  wounded,  and  56  missing ;  of  the  latter,  few  ever  returned.  In  February,  1864,  the  regiment,  650 
strong,  sailed  from  Hilton  Head  with  Seymour's  Division,  bound  for  Florida.  It  was  engaged  on  the  2oth,  in  the 
disastrous  affair  at  Olustee,  Fla.,  with  a  loss  of  209  killed,  wounded,  and  missing.  In  April,  1864,  it  proceeded 
to  Virginia,  where  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  James,  taking  an  honorable  part  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Tenth  Corps. 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas  A.  Henderson  fell,  mortally  wounded,  at  Deep  Bottom.  The  regiment  participated 
in  the  successful  storming  of  Fort  Fisher,  after  which  it  remained  in  North  Carolina,  being  then  a  part  of  Abbott's 
Brigade,  Tenth  Corps.  It  was  mustered  out  at  Goldsbo rough,  N.  C.,  July  17,  1865. 


142 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


NINTH  NEW   HAMPSHIRE  INFANTRY. 
GRIFFIN'S  BRIGADE  —  POTTER'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ENOCH  R.  FELLOWS. 


(2)  COL.  HERBERT  B.  TITUS ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WODNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  . 

. 
I 
2 
I 

2 
I 
I 
I 

I 

• 

•    • 

8 

7 

9 
18 

1  1 
M 

10 

7 

7 

12 

•    * 

9 
9 

IO 

18 

!3 

15 

1  1 

8 
8 

12 

2 

• 
* 
• 
* 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

21 

I? 

II 

M 
*7 

15 
M 

2O 

16 

27 

3 

21 

17 

I  I 

14 

'7 

16 

M 

20 

16 

27 

!3 
IOI 

99 
97 

IOI 

103 

IOI 

88 
87 
95 
94 

f  ornnanv  A  . 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

•     • 

103 
42 

"3 
42 

3 

• 

J73 
78 

176 

78 

979 

885 

10 

J45 

155 

3 

251 

254 

1,864 

Original  enrollment,  979  ;  killed,  113=  11.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  563  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  39. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

South  Mountain,  Md 2 

Antietam,  Md 15 

Fredericksburg,  Va i  o 

Jackson,  Miss 2 

Wilderness,  Va i 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12 62 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va i 

Petersburg   Mine,  Va 25 

Petersburg  trenches,  Va 13 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va 15 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  5,  '64 i 


Spotsylvania,  Va  ,  May  18 6 

Present,  also,  at  North  Anna,  Va. ;  Weldon  Railroad,  Va. ;  Cold  Harbor,  Va. ;  Hatcher's  Run,  Va. ;  Fort 
Stedman,  Va. ;  Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Concord,  N.  H.  Leaving  the  State  August  25,  1862,  it  was  engaged,  within  twenty  days, 
at  the  battle  of  South  Mountain,  Md.  Its  casualties  in  that  fight  were  29  killed  and  wounded.  Though  a  new 
regiment  and  under  fire  for  the  first  time,  it  took  a  creditable  part  in  the  action;  it  was  then  in  Nagle's  (ist) 
Brigade,  Sturgis'  (2d)  Division,  Ninth  Corps.  Three  days  later  it  fought  at  Antietam,  with  a  loss  of  10  killed,  and 
49  Wounded.  At  Fredericksburg,  under  command  of  Colonel  Titus,  the  Ninth  was  engaged,  losing  4  killed, 
68  wounded,  and  12  missing.  In  March,  1863,  the  Ninth  Corps  moved  to  Kentucky,  and  was  stationed  at 
various  parts  of  the  State.  It  was  a  pleasant  change  from  the  war-worn  fields  of  Virginia,  the  men  enjoying  the 
good  food  and  quarters  there  provided.  In  June  the  Ninth  Corps  joined  Grant's  army,  then  besieging  Vicks- 
burg,  but  returned  in  August  to  Kentucky.  The  spring  of  1864  found  the  Corps  in  Virginia  again.  At  Spotsyl 
vania,  the  gallant  old  regiment  was  hotly  engaged,  holding  its  position  against  a  desperate  counter-charge  of  the 
enemy  ;  so  close  were  the  two  lines  that  their  rifles  flashed  in  each  other's  faces.  Two  companies  were  on  the 
skirmish  line;  the  eight  companies  in  action  —  about  400  men — lost  41  killed,  95  wounded,  and  48  missing. 
The  regiment  remained  in  Potter's  Division  until  the  close  of  the  war. 


*  Of  the  recruits,  466  deserted,  most  of  them  (444)  while  on  their  way  to  the  regiment.    They  were  conscripts. 


THKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


H3 


ELEVENTH   NEW   HAMPSHIRE  INFANTRY. 
FERRERO'S  BRIGADE  —  STURGIS'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORI>S. 


COL.  WALTER  IIARRIMAN  ;  Bvr.  BRIO.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  Worsos. 

DIED  or  DIKEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'ICINUN,  <tc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

M 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

i 

• 
• 
• 
• 

i 

i 

i 

• 

i 

• 

•     • 

'5 
16 

i? 
10 

6 
6 
16 
6 

9 
10 

I 

15 
16 

17 
10 

7 
7 

'7 
6 

10 
10 

• 
• 
• 

i 

• 

• 
• 
• 

*      • 

M 

10 
10 
12 

'4 

12 

16 

19 

1  1 

10 

•    • 

'4 
10 
1  1 

I  2 

M 
I  2 
16 

19 
1  1 

IO 

'5 

101 
101 
101 
101 

95 

IOI 

98 

IO2 
IOI 

93 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

5 

•   • 

1  1  1 
29 

116 
29 

i 

• 

128 
23 

129 
23 

1,009 
630 

5 

140 

'45 

i 

1S1 

'52 

»»639 

Original  enrollment,  1,009  ',  killed,  116—  11.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  528  ;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  18. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 40 

Morristown,  Tenn i 

Jackson,  Miss 2 

Knoxville,  Tenn i 

Wilderness,  Va i  o 


BATTLE*.  K.  A  M.W 

Spotsylvania,  Va 27 

Bethesda  Church,  Va o. 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 22 

Petersburg   Mine,  Va 23 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va i  o 


Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Vicksburg ;  North  Anna,  Va. ;  Cold  Harbor,  Va. ;  Weldon  Railroad,  Va. ;  Peebles 
Farm,  Va. ;  Hatcher's  Run,  Va. ;  Fort  Stedman,  Va. ;  Fall  of  Petersburg. 

NOTES. — Recruited  under  the  second  call  for  troops,  leaving  New  Hampshire  on  September  1 1,  1862.  After  two 
weeks  drill  on  Arlington  Heights,  Va.,  it  joined  General  McClellan's  Army  (Oct.  4th)  then  at  Harper's  Ferry,  and 
was  brigaded  with  General  Ferrero's  command,  Sturgis's  (2d)  Division,  Ninth  Corps.  The  Eleventh  saw  its  first 
battle  at  Fredericksburg,  December  13,  1862,  where  it  behaved  with  extraordinary  gallantry,  its  conduct  receiving 
universal  commendation.  Its  losses  on  that  day  were  19  killed,  151  wounded,  and  25  missing;  total,  195.  The 
Ninth  Corps  passed  the  greater  part  of  1863  in  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  and  Mississippi.  He  fore  going  to  the 
West,  there  was  a  month's  preparatory  stay  at  Newport  News,  Va.,  which  with  the  time  spent  in  Kentucky  was 
the  pleasantest  period  in  the  existence  of  the  regiment.  It  was  a  time  of  blue  skies,  green  fields,  comfortable 
quarters,  good  food,  and  pleasant  journeys  by  land  and  water.  The  Eleventh  participated,  without  loss,  in 
the  investment  of  Vicksburg,  but  in  the  following  siege  operations  at  Jackson,  Miss.,  it  lost  i  killed,  and  i  z 
wounded.  It  was  also  engaged  in  the  Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  in  November,  1863,  a  campaign  notable  for  its 
hardships  and  privations.  Leaving  Tennessee  in  April,  1864,  the  regiment  rejoined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
(Griffin's  Brigade.  Potter's  Division).  Lieutenant  Colonel  Moses  N.  Collins  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness  ;  the  regi 
ment  was  engaged  at  the  Petersburg  Mine  with  a  loss  of  9  killed,  32  wounded,  and  22  missing;  and  in  all  the 
subsequent  battles  of  the  corps,  adding  to  its  reputation  for  hard  fighting  and  heavy  losses. 


*  With  the  recruits  are  included  403  conscripts  or  mercenaries  who  deserted  und  never  joined  the  regiment. 


144 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWELFTH   NEW  HAMPSHIRE  INFANTRY. 
CARR'S  BRIGADE  —  HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(l)CoL  JOSEPH  H.  POTTER;  BRIG.  GEN. 


(2)  COL.  THOMAS  E.  BARKER. 


COM  TAN  IKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and   Staff.  . 

I 

2 

• 

2 
2 
1 
I 
I 

* 

I 

• 

•    • 

!? 

J5 

10 

14 

II 

12 
11 
16 

15 
II 

I 

'9 

15 

12 

16 

12 

'3 

12 

16 
16 
1  1 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 
15 

'9 
ii 

10 

13 

8 

4 

10 

'9 
12 

I 

15 
*9 

II 

10 

'3 

8 

4 
10 

J9 

12 

'3 
98 

IO2 
IO2 
IO2 
IOI 
101 
1O2 
IOI 
IOI 
IOI 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E 

F  . 

G  . 

H  . 

T 

K  . 

Totals. 

II 

•     • 

132 

38 

M3 

38 

I 

• 

121 

'7 

122 

!? 

1,024 
426 

Totals  

I  I 

I70 

181 

I 

138 

'39 

i,45° 

181  killed  =  12.4  per  cent. 
Of  the  1,024  originally  enrolled,  143  were  killed  =  13.9  per  cent.     Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  659. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 2 

Chancellorsville,  Va 72 

Gettysburg,  Pa 26 

Port  Walthall,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 5 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 66 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6 

Bermuda   Hundred,  Va 2 


Present,  also,  at  Swift  Creek ;  Fall  of  Richmond. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  September  10,  1862,  the  ten  companies  having  been  recruited  within 
ten  days  time,  and  arrived  at  Arlington  Heights,  Va.,  on  September  3Oth.  The  heaviest  loss  in  the  battle  of 
Chancellorsville  fell  to  the  lot  of  the  Twelfth  New  Hampshire  ;  it  fought  there  in  Whipple's  Division,  Third  Corps. 
In  the  fighting  on  Sunday  morning  it  faced  for  a  long  time  a  musketry  fire  of  extraordinary  severity,  and  having 
held  its  position  long  after  the  troops  on  either  side  had  fallen  back,  it  retired  slowly  and  in  good  order  to  avoid 
capture.  It  entered  that  engagement  with  21  officers  and  537  men,  (official  report)  losing  41  killed,  213  wounded, 
and  63  missing ;  total,  317.  The  most  of  the  missing  were  killed  or  wounded  men  who  were  left  on  the  field  and 
fell  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy.  At  Gettysburg,  21  officers  and  224  men  went  into  action,  sustaining  a  loss  of 
14  killed,  67  wounded,  and  n  missing.  Soon  after  this  battle,  the  Twelfth,  in  company  with  the  Second  and 
Fifth  New  Hampshire,  was  assigned  to  duty  at  Point  Lookout,  Mel.,  as  guards  at  the  military  prison,  remaining 
there  eight  months.  The  regiment  received  in  the  meanwhile  an  assignment  of  450  conscripts  and  mercenaries, 
over  100  of  whom  deserted  on  their  way  to  the  front.  When  the  Twelfth  took  the  field  in  1864,  it  was  in  Wistar's 
Brigade,  Weitzel's  (2d)  Division,  Eighteenth  Corps.  At  Cold  Harbor  it  lost  23  killed,  126  wounded,  and  15 
missing,  out  of  less  than  300  men  engaged  in  the  assault.  In  December,  1864,  it  was  placed  in  Donohoe's 
Brigade,  Devens's  Division,  Twenty-fourth  Corps.  This  brigade  was  the  first  infantry  command  that  entered 
Richmond.  The  adjutant-general  of  New  Hampshire  states  in  his  official  report  that  "  no  regiment  left  the  state 
with  men  of  finer  personal  appearance,  or  of  more  gentlemanly  bearing." 


TlIRKK   HUNDKKD    Fl(iHTINU 


145 


FIRST   VERMONT   CAVALRY. 
FARNSWORTH'S  BRIGADE -- KILPATRICK'S  DIVISION --CAVALRY  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JONAS  P  HOLLIDAY  ;  Z®  \?.  fc.  *.— (Died.) 
0,»)  COL.  EDWAHI)  P.  SAWYER. 


(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  WELLS;  HVT.  MAJ.  (Jr.x. 

(4)  COL  JOSIAII  HALL 


(.'ON  PAS  IKS. 

Kll  I.I.  H    AND    UlKI)  OK   WOUNDS. 

DlKI)  OF  DlSF.ASK,  ACCIDKNTS. 

N    I'KIMIN,  »V 

ToUil. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 
2 

• 

2 
1 
I 
1 

• 

I 

I 
1  2 

'9 
10 

7 
16 

10 
2 
I  I 
I  I 

6 

'5 
4 

2 
12 
2O 
IO 

7 
18 

10 

4 

12 
12 

7 
'5 
5 

2 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
22 

25 
32 
29 

'7 
29 

35 
25 
24 

21 

19 
21 

3 

22 

27 
32 
29 

'7 
29 

35 
25 
24 

21 

'9 

21 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

L   

M  

Totals  

10 

124 

'34 

4 

300 

3°4 

Total 

Kurolltiiftii 


2  I 
189 
.76 
I9O 
I92 
187 
182 
198 

'93 

•«3 
1 80 

'45 
127 


2,163 


The  loss  by  disease  includes  149  deaths  in  Confederate  prisons. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Woodstock,  May  20,  1862 i 

Middletown,  May  24,  1862 3 

Action,  April  27,  1862 

Winchester,  May  25,  1862 

Milford,  July  2,  1862 

Orange  C.  H.,  Aug.  2,  1862 

Rappahannock,  Aug.  22,  1862 

Ashby's  Gap,  Sept.  22,  1862 i 

Broad  Run,  April  I,  1863 3 

Greenwich,  May  30,  1863 i 

Gettysburg,  July  3,  1863 21 

Cashtown,  July  5,  1863 i 

Hagerstown,  July  6,  1863 S 

Boonsboro,  July  9,   1863 i 

Culpeper,  Sept.  13,  1863 I 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Picket,  Sept.  26,  1863 i 

Brandy  Station,  Oct.  1 1,  1863 3 

Rapidan,  Feb.  3,  1864 i 

Richmond,  Mch.  i,  1864 4 

Richmond,  Mch.  2,  1864 i 

Craig's  Church,  May  5,  1864 10 

Yellow  Tavern,  May  11,1864 3 

Strawberry  Hill,  May  12,  1864 3 

In  action,  May  30,  1864 i 

Ashland,  June  I,  1864     3 

Salem  Church,  June  3,  1864 3 

In  action,  June  12,  1864 i 

White  Oak  Swamp,  June  14,  1864. .  .  i 

Malvern  Hill,  June  15,  1864 2 

Prince  Geo.  C.  H.,  June  21,  1864  . .  i 


BATTI.KS.  K.&M.W. 

Nottoway  C.  H.,  June  23,  1864  ....  4 

Stony  Creek,  June  29,  1864 /i 

In  action,  July  2,  1864 i 

Lcetown,  Aug.  25,  1864 4 

Front  Royal,  Sept.  21,  1864 I 

Skirmish,  Oct.  6,  1864 I 

Columbia  Furnace,  Oct.  7,  1864  ...  7 

Columbia  Furnace,  Oct.  8,  1864  ...  i 

Mount  Olive,  Oct.  9,   1864 3 

Kcrnstown,  Nov.  n,  1864 I 

Cedar  Springs,  Nov.  12,  1864 4 

Waynesboro,  Mch.  2,  1865 i 

Petersburg,  April  3,  1865 2 

Appomattox,  April  18,  1865 t 

Picket,  skirmishes,  places  unknown  S 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  leaving  the  State  December  14,  1 86 r,  with  ten  companies  only  ;  Com 
panies  L  and  M  were  not  recruited  until  a  year  later.  In  the  spring  of  1862  it  was  assigned  to  duty  in  Banks's 
Corps,  then  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  whereupon  its  active  service  immediately  commenced.  It  formed  part  of 
a  cavalry  brigade,  under  General  John  P.  Hatch,  with  which  it  took  an  active  part  in  the  fighting  at  Winchester, 
May  25,  1862,  and  on  Banks's  retreat.  In  these  operations  the  regiment,  acting  as  a  rear  guard,  lost  105  men, 
captured  or  missing,  in  addition  to  their  killed  and  wounded.  At  Gettysburg  it  was  in  Farnsworth's  (ist)  Brigade, 
Kilpatrick's  (3d)  Division,  Cavalry  Corps.  On  the  third  day  of  that  battle,  Kilpatrick  committed  the  serious 
error  of  ordering  Farnsworth  to  charge  a  large  body  of  Confederate  infantry  who  held  a  strong  |>osition,  protected 
by  stone  walls.  Farnsworth's  men,  led  by  the  First  Vermont,  leaping  their  horses  over  the  intervening  walls 
and  fences,  made  a  gallant  but  useless  attack;  Farnsworth  was  killed,  and  the  regiment  lost  13  killed,  25 
wounded,  and  27  missing.  The  First  Vermont  was  one  of  the  best  mounted  regiments  in  the  service.  In  addition 
to  the  actions  mentioned  in  the  above  list,  in  which  it  lost  men  killed  or  mortally  wounded,  it  participated  in  as 
many  more,  in  which  it  sustained  losses  in  wounded  or  prisoners. 
10 


146 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIRST  VERMONT   HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 
VERMONT  BRIGADE  —  GETTY'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  M.  WARNER,  OT.  P.,  &.  *3.;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN.,  U.  S.  A. 


(2)  COL.  CHARLES  HUNSDON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  . 

2 
2 
I 
2 

• 
• 
• 

• 
• 

I 
2 

•    • 

21 
M 
17 

9 

12 

J5 

8 

8 

9 
M 

H 

!3 

2 

23 
IS 
19 

9 

12 
»5 

8 
8 

9 
*4 

'5 

IS 

• 
• 

1 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

•    • 

54 
24 

34 

28 

22 

52 
23 

5* 
26 

38 
36 

22 

•    • 

54 
25 
34 
28 

22 
52 
23 

51 
26 

39 
36 

22 

21 
192 

186 
188 

194 
193 

192 
188 
188 
191 
196 
191 
160 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G. 

H. 

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

IO 

154 

164 

2 

4IO 

412 

2,280 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  583  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  167. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


Spotsylvama,  Va.,  May  1 2-2 1 ,  '61 8 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.  (assault) 37 

Cold    Harbor  Trenches,  Va 10 

Petersburg,  Va.,  1864 3 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  23,  '64 31 


Charlestown,  W.  Va 13 

Opequon,  Va 20 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 24 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March  25,  '65 3 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 10 

Place  Unknown 2 


On   Picket,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Fort  Stevens,  D.  C. ;  Fisher's  Hill,  Va. ;  Mount  Jackson,  Va. ;  Sailor's  Creek,  Va. 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  as  an  infantry  command,  but  was  changed  to  heavy  artillery  December 
10,  1862,  while  on  duty  in  Washington.  The  additional  companies,  L.  and  M.  made  necessary  by  this  change, 
were  recruited  in  July  and  October,  1863.  The  regiment  was  assigned  to  garrison  duty  within  the  defences  of 
Washington,  occupying  Forts  Slocum,  Totten,  and  Stevens.  It  remained  at  Washington  until  May  12,  1864,  when 
it  moved,  1,500  strong,  to  join  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  Although  nominally  a  heavy  artillery  regiment,  it 
served  as  infantry,  the  only  difference  being  in  its  larger  organization  ;  it  had  12  companies  of  150  men  each,  with 
a  captain  and  four  lieutenants  for  each  company,  forming  three  battalions  with  a  major  for  each.  The  regiment 
arrived  at  the  front  on  May  i5th,  when  it  was  assigned  to  the  Vermont  Brigade,  and  two  days  later  it  went  into 
action  near  Spotsylvania.  On  June  ist,  Major  Fleming's  Battalion  was  engaged  in  the  storming  of  Cold  Harbor, 
with  a  loss  of  13  killed  and  107  wounded.  In  the  affair  at  the  Weldon  Railroad,  June  23d,  the  regiment  lost  9 
killed,  36  wounded,  and  257  captured  or  missing,  the  captured  men  belonging  to  Fleming's  Battalion.  It  was 
next  engaged  in  Sheridan's  campaign  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  where  Lieutenant  Colonel  Chamberlin  fell 
mortally  wounded  in  the  fight  at  Charlestown.  At  the  Opequon,  the  regiment  lost  8  killed,  85  wounded,  and  6 
missing;  and  at  Cedar  Creek,  13  killed,  74  wounded,  and  20  missing.  Returning  to  Petersburg,  it  was  engaged 
in  the  final  and  victorious  assault,  with  a  loss  of  5  killed  and  45  wounded. 


TlIKKK   HUNDRED   FUJIITIXO    RrXJIMKNTS. 


147 


SECOND  VERMONT  INFANTRY. 
VERMONT  BRIGADE— GETTY'S  DIVISION   -SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  WHITING,  tgl.  p..  B.  *. 

(2)  COL.  JAMES  II.  WALBUUHJE. 


(5) Coi..  AMASA  S.  THACY. 


(3)  COL.  NKWTON  STONE  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  JOHN  H.  TYLKK  (Killed). 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIKD  or  DIMKAKR,  ArriDKNTx,  IN  I'KINON.  Ac. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 
20 

9 
13 

23 
26 

16 

1  1 

'7 
'5 

25 

Total. 

•    • 

20 

9 

'3 

23 
26 

16 
1  1 

i? 
'5 

25 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

I 
I 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
2S 

'5 
21 

23 
26 
2O 
21 

19 

24 
2O 

3 

28 

16 

22 

23 
28 
2O 
21 

19 
24 
2O 

• 

• 
• 

• 
* 

• 
• 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

218 

224 

• 

'75 

'75 

Total 
Enrollment. 


'3 
209 

1 68 
169 
.78 
197 

>79 

1 68 

170 
-76 
184 


i,8n 


224  killed  —  12.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  887  ;  Loss  by  disease  includes  22  deaths  in  Confederate  prisons. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 5 

Lee's  Mills,  Va.,  April   16,1862 2 

Yorktown,  Va.,  April  30,  1862 3 

Savage  Station,  Va S 

Antietam,  Md i 

Fredericksburg,  Va 5 

Marye's  Heights,  Va 1 6 

Banks's  Ford,  Va 10 

Funkstown,  Md i 

Gunboat  service,  Miss i 


BATTLE-.  K.  &  M  \V. 

Wilderness,  Va.,  May  5-6 80 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  10-13 4^ 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  18 3 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 7 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 5 

Opequon,  Va 7 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 10 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March   25,  1865 3 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 10 

Picket  Line,  Va.,  Sept.  1 1 ,  1 86 1 i 


Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg  ;  (folding's  Farm  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Crampton's  Gap ; 
Salem  Heights  ;  Gettysburg  ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Fort  Stevens  ;  Fisher's  Hill ;  Sailor's  Creek. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Burlington,  leaving  the  State  June  24,  1861.  The  Second  rendered  important  service 
on  many  battle  fields,  though  with  comparatively  small  casualty  lists,  until  May  3,  1863,  when  it  was  hotly  engaged 
at  the  storming  of  Marye's  Heights,  and  in  the  covering  of  the  retreat  on  the  next  dayf  at  Banks's  Ford.  The 
brigade  was  then  in  Howe's  Division,  Sixth  Corps;  the  losses  of  the  regiment  in  the  two  days' actions  were  17 
killed  and  1 16  wounded  At  the  Wilderness  it  lost  49  killed,  285  wounded,  and  14  missing,  a  total  of  348  out  of 
about  700  men  engaged.  In  this  battle  Colonel  Stone  fell  dead  from  his  horse,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Tyler, 
who  succeeded  him,  received  a  mortal  wound.  The  next  week,  the  regiment  fought  at  Spotsylvania,  with  a 
loss  of  27  killed,  80  wounded,  and  16  missing;  total,  123.  The  Second  participated  in  all  the  battles  of  the 
Sixth  Corps,  serving  from  first  to  last  in  the  Second  Brigade  of  the  Second  Division.  It  was  engaged  in  the  final 
battles  about  Petersburg;  and,  at  Sailor's  Creek,  while  skirmishing  with  the  rear  guard  of  the  retreating  enemy, 
the  men  of  the  Second  fired  the  last  shots  of  the  Sixth  Corps ;  though  a  matter  of  chance,  the  honor  could  not 
have  been  better  awarded. 


148 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRD  VERMONT  INFANTRY. 
VERMONT  BRIGADE-- GETTY'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  Coi..  WILLIAM  F.  SMITH  ;  OT.tf.,  B.  a.;  Bvr.  MAJ.-GEN.  U.  S.  A. 

(2)  COL.  BREED  NOYES  HYDE  ;  OT.  $. 


.(3)  COL.  THOMAS  O.  SEAVER. 
(4)  COL.  HORACE  W.  FLOYD. 


COM  TAN  IKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  ov  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

1 
I 

I 
1 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

>4 
IO 

17 
26 

15 

34 

21 
M 

25 
2S 

I 

'5 
1  1 

iS 

26 
15 

34 

21 

M 
26 

25 

• 
• 

I 

* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1 
IO 

'5 
i5 

12 

23 
I? 
12 

14 
26 

*9 

I 
IO 

»5 

16 

12 

23 

*7 

12 

M 
26 

J9 

'7 
190 

171 
214 
162 
163 

•S3 
134 
,36 
202 
i  76 

B  . 

r  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G. 

H  

T  . 

K. 

T  otals  

5 

201 

2O6 

I 

164 

'65 

.,748 

206  killed  =  11.7  per  cent.      Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  679. 


BATTLES.                                                                               K.  &  M.  W. 

Lewinsville,  Va 2 

Lee's  Mills,  Va 35 

Savage  Station,  Va 

Antietam,  Md i 

First  Fredericksburg,  Va 3 

Second  Fredericksbuig,  Va 4 

Funkstown,  Md 2 

Wilderness,  Va 68 

Spotsylvania,  Va 27 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

North  Anna,  Va.,  May  21 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 29 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  20 i 

Fort  Stevens,  D.  C i 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 4 

Opequon,  Va 5 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va 2 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 6 

Fall  of  Petersburg 6 


Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg ;  Gokling's  Farm;  Savage  Station;  White  Oak  Swamp;    Crampton's  Gap; 
Marye'o  Heights  ;  Salem  Heights  ;  Gettysburg  ;  Rappahannock  ;  Weldon  Railroad. 


NOTES. —  The  physique  of  this  regiment  was  unusually  fine,  the  men  averaging  5  feet  loj  inches  in  height, 
and  161  pounds  in  weight.  On  the  i6th  of  April,  1862,  occurred  the  remarkable  action  at  Lee's  Mills,  on  the 
Warwick  River,  one  of  the  defences  of  Yorktovvn.  Four  companies  of  the  Third  — D,  E,  F,  and  K  —  forded 
the  stream  in  the  face  of  the  enemy,  with  a  view  of  making  a  reconnoissance  in  force.  Through  mismanagement 
and  lack  of  support  they  were  driven  back,  with  a  loss  of  89  killed  and  wounded,  out  of  the  192  officers  and 
men  that  crossed.  The  detachment  was  ably  commanded  by  Captain  Samuel  E.  Pingree,  who  was  wounded 
twice  during  the  fight.  The  regiment  crossed  the  Rapidan,  May  4,  1864,  with  about  600  effectives,  under  com 
mand  of  Colonel  Seaver.  On  the  following  day,  in  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  it  lost  38  killed,  167 
wounded,  and  6  missing;  total,  211.  At  Spotsylvania  it  lost  21  killed,  and  53  wounded.  At  Cold  Harbor, 
the  gallant  Seaver,  who  commanded  the  regiment  at  Marye's  Heights  and  in  most  all  its  battles,  again  led 
them  in  a  bloody  assault ;  though  there  were  less  than  300  in  line  there,  the  casualties  were  14  killed,  and  53 
wounded,  and  5  missing.  On  July  16,  1864,  the  remnant  of  the  regiment  was  mustered  out,  the  recruits  and 
reenlisted  men  having  been  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  six  companies  which  remained  in  the  field. 


TllUKK   llUNDHKD   FlUHTINU    REGIMENTS. 


14!) 


FOURTH  VERMONT   INFANTRY. 

VERMONT  BRIGADE    -GETTY'S  DIVISION --SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1>  COL.  EDWIN  H.  STOUOIITON.  1H.  Jj).;  BRIO.  OEN.     (2)  COL.  CHARLES  H.  STOH  WTOV.     (3)  COL.  OEOHOE  P.  FOSTKR :  BVT.  BRIO.  OEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  ANI»  DIED  or  Worxiw. 

DlKII  OF  DlMEANE,  AWIUKNTH,  Is  1'KlnoN,  Ac. 

Total 

Knriilliiii-iil 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

<  >fticon». 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

3 

2 
2 
I 

• 

2 

• 

I 

I 

18 

10 
20 

'9 

IO 

I  I 

19 

18 
'3 

12 

•    • 

21 
10 
22 
21 
I  I 
II 
21 

18 

14 
13 

• 
• 
* 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

•     • 

29 
29 

37 

35 
28 

21 

23 
21 

23 

33 
279 

•    * 

29 
29 

37 

35 
28 

21 
24 
21 

23 

33 

1  6 

170 

'57 

'73 
,67 

171 

'5° 
166 

172 
.58 
'58 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

12 

'5° 

162 

280 

1,658 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  556;  loss  by  disease  includes  77  deaths  in  Confederate  prisons. 


BATTLES.  K.  A  M  \V 

Lee's  Mills,  Va 4 

Picket,  May    23,  1 862 i 

Crampton's  Gap,  Md 3 

Antietam,  Md 3 

First  Fredericksburg 14 

Banks's  Ford,  Va i 

Funkstown,  Md 2 

Wilderness,  Va 84 


BATTLKS.  K.&M.NV. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 12 

Cold   Harbor,  Va 9 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 10 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 2 

Opequon,  Va.,  Sept.  13,   1864 i 

Opequon,  Va.,  Sept.  19,  1864 3 

Cedar  Creek,  Va i  o 

Petersburg,  Va.,   1865 3 


Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg  ;  Golding's   Farm  ;  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Marye's   Heights  ; 
Salem  Heights  ;  Gettysburg  ;  Rappahannock  ,  Fisher's  Hill ;  Sailor's  Creek. 


NOTES. — The  Fourth  left  Brattleboro  on  the  2ist  of  September,  1861,  joining  the  other  regiments  of  the 
brigade  at  Chain  Bridge,  Va.  It  was  engaged  on  picket  duty,  varied  by  an  occasional  reconnoissance,  until 
March,  1862,  when  active  service  in  the  field  commenced.  It  passed  through  the  Peninsular  and  Maryland 
campaigns  with  slight  loss,  no  close  fighting  occurring  until  it  engaged  the  enemy  at  Fredericksburg,  Dec.  13, 
1862.  In  that  battle  it  fought  on  the  skirmish  line,  where  it  lost  11  killed,  43  wounded,  and  2  missing;  4  men 
were  killed  and  14  wounded,  in  Company  B,  by  a  single  discharge  of  canister.  At  the  Wilderness,  Colonel 
Foster  commanding,  the  regiment  encountered  a  terrible  musketry  fire,  losing  41  killed,  223  wounded,  and  4 
missing — a  total  of  268,  out  of  less  than  600  engaged  ;  7  officers  were  killed  and  10  wounded,  while  the  missing 
ones  all  met  the  same  fate.  On  June  23,  1864,  in  the  affair  at  the  Weldon  Railroad,  8  officers  and  133  men  of 
the  regiment  were  surrounded  and  captured,  together  with  four  companies  of  the  Eleventh  Vermont.  Half  of 
these  men  died  in  confederate  prisons.  Two  hundred  and  ten  of  the  men  reenlisted,  which,  together  with  the 
recruits,  preserved  the  organization  after  the  muster-out  in  September,  1864,  enabling  the  regiment  to  still  hold 
its  place  in  the  renowned  brigade  and  participate  in  all  the  subsequent  battles  of  the  corps. 


150 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTH    VERMONT  INFANTRY. 
VERMONT  BRIGADE  —  GETTY'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  A.  SMALLEY  ;  fflJH.  tf .,  &.  a. 

(2)  COL.  LEWIS  A.  GRANT  ;  BVT.  MAJ.-GEN. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  A.  LEWIS  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 

(4)  COL.  RONALD  A.  KENNEDY. 


COM  PA  NIKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

3 

2 

m 

2 

• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

•     • 

J7 
20 

22 

19 

36 
20 

19 

15 

2O 

14 

I 

2O 

22 
22 
21 

36 
21 

T9 
'5 

21 

'5 

I 

* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

T7 
8 

ii 

M 
'3 

12 

,    7 

12 
13 

16 

2 
J7 

8 
ii 

M 
J3 

12 

7 

12 

'3 
16 

J9 
181 

147 
161 

'65 
178 
127 

*39 

128 

M7 
141 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H. 

I  

K  

Totals  

I  I 

2O2 

213 

I 

124 

125 

i,533 

213  killed  =  i3.8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  685. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Lee's  Mills,  Va 2 

Golding's  Farm,  Va i 

Savage  Station,  Va 72 

First   Fredericksburg,  Va i 

Second  Fredericksburg,  Va 5 

Gettysburg,  Pa i 

Funkstown,  Md 3 

Wilderness,  Va 63 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 23 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 1 1 

Petersburg,  Va.  (1864) i 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 3 

Opequon,  Va 9 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 5 

Petersburg,  Va.,  Mch.  25,   1865 3 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 10 


Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Crampton's  Gap  ;  Antietam  ;  Marye's  Heights  ;  Salem 
Heights  ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Fisher's  Hill ;  Sailor's  Creek. 

NOTES. — At  the  battle  of  Savage  Station  the  heaviest  loss,  by  far,  was  sustained  by  the  Fifth  Vermont.  In 
compliance  with  orders  to  advance  and  push  back  the  enemy,  General  Brooks,  commanding  the  Vermont 
Brigade,  moved  forward  into  the  woods  on  the  left  of  the  line.  The  Fifth,  in  its  advance,  stepped  over  a  regi 
ment  which,  refusing  to  advance  further,  had  thrown  themselves  on  the  ground.  The  Fifth  forced  its  way  into 
the  enemy's  lines  so  far  that,  having  lost  connection,  it  encountered  a  severe  canister  fire  on  its  flank.  Facing 
some  of  the  companies  to  meet  the  flank  attack,  it  maintained  its  advanced  position  and  silenced  the  enemy's 
fire.  It  retired  a  few  hours  later  in  company  with  the  brigade,  joining  the  Army  in  its  movement  to  the  James. 
The  regiment  took  428  officers  and  men  into  this  fight ;  its  casualties  were  45  killed,  and  143  wounded  — Company 
E  losing  44  men  out  of  59  in  line,  25  of  whom  were  killed.  In  February,  1863,  Colonel  Grant  was  promoted  to 
the  command  of  the  brigade,  remaining  in  that  position  until  the  end  of  the  war.  He  was  succeded  by  Colonel 
Lewis,  who  led  the  regiment  in  the  battle  of  the  Willderness,  the  losses  there  amounting  to  33  killed,  187  wounded, 
and  26  missing.  Colonel  Lewis  being  severely  wounded,  was  succeeded  by  Major  Charles  P.  Dudley,  who  lost 
his  life  at  Spotsylvania.  In  February,  1865,  Captain  Kennedy,  of  the  Third  Vermont,  was  appointed  colonel.  He 
led  the  regiment  in  its  brilliant  assault  at  Petersburg,  April  2,  1865,  where  the  flag  of  the  Fifth  was  the  the  first  in 
the  corps  to  wave  over  the  enemy's  works. 


TllREK   HUNDRED   FltJHTINO    RmiMENTS. 


151 


SIXTH   VERMONT   INFANTRY. 
VERMONT  BRIGADE  -GETTY'S  DIVISION   -SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  NATHAN  LOUD,  Jit. 
(8)  COL.  OSCAR  L.  TfTTLK. 


(3)  COL.  I-I.lsl!  \  L.  BAHNEY  (Killed). 

(4)  Cot.  SfMXKK  11.  LINCOLN. 


COM  VAN  IKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  of  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  Is  I'HISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

officers. 

Mm.                    Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 
2 

• 

I 
I 

• 

3 

i 
i 

• 
* 

•     • 

16 

I  2 
26 

23 
'7 
16 

i? 
1  8 

25 

21 

3 
18 

12 

27 
24 

'7 

'9 

18 

'9 

25 

21 

I 

• 

I 

* 
* 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 
26 
26 

35 
23 
i? 

10 
20 

*9 

21 

M 

2 
26 
26 

35 
24 

>7 
10 

20 
20 

2  I 
'4 

16 
'56 
'54 
161 

'35 
146 

,36 
1  86 
.67 
1  66 

'45 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

12 

I9I 

203 

3 

2  I  2 

2I5 

1,568 

203  killed  —  1 2. 9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  674;  loss  by  disease  includes  22  deaths  in  Confederate  prisons. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W 

Wilderness,  Va 69 

Spotsylvania,  Va 13 

Cold    Harbor,  Va i  o 

Petersburg,  Va.,  1 864 2 

Charlestown,  VV.  Va 1 1 

Opequon,   Va 13 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 12 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Lee's  Mills,  Va 23 

Yorktown,  Va.,  April  29,  1862 i 

Savage  Station,  Va 21 

First  Fredericksburg,  Va i 

Marye's  Heights,  Va i 

Banks's  Ford,  Va.,  May  4,  1863 i  o 

Franklin's   Crossing,  Va.,  June  6,  1863 4 

Funkstown,  Md.,  July  i  o,  1 863 7 

Picket  duty i 

Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg ;  Golding's  Farm  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Crampton's  Gap ;  Antietam  ;  Salem 
Heights;  Gettysburg;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Fisher's  Hill;  Sailor's  Creek. 

NOTES. — It  left  the  State  on  October  19,  1 86 1,  joining  the  Vermont  Brigade  at  Camp  Griffin,  Va.,  near 
Chain  Bridge.  Within  a  month  one-third  of  the  men  were  on  the  sick  list,  the  brigade  being  attacked  by  some 
peculiar  epidemic,  from  which  the  adjoining  camps  were  comparatively  exempt.  When  the  regiment  took  the  field 
in  March,  1862,  over  50  deaths  had  occurred  from  disease.  Its  first  experience  under  fire  was  at  Lee's  Mills,  Va., 
near  Yorktown.  In  that  fight  five  companies  crossed  and  re-crossed  the  Warwick  River — fording  it  waist  deep 
—  under  a  sharp  fire,  with  a  loss  of  13  killed  and  67  wounded.  In  the  affair  at  Funkstown,  Md.,  July  10, 
1863,  the  Vermont  Brigade,  with  no  supports  near,  held  successfully  a  long  skirmish  line  against  an  attack  made 
by  a  strong  force  of  Confederate  infantry.  Its  efficiency  in  this  action  was  fully  recognized  in  the  official  reports 
of  both  division  and  corps  commanders.  The  loss  of  the  Sixth  at  Funkstown  was  3  killed  and  19  wounded,  the 
men  having  fought  mostly  under  cover.  At  the  Wilderness  the  regiment  lost  34  killed,  155  wounded,  and  7 
missing;  total,  196.  Colonel  Barney,  who  commanded  the  Sixth  at  Marye's  Heights  and  in  the  subsequent 
campaigns,  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness.  At  the  Opequon  the  Sixth  lost  5  killed  and  45  wounded  ;  and  at  Cedar 
Creek,  5  killed,  32  wounded,  and  11  missing.  The  original  regiment  was  mustered  out  October  16,  1864, 
leaving  about  320  effectives  —  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  —  in  the  field. 


152 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TENTH  VERMONT  INFANTRY. 
MORRIS'S  BRIGADE —RiCKETTs's  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ALBERT  B.  JEWETT. 


(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  W.  HENRY;  BVT.  Bum.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  GEORGE  B.  DAMON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 
I 
I 

• 

2 
I 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 

10 

14 
I  I 
10 

13 

12 
2O 

18 
16 
16 

2 
1  I 

15 
I  I 

12 

14 

12 

22 

18 
16 
16 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

25 

'9 

17 

21 
24 

I? 

T9 
16 

25 
20 

•     • 

25 

'9 
17 

21 
24 
!? 
19 

16 

25 

20 

14 
138 
124 
126 
136 
130 
128 
136 

116 
'34 

122 

B  . 

r  , 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H. 

T 

K  . 

9 

140 

149 

• 

203 

203 

i,3°4 

149  killed  =  11.3  percent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  502  ;  of  the  deaths  from  disease,  36  occurred  in  Confederate  prisons. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 


Orange  Grove,  Va 1 6 

Wilderness,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 3 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 54 

Guerillas,  Va i 

Monocacy,  Md 5 

Skirmishes 3 


Present,  also,  at  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 


K.  &  M.W. 
....      16 


Opequon,  Va 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va 2 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 27 

Petersburg,  March  25,  1865 3 

Fall  of  Petersburg i  o 

Picket  Line i 

Place  Unknown 3 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  under  the  second  call  for  troops.  Leaving  the  State  September, 
1862,  it  was  stationed  on  guard  duty  in  Maryland  until  July,  1863,  when  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  soon 
after  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  It  was  assigned  to  Morris's  (ist)  Brigade,  Carr's  (3d)  Division,  Sixth  Corps. 
Under  command  of  Colonel  Jewett,  the  Tenth  first  encountered  the  enemy  at  Locust  Grove  (Mine  Run)  in 
which  action  it  took  a  commendable  part,  losing  n  killed,  56  wounded,  and  2  missing.  In  March,  1864,  the 
Third  Corps  having  been  discontinued,  the  division  was  transferred  to  the  Sixth  Corps.  The  division,  under 
command  of  General  Ricketts,  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  storming  of  Cold  Harbor.  The  regiment,  under 
Colonel  Henry,  suffered  severely  in  this  unsuccessful  assault,  its  casualties  amounting  to  28  killed,  131 
wounded,  and  3  missing.  At  the  battle  of  the  Opequon,  it  lost  12  killed  and  53  wounded,  Major  Edwin 
Dillingham  being  among  the  killed.  It  took  17  officers  and  260  men  into  action  at  Cedar  Creek,  losing  there  16 
killed,  65  wounded,  and  4  missing.  The  campaign  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley  having  been  successfully  ended,  the 
Sixth  Corps  returned  to  Petersburg  in  December.  The  Tenth  was  engaged  in  the  grand,  victorious  assault  on  the 
lines  about  Petersburg,  April  2,  1865,  with  a  loss  of  44  killed  and  wounded,  and  was  the  first  regiment  in  the 
division  to  plant  its  colors  inside  the  enemy's  works. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


SEVENTEENTH  VERMONT  INFANTRY. 


GRIFFIN'S  BRIGADE  -   POTTER'S  DIVISION  — NINTH  CORPS. 


COL.  FRANCIS  V.  RAM) ALL. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUND*. 

DIED  or  DIMEAMK,  ACCIIJENTS,  IN  I'UIHON.  Ac. 

Total 
Knrollnifiil. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

• 

2 
I 

I 
I 
I 
I 
2 
I 

•     • 

18 

'3 
16 

16 

9 
18 

15 
•4 
10 

4 

3 
18 

»S 

!? 

!7 
10 

'9 
16 

16 
ii 

5 

• 

i 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 

•     • 

18 

9 
M 
U 
16 
8 
1  1 

10 

1  1 
5 

•    • 

'9 
9 
M 

«4 

16 
8 
1  1 

10 

1  1 

5 

'4 
,36 
124 

"3 
124 

114 

127 

8? 
90 

87 

121 

(  \  Hiinsinv  -\  . 

B  

c  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

M 

133 

'47 

i 

116 

117 

1,137 

147  killed  —  12.9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  376;  Died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons,  28. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 21 

Spotsylvania,  Va 23 

Hanovertown,  Va i 

Picket,  Va.,  May  15,  1864 i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 5 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 10 


BATTLES. 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va. . . . 
Petersburg  Trenches,  Va . 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 
Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va. 
Place   Unknown 


K.  &  M.  W. 

....  15 

,  .  .  .  22 

...  1 6 

...  15 

14 

4 


Present,  also,  at  North  Anna  ;  Weldon  Railroad ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Fort  Stedman. 


NOTES. — Although  the  Seventeenth  was  in  service  only  one  year,  yet  it  saw  more  fighting  and  sustained  greater 
losses  in  action  than  three-fourths  of  the  regiments  in  the  whole  Union  Army.  It  left  the  State  April  18,  1864,  with 
seven  companies,  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Cummings ;  two  weeks  later  it  went  into  action  at 
the  Wilderness.  Though  without  drill  or  necessary  preparation  the  regiment  moved  steadily  under  fire,  its  colors 
waving  on  the  line  of  the  farthest  advance.  Owing  to  the  prevalence  of  an  epidemic  in  the  ranks,  it  took  only 
313  muskets  into  that  action,  losing  8  killed,  63  wounded,  and  3  missing.  The  next  week,  led  by  Major  Reynolds, 
it  fought  at  Spotsylvania.  its  casualties  there  amounting  to  10  killed  and  60  wounded.  At  the  Mine  Explosion  it 
lost  8  killed,  22  wounded,  and  23  missing--  Major  Reynolds  and  5  line  officers  losing  their  lives  in  this  affair. 
The  regiment  also  sustained  heavy  loses  at  Petersburg,  both  in  the  general  assault  of  June  i8th,  and  in  the 
trenches,  where,  for  months,  men  were  killed  or  wounded  every  day.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Cummings,  who  was 
wounded  at  the  Wilderness,  resumed  command  at  the  battle  of  Poplar  Grove  Church,  but  only  to  lose  his  life  in 
that  battle.  Three  more  companies  joined  the  regiment  during  the  summer  and  fall  of  1864.  On  April  2,  1865, 
the  Seventeenth  took  part  in  the  storming  of  the  works  at  Petersburg  —  its  last  battle  —  losing  in  that  action  8 
killed,  39  wounded,  and  2  missing.  It  was  mustered  out  July  14,  1865. 


154: 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIRST  MASSACHUSETTS   HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 
TANNATT'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  B.  GREENE,    OT.  $. 

(2)  COL.  THOMAS  R.  TANNATT,    OT   lp., 


(3)  COL.  LEVI  P.  WRIGHT. 

(4)  COL.  NATHANIEL  SIIATSWELL. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

• 
• 

I 
I 

• 

2 
I 

2 

* 

I 

•    • 

24 
20 

16 

i? 

16 

i? 

J3 
16 

15 
32 

21 

25 

I 

24 
20 

16 

17 

*7 
18 

J3 
18 

16 

34 

21 
26 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
* 

•    • 

J3 

21 

M 
12 

32 
26 
27 
II 

33 
J5 
J5 

22 

I 

13 

22 

M 

12 

32 
26 

27 
II 

33 
J5 
15 

22 

T9 

227 

232 

233 
206 

2OI 

207 
209 

181 

204 
208 
198 
199 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I    

K 

L  

M  

Totals  

9 

232 

241 

2 

241 

243 

2,524 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  723  ;  captured  and  missing,  261  ;  died  In  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  102. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fredericksburg   Pike,  Va 120 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 6 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 4 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 4 

Boydton  Road,  Va 3 

Petersburg  Va.,  Assault,  June  16,  1864 54 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Petersburg  Va.,  Assault,  June  1 7,  1864 3 

Petersburg  Va.,  Assault,  June  18,  1864 9 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 19 

Duncan's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 3 

Vaughn  Road,  Va.,  March  31,  1865 3 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 7 


Present,  also,  at  Winchester ;  Maryland  Heights  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Farm- 
ville ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Recruited  in  Essex  County  as  the  Fourteenth  Infantry.  It  left  the  State  August  7,  1861,  proceed 
ing  to  Washington,  where  it  was  placed  on  garrison  duty  in  the  forts  about  there.  It  was  changed  to  heavy 
artillery  in  January,  1862,  receiving,  consequently,  fifty  new  recruits  for  each  company,  and  two  additional  com 
panies  of  150  men  each;  two  additional  lieutenants  were  assigned  to  each  company,  and  two  additional  majors 
were  commissioned.  The  First  Battalion  was  ordered  on  active  field  service  at  Maryland  Heights  and  vicinity, 
but  the  regiment  proper  did  not  go  to  the  front  until  May,  1864.  It  then  served  as  an  infantry  command  in 
Grant's  Virginia  campaign.  It  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  May  17,  1864,  having  been  assigned  to  Tyler's 
Division  of  Heavy  Artillery --then  serving  as  infantry.  Two  days  later  it  met  the  enemy  on  the  Fredericks- 
burg  Pike;  it  took  1,617  officers  and  men  into  that  action,  sustaining  a  loss  of  50  killed,  312  wounded,  and  28 
missing;  a  total  of  390.  In  the  assault  on  Petersburg -- June  16-18  —  it  lost  29  killed,  183  wounded,  and  6 
missing;  total,  218.  Four  days  later,  in  the  affair  of  June  22d,  it  lost  9  killed,  46  wounded,  and  185  missing; 
the  latter  were  mostly  captured  men,  of  whom  over  half  died  in  Confederate  prisons.  In  the  campaign  of  1865 
the  regiment  was  in  Pierce's  (2d)  Brigade,  Mott's  (3d)  Division,  with  which  command  it  participated  in  the 
closing  battles  of  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


155 


FIRST  MASSACHUSETTS    INFANTRY. 
CARR'S  BRIGADE -- HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION -- THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  Coi..  ROBERT  COVVDIN;  BHIU.  GEM.  U.  S.  V. 


(2)  COL.  N.  B.  McLAUOHLIN,  ».  «.;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN.  U.  8.  A. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  Worxns. 

DIEIJ  OK  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  Is  I'IU.HMN,  &c. 

ToUtl 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Hen. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

I 

• 
* 
• 

I 

I 

• 

I 

• 

4 

• 

•    • 

18 
1  1 
1  1 

12 
I  I 
M 

!3 

'9 

9 
16 

I 
18 
1  1 
1  1 

13 

12 
14 

M 
»9 

'3 

16 

I 

• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

8 

9 
6 

8 

7 
8 

5 
8 

10 
8 

2 
8 

9 
6 
8 

7 
8 

5 
8 

10 

8 

18 

'55 
166 

1  68 

M7 
'44 
146 

'57 
1  66 

179 

'57 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I 

K  

TY>t,il>\  . 

8 

'34 

142 

I 

78 

79 

1,603 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  474  ;  Missing  and  captured,  155  ;  Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  27. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Blackburn's  Ford,  Va 14 

First  Bull  Run,  Va i 

Yorktown,  Va 4 

Williamsburg,  Va 12 

Oak  Grove,  Va 14 

Glendale,  Va 20 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va 15 


BATTLES.  K.AM.W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 3 

Chancellorsville,  Va 15 

Gettysburg,  Pa 27 

Locust  Grove,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 6 

Place  Unknown 3 


Present,  also,  at  Fair  Oaks  ;  Kettle  Run  ;  Chantilly ;  Wapping  Heights  ;  Kelly's  Ford. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Boston  in  May,  1861,  and  left  the  State  on  June  i5th.  It  was  placed  in  Richardson's 
Brigade,  Tyler's  Division,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  First  Bull  Run.  In  October  it  was  transferred  to 
Hooker's  Division,  and  ordered  on  duty  in  Lower  Maryland,  where  it  remained  until  it  moved  to  Yorktown.  It 
served  during  1862  in  Grover's  (ist)  Brigade,  Hooker's  (2d)  Division,  Third  Corps.  In  the  affair  on  the  picket 
line  —  June  25,  1862  — known  as  Oak  Grove,  it  was  prominently  engaged,  losing  9  killed  and  55  wounded.  At 
Glendale  it  lost  89  in  killed  and  wounded,  Major  Charles  P.  Chandler  being  among  the  killed.  At  Chancellors 
ville,  the  regiment  is  credited  with  having  fired  the  volley  which  cost  the  great  Confederate  leader,  General  Jack 
son,  his  life.*  Its  casualties  in  that  battle  were  9  killed,  46  wounded,  and  40  missing.  At  Gettysburg,  under 
Lt.-Colonel  Baldwin,  the  regiment  encountered  its  greatest  loss,  its  casualties  on  that  field  amounting  to  16 
killed,  83  wounded,  and  21  missing.  In  March,  1864,  the  division  was  transferred,  becoming  the  Fourth  Division 
of  the  Second  Corps,  with  General  Gershom  Mott  in  command.  In  this  new  command  the  regiment  fought  at 
the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania,  evincing  the  same  heroic  bearing  which  had  helped  on  other  fields  to  make  the 
old  Third  Corps  so  illustrious.  The  order  for  muster-out  came  May  20,  1864,  while  the  men  were  in  line  at 
Spotsylvania.  The  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  were  tranferred  to  the  Eleventh  Massachusetts. 


*  The  Seventy-third  New  York  claim  that  the  fatal  »hot  came  from  their  ranks. 


156 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SECOND   MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
RUGER'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLIAMS'S  DIVISION  —  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  II.  GORDON ;  TO.  $.,  &.  a.,  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  (2)  COL.  GEORGE  L.  ANDREWS  ;  OT.  P.,  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 

(3)  COL.  SAMUEL  M.  QUINCY  ;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN.  (4)  COL.  WILLIAM  COGSWELL  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 

(5)  COL.  CHARLES  F.  MORSE. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISKASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

T 

O 
I 

I 

I 
I 
I 
I 
I 
I 
I 
2 

•    • 

23 
I? 

25 

I? 

10 

8 

20 

IS 

27 
14 

3 
24 
18 
26 
18 
1  1 

9 

21 

16 

28 
16 

2 

• 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

I 

9 
IO 

IO 

8 

10 
10 

9 
1  1 

9 
9 

3 

9 

10 
10 

8 

10 
IO 

9 
1  1 

9 
9 

25 
182 

I70 
!52 

i52 
181 

I5S 

193 

161 

167 

149 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

14 

I76 

190 

2 

96 

98 

1,687 

Of  the  1,019  originally  enrolled,  133  were  killed  =  13.0  per  cent. 

Of  the  1,305  enrolled  prior  to  the  reenlistment,  187  were  killed  =  14.3  per  cent. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  657  ;  Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included).  15. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Winchester,  Va 16 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 56 

Antietam,  Md 20 

Chancellorsville,  Va 31 

Beverly  Ford,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 45 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Elk  River,  Tenn i 

Resaca,  Ga 5 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i 

Siege   of  Atlanta,  Ga 5 

Averasboro,  N.  C 8 

Place  Unknown i 


Present,  also,  at  Front  Royal ;  Manassas ;  Cassville ;  New    Hope   Church  ;  Peach   Tree   Creek ;  Siege   of 
Savannah  ;  Bentonville  ;  March  to  the  Sea  ;  The  Carolinas. 


NOTES. — The  Second  Massachusetts  was  the  best  officered  regiment  in  the  entire  Army.  Its  colonel  and 
lieutenant-colonel  were  educated  at  West  Point,  the  latter  graduating  at  the  head  of  his  class ;  the  line  officers 
were  selected  men  ,  for  the  most  part  collegians  whose  education,  supplemented  by  the  year  of  practical  service 
in  the  field  preliminary  to  the  first  battle,  left  nothing  that  could  be  desired  to  make  them  equal  in  every  respect 
to  any  line  of  officers,  regulars  or  volunteers.  Of  the  sixteen  officers  who  lost  their  lives,  thirteen  were  Harvard 
men,  whose  names  appear  on  the  bronze  tablets  in  Harvard  Memorial  Hall.  The  company  officers  were  not 
elected  by  the  men,  as  in  other  volunteer  commands,  but  were  selected  by  the  authorities  who  raised  the  regiment. 
The  enlisted  men  were  also  above  the  average  in  intelligence  and  soldierly  bearing.  The  Second  sustained  the 
heaviest  loss  in  action  of  any  regiment  in  the  corps.  At  Cedar  Mouutain  its  casualties  were  40  killed,  93  wounded, 
and  40  missing ;  at  Chancellorsville,  2 1  killed,  no  wounded,  and  7  missing;  and  at  Gettysburg,  23  killed,  109 
wounded,  and  4  missing,  out  of  316  engaged.  The  latter  loss  occurred  within  a  few  minutes,  in  a  hopeless  assault 
made  by  the  Second,and  Twenty-seventh  Indiana,  which  was  ordered  by  a  mistake ;  the  blunder  was  apparent  to 
all,  but  no  one  faltered,  and  each  soldier  did  his  duty  gallantly  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Mudge,  who  was  in  command, 
remarked  :  "  It  is  murder,  but  it's  the  order,"  and  fell  dead  while  waving  his  sword  and  cheering  on  his  men. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


1.-.7 


NINTH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
SWEITZER'S  BRIGADE  —  GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION -- FIFTH  CORPS. 


(l)Coi..  THOMAS  CASS  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  PATRICK  It.  (JU1NEY ;  BVT.  BRIO.  OEM. 


COX  TAXI  KM. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IUSO.N.  &<:. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

21 
I78 

1  66 
1  66 
166 
1  60 
148 
172 

•59 
162 

'52 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 
2 

8 

•        2 

4 
6 
10 

9 

10 

8 
10 

•    • 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 

2 

3 

• 

i 

2 
I 

3 
I 

•  • 

26 

22 

'7 

'9 

22 
12 
22 

U 

'9 
22 

I 
26 

23 

19 
22 

22 

1.3 

24 
M 

22 
23 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

8 

2 

4 
6 

9 

9 
10 

8  • 
10 

•    • 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

*5 

194 

209 

3 

66 

69 

1,650 

209  killed  —  12.6  per  cent. 

Of  the   1,046  originally  enrolled,    160  were   killed  --  15.3  per  cent.      Total   of    killed  and   wounded,  714;  died   in 
Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  n. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Hanover  Court   House,  Va 2 

Mechanicsville,  Va 2 

Games'  Mill,  Va 87 

Malvern   Hill,  Va 24 

Fredericksburg,    Va 4 

Chancellorsville,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Mine  Run,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va ^4 

Spotsylvania,  Va 34 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,   Va 3 

Picket  Line,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Manassas  ;  Antietam  ;  Shepherdstown  Ford  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Cold  Harbor. 


NOTES. —  An  Irish  regiment,  whose  gallant  service  on  many  fields  attested  the  oft- acknowledged  valor  of  the 
Irish  soldier.  Though  organi/.ed  in  April,  1861,  it  did  not  reach  Washington  until  June  29th.  After  a  months' 
stay  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Capitol,  it  crossed  into  Virginia  and  encamped  on  Arlington  Heights,  remaining  there 
until  March,  1862,  when  it  went  to  the  Peninsula.  Its  first  battle  occurred  at  Hanover  Court  House,  although  it 
participated  in  the  Siege  of  Yorktown.  It  was  assigned  to  Griffin's  (21!)  Brigade,  Morell's  (ist)  Division,  Fifth 
Corps,  a  division  famous  for  the  prominent  part  taken  by  it  at  Gaines's  Mill  and  Malvern  Hill.  The  Ninth  dis 
tinguished  itself  at  Gaines's  Mill  by  the  steadiness  with  which  it  sustained  a  heavy  attack,  its  losses  that  day 
amounting  to  57  killed,  149  wounded,  and  25  missing;  total,  231  ;  six  line  officers  were  killed  there,  and  four 
days  later  the  Colonel  fell,  mortally  wounded,  at  Malvern  Hill.  The  regiment  was  engaged  at  Gettysburg  as  skir 
mishers,  hence  their  slight  loss  in  that  battle.  While  on  Grant's  campaign,  in  1864,  the  brigade  was  commanded 
by  Colonel  Sweitzer,  and  the  division  by  General  Griffin.  The  losses  of  the  regiment  at  the  Wilderness  were  26 
killed,  108  wounded,  and  3  missing;  and  at  Spotsylvania,  25  killed,  71  wounded,  and  9  missing.  During'  the 
entire  period  of  its  active  service  it  was  in  the  Second  Brigade,  First  Division,  Fifth  Corps.  It  was  relieved 
from  duty  June  10,  1864,  and  ordered  home  for  muster-out. 


158 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TENTH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
EUSTIS'S  BRIGADE  —  GETTY'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  S.  BRIGGS;    BUIG.  GEN. 


(2)  COL.  HENRY  L.  EUSTIS  ;  BUIG.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  JOSEPH  B.  PARSONS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 

* 

2 
I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

2 
2 

• 

1 

8 

10 

9 

M 

10 

10 

9 

22 

16 

15 

3 

8 

12 
IO 

M 
10 

10 
10 

24 

18 
15 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 

I 

4 
5 
7 
4 
4 
4 
4 
6 

9 

7 

I 

4 
6 

7 
4 
4 
4 
4 
6 

9 

7 

16 
118 
II  I 

128 

"5 

I  I  2 
I  2O 
122 
140 
127 
109 

B  . 

C  . 

D. 

E  

F  . 

G. 

H. 

T  . 

K. 

Totals  

ro 

124 

'34 

I 

55 

56 

1,218 

134  killed  =  1 1   per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  503. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 39 

Guerillas,  Va.,  June   19,  1 862 i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 13 

Fredericksburg,  Va.    ( 1863) 16 

Gettysburg,  Pa i 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va 3 

Wilderness,  Va 30 

Spotsylvania,  Va 26 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Petersburg,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;    Williamsburg  ;  Seven  Days  Battle  ;  Antietam ;  Fredericksburg  (1862);   Salem 
Heights ;  Mine  Run. 


NOTES. — Recruited  in  Western  Massachusetts.  Arrived  at  Washington  July  28,  1861,  and  remained  in  its 
vicinity  until  the  army  moved  to  the  Peninsula,  in  March,  1862.  It  was  assigned  to  Devens's  (3d)  Brigade, 
Couch's  (ist)  Division,  Fourth  Corps.  Under  command  of  Colonel  Briggs  it  distinguished  itself  at  Fair  Oaks, 
the  Colonel  being  wounded,  and  the  casualties  amounting  to  27  killed,  95  wounded,  and  2  missing.  Major  Ozro 
Miller,  a  gallant  officer,  succeeded  to  the  command,  but  fell,  mortally  wounded,  soon  after  at  Malvern  Hill.  Col 
onel  Eustis  was  in  command  at  Second  Fredericksburg  and  Salem  Heights,  in  which  the  casualties  amounted  to 
to  killed,  57  wounded,  and  2  missing.  The  brigade  had  been  previously  transferred  to  Newton's  (3d)  Division, 
Sixth  Corps.  The  brigade  took  the  field  in  May,  1864,  under  command  of  General  Eustis,  as  the  Fourth  Brigade 
of  Getty's  (2d)  Division,  Sixth  Corps.  Colonel  Parsons  led  the  regiment  in  the  battles  of  Grant's  campaigns,  its 
losses  at  the  Wilderness  amounting  to  21  killed,  105  wounded,  and  2  missing, —  over  one-third  of  those  engaged. 
A  still  heavier  percentage  of  loss  occurred  in  the  various  actions  about  Spotsylvania  (15  killed,  64  wounded,  and 
13  missing),  Major  Dexter  F.  Parker  being  mortally  wounded  there.  The  action  of  May  i2th,  at  Spotsylvania,  was 
the  closest  and  deadliest  of  any  in  which  the  Tenth  had  been  engaged.  On  June  20,  1864,  while  in  the  trenches 
before  Petersburg,  the  regiment  received  the  orders  to  return  home  for  muster-out ;  one  of  the  officers  was  killed 
just  before  the  regiment  left  its  position  to  go  home. 


TllKKK    HfNDRKD    FkHITINt;     I  i  I  . .  I  MKNTS. 


159 


ELEVENTH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
CARR'S  BRIGADE  --  HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION --THIRD  CORPS. 


(DCoL  GEORGE  CLARKE.         (2)  COL  WILLIAM  BLAISDELL;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN.  (Killed).       (3)  THOMAS  H.  DURHAM  ;  BVT.  BKIO.  GEN. 


(  ..Ml-VMI  - 

Kll.l.l  li  AND    Iln.n   OP   \\  .11   M>« 

DIEII  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENT*.  IN  PHISON,  Ac. 

ToUil 
Enrollment 

Officer*. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

M, 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
2 

• 

2 

• 
• 

1 
2 

• 
• 

2 

•     • 

'3 

21 

13 

I  1 

'3 

'9 
1  1 

18 

10 

24 

2 

»S 

21 

»S 

I  I 

'3 
20 

U 
18 

10 
26 

I 

• 
• 
• 

• 

1 

• 

I 

9 

7 

9 
8 

13 

7 
6 

16 

5 
M 

2 

9 

7 

9 
8 

'3 

7 
6 

16 
6 
H 

'9 
165 

222 
198 
199 
221 
249 

139 

'95 

129 

196 

B  

c  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

II 

J53 

164 

2 

95 

97 

'.932 

Original  enrollment,  990;  killed.  122  ;  percentage.  12.0. 
Total  killed  and  wounded.  566;  Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included).  30 


BATTI.IS.  K.&M.W. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 15 

Williamsburg,  Va 15 

Oak  Grove,  Va 2 

Glcndale,  Va i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va.,  Aug.  5,  1862 2 

Manassas,  Va 28 

Chanccllorsville,  Va 15 

Gettysburg,  Va 37 

Mine  Run,  Va 6 


BATTLES.  K.AM.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 1 6 

Spotsylvania,  Va 9 

North  Anna,  Va 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 

Petersburg,  Va 

Peebles'  Farm,  Va 

Boydton  Road,  Va 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 


i 

2 

s 

• 

5 
3 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Fair  Oaks  ;  Savage  Station;  Hristoe  Station  (1862) ;  Chantilly  ;  Fredericksburg  ; 
Totopotomoy  ;  Farmville  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — The  Eleventh  left  the  State  June  24,  1861,  and  in  less  than  a  month  was  engaged  at  First  Bull  Run  ; 
its  loss,  as  then  officially  reported,  was  8  killed,  40  wounded,  and  40  missing.  In  the  campaigns  of  1862,  it 
served  in  Grover's  (ist)  Brigade,  Hooker's  (2d)  Division,  Third  Corps.  At  Williamsburg  it  lost  7  killed,  59 
wounded,  and  i  missing ;  at  Manassas,  9  killed,  79  wounded,  and  25  missing ;  at  Gettysburg,  23  killed,  96 
wounded,  and  10  missing  —  fully  half  of  those  engaged.  Lt. -Col.  George  P.  Tilcston  was  killed  at  Manassas, 
and  Colonel  Blaisdtll  fell  at  Petersburg,  June  23,  1864,  while  in  command  of  a  brigade.  At  Gettysburg,  the 
division  was  commanded  by  Humphreys,  the  brigade  by  Carr  (J.  B.),  and  the  regiment  by  Lt.-Col.  Porter 
D.  Tripp  ,  the  command  fighting  on  the  Emmettsburg  Road.  The  Eleventh  was  transferred  in  March,  1864,10 
Brewster's  (2d)  Brigade,  Mott's  (4th)  Division,  Second  Corps,  in  which  it  fought  at  the  Wilderness,  where  it 
lost  9  killed,  54  wounded,  and  12  missing.  Its  term  of  service  expired  on  June  12,  1864,  when  the  original 
members  were  mustered  out.  The  recruits  and  reenlisted  veterans  left  in  the  field  were  formed  into  a  battalion 
of  five  companies,  designated  the  Eleventh  Battalion,  which  vas  subsequently  increased  by  two  companies  of 
similar  material  left  by  the  Sixteenth  Massachusetts. 


100 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWELFTH   MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
BAXTER'S  BRIGADE  —  ROBINSON'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  FLETCHER  WEBSTER  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  JAMES  L    BATES. 


COSIPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men  . 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 

3 
i 

i 

2 

• 

I 

2 
2 
2 

• 

•     * 

2  I 
21 

15 
16 

24 
'7 

'9 
ii 

18 

*3 

4 
24 

22 

16 
18 
24 
18 

21 

13 
2O 

13 

• 
• 

• 
» 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 

•  • 

ii 

8 
1  1 
6 

4 
10 
6 
1  1 

8 
8 

•    • 

1  1 

8 
1  1 
6 

4 
10 

6 
ii 

8 
8 

T7 

T59 
136 

159 

141 

132 

'58 
146 

'57 
'5« 
i59 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

18 

'75 

*93 

• 

83 

83 

i,522 

193  killed  =  12.6  per  cent. 
Original  enrollment,  1,040  ;  killed,  152;  percentage,  14.6.     Total  loss  in  killed  and   wounded,  667  ;    Died  of  disease 


in  Confederate  prisons,  33. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 2 

Thoroughfare  Gap,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va 22 

South  Mountain,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 74 

Fredericksburg,  Va 24 

Gettysburg,  Pa 12 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Funkstown,  Md i 

Wilderness,  Va 21 

Spotsylvania,  Va 20 

North  Anna,  Va 5 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 3 

Petersburg,  Va 7 


Present,  also,  at  Chancellorsville  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Cold  Harbor. 

NOTES. — The  regiment  left  Boston  July  23,  1861.  It  was  stationed  on  the  Maryland  side  of  the  Upper 
Potomac,  and  made  its  winter-quarters  at  Frederick,  Md.  It  commenced  active  service  in  April,  1862,  in  the 
Shenandoah  Valley,  then  in  Hartsuff's  (3d)  Brigade,  Ricketts's  (2d)  Division,  McDowell's  Corps.  While  in  this 
command  it  was  engaged  at  Manassas,  where  its  losses  amounted  to  13  killed,  61  wounded,  and  63  missing; 
Colonel  Webster,  a  son  of  Daniel  Webster,  was  killed  there.  The  regiment  faced  a  terrible  fire  at  Antietam, 
losing  49  killed,  165  wounded,  and  10  missing,  out  of  334  present  on  the  field;  Major  Elisha  Burbank  was 
mortally  wounded  in  that  battle.  At  Fredericksburg,  the  regiment  was  in  Lyle's  (2d)  Brigade,  Gibbon's  (2d) 
Division,  First  Corps ;  its  casualties  in  that  fight  were  14  killed,  86  wounded,  and  4  missing,  out  of  258  engaged. 
General  Baxter  commanded  the  brigade  at  Gettysburg,  and  Robinson  the  division  —  the  regiment  losing  there  5 
killed,  52  wounded,  and  62  missing,  out  of  about  200  in  line.  The  division  was  transferred,  in  1864,  to  the  Fifth 
Corps.  At  the  Wilderness,  Lieutenant-Colonel  David  Allen,  Jr.,  was  killed,  the  loss  of  the  Twelfth  amounting  to 
14  killed,  48  wounded,  and  8  missing.  Its  losses  in  1864,  from  May  5th  to  June  25th  —  when  it  was  mustered 
out-- were  42  killed,  124  wounded,  and  10  missing.  It  left  the  front  June  25,  1864  ;  the  recruits  and  reenlisted 
men  remaining  in  the  field  were  transferred  to  the  Thirty- ninth  Massachusetts. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


161 


FIFTEENTH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
HARROW'S  BRIGADE  —  GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(I)  COL.  CHARLES  DEVENS ;  BVT.  MAJOB-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  GEORGE  II.  WARD;  BVT.  Bum.  GEN.  (Klllwl). 
(3)  COL.  GEORGE  C.  JOSLIN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOI-NDS. 

DIED  or  1  >i->:  VM  .  ACCIDENT*,  IN  PHISON,  8t<± 

Total 
Enrollment, 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Mi  u. 

Total. 

Field  ind  Staff.  . 

3 

3 

2 
I 
2 

• 
• 
* 

I 
I 
I 

•    • 

IO 

16 

31 
20 

18 

23 
26 

23 
33 

27 

3 
*3 

18 

32 

22 

18 

23 
26 

24 

34 
28 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

•     • 

9 
9 
9 
16 

9 
6 

19 
20 

'5 
9 

•    • 

9 
9 

9 
16 

10 
6 

19 

20 

i5 
9 

'7 
167 

•63 
'74 

187 

•57 
1  66 

168 
167 
•77 
158 

fnrnnnnv   A  . 

B  

c, 

D. 

E  

F. 

G. 

I  

K  

Totals  . 

'4 

227 

241 

I 

121 

I  22 

1,701 

241  killed  —  14.1  per  cent. 

Original  enrollment,  1011  ;  killed,  171  ;  percentage,  16.9.       Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  879.       Died  of  disease  in  Con 
federate  prisons  (previously  included),  32. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Ball's  Bluff,  Va 44 

Fair  Oaks,  Va i  o 

Antietam,  Md* 98 

Fredericksburg.  Ya 5 

Gettysburg,  Pa 38 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 4 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.\V. 

Mine  Run,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va i  o 

Spotsylvania,  Va 14 

Totopotomoy,  Va 3 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 5 

Petersburg,  Va 8 


Present,   also,   at   Yorktown;    West    Point;    Peach    Orchard;    Savage    Station;  Glendale ;  Malvcrn    Hill; 
Vienna;  Fredericksburg  (1863);  Po  River;  North  Anna. 


NOTES. —  At  Antietam  the  Fifteenth  sustained  one  of  the  most  remarkable  losses  of  the  war.  It  was  then 
in  Gorman's  Brigade,  Sedgwick's  Division,  and  was  commanded  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Kimball.  It  carried  into 
this  action  606  officers  and  men,  of  whom  318  were  killed  or  wounded.  The  killed  ami  mortally  wounded  num 
bered  1 08,  including  a  company  of  the  Andrew  Sharpshooters,  which  had  been  permanently  attached  to  the 
Fifteenth  while  at  Yorktown,  making  eleven  companies.  At  Gettysburg  the  number  engaged  was  239,  officers 
and  men,  of  whom  148  were  killed  or  wounded  —  a  loss  of  over  sixty  per  cent.  Colonel  Ward,  who  had  lost  a 
leg  at  Ball's  Bluff,  was  killed  in  this  action. 

The  Fifteenth  served  in  the  First  Brigade,  Second  Division  ;  General  Harrow  commanded  the  brigade  at 
Gettysburg  and  General  Webb  at  the  Wilderness.  "Entering  the  latter  campaign  with  275  men,  it  lost,  prior  to 
its  muster-out,  14  killed,  58  wounded,  and  4  missing  ;  not  including  67,  who  were  missing  or  captured  at  Peters 
burg.  The  Fifteenth  was  raised  in  Worcester  County.  It  left  Worcester  August  8,  1861,  and  returned  July  14, 
1864,  when  it  was  mustered  out,  its  three  years  term  of  service  having  expired.  Its  return  to  Worcester  was 
marked  by  a  grand  and  memorable  ovation  on  the  part  of  the  citizens  and  State  authorities. 


11 


Not  including  the  company  of  sharpshooters  attached. 


162 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTEENTH  MASSACHUSETTS  VOLUNTEERS. 
CARE'S  BRIGADE  —  HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  POWELL  T.  WYMAN  ; 


.  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  THOMAS  R.  TANNATT ; 


(3)  COL.  GARDNER  BANKS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 
I 
I 
I 

2 
2 

2 

I 

3 

• 

7 
M 
13 

13 

18 

i? 
15 

12 

J5 

IO 

3 
8 

J5 
i4 

i5 

20 

J9 
16 

i5 

J5 

IO 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

•    • 

5 
5 
4 

5 
18 

7 
iQ 
9 

I  T 
IO 

•    • 

5 
5 
5 

5 
18 

7 
19 
9 

12 
IO 

16 
130 

i37 

128 

128 

J39 

135 

127 

123 
136 
136 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

16 

J34 

'5° 

2 

93 

95 

i»335 

150  killed  —  11.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  543  ;  Loss  by  disease  includes  30  deaths  in  Confederate  prisons. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Williamsburg  Road,  Va.,  June  18,  1862 29 

Oak  Grove,  Va.,  June  25,  1862 4 

Glendale,  Va 7 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va 31 

Fredericksburg,  Va 4 

Chancellorsville,  Va 19 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Gettysburg,  Pa 23 

Locust  Grove,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va 10 

Spotsylvania,  Va 12 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va 6 

Picket  Line i 


Present,  also,  at  Chantilly  ;  Wapping    Heights  ;  North  Anna  ;  Cold  Harbor. 


NOTES. — Recruited  mostly  in  Middlesex  County.  The  colonelcy  was  tendered  to  Powell  T.  Wyman,  a  grad 
uate  of  West  Point,  who  was  in  Europe  when  the  war  broke  out,  but  returned  and  offered  his  services  to  his  State. 
The  regiment  left  Massachusetts  August  17,  1861,  and  proceeded  to  Old  Point  Comfort,  Va.,  where  it  encamped 
for  the  winter.  In  May,  1862,  it  went  to  Suffolk,  and  in  June  joined  McClellan's  army,  then  before  Richmond, 
when  it  was  assigned  to  Grover's  (ist)  Brigade,  Hooker's  (ad)  Division,  Third  Corps.  Within  a  few  days  after 
its  arrival  there,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  develop  the  enemy's  position  in  the  woods  on  the  Williamsburg 
Road  —  June  18,  1862  —  in  which  affair  the  Sixteenth  established  a  reputation  for  efficiency  under  fire  ;  its  loss 
in  that  fight  was  17  killed,  30  wounded,  and  14  missing;  the  latter  were  killed  or  wounded.  Colonel  Wyman 
was  killed  a  few  days  after,  at  Glendale.  Major  Gardner  Banks  commanded  the  Sixteenth  at  Manassas,  and  in 
the  preliminary  action  at  Kettle  Run;  in  these  actions  the  regiment  lost  19  killed,  64  wounded,  and  27  missing. 
At  Chancellorsville  the  losses  were  6  killed,  59  wounded,  and  8  missing;  at  Gettysburg,  15  killed,  53  wounded, 
and  13  missing.  In  1864,  the  division  was  transferred  to  the  Second  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  in  the 
Wilderness  campaign.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Waldo  Merriam,  who  commanded  the  regiment,  was  killed  at  Spot 
sylvania.  The  Sixteenth  was  discharged  July  n,  1864,  and  the  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  remaining  in  the 
field  were  transferred  to  the  Eleventh  Massachusetts. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


NINETEENTH   MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
HALL'S  BRIGADE  — GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(DCou  EDWARD  W.  IIINKS;  BVT.  MAJ.-OEN. 
(3)  COL.  ANSEL  U.  WASS. 


(3)  COL.  AKTIIfK   F.  DKVEHErX 

(4)  Coi..  EDMUND   KICE. 


HVT.  Bnio.  GKN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIKD  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IUSON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men.' 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
2 

• 

I 

• 

I 

2 

3 

i 

• 

2 

I 

'5 
20 

'3 
9 

21 
12 

16 

20 

8 

12 

3 
'7 
2O 

'4 
9 

22 

'4 
'9 

21 

8 
»4 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

2 

>5 
12 

17 

'3 

14 

IO 

'3 
18 

10 

9 

2 

'5 
12 

1? 

'3 
14 

IO 

•3 
18 

IO 

9 

20 

'85 
1  88 

'77 
'33 

'79 
181 

192 

268 

'47 
'65 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

'4 

'47 

161 

133 

'33 

',835 

Original  enrollment,  1,050;  killed,  131  ;  percentage,  12.4. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  583  ;   Died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons,  64. 

K.&M.W.  BATTLES. 


BATTLES. 

Yorktown,  Va i 

Oak  Grove,  Va 1 3 

Glendale,  Va 33 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 

Fairfax  C.  H.,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 25 

Fredericksburg,  Va 29 

Gettysburg,  Pa 17 

Bristoe  Station,  Va i 

Robertson's  Tavern,  Va i 


K.&M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 12 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Totopotomoyj  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 6 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22 i 

Petersburg,  Va 2 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 3 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 4 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va i 


Wilderness,  Va 4 

Present,  also,  at  Ball's  Bluff;  West  Point ;  Fair  Oaks  ;  Peach  Orchard  ;  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ; 
Fredericksburg  (1863)  ;  Ream's  Station  ;  Farmville  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Lynnfield,  Mass.,  and  arrived  at  Washington  August  30,  1861.  It  was  stationed  in 
Maryland,  along  the  Upper  Potomac,  until  March,  1862,  when  it  was  assigned  to  Dana's  (3d)  Brigade,  Sedgwick's 
(2d)  Division,  Second  Corps,  with  which  command  it  then  moved  to  the  Peninsula.  It  was  hotly  engaged  at 
Glendale,  its  losses  there  and  at  Malvern  Hill,  amounting  to  19  killed,  84  wounded,  and  42  missing.  At  Glendale, 
Colonel  Minks  was  wounded,  and  Major  Henry  J.  Howe  was  killed.  The  regiment  was  engaged  at  Antietam,  in 
Sedgwick's  contest  in  the  woods  around  the  Dunker  Church,  losing  there  8  killed,  108  wounded,  and  30  missing ; 
Colonel  Hinks  was  again  severely  wounded.  The  loss  at  Fredericksburg  was  14  killed,  83  wounded,  and  8 
missing.  In  this  engagement,  the  Nineteenth  —  under  Captain  Weymouth  —  crossed  the  river  in  boats,  together 
with  the  Seventh  Michigan,  acting  as  a  forlorn  hope.  The  boats  crossed  in  the  face  of  the  enemy's  fire  from  the 
opposite  bank,  which  had  hitherto  prevented  the  laying  of  the  pontoons.  The  Nineteenth,  under  Colonel 
Devereux,  distinguished  itself  at  Gettysburg,  winning  especial  mention  in  the  histories  of  that  battle;  its  casualties 
there  were  9  killed,  61  wounded,  and  7  missing,  out  of  141  engaged.  During  the  Wilderness  campaign  it  was  in 
Webb's  (ist)  Brigade,  Gibbon's  (2d)  Division,  and  fought  in  all  the  subsequent  battles  of  the  Second  Corps. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTIETH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
HALL'S  BRIGADE — GIBBON'S  DIVISION — SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  R.  LEE ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 

(2)  COL.  FRANCIS  W.  PALFREY  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  PAUL  REVERE  (Killed)  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 

(4)  COL.  GEORGE  N.  MACY  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

6 

• 
• 

2 

• 

3 

2 

• 

2 
I 
I 

27 
12 

17 
32 

*9 
28 

21 
29 

36 
22 

6 

27 

12 
19 

32 

22 

30 
21 

31 

37 
23 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

23 
13 

16 
6 
18 

7 

23 
10 

J7 

i5 

•    • 

23 

J3 
16 
6 

18 
8 

23 

10 

17 
IS 

24 
248 
229 

J37 
217 

118 

238 

'59 

218 

232 
'58 

B. 

C. 

D., 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

17 

M3 

260 

I 

148 

149 

1,978 

260  killed  ==  13.1  percent. 
Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  944;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  63. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Ball's  Bluff,  Va 38 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 5 

Savage  Station,  Va i 

Glendale,  Va 8 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 20 

Fredericksburg,  Va 48 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3 

Gettysburg,  Pa 44 

Bristoe  Station,  Va i 


K.&M.W. 

...  36 

•••       5 

.  .  .        20 


BATTLES. 

Wilderness,  Va 

Po  River,  Va 

Spotsylvania,  Va 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 12 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 12 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 2 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va i 

Guerillas,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown ;  West  Point ;  Peach  Orchard ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Mine  Run ;  Totopotomoy ; 
Strawberry  Plains  ;  Ream's  Station  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — General  Humphreys- — Chief  of  Staff,  Army  of  the  Potomac — in  his  able  history,  The 
Virginia  Campaign  of  1864  and  1865,  alludes  to  the  Twentieth  as  "one  of  the  very  best  regiments  in  the  ser 
vice."  It  served  on  the  Peninsula,  and  at  Antietam,  in  Dana's  (3d)  Brigade,  Sedgwick's  (2d)  Division.  At 
Fredericksburg,  the  brigade,  under  Colonel  Norman  Hall  of  the  Seventh  Michigan,  distinguished  itself  by  cross 
ing  the  river  in  the  face  of  the  enemy's  riflemen,  who  occupied  the  buildings  on  the  opposite  bank.  To  the 
Twentieth  was  assigned  the  bloody  task  of  clearing  the  streets ;  in  column  of  companies,  led  by  Macy,  it  fought 
its  way  through  the  main  street  of  the  city  exposed  to  a  terrible  fire  from  the  windows  and  housetops ;  its  casual 
ties  in  this  fight  were  25  killed  and  138  wounded  ;  no  missing.  At  Gettysburg,  it  lost  30  killed,  94  wounded,  and 
3  missing;  total,  127,  out  of  12  officers  and  218  men  who  went  into  that  action.  The  Twentieth  sustained  the 
greatest  loss  in  battle  of  any  Massachusetts  regiment ;  also,  a  remarkable  fatality  in  its  Field  and  Staff,  losing  a 
Colonel,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  two  Majors,  an  Adjutant,  and  a  Surgeon,  killed  in  battle.  Colonel  Revere  was  mor 
tally  wounded  at  Gettysburg ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Ferdinand  Dreher  received  a  fatal  wound  at  Fredericksburg ; 
Major  Henry  L.  Abbott  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness  ;  Major  Henry  L.  Patton  died  of  wounds  received  at 
Deep  Bottom ;  and  Surgeon  Edward  'I.  Revere  was  killed  at  Antietam  while  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


105 


TWENTY-FIRST  MASSACHUSETTS   INFANTRY. 
LEASURE'S  BRIGADE  — STEVENSON'S  DIVISION -- NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  Al'ursTVS  MOUSE. 


(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  S.  OLAHK. 


(8)  COL.  (JEOUOE  P.  I1AWKES  ;  BVT.  Biiio.  OKN. 


COMPANIES. 

KlI.LKD    AND   DlKI)   OK   Wot'Nlm. 

DIED  or  DISKASK,  ACCIIHCNTH,  IN  I'KIHON,  &i\ 

Total 
Enrollment 

<  >ftVers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 
• 

I 
2 
I 

• 
• 

I 

2 
2 

•     • 

M 
17 
'9 
'5 
13 
10 

16 
1  1 

I? 
16 

2 
14 

I/ 
20 

17 
M 
IO 

16 

12 

*9 
1  8 

• 
• 
• 

• 

I 

I 

• 
• 

•     • 

7 
9 
4 

5 
1  1 

9 
9 

1C) 
IO 

'5 

•     • 

7 
9 
4 
5 

I  2 
10 

9 

IO 
IO 

'5 

16 
119 

"3 
"5 

102 

I25 

'°5 
1  20 

I  IO 

1  20 
!33 

i,.  78 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

I  I 

148 

'59 

2 

89 

9' 

159  killed  —  13.4  per  cent. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  560;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  6. 
BATTLES.  K.  AM.\V.  BATTI.I - 

Roanoke  Island,  N.  C 13 

New  Berne,  N.  C 23 

Camden,  N.  C 4 

Chantilly,  Va 38 

Antietam,  Md i  o 

Fredericksburg,   Va 13 

Knoxville,  Tenn 4 

Wilderness,  Va 3 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12 4 

Present,  also,  at  Manassas  ;  South  Mountain  ;  Blue  Springs  ;  Campbell's  Station  ;  Cold  Harbor  ;  North  Anna. 


K.&M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  18 i 

Shady  Grove   Road,  Va 3 

Bethesda   Church,  Va 13 

Petersburg,  Assault,  June  17 6 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 7 

Siege  of  Petersburg 10 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 3 

Poplar  Grove  Church,  Va 4 


NOTES. — Composed  mainly  of  Worcester  county  men.  It  left  the  State  August  23,  1861,  and  was  stationed 
at  Annapolis  until  January  6,  1862,  when  it  sailed  with  the  Burnside  expedition  to  North  Carolina,  having  been 
brigaded  in  General  Reno's  command.  Under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Alberto  C.  Maggi,  it  was  promi 
nently  engaged  at  Roanoke  Island,  where  its  casualties  were  5  killed  and  39  wounded.  In  the  following  month, 
commanded  by  Colonel  Clarke,  it  fought  gallantly  at  New  Berne,  where  it  suffered  a  loss  of  15  killed  and  42 
wounded;  among  the  killed  was  Adjutant  Stearns.  At  Chantilly — in  Ferrero's  Brigade,  Reno's  Division  - 
the  regiment  encountered  the  hardest  fighting  in  its  experience  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Joseph  P.  Rice  was  killed, 
and  the  total  of  casualties  amounted  to  22  killed,  98  wounded,  and  26  captured,  out  of  less  than  400  men 
present  in  action.  At  Fredericksburg  —  Ferrero's  (20!)  Brigade,  Sturgis's  (2d)  Division  —  the  regiment  rendered 
efficient  service  by  the  skill  with  which,  from  an  advanced  position  and  good  marksmanship,  it  kept  down  the 
enemy's  fire.  In  this  action  two  color  bearers  were  killed,  and  others  were  wounded,  one  of  the  latter  losing 
both  arms.  Leasure's  Brigade  distinguished  itself  particularly  in  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  where  it  swept 
down  the  line,  across  and  opposite  Hancock's  front ;  it  was  a  daring  charge,  and  accomplished  with  a  remarkably 
small  loss.  The  Twenty-first  was  mustered  out  in  October,  1864;  the  men  remaining  in  the  field  were  trans 
ferred  to  the  Thirty-sixth  Massachusetts. 


166 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-SECOND   MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
SWEITZER'S  BRIGADE  —  GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  WILSON. 

(2)  COL.  JESSE  A.  GOVE  ; 


.  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  CHARLES  E.  GRISWOLD. 

(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  S.  TILTON  ;  BVT.  Bmc.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

• 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
2 
I 

• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

2 

• 
• 

•    • 

3° 
18 

15 

24 

22 
20 

J7 
T9 

20 

22 

I 

32 
J9 
15 

25 

22 
21 

18 

21 
2O 

22 

• 
• 
• 
• 

* 

I 

• 

I 

8 

9 
1  1 

6 
T3 

10 
10 

M 

12 

8 

I 
8 

9 
II 

6 

J3 
10 

10 

14 

T3 

8 

T3 
136 

138 
144 

135 

136 

13* 

J35 

T5° 
144 

13' 

f~!nrnr»anv  A  . 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T 

K  

Totals  

9 

2Oy 

216 

I 

IO2 

103 

i,393 

216  killed  =  15. 5  per  cent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  759  ;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  16. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W, 

Siege  of  Yorktown,  Va 2 

Mechanicsville,  Va 4 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 84 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 14 

Shepherdstown,  Va i 

Fredericksburg,  Va 7 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 13 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va i 


37 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 17 

Laurel  Hill,  Va   \ 
Spotsylvania,  Va  ) 

North  Anna,  Va 5 

Totopotomoy,  Va 3 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 1 1 

Petersburg,  Assault 9 

Picket  Line i 

Siege  of  Petersburg -6 


Present,  also,  at  Hanover  C.  H. ;  Manassas  ;  Antietam  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Cold  Harbor. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Lynnfield  by  the  efforts  of  the  Hon.  Henry  Wilson,  who  afterwards  became  vice-presi 
dent  of  the  United  States.  The  regiment  arrived  at  Hall's  Hill,  Va.,  on  October  13,  1861,  and,  encamping  there, 
was  engaged  in  perfecting  its  drill  and  discipline  until  March,  1862,  when  it  commenced  active  service  in  the 
Peninsular  Army.  It  served  there  in  Martindale's  (ist)  Brigade,  Morell's  (ist)  Division,  Fitz  John  Porter's 
Corps.  It  was  engaged  in  Porter's  great  battle  at  Gaines's  Mill,  where  it  was  one  of  the  last  to  yield  its  ground, 
holding  its  position  so  long  that  it  lost  several  prisoners  thereby.  Its  casualties  at  Gaines's  Mill  were  58  killed, 
1 08  wounded,  and  117  captured  or  missing;  many  of  the  latter  were  either  killed  or  wounded.  Colonel  Gove, 
who  commanded  the  Twenty-second  in  that  battle,  was  killed,  and  Major  Tilton  was  wounded  and  captured. 
More  hard  fighting  followed  immediately,  at  Malvern  Hill,  swelling  its  losses  in  the  Seven  Days  Battle  to  69  killed, 
153  wounded,  and  124  missing;  total,  346.  At  Gettysburg,  General  Barnes  commanded  the  division,  Colonel 
Tilton,  the  brigade,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas  Sherwin,  the  regiment ;  its  casualties  on  that  field  were  8 
killed,  2  7  wounded,  and  i  missing,  The  regiment  went  into  winter-quarters  near  Bealton,  Va.,  building  in  addition 
to  their  huts,  a  neat  chapel  which  was  used  by  the  men  as  a  church  and  as  a  Lyceum  ;  it  was  also  used  as  a  lodge 
room  by  Warren  Army  Lodge,  No.  i,  F.  A.  M.  The  Twenty-second,  though  small  in  numbers,  sustained  a  heavy 
percentage  of  loss  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania,  losing  121  in  killed  and  wounded  —  nearly  half  its  strength. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


TWENTY-FIFTH   MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
HECKMAN'S  BRIGADE -- WEITZEL'S  DIVISION -- EIGHTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EDWARD  UPTON. 


(2)  COL.  JOSIAH  1'ICKKTT:  BYT.  Hum.  GEX. 


(8)  COL.  JAMES  TUCKER. 


COMPANIES. 

Kil  1  1  n    AM)   DlKD  OP  Woi'SIW. 

DIED  op  DIXEAME,  Arcmr.NTH,  IN  I'RIHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

2 
I 

I 

I 

• 

•    • 

1  1 
16 

23 
ii 

i? 

12 

18 
16 

'4 
16 

I 
I  I 

1? 

23 
1  1 

'9 
'3 

19 
16 

15 
16 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

I 
12 

18 

'3 
18 

21 

16 

T3 
18 

24 
15 

I 
12 

18 

'3 
18 

21 

16 

13 
18 

24 

»5 

19 

'35 
124 

'49 
1  68 

'53 
127 

121 
132 
124 
II9 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

7 

*54 

161* 

• 

169 

169 

'.371 

161  killed  —  11.7  percent. 
Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  564;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  61. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.\V. 

Roanoke  Island,  N.  C 1 1 

New  Berne,  N.  C 5 

Goldsboro,  N.  C 2 

Walthal  Junction,  Va 5 

Arrow-field  Church,  Va 18 

Proctor's  Creek,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.AM.W. 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 21 

Cold  Harbor,  Vaf • 74 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 1 1 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 1 1 

Picket,  N.  C.  (1862) i 


Present,  also,  at  Kinston,  N.  C. ;  Whitehall,  N.  C. ;  Wise's  Forks,  N.  C. 


NOTES. — Recruited  in  Worcester  county,  and  left  the  State  November  i ,  1 86 1 .  It  went  to  Annapolis,  and 
thence  with  the  Burnside  expedition  to  North  Carolina,  arriving  at  Hatteras  Inlet  on  February  6,  1862.  It  was 
in  Foster's  (ist)  Brigade,  and  was  engaged  at  Roanoke  Island  with  a  loss  of  6  killed  and  44  wounded.  It 
remained  in  North  Carolina  —  in  the  Eighteenth  Corps  —  until  October,  1863,  when  it  moved  into  South 
eastern  Virginia.  In  the  meantime,  432  of  the  men  reenlisted,  and  in  February,  1864,  the  regiment  returned  to 
Massachusetts  on  a  veteran  furlough.  In  April,  1864,  the  corps  joined  the  Army  of  the  James,  and  on  May  51)1 
landed  at  Bermuda  Hundred.  Fighting  soon  commenced,  and  on  May  gth,  at  Arrowfield  Church,  the  regiment 
lost  1 6  killed,  60  wounded,  and  69  captured  or  missing.  At  Cold  Harbor  it  sustained  its  heaviest  loss,  its  casual 
ties  amounting  to  24  killed,  142  wounded,  and  49  missing,  a  total  of  215  out  of  300  reported  for  duty  that 
morning ;  six  of  the  officers  lost  their  lives  in  that  action,  and  the  missing  ones  were  nearly  all  killed  or  wounded. 
The  brigade  was  withdrawn  'in  September,  1864,  from  its  position  in  the  Petersburg  Trenches,  and  ordered  to 
New  Berne,  N.  C.,  on  garrison  duty.  It  was  mustered  out  October  20,  1864,  and  the  men  remaining  in  the  field 
were  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  four  companies,  which  served  in  North  Carolina  until  the  close  of  the  war. 


•One  authority  states  the  loss  as  106  killed  and  Gl  died  of  wounds;  total  l(i». 
mortally  wounded. 


reports  (unofficial;  »aySJ;  52  killed,  30 


168 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-SEVENTH    MASSACHUSETTS   INFANTRY. 


HECKMAN'S  BRIGADE  —  WEITZEL'S  DIVISION  —  EIGHTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HORACE  C.  LEE  ;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN. 


(2)  COL.  WALTER  G.  BARTHOLOMEW. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

* 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

T 

3 
i 

•    • 

9 
10 

10 

20 

15 
3° 
6 
ii 

4 
J3 

2 

9 

10 
10 
21 

15 

31 
6 

12 

7 
M 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

• 
• 

I 

I 

36 
29 

44 
23 
M 

T3 

20 

24 
37 

20 

2 
36 

3° 
44 
23 
H 
J3 

20 

24 
38 
2O 

25 
131 
156 
197 

155 
133 

155 
123 

129 
>58 
147 

f^nmnanv  A  . 

B  

c  

D. 

E  

F  

G  

H. 

I  .  .*.  . 

K  

Totals  

9 

128 

137 

3 

26l 

264 

Jo°9 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  487. 
Deaths  in  Confederate  prisons,  116. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.  W. 

Roanoke  Island,  N.C 5 

New  Berne,  N.C 15 

Guerillas,  N.  C.,  Nov.  7,  1862 i 

Goldsboro,  N.C i 

Winfield,  N.  C 2 

Washington,   N.C 2 

Gum  Swamp,  N.C 3 

Port  Walthall,  Va 2 

Arrowfield  Church,  Va., 7 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 22 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  2 5 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  3 24 

Cold  Harbor  Trenches,  Va 3 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 22 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 12 

Foster  Bridge,  N.C i 

South  West  Creek,  N.C 8 

Picket  duty 2 


NOTES. — Recruited  in  the  western  part  of  the  State,  and  arrived  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  on  Novemoer  5,  1861. 
It  remained  there  undergoing  instructions  and  drill  for  two  months,  and  then  sailed  for  North  Carolina.  It  was 
assigned  to  Foster's  (ist)  Brigade,  and  fought  under  Burnside  at  Roanoke  Island  and  New  Berne,  its  casualties 
in  the  latter  action  amounting  to  9  killed  and  43  wounded.  The  regiment  remained  in  North  Carolina  during 
the  next  two  years.  Colonel  Lee  was  in  command  of  the  brigade  most  of  the  time,  leaving  the  regiment  to  the 
command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Luke  Lyman.  During  its  stay  in  North  Carolina  it  was  engaged  with  credit  in 
numerous  minor  battles  and  skirmishes.  In  April,  1864,  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  James  in  its  advance  on 
Richmond.  At  the  battle  of  Drewry's  Bluff  the  regiment  was  surrounded  while  fighting  in  a  dense  fog,  losing  in 
addition  to  its  killed  and  wounded,  252  of  its  number  taken  prisoners.  Among  the  captured  were  the  Colonel, 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  General  Heckman.  Part  of  the  regiment  escaping,  the  command  devolved  upon  Major 
William  A.  Walker,  who  was  killed  soon  after  at  Cold  Harbor.  On  that  bloody  field  the  remnant  of  the  Twenty- 
seventh  lost  22  killed,  68  wounded,  and  4  missing.  In  the  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  15,  1864,  it  sustained  a 
further  loss  of  13  killed,  and  30  wounded.  In  August,  1864,  the  regiment  returned  to  North  Carolina  where  it 
served  until  mustered  out  in  June,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


icu 


TWENTY-EIGHTH  MASSACHUSETTS   INFANTRY. 
IRISH  BRIGADE   -HANCOCK'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(l)Coi..  WILLIAM   MOXTIETII. 

(2)  COL.  KIC11AKD  BYRNES;  li.fl.  (Killed*. 


:    '  "i    '.I  OI{(;|    \\    .    M:  ,  \\  RIGHT. 
(4)  Coi..  JAMKS  FLK.MIN(J. 


COM  PA  NIKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIKII  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  «p  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKICON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Mon. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

3 

• 

i 

• 

i 
i 
i 
i 

2 

3 

•    • 

32 

23 
4i 

27 

'7 
20 

20 

19 
18 

18 

2 

35 
23 
42 

27 
18 

21 
21 
2O 
2O 
21 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

• 

I 
21 
16 

J3 
'7 
10 

U 
M 
9 
M 

8 

I 
21 

16 

13 

18 

IO 

'3 
M 
9 
M 

8 

18 
227 

255 
223 

2I3 

218 

'34 

122 
I  06 

'34 
128 

B   

c  

D  

E  

F   

G  

H  

I    

K  

«S 

235 

250 

I 

136 

i37 

i,778 

250  killed  =  14  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  847  ;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons,  51. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

James  Island,  S.  C 20 

Manassas,  Va 26 

Chantilly,  Va 21 

South  Mountain,  Md i 

Antietam,  Md 26 

Fredericksburg,  Va 36 

Gettysburg,   Pa 15 

Auburn,  Va i 

Picket,  Va..  Dec.  3,  1863 i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 26 

Spotsylvania,  Va 30 

Totopotomoy,  Va j 

Cold  Harbor,  Va . i  o 

Petersburg,  Va 6 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va 2 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 6 

Ream's   Station,  Va 2 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 17 


Present,  also,  at  Chancellorsville ;  Bristoe  Station;  Mine  Run;  North  Anna;  Sutherland  Station;  Sailor's 
Creek  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Composed  mostly  of  men  of  Irish  birth.  It  was  organized  at  Boston,  and  left  the  State  January 
u,  1862.  Proceeding  soon  after  to  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.,  it  remained  in  that  Department  until  August,  when  it 
sailed  for  Virginia  ;  it  was  then  in  Stevens's  Division,  Ninth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Manassas  and 
Chantilly.  In  these  engagements,  under  command  of  Major  Cartwright,  its  casualties  amounted  to  33  killed, 
188  wounded,  and  13  missing;  total,  234.  At  Antietam  —  then  in  VVillcox's  Division — the  regiment  numbered 
less  than  200  in  line,  but  it  lost  in  that  battle,  12  killed  and  36  wounded.  It  was  transferred,  in  November,  1862, 
to  Hancock's  (ist)  Division,  Second  Corps,  in  which  division  it  afterwards  remained.  It  was  placed  in  the  Irish 
Brigade,  and  charged  with  it  at  Fredericksburg,  losing  14  killed,  124  wounded,  and  20  missing,  out  of  416 
engaged.  In  May,  1864,  it  crossed  the  Rapidan  with  505  officers  and  men — General  Barlow  in  command  of 
the  division.  At  the  Wilderness  the  regiment  lost  15  killed,  86  wounded,  and  14  missing.  At  Spotsylvania  its 
losses  were  23  killed,  79  wounded,  and  8  missing;  half  its  losses  there  occurred  in  the  affair  of  May  j8th,  in 
which  Major  Andrew  J.  Lawlor  was  killed.  Colonel  Byrnes,  an  able  and  gallant  officer,  fell  at  Cold  Harbor.  The 
regiment  was  mustered  out  December  13,  1864;  the  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  remaining  in  the  field  were 
consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  five  companies  which  served  through  the  rest  of  the  war. 


170 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-SECOND   MASSACHUSETTS   INFANTRY. 
SWEITZER'S  BRIGADE — GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  FRANCIS  J.  PARKER. 


(2)  COL.  GEORGE  L.  PRESCOTT  (Killed);  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  JOSEPH  C.  EDMONDS  ;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
2 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
* 

• 
» 
• 

I 
*3 

X3 
13 

10 

16 
ii 

19 

10 

M 
16 
i 

2 

2 

15 
13 

M 
IO 

16 

12 

19 

IO 

M 

16 

i 

2 

• 

I 

• 

1 

• 
• 
• 

• 

* 
• 

I 

18 

10 

6 

T3 

18 

12 

M 

M 

18 

12 

2 

5 

I 

T9 

10 

7 

*3 

18 

12 

M 
14 

18 

12 

2 

5 

18 
232 
229 
219 
213 
208 
204 

222 
211 
207 
203 

!3J 
121 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I    

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

5 

T39 

144 

2 

143 

MS 

2,418 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  516  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  24. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Fredericksburg,    Va 6 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 22 

Wilderness,  Va 7 

Spotsylvania,  Va 46 

Totopotomoy,  Va 8 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 15 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Petersburg  Va.  (assault),  June  17,  1864 10 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 7 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 4 

Weldon  Railroad,   Va 3 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 5 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 9 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Manassas  ;  Antietam  ;  Rappahannock  Station ;  Mine  Run ;  North  Anna ;  Boydton  Road 
(1864);  Gravelly  Run;  Five  Forks ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — The  enrollment  of  the  Thirty-second  will  give  no  idea  of  its  percentage  of  loss,  for  it  received  over 
800  men  from  disbanded  regiments,  many  of  these  accessions  occurring  after  the  fighting  was  over.  When 
finally  disbanded,  in  July,  1865,  it  comprised  the  remnants  of  seven  regiments,  viz  :  the  Ninth,  Twelfth,  Thirteenth, 
Eighteenth,  Twenty-second,  Thirty-second,  and  Thirty-ninth.  It  was  organized,  originally,  as  a  battalion  of  six 
companies,  for  garrison  duty  at  Fort  Warren,  in  Boston  Harbor.  The  six  companies  left  the  State  May  26,  1862, 
and  after  a  month's  encampment  at  Washington,  on  Capitol  Hill,  embarked  for  the  Peninsula,  joining  General 
McClellan's  Army  July  3,  1862,  just  after  Malvern  Hill.  It  was  assigned  to  Griffin's  (2d)  Brigade,  Morell's  (ist) 
Division,  Fifth  Corps ;  four  more  companies  joined  the  regiment  soon  after.  The  division  was  commanded  at 
Gettysburg  by  General  Barnes,  and  fought  in  the  wheat  field,  the  regiment  losing  13  killed,  62  wounded,  and  5 
missing,  out  of  229  taken  into  the  fight.  In  January,  1864,  330  of  the  men  recnlisted,  and,  being  granted  a 
furlough  for  thirty-five  days,  the  regiment  went  to  Boston.  Soon  after  its  return  the  army  broke  camp,  and 
moved  out  to  meet  Lee  in  the  Wilderness.  At  Spotsylvania  the  regiment  encountered  hard  fighting,  and,  in  the 
actions  near  that  place,  lost  23  killed,  101  wounded,  and  5  missing;  nearly  one-half  its  effective  strength. 
Colonel  Prescott  was  killed  in  the  disastrous  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  18,  1864. 


THKKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


171 


THIRTY-FOURTH   MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 

\\  i  i.i.s's   r>i;i«;  \I>K      THOBURN'S  DIVISION -- EIGHTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  I).  WELLS;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN.  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  S.  LINCOLN  ;  BVT.  Bma.Onr. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DIMEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  Ac. 

Officers. 

\1.  n. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

I 

• 

I 

I 

• 

I 
I 

• 

•    • 

13 

8 
8 

22 
14 

13 
IO 

IO 

17 

»3 

2 

'3 

9 

8 

23 
'5 
13 

IO 

ii 
18 

i3 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

* 
* 

•    • 

II 

18 

20 
IO 

14 
12 

15 
II 

II 
10 

I 
1  1 
18 
20 

10 

M 

12 

'5 

12 
I  I 
10 

fonmanv  \  . 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

7 

128 

J35 

2 

132 

134 

Total 
Enrollment. 


16 

121 

I25 
118 

141 
127 
142 
132 

'33 
126 

128 


135  killed  —  10.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  645  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons,  54. 


BATTLES. 

Berryville,  Va.,  Oct.  18,  1863.  .. 
New  Market,  Va.,  May  15,  1864 
Piedmont,  Va.,  June  5,  1864. 


K.&M.W. 

2 
••      39 

22 


Lynchburg,  Va.,  June  18,  1864 6 

Island  Ford,  Va.,  July  1 8,  1864 3 

Berryville,  Va.,  Sept.  4, 1864 i 

Opequon,  Va.,  Sept.  19,  1864 23 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va.,  Sept.  22,  1 864 4 

Strasburg,  Va.,  Oct.  1 3,   1 864 15 

Cedar  Creek,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1864 5 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  31,1 865 2 

Fort  Gregg,  Va.,  April  2,  1 865 9 

High  Bridge,  Va.,  April  6,  1865 i 

Place  Unknown 3 


Present,  also,  at  Martinsburg  ;    Halltown  ;  Petersburg  ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. — Recruited  in  the  five  Western  counties  of  the  State.  Colonel  Wells  had  already  served  with  honor 
able  distinction  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  First  Massachusetts  before  he  was  transferred  to  the  command  of  the 
Thirty-fourth.  The  regiment  left  Worcester,  1,015  strong,  on  August  15,  1862,  and  proceeded  direct  to  Virginia. 
For  several  months  it  was  stationed  at  Fort  Lyon,  near  Alexandria,  Va.,  and  also  did  duty  awhile  in  Washington. 
In  July,  1863,  it  was  ordered  to  Harper's  Ferry,  and,  thence,  on  various  campaigns  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  It 
commenced  the  spring  campaign  of  May,  1864,  with  670  men  present  for  duty,  and  took  about  500  into  the  action 
at  New  Market, May  15,  1864,  its  casualties  amounting  to  28  killed,  1 74  wounded,  and  19  missing;  total,  221. 
At  Piedmont  it  lost  15  killed,  and  95  wounded  ;  at  Opequon,  6  killed  and  96  wounded  out  of  less  than  300  en 
gaged  ;  at  Strasburg,  9  killed,  48  wounded,  and  40  missing,  out  of  250  present  in  that  fight.  In  the  latter  action 
Colonel  Wells  was  killed  and  fell  into  the  enemy's  hands.  In  December,  1864,  the  regiment  was  transferred  to 
Eastern  Virginia,  and  assigned  to  Turner's  Division,  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  Army  of  the  James.  It  participated 
in  the  desperate  but  victorious  assault  on  the  works  at  Petersburg,  April  2,  1865,  and,  taking  part  in  the  pursuit 
of  Lee's  Array,  was  present  at  the  final  scenes  at  Appomattox. 


172 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-FIFTH   MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 
FERRERO'S  BRIGADE  — STURGIS'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EDWARD  A.  WILD  ;  BKIG.  GEN. 


(2)  COL.  SUMNER  CARRUTH  ;  Bvr.  BKIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 
I 

I 

3 
i 

• 
• 

i 
i 

•     • 

12 

T3 

M 
4 
18 
8 

J7 
'3 
IS 
24 

I 

13 

14 

J5 
4 

21 

9 
17 
J3 
16 

25 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

•    * 

I  2 
10 

9 
6 

1  1 

1  1 

9 

13 

ii 

8 

12 

to 

9 

7 
ii 

1  1 

9 

J3 
1  1 

8 

T5 

M3 

167 

158 

i35 
141 

146 
162 
146 
140 

*43 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H. 

T  . 

K  

Totals  

10 

138 

148 

I 

IOO 

101 

1,496 

Total  killed  and  wounded,  539  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons,  33. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 


South  Mountain,  Md 5 

Antietam,  Md 73 

Fredericksburg,    Va 12 

Jackson,  Miss 2 

Knoxville,  Tenn 2 

Spotsylvania,  Va 5 

North  Anna,  Va 2 


K.  &  M.W. 


Bethesda  Church,  Va ? 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 13 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 6 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 16 

Fort    Sedgwick,  Va 3 

Picket   Line,  Va.,  Dec.  27,  '64 i 


Present,  also,  at  Campbell's  Station,  Tenn. ;  Wilderness,  Va. ;   Cold   Harbor,  Va. ;  Hatcher's   Run  ;  Fall  of 
Petersburg. 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Worcester,  and  left  the  State  August  22, 1862.  Both  Colonel  Wild  and  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Carruth  had  seen  service  in  the  First  Massachusetts.  After  a  short  stay  on  Arlington  Heights,  the  regi 
ment  was  ordered  to  join  McClellan's  Army,  then  on  its  way  to  meet  Lee  in  Maryland.  It  was  assigned  to 
Ferrero's  (2d)  Brigade,  Reno's  (2d)  Division,  Ninth  Corps.  It  was  engaged  at  South  Mountain,  where  it  won 
praises  from  all  who  saw  it  in  action ;  Colonel  Wild  received  a  serious  wound  there,  resulting  in  amputation  of  an 
arm.  Three  days  later,  the  regiment  fought  at  Antietam,  the  casualty  list  at  that  battle  footing  up  48  killed,  160 
wounded,  and  6  missing  ;  Major  Sidney  Willard,  who  was  in  command,  was  killed  while  cheering  on  his  men. 
The  Thirty-fifth  accompanied  the  corps  in  its  western  campaigns  in  Kentucky,  at  Vicksburg,  and  at  the  siege  of 
Knoxville,  Tenn.  Upon  its  return  to  Virginia  it  was  brigaded  in  the  First  Brigade  of  Stevenson's  (ist)  Division, 
from  which  it  was  subsequently  transferred  to  Potter's  (2 d)  Division.  At  Poplar  Spring  Church  the  regiment, 
under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Hudson,  lost  6  killed,  19  wounded,  and  156  prisoners, —  the  latter  loss  occurring  not 
through  any  fault  of  the  men,  nor  of  the  officers.  The  Thirty-fifth  remained  on  duty  before  Petersburg,  suffering 
heavy  losses  in  the  trenches,  and  sharing  in  the  triumphant  termination  of  the  siege. 


TIIKKE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


173 


THIRTY-SEVENTH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. 

EUSTIS'S  BRIGADK    -GETTY'S  DIVISION --SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  OLIVER  EDWARDS;  RVT.  MAJOR.QKN. 


(2)  COL.  RUFUS  I».  LINCOLN. 


(8)  COL.  MASON  W.  TYI.KK 


COMPANIES. 

KIT  i  i.  n  AND  DIED  op  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IIINON.  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  HHcera. 

M,  '. 

Total. 

•     • 

IO 
IO 

8 
1  1 

9 

7 
7 
'3 
9 
8 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 
I 
I 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

'9 
28 

I? 
'5 

'5 
16 

14 
16 

13 

I  2 

•     • 

»9 

29 

'7 

'5 
16 

»7 

15 
16 

'3 

12 

• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

•     * 

IO 
IO 

8 
1  1 

9 
7 
7 
'3 

9 
8 

16 

'45 
130 

127 

I25 

'37 
123 

"3 

142 
127 

'39 

PVtnnnanv  -\  . 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

4 

'65 

169 

• 

92 

• 

92 

'.324 

169  killed  «  12.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  588;  died  in  Confederate  prisons,  12. 


BATTLES. 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 

Opequon,   Va 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va. 
Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va. , 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 

Place   Unknown 


K.&M.W. 

....       5 

...        22 

8 

8 

14 

...  2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Fredericksburg,   Va.  (1862) i 

Fredericksburg,   Va.  (1863) 3 

Gettysburg,  Pa 6 

Wilderness,  Va 54 

Spotsylvania,  Va 32 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 12 

Fort  Stevens,  1).  C 2 

Present,  also,  at  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Composed  of  Berkshire  County  men,  and  left  the  State  Sept.  7,  1862.  Arriving  in  Maryland  it 
was  assigned  to  Devens's  (2d)  Brigade  of  Couch's  Division.  This  division  was  soon  after  attached  to  the  Sixth 
Corps  as  the  Third  Division,  General  Newton  in  command.  The  Thirty-seventh  participated  in  several  battles, 
displaying  praiseworthy  steadiness,  but  sustaining  slight  loss,  until  Grant's  campaign  in  1864,  when  it  took  part  in 
some  bloody  fighting.  It  crossed  the  Rapidan  May  5,  1864,  with  609  officers  and  men  present  for  duty,  and  was 
soon  in  the  thickest  of  the  Wilderness  fight.  It  lost  there  30  killed,  101  wounded,  and  6  missing;  the  latter 
were  undoubtedly  killed.  An  equally  large  percentage  of  loss  occurred  at  Spotsylvania.  In  the  various  actions 
and  skirmishes  about  that  place,  from  May  8th  to  May  2ist,  its  casualties  amounted  to  16  killed,  65  wounded,  and 
10  missing.  In  July  the  regiment  was  placed  in  the  Third  Brigade,  Russell's  (ist)  Division,  Colonel  Edwards 
being  placed  in  command  of  the  brigade.  At  the  battle  of  the  Opequon  the  regiment  lost  12  killed,  and  79 
wounded  out  of  296  men  present  in  that  action,  and  captured  a  stand  of  colors  from  Stonewall  Jackson's  old  regi 
ment.  At  Sailor's  Creek  the  Thirty-seventh  was  commanded  by  Captain  Arch.  Hopkins,  and  encountered  there 
some  of  the  closest  hand-to-hand  fighting  of  the  war.  The  regiment  was  one  of  the  first  to  enter  Petersburg,  the 
surrender  of  the  city  being  made  to  Colonel  Edwards  by  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  Colonel  Edwards  being  in 
command  of  the  Sixth  Corps  skirmish-line. 


174 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTY-SIXTH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY.— "FIRST  VETERAN." 
CARRUTH'S  BRIGADE  —  STEVENSON'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CHARLES  E.  GRISWOLD  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  STEPHEN  M.  WELD,  JR.;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

m 

I 
I 

2 

• 
* 

•     • 

12 
10 

16 

14 

IO 

15 

IO 
10 

15 

8 

2 
12 
10 

*7 

'5 
12 

15 
10 

IO 
15 

8 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

5 
7 
6 

12 
12 
IO 

13 
r3 

J3 
9 

•    * 

5 
7 
6 

12 
12 
IO 

J3 
*3 

J3 
9 

J3 

104 

93 
109 

I05 
I05 
9i 
99 

122 
I03 
I03 

B  . 

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

I2O 

126 

• 

100 

too 

1,047 

126  killed  =  12  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  447;    died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  47. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 23 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12. 20 

Spotsylvania,  May  1 8 10 

North  Anna,  Va 1 1 

Bethesda  Church,  Va ." .  3 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Petersburg  Assault 21 

Present,  also,  at  Hatcher's  Run. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Petersburg  Mine 13 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 3 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 3 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 10 

Picket,  July,  30,  1864 ' i 

Fall  of  Petersburg 4 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Readville,  Mass.,  recruiting  having  commenced  in  December,  1863.  Many  of  the 
men  had  served  terms  of  enlistment  in  other  regiments.  It  left  the  State  March  21,  1864,  and,  with  about  850 
men,  proceeded  to  Annapolis,  where  it  was  attached  to  the  First  Brigade,  Stevenson's  (ist)  Division,  Ninth  Corps. 
In  the  latter  part  of  April  it  marched  to  Alexandria,  Va.,  and  thence  to  the  Wilderness.  Colonel  Griswold  was 
killed  in  that  action,  and  the  casualties,  as  given  in  the  State  reports,  were  9  killed,  57  wounded,  and  10  missing. 
At  Spotsylvania,  May  i2th,  it  lost  10  killed,  41  wounded,  and  i  missing;  on  the  iSth,  it  also  lost  there  5  killed, 
and  40  wounded.  In  the  charge  of  the  Ninth  Corps  on  the  works  at  Petersburg —  June  1 7,  1864  —  the  regiment 
was  prominently  engaged,  its  losses  amounting  to  10  killed,  51  wounded,  and  16  missing;  this  was  its  hardest  fight. 
It  also  sustained  serious  losses  while  in  the  trenches  before  Petersburg,  men  being  killed  or  wounded  daily  for 
several  weeks.  At  the  Mine  Explosion  it  lost  4  killed,  21  wounded,  and  25  missing.  The  Fifty- dxth  was  a  steady, 
reliable,  fighting  regiment ;  although  its  losses,  numerically,  were  not  extraordinary,  yet  its  percentage  of  killed 
was  far  above  the  average  and  entitles  it  to  distinction.  The  Division  was  broken  up  in  August,  1864,  and  the 
regiment  transferred  to  Potter's  (2d)  Division. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


175 


FIFTY-SEVENTH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY  -"SECOND  VETERAN." 
BARTLETT'S  (W.  F.)  BRIGADE-  WHITE'S  DIVISION-  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  F.  BARTLKTT  ;  BVT.  MAJOK-HEN.  U.  S.  V.         (2)  Coi..  N.  B.  McLAUOHLIN  ;  BVT.  Bum.  «KN.  U.  8.  A. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIEM  OF  WOUNDS. 

DlEII  OF   I  >l-l    \M  .   ACCIDENT!*, 

IN  I'lusos,  &t\ 
Tot  n!. 

•    • 

I  I 

8 
4 

10 

3 

8 

10 

ii 
1  1 

10 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

3 

2 

2 

I 
I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

•    • 

26 
I9 

16 

18 

20 
'5 

18 

20 
20 

19 

3 
28 
21 
16 

»9 

21 

'5 

18 

21 
20 

J9 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
t 
• 

*     • 

I  I 

8 
4 

10 

3 

8 

10 

ii 
1  1 

10 

18 

I  12 
1  08 
107 
1  06 
98 
98 
98 

105 

102 
IOO 

B  . 

C  . 

I)  . 

E  . 

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

I9I 

201 

86 

86 

1,052 

201  killed  -•  19.1  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  716;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  37. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 94 

Spotsylvania,  Va 32 

North  Anna,  Va 15 

Bethesda  Church.  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  assault,  June  1 7,  1 864 20 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 7 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 15 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 4 

Fort  Stedman,  Va 10 

Place   Unknown i 


Present,  also,  at  Cold  Harbor  ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Fall  of  Petersburg. 


NOTES. — This  regiment  was  in  active  service  less  than  a  year,  and  yet  its  percentage  of  killed  was  one  of  the 
highest  of  the  war.  It  left  the  State  April  18,  1864,  proceeding  to  Annapolis  where  it  joined  the  Ninth  Corps  - 
First  Brigade,  First  Division,  and  marched  soon  after  on  its  way  to  join  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  At  the  Wil 
derness  it  was  hotly  engaged,  and  with  severe  loss,  its  casualties  amounting  to  57  killed,  158  wounded,  and  30 
missing;  total,  245  out  of  24  officers  and  521  men  engaged;  one  company,  H,  was  not  in  this  action,  having 
been  detailed  on  duty  elsewhere  just  at  that  time.  Colonel  Bartlett  was  seriously  wounded  in  this  battle.  In  the 
two  actions  in  which  the  Ninth  Corps  was  engaged  at  Spotsylvania,  it  also  suffered  a  severe  percentage  of  loss, 
losing  on  May  i2th,  13  killed,  55  wounded,  and  4  missing;  on  May  i8th,  3  killed,  and  14  wounded.  The  regi 
ment  made  a  brilliant  charge  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg  -  -  June  i  7th  — carrying  the  works  at  the  point  of  the 
bayonet ;  loss,  1 1  killed,  30  wounded,  and  3  missing.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Charles  L.  Chamberlain,  a  very  able 
officer  was  killed  at  the  North  Anna,  and  Major  Albert  Prescott,  in  the  charge  following  the  Mine  Explosion  at 
Petersburg.  In  this  action,  the  regiment  lost  4  killed,  16  wounded,  and  31  missing.  It  had  become  so  reduced 
in  numbers  that  it  could  only  muster  about  70  men  present  in  the  battle  at  Poplar  Spring  Church.  Major  James 
Doherty  fell,  mortally  wounded,  at  Fort  Stedman,  March  25,  1865. 


176 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTY-EIGHTH   MASSACHUSETTS   INFANTBY--"  THIRD  VETERAN." 
BLISS'S  BRIGADE  —  POTTER'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


COL.  JOHN  C.  WHITON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
2 
I 
I 

• 
• 

I 

* 

2 
I 

• 

•     • 

*7 
13 

16 
i7 

13 

ii 

16 
ii 

i3 

2 

2 

J9 
M 

!7 

i? 

*3 
12 

16 

13 

14 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

16 
16 
20 

10 
20 

17 

2O 

21 
IO 

6 

16 
16 

20 
10 
20 

17 
20 

21 
IO 
6 

13 

1  08 

106 

112 
101 

109 

93 
96 

IOO 

82 

112 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

129 

139 

• 

156 

156 

1,032 

139  killed  =  13. 4  per  cent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  491  ;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  89. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 13 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  S-u> 3 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12 23 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  13-20 4 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Shady  Grove  Road,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 31 

Cold  Harbor  Trenches,  Va 4 

Petersburg   Assault,  Va 12 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 14 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 17 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va 7 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 7 


Present,  also,  at  Weldon  Railroad  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Fort  Sedgwick. 


NOTES. — Recruiting  for  this  regiment  commenced  in  September,  1863,  but  only  eight  companies  were  or 
ganized  up  to  April,  1864.  These  companies  left  the  State  April  28,  1864.  The  ninth  company  joined  the 
regiment  in  June,  but  the  tenth  did  not  arrive  until  January,  1865.  Upon  its  arrival  in  Virginia  it  was  assigned 
toCurtin's  (ist)  Brigade,  Potter's  (2d)  Division,  Ninth  Corps.  Within  one  week  after  its  departure  from  Mass 
achusetts  the  eight  companies  entered  the  bloody  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  losing  6  killed,  32  wounded,  and  7 
missing.  A  week  later  it  was  engaged  at  Spotsylvania,  and,  in  the  actions  of  May  i2th  and  i8th,  lost  17  killed, 
83  wounded,  and  5  missing.  The  regiment  moved  against  the  works  at  Cold  Harbor  —  June  3d  —  with  a  line 
whose  steadiness  and  precision  elicited  praise  from  all  who  saw  it,  winning  the  compliments  of  both  brigade  and 
division  commanders.  In  that  fight  it  took  an  advanced  position  and  held  it  until  the  close  of  the  action ;  its 
casualties  were  24  killed,  83  wounded,  and  18  missing;  Major  Barnabas  Ewer,  Jr.,  a  favorite  officer,  was  among 
the  killed.  The  Fifty-eighth  was  also  conspicuous  for  its  gallant  action  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg  —  June  i7th 
-in  which  the  brigade  carried  a  line  of  works,  but  with  a  comparative  slight  loss  to  the  regiment.  At  Poplar 
Spring  Church  it  lost  90  officers  and  men  taken  prisoners,  after  which  the  regiment  was  so  reduced  in  numbers 
that  it  was  relieved  from  active  duty.  It  received  some  accessions  which  enabled  it  to  resume  its  position,  and 
it  participated  in  the  final  assault  on  Petersburg. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


177 


SECOND   RHODE  ISLAND  INFANTRY. 
EUSTIS'S  BRIGADE-  --GETTY'S  J  )i  VISION   -  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  8.  SLOCUM  (Killed). 

(8)  COL.  FKANK  WII EATON  ;  B.  *.,  BVT.  MAJ.-GBN.  U.  S.  A. 

(8)  COL.  NELSON  VIALL. 


(4)  COL.  HOHATIO  KOOEKN  ;  BVT.  Uitlci.-GEN.  U.  8.  V. 

(5)  COL.  8.  B.  M.  UEAI). 

(0)  Coi..  KL1SIIA  II.  KlioDES. 


COMPANIES. 

KM  i  i.i>  AND  DIEIJ  or  Wor.NiM).                     DIKII  or  I>I*KASK,  ACCIIIENTM,  IN  I'IIIMON,  *r. 

Total 

1  MI  pill  iin 

16 

'43 

140 

'5* 
'5° 

157 

171 

'47 
164 

IS* 
164 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

oftloens. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 
• 

I 

2 
I 

2 
I 

•    • 

12 
IO 

'4 

I  2 
'4 

5 

I  2 

4 

I  2 

16 

2 
12 
IO 

14 
12 

'5 
7 
13 
4 
M 
»7 

• 
• 
• 

• 
• 

I 

•  • 
IO 

8 
6 

6 

7 
9 

IO 

6 
7 

74 

•    • 

10 

8 
6 

5 
6 

7 

9 
1  1 

6 

8 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

1  1  1 

1  20 

2 

76 

1,560 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  428  ;   Died  of  disease  in   Confederate  prisons,  12. 
The  above  enrollment  does  not  include  the  reorganized  regiment. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 24 

Yorktown,  Va i 

Oak  Grove,  Va 8 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Salem      Heights,  Va 20 

Gettysburg,  Pa i 

Williamsport,  Md i 


BATTLES.  K.&.M.w. 

Wilderness,  Va 23 

Spotsylvania,  Va 19 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Opequon,   Va 2 

Petersburg,  Va 2 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 14 


Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg  ;  Seven   Days;  Antietam  ;  Fredericksburg  (1862);  Marye's  Heights  ;  Rappa- 
hannock  Station  ;  Fort  Stevens  ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. — The  Second  was  Rhode  Island's  fighting  regiment.  It  fired  the  opening  volley  at  First  Bull  Run,  and 
was  inline  at  the  final  scenes  of  Appomattox.  It  arrived  at  Washington,  June  22,  1861,  and  after  a  few  weeks 
encampment  there,  marched  to  the  field  of  First  Bull  Run.  It  was  then  in  Burnside's  Brigade,  of  Hunter's  Divi 
sion.  Burnside  opened  that  fight  with  the  First  Rhode  Island  deployed  as  skirmishers,  and  the  Second  advanc 
ing  in  line  of  battle.  Its  casualties  in  that  engagement  aggregated  98  in  killed,  wounded  and  missing  ;  among 
the  killed  were  Colonel  Slocum,  Major  Sullivan  Ballon,  and  two  captains.  During  the  Peninsular  campaign  it 
served  in  Palmer's  (3d)  Brigade,  Couch's  (ist)  Division,  Fourth  Corps;  this  division  was  transferred  in  October, 
1862,  to  the  Sixth  Corps  as  Newton's  (3d)  Division.  The  regiment,  under  Colonel  Rogers,  distinguished  itself 
in  the  hard-fought  battle  of  the  Sixth  Corps  at  Salem  Heights,  May  3,  1863,  in  which  action  it  lost  7  killed,  68 
wounded,  and  6  missing.  At  the  Wilderness,  it  lost  12  killed,  66  wounded,  and  5  missing  ;  and  at  Spotsylvania, 
15  killed,  32  wounded,  and  6  missing.  In  the  final  battle  of  the  Sixth  Corps — at  Sailor's  Creek,  April  6,  1865 
-the  regiment  displayed  remarkable  fighting  qualities,  engaging  the  enemy  in  an  action  so  close  that  men  were 
bayoneted,  and  clubbed  muskets  were  freely  used.  The  original  regiment  was  mustered  out  June  17,  1864,  the 
recruits  ami  reeniisted  men  left  in  the  field  were  organized  into  a  battalion  of  three  companies,  to  which  five  new 

ones  were  subsequently  added  in  the  fall  and  winter  of  1864-5. 
1* 


178 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SECOND  CONNECTICUT  HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 
UPTON'S  BRIGADE  —  WRIGHT'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  LEVERETT  W.  WESSELLS. 

(2)  COL.  ELISHA  S.  KELLOGG  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  RANALD  S.  MACKENZIE,  OT.  $.,  B.  8.;  BRIG.  GEN.  U.  S.  A. 

(4)  COL.  JAMES  HUBBARD  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GKN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

3 

2 

I 
I 
I 

I 
I 

29 

31 
19 
3° 
35 
9 
16 

9 

21 
29 

8 
6 

2 
32 

33 

20 

31 

36 

9 
16 

10 

21 

29 

9 
6 

• 
• 
• 

i 

• 

i 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
* 

I 

12 

14 
21 

*5 

17 
17 

17 
13 
15 

15 

9 

5 

I 

12 

14 

22 

15 

18 

17 

J7 
13 

15 
15 

9 

5 

J7 
209 

207 
208 
204 

237 
198 

195 

207 

2OI 
I78 
229 
2l6 

B  . 

c  

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H. 

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  . 

I  2 

242 

254 

2 

171 

173 

2,506 

254  killed  =  10.1  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  882. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Picket,  North   Anna,  Va i 

Hanovertown,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  i,  1864 129 

Cold  Harbor  Trenches,  Va 4 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 8 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 10 

Opequon,    Va 36 

Present,  also,  at  Fort  Stevens  ;  Appomattox. 


K.  &M.W. 

4 


BATTLES. 

Fisher's    Hill,  Va 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 44 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March  25,  '65 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 

Sailor's    Creek,  Va 

Place  Unknown 


NOTES. —  Recruited  in  Litchfield  County  under  the  second  call  for  troops,  as  the  Nineteenth  Infantry.  It 
left  the  State  September  15,  1862,  proceeding  to  Alexandria,  Va.,  in  which  vicinity  it  was  stationed  during  the 
ensuing  year,  engaged  in  garrison  duty  within  the  fortifications.  In  November,  1863,  it  was  changed  to  a  heavy 
artillery  organization,  and  the  additional  number  of  men  made  necessary  thereby  were  soon  recruited  and  sent 
forward.  On  May  17,  1864,  it  left  Alexandria  with  about  1,600  men,  and,  acting  as  infantry,  marched  to  the 
front,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Upton's  (ad)  Brigade,  Russell's  (ist)  Division,' Sixth  Corps.  Its  first  engagement 
was  in  the  storming  of  the  earth  works  at  Cold  Harbor,  where  its  casualties  amounted  to  85  killed,  221  wounded, 
and  19  missing;  the  most  of  the  latter  were  killed  or  wounded.  In  that  assault  the  regiment,  about  1,400 
strong,  led  the  column  with  fixed  bayonets  and  uncapped  muskets,  Colonel  Kellogg  falling  in  advance  of  his 
men,  pierced  by  several  bullets.  In  the  battle  at  the  Opequon  the  regiment  lost  20  killed,  and  118  wounded,  the 
killed  including  Major  James  Q.  Rice  and  five  line  officers.  Its  casualties  at  Cedar  Creek  footed  up  21 
killed,  107  wounded,  and  62  missing.  The  regiment  took  part  in  the  repulse  of  the  Confederate  sortie  at 
Petersburg —  March  25,  1865  —  and  in  the  closing  victories  of  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


170 


SEVENTH    CONNECTICUT    INFANTRY. 
HAWLEY'S  BRIGADE  —  TERRY'S  DIYISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ALFRED  H.  TERRY  ;  BVT  MAJOR-GEN.  U.  8.  A.  (2)  COL.  JOSEPH  K.  HAWLEY  ;  BVT.  MAJOU-UKN.  U.  8.  V. 

(3)  COL.  SEAdEK  S.  ATWELL. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIEII  OK  Worso*. 

DIKU  or  DIHEAHE,  AWIIIENTN,  IN  I'KIMIN.  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

M. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

2 
I 
2 
2 
I 
I 
I 
I 

• 

•    • 

32 

15 
1  1 

'9 
M 
'5 

7 
M 
15 
'5 

•    • 

32 
'7 

12 
21 

16 
16 

8 

'5 
16 

i5 

3 

• 
• 

• 

i 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

23 
3> 
26 

23 
1  6 

10 

i  i 
1  8 

'7 

'7 

3 

23 

3' 

26 

23 

'7 

10 

1  1 
18 

17 

'7 

i? 
'74 
161 

'55 
1  68 

*39 
192 

166 

'5° 
181 

'54 

Comnanv  A  . 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G  

H  

I  

K. 

Totals  

I  I 

'57 

168 

4 

192 

196 

'.657 

168  killed  «=  10.  i  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  598  ;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  68. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W 

James  Island,  S.  C 19 

Pocotaligo,  S.  C 6 

Morris  Island,  S.  C 4 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C 28 

Olustee,  Fla to 

Drewry's   Bluff,  Va 45 

Bermuda   Hundred,  Va 24 


BATTLEH.  K.&M.W. 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 15 

Near  Richmond,  Va.,  Oct.  i,  1864 3 

New  Market  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  7,  1 864 2 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.   13,  1864 5 

Charles  City    Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 2 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 5 


Present,  also,  at  Fort  Pulaski ;  Chester  Station  :  Wilmington. 


NOTES. — Recruited  in  various  counties  of  the  State.  Colonel  Terry  had  already  served  as  Colonel  of  the 
Second,  a  three  months'  regiment  which  fought  at  First  Bull  Run.  It  left  the  State  September  18,  1861,  and  in 
the  following  month  sailed  from  Annapolis  for  Port  Royal,  with  General  Sherman's  (T.  W.)  expedition.  It  dis 
played  a  praiseworthy  efficiency  and  steadiness  in  its  first  battle  --James  Island  —  where, when  ordered  to  retire, 
it  halted,  dressed  its  alignment  under  fire,  and  retired  by  battalion  front  as  if  on  parade  ;  casualties,  9  killed,  69 
wounded,  and  4  missing.  In  January,  1863,  it  went  to  Fernandina,  Fla.,  but  in  May,  four  companies  —  A,  B,  I, 
and  K,  returned  to  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.  These  four  companies  were  in  Strong's  Brigade,  and  were  engaged  in 
the  first  assault  on  Fort  Wagner,  July  1 1,  1863,  where  they  displayed  unusual  gallantry.  Out  of  191  officers  and 
men  carried  to  that  assault,  103  were  killed,  wounded  or  missing.  At  Drewry's  Bluff,  the  Seventh  sustained  its 
greatest  loss ;  30  killed,  104  wounded,  and  69  missing  or  prisoners.  In  the  affair  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  June 
ad,  1864,  it  also  lost  78  captured,  in  addition  to  25  killed  or  wounded.  The  regiment  sailed  with  General 
Terry's  expedition  to  Fort  Fisher  —  then  in  Abbott's  Brigade,  Ames's  Division, —  and  took  part  in  the  successful 
storming  of  that  stronghold.  After  the  capture  of  Fort  Fisher,  the  Tenth  Corps,  and  with  it  the  Seventh  Con 
necticut,  remained  in  North  Carolina  until  after  the  close  of  the  war. 


180 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TENTH   CONNECTICUT  INFANTRY. 
PLAISTED'S  BRIGADE  —  TERRY'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CHARLES  L.  RUSSELL  (Killed).  (2)  COL.  ALBERT  W.  DRAKE  (Died).  (3)  COL.  IRA  W.  PETTIBONE. 

(4)  COL.  JOHN  L.  OTIS;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN.  (5)  COL.  EDWIN  S.  GREELEY ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

3 
i 

• 

i 

i 

• 

2 

3 

• 

•     • 

II 
10 

9 

12 

16 

IO 

5 
J5 

10 

1  1 

2 

M 
I  I 

9 
13 

*7 

10 

7 
18 

IO 

1  1 

2 

I 

• 
• 
* 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

*    • 

H 
2O 

14 

J7 
16 

10 

18 
i7 
*9 

10 

2 

IS 
2O 

M 

J7 
16 

IO 

19 

'7 

20 
10 

20 
I76 
172 
1  60 

166 
182 
146 

'58 
204 

178 
166 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

13 

109 

122 

5 

J55 

I  6O 

1,728 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  433  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons,  n. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Roanoke  Island,  N.  C 12 

New  Berne,  N.  C 9 

Kinston,  N.  C 34 

St.  Augustine,  Fla i 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 10 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 17 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Petersburg,  Va 3 

New  Market  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  7,  1864 4 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  13,  1864 9 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 2 

Fort  Gregg,  Va > .  21 


Present,   also,    at  Whitehall ;  Seabrook  Island  ;  Siege  of  Charleston ;  Walthall  Junction  ;  Bermuda  Hundred  ; 
Strawberry  Plains  •  Laurel  Hill  Church  ;  Johnson's  Plantation  ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. —  Recruited  in  various  counties.  It  left  the  State  November  i,  1861,  and  proceeded  to  Annapolis, 
where  it  embarked  with  the  Burnside  expedition  to  North  Carolina.  It  was  placed  in  Foster's  (ist)  Brigade,  and 
was  engaged  at  Roanoke  Island,  its  casualties  in  that  action  amounting  to  6  killed  and  49  wounded.  Colonel 
Russell  fell  there,  the  first  one  of  the  Connecticut  colonels  killed  in  the  war.  At  the  battle  of  Kinston,  N.  C.,— 
December  14,  1862 — the  heaviest  loss  fell  on  the  Tenth  Connecticut,  it  having  been  entrusted  with  the  most 
prominent  part.  It  lost  there  1 1  killed,  and  39  wounded,  out  of  366  engaged  ;  five  line  officers  were  killed  or 
mortally  wounded.  The  remarkable  gallantry  of  the  regiment  in  this  action  was  publicly  acknowledged  at  its  close 
by  General  Foster,  in  words  of  extreme  praise.  At  that  battle  it  was  in  Stevenson's  (2d)  Brigade,  Foster's  (ist) 
Division.  In  April,  1864,  the  Tenth  joined  the  Army  of  the  James,  and  participated  in  all  its  battles.  It  was 
engaged  at  Deep  Bottom  with  a  loss  of  8  killed,  64  wounded,  and  10  missing.  Major  Henry  W.  Camp,  the 
"  Knightly  Soldier,"  was  killed  at  Darbytown  Road.  The  regiment  was  transferred  in  December,  to  Foster's  ( ist) 
Division,  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  took  the  lead  in  the  victorious  but  desperate  assault  on  Fort 
Gregg,  its  losses  there  amounting  to  1 1  killed  and  79  wounded.  Its  flag  was  the  first  on  the  parapet,  and  the 
gallantry  displayed  there  by  the  regiment  was  signally  acknowledged  by  General  Gibbon,  the  corps  commander. 


TlIKKK   HUNDRED   FldHTINO    ItEUlHKNTS. 


ELEVENTH  CONNECTICUT  INFANTRY. 
HARLAND'S  BRIGADE -- RODMAN'S  DIVISION-    NINTH  ('OKI'S. 


(1)  COL.  T.  H.  C.  KIXOSIUTBT. 

(2)  COL.  IIENKV  W.  KINUSIU'KY  ; 


.  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  ORIFFI\  A.  STKDMAN,  .In.;  BVT.  Itniu.  OEM.  <Klll«*l). 
MM'oi..  HANDAI.I.  II.  RICE. 


('OXPANIKN. 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  or  WOUNDS. 

DIKD  OK  DISEASE,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  PHIMON,  Ac. 

ToUil 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

•j 

* 

I 
I 
1 

• 
• 

2 

• 

•    • 

IO 

6 

22 
IS 
12 
12 

1 

24 

'5 
14 

-» 

10 
22 

19 

'3 
'3 
/ 
24 
'7 
14 

I 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

'7 
>7 
•3 
25 
24 
1  8 

19 

'5 

10 

1  8 

I 
17 
'7 
'3 
25 
24 
1  8 

'9 
'5 

10 

1  8 

'77 

20 
207 
I92 
203 

'95 
217 

191 
181 
194 
170 

'95 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

8 

140 

148 

I 

,76 

i  ,965 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  532  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  45. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

New  Berne,  N.  C 12 

Antietam,  Md 48 

Suffolk,  Va 2 

Swift  Creek,  Va 3 

Palmer's  Creek,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.  *M.\V 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 22 

Cold  Harl)or,  Va 28 

Petersburg  Assault  (1864) 13 

Siege  of  Petersburg 15 

Place    Unknown 3 


Present,  also,  at  Roanoke  Island  ;  South  Mountain  ;  Fredericksburg  ;   Petersburg  Mine  ;    Fall  of  Richmond. 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Hartford,  and  left  the  State  Dec  16,  1861,  proceeding  to  Annapolis,  where  it  joined 
the  Burnside  expedition  to  North  Carolina.  It  was  then  in  Parke's  ^d)  Brigade,  Burnside's  Division,  with 
which  it  was  present  at  New  Berne  ;  its  casualties  there  were  6  killed,  and  21  wounded.  In  July,  1862,  it  moved 
to  Newport  News ;  here  the  Colonel  resigned,  and  was  succeeded  by  Lieutenant  H.  W.  Kingsbury,  of  the 
Fourteenth  U.  S.  Infantry,  who  thereupon  put  the  regiment  in  a  high  state  of  drill,  discipline,  and  efficiency.  In 
the  meantime  it  had  been  assigned  to  the  Ninth  Corps — Harland's  (2d)  Brigade,  Sturgis's  (2(1)  Division  - 
with  which  it  marched  to  Antietam;  its  losses  on  that  field  were  36  killed  and  103  wounded;  no  missing; 
Colonel  Kingsbury  was  killed  there.  Under  Colonel  Stedman  the  regiment  was  present  at  Fredericksburg,  but 
was  only  slightly  engaged.  In  Febniary,  1863,  the  Connecticut  Brigade  moved  to  south-eastern  Virginia,  and  the 
Eleventh  passed  that  year  in  the  vicinity  of  Suffolk  and  Norfolk,  during  which  it  was  engaged  in  several  expedi 
tions  into  the  enemy's  country,  and  in  some  minor  engagements.  It  re-enlisted  and  received  a  large  number  of 
recruits,  taking  the  field  in  1864  with  882  enlisted  men  present.  In  the  various  actions  at  Drewry's  Bluff  it  lost 
15  killed,  65  wounded,  and  127  captured;  at  Cold  Harbor,  the  casualties  were  12  killed,  92  wounded,  and  6 
missing.  Major  Joseph  H.  Converse  receiving  a  mortal  wound.  The  Regiment  was  then  in  the  Eighteenth 
Corps.  Colonel  Stedman  was  killed  in  the  trenches  before  Petersburg.  In  December,  1 864,  the  regiment  was 
transferred  to  Ripley's  (ist)  Brigade,  Devens's  (3d)  Division,  Twenty-fourth  Corps. 


182 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FOURTEENTH   CONNECTICUT  INFANTRY. 
CARROLL'S  BRIGADE  —  GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)COL.   DWIGHT  MORRIS. 


(2)  COL.  THEODORE  G.  ELLIS  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  <fcc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

• 

2 
2 

I 

• 

3 

2 

2 
I 
2 
2 

I 

1  1 
21 

16 

23 
13 
23 
15 
29 

22 
14 

I 

'3 
23 
17 
23 
16 

25 
J7 

3° 
24 

16 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

18 
16 
24 
J9 

15 

16 

21 

18 

21 

22 

I 

18 
16 
24 

19 

»S 

16 

22 

18 

21 

22 

17 

180 
163 

183 
173 

I5l 

167 

146 
186 
198 
1  60 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G. 

H  

T  . 

K. 

Totals  . 

I? 

1  88 

205 

I 

I9I 

192 

1,724 

205  killed  =  ii. 8  percent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  727  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  78. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Antietam,  Md 35 

Fredericksburg,  Va 46 

Chancellorsville,  Va 4 

Gettysburg,  Pa 15 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 13 

Morton's  Ford,  Va 20 

Wilderness,  Va 21 

Spotsylvania,  Va 10 


BATTLES.  K.&M.  W. 

North  Anna,  Va 8 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 7 

Petersburg,  Va 5 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 2 

Ream's  Station,  Va 10 

Boydton  Road,  Va 5 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 4 


Present,  also,  at  Falling  Waters  ;  Auburn  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  High  Bridge  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. —  The  Fourteenth  sustained  the  largest  percentage  of  loss  of  any  regiment  from  the  State.  It  left 
Hartford  August  25,  1862,  and  joined  McClellan's  Army  while  on  the  march  to  Antietam,  being  assigned  to 
Morris's  (2d)  Brigade,  French's  (3d)  Division,  Second  Corps.  Its  losses  at  Antietam  were  20  killed,  88  wounded, 
and  48  missing;  at  Fredericksburg,  n  killed,  87  wounded,  and  22  missing.  The  Fourteenth  won  special  and 
merited  honors  at  Gettysburg  by  a  charge,  on  the  forenoon  of  the  third  day,  in  which  it  drove  the  enemy's 
sharpshooters  out  of  a  barn  situated  between  the  lines.  In  the  afternoon  it  assisted  in  the  repulse  of  Pickett's 
charge,  at  which  time  the  regiment  captured  five  stands  of  colors.  Its  casualties  at  Gettysburg,  were  10  killed, 
52  wounded,  and  4  missing.  In  the  affair  at  Morton's  Ford —  February  6,  1864  —  the  brunt  of  the  fight  fell  on 
the  Fourteenth ;  it  was  ably  handled  there  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Samuel  A.  Moore,  and  its  casualties  were  6 
killed,  90  wounded,  and  19  missing.  In  March,  1864,  it  was  transferred  to  Gibbon's  (2d)  Division,  in  which  it 
remained  without  further  change.  In  December,  1864,  the  regiment  had  become  reduced  to  180  men  for  duty; 
it  was  armed  with  Sharpe's  rifles,  and  though  small  in  numbers,  was  considered  one  of  the  best  in  the  division.  In 
the  final  battles  of  the  war  its  percentage  of  loss  was  heavy  in  each  action,  although  not  numerically  large. 


TllKKK   HUNDKKD    Fl<iUTINU    REGIMENTS. 


183 


FIRST  NEW  YORK  DRAGOONS.— (19TH  N.  Y.  CAV'Y). 
MERKITT'S  BRIGADE  -   TORBERT'S  DIVISION — CAVALRY  CORPS,  A.  P. 


(1)  COL.  ALFRED  3IBBS.   CH.  JJ..  B.  *.  ,  BVT.  MAJOU-OKN.  U.  8.  A.        (2)  COL.  THOMAS  J.  THORP  ;  BVT.  BRIO.-GXN.  U.  8.  V. 


COMPANIES. 

KM  I  MI   AND  DlKI)  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OK  DIMEAHK,  ACCIDENTH,  IN  PIUHON,  Ac. 

TotuI 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  iflicers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  anil  Staff  

• 
• 
• 

i 

• 
• 

2 

• 

I 

* 

•     * 

21 
I  I 

16 
6 

10 

16 

'3 
1  1 

13 
9 

•     • 

21 

1  I 

'7 
6 

10 

18 

13 
1  1 

'4 
9 

* 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

15 
10 

7 
16 

8 

21 

14 
12 
2O 

7 

•     • 

15 
IO 

7 
1  6 

8 

22 

'4 

12 
2O 

7 
r3' 

1  6 
144 
127 

I25 
141 

'35 
'54 

IS' 
149 

'5' 

I  21 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D. 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

4 

126 

!3° 

I 

'3° 

1,414 

K.  AM.W. 

Shepherdstown,  Va 

Smithfield,  Va 4 

Opequon,  Va 4 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va i 

New  Market,  Va 3 

Port  Republic,  Va i 

Newtown,  Va 5 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 2 

London  Valley,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va .' 4 

Five  Forks,  Va i 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  461  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  33. 
BATTLES.  K.AM.\V.  HATIM- 

Deserted  House,  Va 7 

Suffolk,  Va 3 

Blackwater,  Va 2 

Manassas  Plains,  Va 3 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va 31 

Spotsylvania,  Va 2 

Yellow  Tavern,  Va 2 

Hungary,  Va 2 

Old  Church,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 14 

Trevilian  Station,  Va 26 

White  Post,  Va 7 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Portage,  N.  Y.,  as  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirtieth  Infantry,  and  served  as  such  at 
Suffolk,  Va.,  and  in  Keyes's  Peninsular  campaign.  On  July  28,  1863,  it  was  transferred  to  the  mounted  service 
under  the  designation  of  the  First  New  York  Dragoons.  Colonel  Gibbs,  who  belonged  to  the  United  States 
Cavalry  service,  drilled  the  men  in  their  new  duties,  and  on  the  night  of  October  17,  1863,  the  Dragoons  made 
their  first  fight  as  such  at  Manassas  Plains.  The  regiment  started  on  Grant's  campaign  of  1864  with  about  400 
carbines,  and  in  the  Wilderness  (at  Todd's  Tavern),  having  dismounted,  made  a  desperate  fight,  sustaining  the 
heaviest  loss  of  any  cavalry  regiment  in  any  one  action  during  the  war ;  its  casualties  in  the  Wilderness  amounted 
to  20  killed,  36  wounded,  and  35  missing.  At  Cold  Harbor,  the  wearied  troopers  were  sleeping  on  the  ground, 
bridle-rein  in  hand,  when  they  were  awakened  and  ordered  into  the  breastworks,  which  they  gallantly  defended 
while  their  band  played  gaily  during  the  entire  fight.  At  Trevilian  Station,  the  remnant  of  the  Dragoons  were 
actively  engaged,  their  casualties  in  that  action  amounting  to  16  killed,  61  wounded,  and  8  missing.  After  fight 
ing  under  Sheridan  in  his  famous  Shenandoah  campaign,  and  sharing  the  glories  of  the  final  scenes  at  Appom- 
attox,  the  regiment  was  mustered  out,  June  30,  1865.  The  Dragoons  ranked  high  in  the  estimation  of  its  various 
brigade  and  division  generals,  as  a  regiment  of  superior  discipline  and  efficiency.  During  all  its  mounted  service 
the  regiment  was  in  the  First  Cavalry  Division,  Army  of  the  Potomac. 


184: 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SECOND  NEW  YORK  CAVALRY-  -" HARRIS  LIGHT." 
MclNTosn's  BRIGADE -- WILSON'S  DIVISION  —  CAVALRY  CORPS,  A.  P. 

5.,  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.,  U.  S.  A. 
&    3.   BVT.  BKIG-GEN.,  U  S.  A. 


(1)  COL.  J.  MANSFIELD  DAVIES.  (2)  COL.  JUDSON  KILPATRICK.  033.  $., 

(3)  COL   HENRY  E  DAVIES  JR.  HA.IOR-GEN.  U.  S.  V.      (4)  COL.  OTTO  HARHAUS. 

(5)  COL   WALTER  C.  HULL  (Killed)  (6)  COL.  ALEXANDER  M.  RANDOL,  OT 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 

• 

I 
I 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

I 

• 

4 
6 

13 

5 

5 
16 

8 
J9 

12 

9 

5 
10 

2 

4 
7 
14 

7 

5 
16 

8 

!9 
12 

10 

6 
II 

* 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

3 

20 

42 

14 
25 
J3 

20 

21 
2O 
12 

9 
16 

J9 

3 
20 

42 
14 
25 
14 

20 
22 
20 
12 

9 
16 

!9 

36 
241 

259 
207 

211 

'95 
J74 
237 

2OI 
179 

T53 
207 

228 

B  . 

C. 

D  

E  . 

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

9 

112 

121 

2 

234 

236 

2,528 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  91. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Falmouth,  Va.,  April  17,  1862 6 

Rapidan  Station,  Va.,  Aug.  18,1862  i 

Rappahannock,  Va.,  Aug.  20,  1862  2 

Thoroughfare  Gap,  Va.,Aug.28,  '62  2 

Manassas,  Va.,  Aug.  29,  1862 12 

Leesburg,  Va.,  Sept.  18,  1862 i 

Salem,  Va.,  Nov.  9,  1862 i 

Brandy  Station,  Va.,  June  9,  1863.  5 

Aldie,  Va.,  June    17,1863 18 

Middleburg,   Va.,  June  19,  1863...  2 

Upperville,  Va.,  June    20,  1863. ...  i 

Jones's  Cross  Roads, Va., July  10/63  2 

Brandy  Station,  Va.,  Sept.  14,  1863  i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Robinson's  Ford,  Va.,  Sept.  16,  1863  I 

White's  Ford,  Va.,  Sept.  22,  1863..  3 

Hazel    River,  Va.,  Oct.  6,  1863.  ...  i 

Culpepper,    Va.,  Oct.  n,  1863 i 

Buckland's  Mills,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1863  3 

Raccoon    Ford,  Va.,  Dec.  5,  1863..  i 

Richmond   Raid,  Va.,  Mch.  i,  1864  2 

New  Kent  C.  H.,  Va.,  Mch.  3,  1864  I 

Craig's  Church,  Va.,  May  5,  1864. .  5 

Hanover    C.  H.,  Va.,  May  29,  1864  2 

Stony  Creek,  Va.,  June  28,  1864. . .  2 

Ream's  Station,  Va.,  June  29,  1864  4 

Charlestown,  W.  Va.,  Aug.  22,  1864  2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Shepherdstown,  Va.,  Aug.  25,  1864  3 

Waynesboro,  Va.,  Sept.  2,  1864.  ...  i 

Opequon,  Va.,  Sept.  19,  1864 3 

Luray  Valley,  Va.,  Sept.  22,  1864. .  3 

Bridgevvater,    Va.,  Oct.  4,  1864. ...  i 

New   Market,  Va.,  Oct.  8,  1864 i 

Cedar  Creek,  Va.,  Nov.  12,  1864.  . .  3 

Mt.  Jackson,  Va.,  Nov.  22,  1864 4 

Ashland,  Va.,  Mch.  15,  1865 2 

Five  Forks,  Va.,  April  i,  1865 7 

Deep  Creek,  Va.,  April  3,  1865. ...  6 

Appomattox,  Va.,  April    8,1865...  2 

On  Picket  and  at  Places  Unknown  3 


Present,  also,  at  many  other  engagements  in  which  it  lost  men  wounded  or  captured,  but  none  killed. 

NOTES. — Called  the  "  Harris  Light  "  in  honor  of  the  Honorable  Ira  Harris,  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,then  United 
States  Senator.  The  Second  was  ably  officered  and  was  one  of  the  most  famous  of  the  New  York  cavalry  regi 
ments.  Colonel  Hull  was  killed  at  Cedar  Creek,  and  Major  O'Keefe  fell  in  the  final  campaign.  The  Second 
was  recruited  from  New  York  City,  Long  Island,  Rensselaer  and  Washington  counties,  with  two  companies  from 
Indiana,  and  two  from  Connecticut.  The  term  of  enlistment  expired  in  September,  1864,  when  it  returned 
home,  leaving  about  350  men  in  the  field  composed  of  recruits  with  unexpired  terms,  and  veterans  "who  had 
reenlisted.  These  men  were  organized  into  a  battalion  of  four  companies,  and  eight  more  companies  composed 
of  fresh  recruits  were  added.  These  eight  companies,  which  were  raised  in  Cortland  and  Onondaga  counties, 
were  enlisted  for  one  year  only.  While  on  Pope's  campaign,  Aug.  16-31,  1862,  the  Second  lost  n  killed,  27 
wounded,  and  45  captured  or  missing;  total,  83.  In  the  cavalry  action  at  Aldie,  Va.,  June  17,  1863,  it  lost  16 
killed,  19  wounded,  and  15  missing;  total,  50.  In  1863  the  regiment  was  in  Gregg's  (2d)  Division,  but  in 
1864-65  it  served  in  Wilson's  (3d)  Division,— afterward  Custer's. 


TIIUKK  HUNDRED  FKJHTINQ  KKUIMKNTS. 


185 


EIGHTH  NEW  YORK   CAVALRY       'ROCHESTER  REGIMENT." 
CHAPMAN'S  BRIOADK    -WILSON'S  DIVISION   -CAVALRY  CORPS  A.  P. 


(1)  COL.  SAMUEL  J.  CROOKS. 

(2)  COL.  BENJAMIN  F.  DAVIS.   OT.  #.,  B.  *.  (Killed). 
(S)  COL.  WILLIAM  L.  MARK  ELL. 


(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  II    HKN.IAMIN;  BVT.  Biil(i.-O«K. 
(5)Coi..  EDMUND  II.  POPE ;  BVT.  BKID.-CRN. 


COMPANIES. 

KlI.I.ED  AND  DlKI)  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACX-IDENTH,  IN  I'HINON,  &.K. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

(  >fficers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  XlU-ers. 

Men. 

Total. 

I 

• 

I 
I 

2 

4 

I 

• 

2 

• 

I 

I 

• 

•    • 

10 

*3 

7 

IO 

8 

5 
4 
7 
7 
6 
6 
8 

I 
10 

M 
8 
I  2 
12 
6 

4 
9 

7 
7 

7 
8 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

1 

25 
26 

'9 
16 

i? 
'5 

10 
21 
IO 

*7 
II 

I  2 

2 

25 
26 

2O 

1  6 

'7 
'5 

I  2 
21 
I  I 

I? 

T  I 

I  2 

28 
224 
229 
209 

201 
185 

I25 
i75 

'33 
182 

140 

I25 
132 

B  

C  . 

I). 

E  . 

F  

G. 

H. 

T 

K. 

L 

M  

Totals  

14 

91 

I05 

5 

200 

2O5 

2,088 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  52. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Winchester   Va.    May  24    1862 2 

Snickersville,  Va.    Oct.  27   1862....  I 

Barbee's  X  Roads,  Va., Nov.  5,  1862  i 

Sulphur  Springs.  Va.    Nov.  8,  1862.  i 

Amissville,  Va.,  Nov    10    1862 I 

Jefferson,  Va.,  Nov    14    1862 i 

Dumfries,  Va.    March  2,  1863 i 

Independence,  Va.,  March  4,  1863.  2 

Beverly  Ford,  Va.,  June  9.  1863...  17 

Gettysburg,  Pa.,  July  I,  1863 6 

Williamsport,  Md.,  July  6,  1863.  ...  2 

Boonsboro,  Md,.  July  8,  1863 5 

Funkstown,  Md.,  July  10,  1863....  i 

Chester  Gap,  Va.,  July  21,  1863.  ...  2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Brandy  Station,  Va.,  Aug.  i,  1863.  .  3 

In  Action,  Va.    Oct.  10,  1863 i 

Stevensburg.  Va..  Oct.  n,  1863 3 

Culpeper,  Va.,  Oct.  12,  1863 I 

Oak  Grove,  Va..  Oct.  15,  1863 i 

Barnet's  Ford,  Va.,  Feb.  6,  1864.  . .  2 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va.,  May  5,  1864..  2 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va.,  May  7,  1864. .  i 

Yellow  Tavern,  Va.,  May   n,  1864  i 

Meadow  Bridge,  Va.,   May  13    1864  2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  2    1864. ...  3 

White  Oak  Swamp,  Va..  June  13.  '64  3 

Nottoway  C.  H.,  Va.    June  23,  1864  7 

Ream's  Station,  Va.,  June  29,  1864.  3 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Kearneysville,  Va.,  Aug.  26,  1864.  .  2 

Snicker's  Gap,  Va.,  Sept.  17,  1864.  .  2 

Opequon,  Va.,  Sept.   19,  1864 3 

Columbia  Furnace,  Va.    Oct.  7,  '64  i 

Mount  Olive,  Va.,  Oct  9,  1864 I 

Middletown,  Va..  Nov. 12,  1864 I 

Waynesboro,  Va.,  March  2,  1865. . .  i 

Ashland,  Va.,  March  15,  1865   i 

Five  Forks,  Va.,  April  I,  1865   6 

Deep  Creek,  Va.    April  :.  1865 I 

Xamozine  Church,  Va.,  April  3  '65.  3 

Appomattox  Station,  Va.  Apl.  8    65  3 

Picket  Line.  Va 2 

Place  unknown - 2 


NOTES. —  The  above  enrollment  does  not  include  the  three  new  companies  (K,  L,  and  M)  which  joined  in 
April,  1865,  at  the  close  of  the  war.  The  regiment  was  organized  at  Rochester  in  November,  1861,  having  been 
recruited  in  that  city  and  in  its  vicinity.  On  arriving  at  Washington  it  was  assigned  to  Banks's  Corps,  and  was 
under  fire,  for  the  first  time,  at  Winchester,  May  25,  1862,  where  five  dismounted  companies  were  engaged. 
During  the  Antietam  campaign  it  served  in  Pleasanton's  Cavalry  Division,  having  previously  distinguished  itself  by 
its  escape  from  Harper's  Ferry  by  passing  through  the  besieging  lines  at  night,  and  capturing  some  of  the  enemy's 
trains  while  on  the  way.  It  fought  under  Pleasanton  in  the  famous  cavalry  battle  at  Beverly  Ford,  where  it  sus 
tained  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  regiment  on  the  field,  its  casualties  amounting  to  12  killed,  31  wounded,  and  7 
missing.  Colonel  Davis  was  killed  in  a  personal  encounter  in  this  action.  At  Gettysburg  the  Eighth  fought  in 
Gamble's  Brigade,  Buford's  Division  — the  brigade  which  opened  that  historic  battle.  During  Sheridan's  raids 
and  the  Shenandoah  campaign,  in  1864,  the  regiment  served  in  Wilson's  (3d)  Division.  This  division  was  com 
manded  by  General  Custer  in  the  final  campaign  of  1865. 


186 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TENTH  NEW  YORK   CAVALRY --" PORTER  GUARD." 
DAVIES'S  BRIGADE  —  GREGG'S  DIVISION  —  CAVALRY  CORPS,  A.  P. 


(1)  COL  JOHN  C.  LEMMON. 


(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  IRVINE. 


(3)  COL.  M.  II.  AVERT  ;   BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  . 

I 
I 

I 

• 

I 
I 
I 
I 

I 

• 

I 

•    • 

9 

7 
1  1 

12 

6 
8 

9 

7 
7 

7 
8 

2 

I 
IO 

7 
1  1 

13 

6 

9 

IO 

8 
8 
8 
8 

3 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

I 

IO 

15 

7 
7 
H 
9 
IS 

21 
14 

18 

IO 

7 

I 
IO 

16 

7 
7 
M 
9 
IS 

21 
M 

18 

IO 

7 

21 
171 
1  88 

161 

'52 
1  60 

167 
162 
187 
1  66 

r5° 

i55 
189 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K. 

L  

M  

Totals  

9 

93 

IO2 

I 

148 

149 

2,029 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  28. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Leesburg,  Va..  Sept.  17,  1862 i 

Beverly  Ford,  Va. .  June  9,  1863.  . .  6 

Middleburg,  Va.,  June  19,  1863. .  5 

Middleburg,  Va.,  June  26,  1863. ...  i 

Gettysburg    Pa  ,  July  2,  1863 3 

Shepherdstown,  Va.,  July  16.  1863.  2 

Sulphur  Springs,  Va.,  Oct.  12,  1863  4 

Auburn,  Va.,  Oct.  14,  1863 2 

Bristoe  Station.  Va.,Oct.  14    1863.  .  2 

Morrisville,  Va.    April  17.  1864....  2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va.,  May  8,  1864.  .  3 

Near  Richmond,  Va.,  May  12,  1864  3 

Hawes's  Shop,  Va.,  May  28,  1864.  .  17 

Trevilian  Station,  Va.,  June  n,  1864  7 

Kingand  Queen  C.H.,  June  24,1864  2 

St.  Mary's  Church,  Va..  June  24,  '64  7 

Deep  Bottom,  Va. ,  July  29,  1864..  .  2 

Lee's  Mills,  Va.,  July  3i:  1864 2 

Ream's  Station,  Va.,  Aug.  25,  1864.  2 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va.,Oct. 1/64  5 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Boydton  Road.  Va.    Oct.  27,  1864..  6 

Prince  George  C.H.,Va. .Nov. 2, 1864  i 

Disputanta  Station,  Va.,Nov.  18,  '64  3 

Stony  Creek  Station,  Va., Dec. 1,1864  3 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  Feb.  6,  1865  .  .  i 

Dinwiddie  C.  H.,Va., March  31,1865  2 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va..  April  6.  1865.  .  3 

Farmville,  Va..  April  7    1865 i 

On  Picket,  Va 2 

Place  unknown. .              2 


Present,  also,  at  several  other  engagements  in  which  it  lost  men,  wounded  or  captured,  but  none  killed. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Elmira  during  the  fall  of  1861,  from  companies  recruited  in  the  counties  of  Chemung, 
Chenango,  Cortland,  Erie,  Fulton,  Onondaga  and  Steuben.  During  the  winter  of  1861-2  the  regiment  was  sta 
tioned  at  Gettysburg.  It  was  mounted  during  the  summer  of  1862,  and  commenced  active  service  in  the 
Manassas  campaign  of  that  year.  It  served  in  Bayard's  Brigade  at  Fredericksburg,  and  participated  in  the 
Stoneman  Raid  of  the  Chancellorsville  campaign,  at  which  time  it  was  in  the  Second  Cavalry  Division  (General 
D.  M.  Gregg's),  and  in  which  it  served  until  the  close  of  the  war.  General  Crook  commanded  this  division  in 
the  final  campaign,  1865.  The  brigade  was  commanded  by  General  J.  I.  Gregg,  but  in  May,  1864,  the  regiment 
was  transferred  to  the  First  Brigade, —  General  H.  E.  Davies,  Jr.  The  regiment  encountered  its  hardest  fighting  at 
Hawes's  Shop  (or  Hanovertown)  where  it  lost  13  killed,  27  wounded,  and  2  missing;  total,  42.  At  Beverly 
Ford  (or  Brandy  Station)  it  lost  3  killed,  18  wounded,  and  61  captured  or  missing;  at  Middleburg,  3  killed,  10 
wounded,  and  19  missing  ;  at  Trevilian  Station,  4  killed,  and  16  wounded  ;  and  at  Boydton  Road,  6  killed  and  1 1 
wounded.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Frederick  Tremain,  a  young  and  promising  officer,  was  killed  at  Hatcher's  Run. 
The  regiment  was  consolidated  June  17,  1865,  with  the  Twenty-fourth  New  York  Cavalry,  forming  the  First  Pro 
visional  Cavalry,  The  latter  regiment  was  mustered  out  a  month  later. 


THKEK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  RKOJIMKNTS. 


SEVENTH  NEW  YORK   HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 
RKOOKK'S   BRIGADE  --  BARLOW'S  DIVISION --SECOND  CORPS, 


(1)  COL.  LEWIS  O.  MORRIS,  B.  *.  (Killed).  (2)  COL.  EDWARD  A.  SI'RINGSTKKD 

(8)  COL.  RICHARD  C.  DI'RYKA,  rffl.  p..  B.  «. 


COM  PAN  I  KM. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  of  WOI-NDS. 

DIED  op  DISEAHE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IIIHON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

• 
• 

2 

I 
2 

• 

•    • 

24 
22 

35 
29 

22 

27 

19 

25 
22 

21 

18 

13 

3 
24 
22 

36 
30 

23 
29 

2O 

26 

23 

22 

2O 
'3 

• 
• 

I 

• 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

I 

•    • 

32 
29 

3° 
29 

40 

39 

27 
16 

33 
49 

3° 
20 

•    • 

32 
29 

31 
29 

40 

39 

27 

!/ 

33 
5° 

3° 

ji 

21 
242 
246 
23I 
207 
208 
219 

255 
194 

25  J 
229 

I  80 
184 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

I4                         277 

29I 

4 

374 

373 

2,667 

2qi  killed— 10.9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  806  ;  missing   and   captured,  542  ;  died    in  Confederate  prisons  (previously    included),  204. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 13 

Milford  Station,  Va 2 

North  Anna,  Va 4 

Picket,  Va.,  May  28,  1864 i 

Totopotomoy,  Va 28 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 127 

Cold  Harbor  Trenches,  Va 20 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  16 55 


BATTLES.  K.  <fc  M.W. 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  17-19.. 7 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 3 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va 3 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 6 

Ream's  Station,  Va 15 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 i 


NOTES. —  Recniited  and  organized  at  Albany  as  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirteenth  New  York  Infantry.  It 
moved  to  Washington,  August  19,  1862,  where  it  was  immediately  assigned  to  duty  in  the  forts  near  the  city.  In 
December  following  it  was  changed  to  a  heavy  artillery  command,  and  the  two  additional  companies  which  became 
necessary  by  reason  of  the  change  were  recruited,  Company  L  joining  the  regiment  in  August,  1863,  and  Com 
pany  M  in  January,  1864.  The  Seventh  remained  on  garrison  duty  in  various  forts  near  Washington  until  May 
15,  1864,  when  it  was  ordered  to  the  front  to  serve  as  infantry.  It  marched  out  of  Washington  with  67  officers,  6 
non-commissioned  staff,  and  1,768  muskets,  joining  Grant's  Army  on  May  lyth,  at  Spotsylvania.  It  was  assigned 
to  Tyler's  Division,  but  was  transferred,  a  few  days  later,  to  Barlow's  splendid  division,  and  at  one  time  —  in 
September,  1864  —  it  was  attached  to  the  famous  Irish  Brigade.  It  served  with  Barlow  until  February  22, 
1865,  when  it  was  withdrawn  from  the  front,  and  ordered  to  Baltimore,  where  it  garrisoned  Fort  McHenry 
until  after  the  close  of  the  war.  During  its  first  hundred  days  of  service  in  the  field  —  from  Spotsylvania  to 
Ream's  Station  —  the  Seventh  lost  1,254  in  killed,  wounded,  and  missing.  The  casualties  at  Cold  Harbor,  including 
the  loss  in  the  trenches,  amounted  to  45  killed,  259  wounded,  and  114  missing;  total,  418.  Colonel  Morris  was 
killed  there,  the  day  after  the  assault,  while  passing  along  the  trenches.  He  was  an  officer  of  the  Regular  Army, 
and  a  son  of  the  Captain  Morris  who  was  killed  at  Monterey. 


188 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


EIGHTH   NEW   YORK   HEAVY   ARTILLERY. 
TYLER'S  BRIGADE  —  GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS, 


(1)  COLONEL  PETER  A.  PORTER  (Killed). 

(2)  COLONEL  WILLARD  W.  BATES  (Killed). 


(3)  COLONEL  JAMES  M.  WILLET'. 

(4)  COLONEL  JOEL  B.  BAKER. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIKIJ  OK  WOUNDS. 

DIED  op  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 
I 
I 

2 
2 

• 

4 
i 

i 

i 

• 

3 

I 

20 

55 
37 
26 

34 
18 

12 

32 
21 

26 
2O 
40 

4 

21 
56 

39 

28 

34 

22 

13 

32 
22 

27 
2O 

43 

• 
• 

I 

I 

I 

• 

I 

• 

23 
26 

23 

16 

28 

3° 
3° 
19 

25 
26 

34 
18 

*    • 

23 
26 

23 

16 

29 
3° 
31 

20 

25 
26 

35 
18 

19 

2IO 

237 
217 

2O2 
224 

225 
209 

215 

197 

204 
203 
213 

Company  A  •  •  •  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  . 

G  

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

*9 

342 

361 

4 

298 

302 

2,575 

361  killed=i4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  1,010  ;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  102. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May   19,    1864 10 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 207 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va 42 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 34 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 16 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 4 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Ream's   Station,  Va 24 

Boydton  Road,   Va 13 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 i 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 2 

White   Oak  Poad,  Va 2 

Picket,  Va.,  Feb.  8,   1865 i 


By  Prison  Guards > 3 

Present,  also,  at  Totopotomoy  ;  High  Bridge  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Lockport  in  August,  1862,  as  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-ninth  Infantry,  the  men 
coming  from  Niagara,  Orleans,  and  Genesee  counties.  It  was  changed  to  heavy  artillery  in  December,  1862, 
and  two  additional  companies  were  added  in  January,  1864.  The  regiment  performed  garrison  duty  until  May, 
1864,  when  it  was  sent  with  the  other  heavy  artillery  commands  to  the  front  to  reinforce  General  Grant.  It  was 
in  action  for  the  first  time  at  Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  19,  1864,  where  it  lost  8  killed,  21  wounded,  and  4  missing. 
At  Cold  Harbor  the  Eighth  lost  80  killed,  339  wounded,  and  86  missing;  total,  505  --it  having  twelve  large 
companies  engaged  there.  In  that  battle  Colonel  Porter  led  the  regiment  in  its  grand  charge  upon  the  enemy's 
works,  and  fell  dead  in  the  extreme  advance.  Eight  officers  were  killed  in  that  action. 

In  the  assault  on  Petersburg  the  regiment  made  another  gallant  attack  on  the  Confederate  lines,  in  which  Col. 
Bates  and  Major  Blake  fell  mortally  wounded.  In  the  actions  around  Petersburg,  June  15-23,  1864,  the  regiment  lost 
42  killed,  26 1  wounded,  and  5  missing ;  total,  308.  Though  known  as  an  artillery  regiment,  the  men  carried  rifles,  and 
were  drilled  as  infantry.  When  they  took  the  field,  their  full  ranks  —  twelve  companies  of  150  men  each — ^made 
them  a  very  efficient  organization,  but  their  heavy  losses  in  action  soon  reduced  their  long  lines,  until  but  few 
were  left  to  witness  the  last  fight  at  Appomattox.  During  all  its  service  in  the  field,  in  i864_'65,  the  regiment 
was  attached  to  the  Second  Division  (Gibbon's)  of  the  Second  Corps. 


TlIKEE   HUNDRED   FIGHTING    REGIMENTS. 


NINTH  NEW  YORK  HEAVY   ARTILLERY. 

SMITH'S  BRIGADE  -    UICKKTTS'S  J)i  VISION    -  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(J)  COL.  JOSEPH  WELLING. 

(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  H.  SEWAKI),  JR.;  BVT.  BUIG.-GEN. 


(8)  COL.  EDWIN  P.  TAKT. 
(4)  COL.  J.  W.  NNYDKK. 


COM  PA  .M  EH. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DlKDOr   DlKEAME,  AccllIKNTM,  IN  I'lllHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  >  (fleers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

. 
• 
I 

• 

2 

I 

I 

• 

I 

57 
»9 
'9 
18 

28 
'3 

10 

16 

9 
28 

10 

1  1 

•    • 

'7 
2O 

19 

1  8 

3° 
'4 
10 

16 

9 
29 

10 

12 

I 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

I 

3° 
IO 

32 

23 

26 

IO 

18 

M 
16 

35 
i? 

22 

2 

3° 

IO 

32 

23 

28 

IO 

18 

14 
16 

35 
i? 

22 

'9 

3*3 
214 

242 
226 

270 
264 

247 
286 
227 
262 
321 
336 

Comoany  -\  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G 

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

6 

198 

2O4 

3 

254 

257 

3.227 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  824  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  41. 


BATTLK*.  K.&M.W. 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va i 

On  Picket,  Va 2 

Place  unknown 2 


Charlestown  ;    Halltown  ;    Smithfield  ;    Hatcher's    Run  ; 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.  (8  Cos.) 43 

Monocacy,  Md.  (8  Cos.) 51 

Opequon,  Va.  (8  Cos.) 22 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 64 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 15 

Present,  also,  at  Fort    Stevens ;    Snicker's    Gap ; 
Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Organized,  originally,  as  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-eighth  Infantry.  It  was  recruited  in  Cayuga 
and  Wayne  counties,  and  left  Auburn  on  September  12,  1862.  While  stationed  in  the  fortifications  about 
Washington  it  was  changed  to  heavy  artillery  November  9,  1862,  and  two  additional  companies,  L  and  M,  were 
added.  Company  M  was  organized  originally  at  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  in  October,  1862,  as  the  Twenty-second  I-ight 
Battery,  and  was  transferred  to  the  Ninth  in  February,  1863  ;  Company  L  was  organized  in  1863,  and  joined  the 
regiment  in  December  of  that  year.  During  its  stay  within  the  defences  of  Washington  the  Ninth  built  Fort 
Simmons,  Mansfield,  Bayard,  Gaines,  and  Foote.  On  May  18,  1864,  the  regiment  left  Alexandria,  Va.,  for  the 
front,  where  it  was  assigned,  soon  after  its  arrival,  to  Colonel  B.  F.  Smith's  (31!)  Brigade,  Ricketts's  (3d)  Division, 
Sixth  Corps.  With  the  Sixth  Corps  it  took  part  in  the  storming  of  the  earthworks  at  Cold  Harbor,  its  first 
experience  under  fire.  Only  two  battalions  were  engaged  there,  the  Third  Battalion,  under  Major  Snycler — Cos. 
G,  I,  L  and  F  —  having  been  ordered  on  detached  service  with  the  artillery  brigade  ;  the  other  two  battalions  were 
armed  and  drilled  as  infantry.  Loss  at  Cold  Harbor,  16  killed,  126  wounded,  and  6  missing  ;  total,  148.  The 
Third  Battalion  did  not  rejoin  the  regiment  until  October  3,  1864,  the  other  eight  companies,  in  the  meanwhile, 
having  fought  in  the  bloody  battles  of  the  Monocacy  and  the  Opequon.  At  Cedar  Creek  the  three  battalions 
were  again  united,  the  gallant  bearing  of  the  regiment  in  that  battle  evoking  special  mention  in  the  official  report 
of  the  division-general.  It  lost  in  that  action,  43  killed  and  165  wounded  ;  total,  208.  At  the  Opequon  it  lost 
6  killed  and  36  wounded. 


190 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAK. 


FOURTEENTH  NEW  YORK   HEAVY  ARTILLERY. 
MARSHALL'S  BRIGADE  —  LEDLIE'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


COLONEL  ELISHA  G.  MARSHALL,  OS.  p.,  K.  S.;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 
I 

I 
I 

•  • 

18 

J5 
18 

i? 
ii 

22 
2O 
II 

25 
2O 

18 

25 

I 

18 

15 

J9 

I? 
1  1 

23 

20 
II 

25 
21 

19 

26 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

I 

• 

I 
28 

18 

22 
28 

18 

23 
20 

19 

39 

28 

23 

32 

I 
28 

18 

22 
28 

18 

23 
21 

19 

40 

28 

23 
32 

19 

211 

195 

215 
230 

192 
2IO 
2O2 
198 
230 
2O2 
I9I 
211 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

6 

220 

226 

2 

299 

301 

2,506 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  861  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  84. 
BATTLES.  K.  &M.W.  BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Wilderness,  Va i 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 6 

North   Anna,  Va 

Bethesda  Church,  Va. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  3,  1864 43 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  June  17,  1864) 57 


Mine  Explosion,  Petersburg,  Va 22 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 30 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 15 

Peebles's  Farm,  Va 7 

Fort  Stedman,  Va 26 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 


Present,  also,  at  Ny  River ;  Totopotomoy ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Hatcher's  Pun. 

NOTES.  —  Organized  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  the  men  having  been  recruited  mostly  in  Monroe,  Yates,  St.  Law 
rence  and  Jefferson  counties.  Although  the  recruiting  commenced  in  June,  1863,  the  regiment  did  not  complete 
its  organization  until  January  4,  1864.  It  garrisoned  the  forts  in  New  York  Harbor  until  April  23,  1864,  when  it 
was  ordered  to  the  front,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Ninth  Corps,  joining  it  at  Warrenton,  Va.  On  May  2,  1864,  it 
started  for  the  Rapidan.  The  regiment  was  in  line  at  the  Wilderness,  but  was  only  partially  engaged.  It  was 
actively  engaged,  however,  the  next  week,  at  Spotsylvania  (then  in  Stevenson's  (ist)  Division),  and  two  weeks 
later  suffered  heavily  at  Cold  Harbor,  where  it  lost  15  killed,  43  wounded,  and  16  missing.  On  June  17,  1864, 
the  Fourteenth  distinguished  itself  by  its  brilliant  and  successful  charge  on  the  works  at  Petersburg ;  loss,  38 
killed,  152  wounded,  60  missing;  total,  250.  Major  Job  C.  Hedges  was  killed  in  this  charge  while  bravely 
leading  his  battalion.  At  the  Mine  Explosion  the  regiment  was  selected  to  lead  the  assault  at  the  Crater,  and 
was  the  first  to  plant  its  colors  on  the  enemy's  works,  where  it  captured  a  Confederate  flag.  Its  casualties  in  this 
action  were  10  killed,  44  wounded,  and  78  missing;  total,  132.  The  Fourteenth  was  on  duty  in  the  trenches, 
losing  men  daily  in  the  constant  and  deadly  firing  which  prevailed  there.  It  also  occupied  Fort  Stedman  at  the 
time  of  the  Confederate  sortie,  March  25,  1865,  and  when  surrounded  there  by  the  enemy,  the  men  of  the  Four 
teenth  fought  their  way  through  the  opposing  lines  until  they  reached  Fort  Haskell,  where,  in  company  with  the 
remainder  of  the  regiment  which  was  on  duty  there,  they  succeeded  in  holding  that  important  position.  At  the 
Weldon  Railroad  the  regiment  was  in  White's  (ist)  Division,  and  sustained  a  loss  of  6  killed,  40  wounded  and  3 
missing ;  total,  49. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


191 


FIFTH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY -"DURYEE  ZOUAVES." 
WARREN'S  BRIGADE  —  SYKKS'S  DIVISION  --  FIFTH  CORPS. 


(!)  COL.  ABRAM  DURYEE;  BVT.  MAJOH-GBN.  U.  S.  V. 

(*)  COL  G.  K.  WAIWEN.  OT.fl.,  B.  *.;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  U.  8.  A. 


(3)  COL.  HIRAM  DURYEA ;  BVT.  Bnio.-GEN.  U.  8.  V. 

(4)  Cou  CLEVELAND  WINBLOW  (Killed). 


COMPANIES. 


KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 


Officers. 


Men. 


Total. 


DIED  or  DIXEAHE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IIIWON.  &c. 


|  'Hirers. 


Mon. 


Total. 


Total 

Kiirolliiu-iit 


Field  and  Staff i  i 

Company  A 10  10  .  3  ^  I48 

JJ "  "  •  44  157 

- •  16  16  .  146 

-  IQ  2I  •  2  2  149 

2°  20  •  5  5  '54 

1?  2  2  147 

I  19  20  .  2  2  152 

.  10  10  .  i  i  139 

'  '7  18  .  3  3  ,52 

.  .  4  4  148 

Totals 6  171  177  34  34 

177  killed  -•  11.7  per  cent. 
BATTLES.  KILLED.         WOUNDED.         MIBSINU.        TOTAL 

Big  Bethel,  Va 6  13  ..  19 

Siege  of  Yorktown,  Va 2  .  .  2 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 38  no  14  162 

Manassas,  Va 79  i?0  48  297 

Shepherdstown    Ford,    Va x  .  .  i 

Fredericksburg,  Va 2  3  15 

Chancellorsville,  Va 2  i 

Totals 123  300  66  489 

Present,  also,  at  Hanover  Court  House  ;  Seven  Days  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Antietam. 

NOTES. —  Conspicuous,  not  only,  by  its  gay  uniform,  but  by  its  precision  of  drill  and  steady  bearing  under 
fire.  General  Sykes  once  wrote  that  it  was  the  best  volunteer  organization  he  ever  saw.  During  all  its  active 
service  the  Fifth  was  in  the  Division  of  Regulars,  and  fully  maintained  its  standing  and  right  to  be  there.  In 
addition  to  the  great  Generals  who  had  served  successively  as  its  Colonels,  the  regiment  graduated  other  noted 
ones.  Generals  Kilpatrick,  Davies,  and  Hamblin  having  served  in  its  line.  Kilpatrick  was  seriously  wounded  at 
Big  Bethel  while  a  captain  in  the  Fifth.  The  regiment  was  recruited  in  New  York  City,  and  was  one  of  the  first 
to  respond  to  the  alarm  of  war.  At  Gaines's  Mill,  under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Hiram  Duryca,  it  faced 
a  musketry  fire  which  cut  down  one -third  of  its  men,  and  won  praises  from  all  who  witnessed  its  remarkable 
efficiency  and  drill  while  in  the  thickest  of  that  fight ;  it  was  in  that  battle  that,  after  having  received  several 
deadly  volleys,  it  paused  at  one  time  while  still  under  fire  to  "count  off"  anew,  so  that  its  movements  might  not 
be  deranged  by  the  absence  of  its  fallen  men.  At  Manassas  it  took  490  into  action,  of  whom  1 1  7  were  killed  or 
mortally  wounded.  The  Fifth  was  enlisted  for  two  years ;  but  most  of  its  recruits  were  enlisted  for  three  years, 
and  when  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  (May  14,  1863)  these  men  were  transferred  to  the  One  Hundred  and 
Forty-sixth  New  York.  After  the  muster-out  of  the  Fifth,  Colonel  Winslow  organized  another  regiment  which 
bore  the  same  number,  and  which  rejoined  the  Fifth  Corps,  sharing  the  fortunes  of  Grant's  army  from  the 
North  Anna  to  Appomattox.  Colonel  Winslow  fell  mortally  wounded  at  Bethesda  Church,  while  in  command 
of  this  regiment,  and  Colonel  Frederick  Winthrop,  who  succeeded  him,  was  killed  at  Five  Forks  while  in  com 
mand  of  the  brigade. 


192  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

FORTIETH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY— " MOZART   REGIMENT." 
WARD'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL   EDWARD  HILEY.  (2)  COL.  THOMAS  W.  EGAN  ;  BVT  MAJOR-GEN.  (3)  COL.  MADISON  M.  CANNON. 

Losses.  Officers.  En,  Men. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 10  228  238 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 2  125  127 

Died  in  Confederate   prisons 45  45 


Totals 12  398  410 


Battles,  Killed.         Wounded*  Missing. \      Total. 

Siege  of  Yorktown,  Va 4  3  . .  7 

Williamsburg,  Va 5  24  . .  29 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 12  81  3  96 

On  Picket,  Va.,  June  9,  1862 2  . .  . .  2 

Oak  Grove,  Va i  i  2 

Seven  Days'  Battles,  Va 3  18  79  100 

Manassas,  Va 8  60  1 8  86 

Chantilly,  Va 4  47  10  61 

Fredericksburg,  Va 19  74  30  123 

Chanceilorsville,  Va i  40  29  70 

Gettysburg,  Pa 23  120  7  150 

Kelly's  Ford,  Va 4  . .  4 

Mine  Run,  Va i  19  . .  20 

Wilderness,   Va 20  156  37  213 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 1  57  28  96 

North  Anna  and  Totopotomoy,  Va 4  24  21  49 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 3328 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  18,1864 14  29  2  45 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va.  (six  co's),  July  27,  1864 2  .  .  2 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va i  .  .  i 

Boydton  Road,  Va i  7  . .  8 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March,  1865 i  3  ••  4 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6  34  i  41 

"•Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlneludes  the  captured. 

Totals 142  807  268  1,217 

Present,  also,  at  Glendale  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Po  River  ;  Deep  Bottom  ;  Sailor's  Creek ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 
NOTES.—  Four  companies  of  this  regiment  were  raised  in  Massachusetts,  but  the  quota  of  that  State  being 
full,  these  companies  joined  the  Fortieth.  It  sustained  an  unusual  loss  in  battle,  and  in  its  number  of  killed  stands 
next  to  the  head  in  the  list  of  New  York  infantry  regiments.  It  carried,  from  first  to  last,  a  large  number  of  names 
on  its  rolls,  owing  to  accessions  and  transfers  from  other  regiments.  The  Eighty-seventh  New  York  was  transferred 
entire  in  September,  1862  ;  five  companies  of  three  years'  men  from  the  Thirty-eighth  New  York  were  received 
in  May,  1863  ;  also,  the  reenlisted  men  and  recruits  of  the  Thirty-seventh,  and  Seventy-fourth  New  York  Volun 
teers,  when  those  regiments  returned  home.  While  on  the  Peninsula,  the  division  was  commanded  by  Kearny, 
and  the  brigade  by  General  Birney.  At  Fair  Oaks,  under  command  of  Colonel  Egan,  five  companies  numbering 
231  officers  and  men  were  hotly  engaged,  every  man  in  the  color-guard  falling,  either  killed  or  wounded.  The 
original  members  of  the  regiment  were  mustered  out  in  July,  1864,  and  the  reonlisted  veterans  and  recruits  were 
formed  into  a  battalion  of  six  companies  which  served  through  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  193 

FORTY-SECOND   NEW   YORK   INFANTKY  -  -"TAMMANY   KEGIMENT." 
HALL'S  BRIGADE-- GIBBON'S  DIVISION --SECOND  Corn's. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  I).  KEXXEDY  (I)ied).  <3)  <.-„,.   EDMl'M)  ('  CII  MM  KS 

(3)  COL  MILTOX  COGSWELL.  HI.  {J  .  U    ^.  .4,  Col.  JAMKs  K   MALLON  (Kllle<l» 

(5)  C<.i..   WILLIAM  A.  LYNCH. 


Officers.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 11  |^|  ,  r  2 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc , ,  68  69 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 35 

Totals 12  244  256 


Total  enrollment,  1,210.  killed,  152,  percentage,  12.6. 

Battles.  Killed.       Wounded*  .I/iwim'.f      Total. 

Ball's  Bluff,  Va 7  /-,  ,2O '  ,33 

Siege  of  Yorktown,  Va i  . .  .  .  i 

Fair  Oaks,  Va j  . ,  j 

TunstalPs  Station,  Va . .  9  9 

Glendale,  Va 5  24  27  56 

Malvern  Hill,  Va ,  . .  . .  , 

Antietam,  Md 35  ,2y  19  181 

Fredericksburg,  Va i  ^  3  22 

Fredericksburg,  Va.  ( 1 863 ) 9  . .  tj 

Gettysburg,  Pa 1 5  55  4  74 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 4  14  1 0  28 

Mine  Run,  Va . .  3 

Wilderness,  Va 8  15  . .  23 

Spotsylvania,  Va 12  28  9  49 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4  19  2  25 

Petersburg,  Va n  92  103 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded.    ^Includes  the  captured. 

Totals 92  328  298  718 

Present,  also,  at  Seven  Days'  Battles  ;  North  Anna  ;  Totopotomoy. 

NOTES. --This  regiment  was  organized  by  the  "Tammany  General  Committee,"  under  the  patronage  of  the 
Tammany  Society  of  New  York  City.  It  was  mustered  in  June  22,  1861,  and  on  the  i8th  of  July,  following, 
went  to  Washington,  1,019  strong.  Colonel  Kennedy  died  on  the  22cl  and  was  succeeded  by  Colonel  Cogswell. 
The  regiment  was  assigned,  October  15,  1861,  to  Gorman's  Brigade,  Stone's  Division,  and  was  engaged  at  Ball's 
Bluff,  its  first  experience  under  fire,  where  three  of  the  officers  were  killed.  At  Antietam  —  then  in  Dana's  (3d) 
Brigade,  Sedgwick's  ( 2d)  Division,  Second  Corps  —  the  Forty-second  charged  with  Sedgwick  into  the  woods  around 
the  Dunker  Church,  where  it  lost  181  out  of  the  345  who  were  engaged.  At  Gettysburg,  under  command  of  Col 
onel  Mallon  (Hall's  Brigade,  Gibbon's  Division),  the  regiment  took  a  conspicuous  and  meritorious  part  in  the  repulse 
of  Pickett's  charge.  Colonel  Mallon  was  an  officer  of  recognized  merit  and  gallantry,  and  received  frequent  mention 
in  the  official  reports  of  every  action  in  which  he  was  engaged.  He  was  killed  at  Bristoe  Station.  During  the 
Wilderness  campaign  the  Forty-second  fought  in  Webb's  Brigade,  Gibbon's  Division,  and  its  depleted  ranks  were 
again  thinned  by  the  desperate  fighting  encountered  there.  The  gallant  old  regiment  was  mustered  out  July  13, 
1864,  its  term  of  enlistment  having  expired,  and  such  of  its  members  as  had  rei-nlistcd,  together  with  the  recruits, 
were  transferred  to  the  Eighty-second  New  York.  During  its  entire  service  it  fought  in  the  Second  Division  of 
the  Second  Corps. 
13 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

FORTY-THIRD   NEW  YORK   INFANTRY- -  "ALBANY   RIFLES." 
NEILL'S  BRIGADE  —  GETTY'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  FRANCIS  L.  VINTON,  ME.  P..  J3.  <3. ;  BRIG-GEN.  (3)  COL.  JOHN  WILSON  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  BENJAMIN  F.  BAKER  ;  BVT.  MA.IOK-GEN.  (4)  COL.  CHARLES  A.  MILLIKEN. 

Lasses.                                                                                                                                               Officers.            En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  or  mortally  wounded 13                  no  123 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc i                    93  94 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 27  27 


Totals 14  230  244 


Battles.  Killed.        Wounded*     Missing. \     Total. 

Yorktown,  Va i  5  . .  6 

Seven   Days'  Battle,  Va 2  40  29  71 

Antietam,  Md i  .  .  i 

Fredericksburg,  Va i  i  o  i  12 

Marye's  H  eights,  Va 15  51  .  .  66 

Salem  Church,  Va 4  n  123  138 

Gettysburg,  Pa 2  2  i  5 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 2  i  3 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va 4  6  .  .  10 

Wilderness,  Va 21  106  71  198 

Spotsylvania,  Va 4  34  13  51 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 2  10  ..  12 

Fort  Stevens,  D.  C 7  29  . .  36 

Opequon,  Va 2  6  .  .  8 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va.  (battalion) 2  5  ..  7 

Cedar  Creek,  Va.  (battalion) 4  18  ..  22 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 4  13  2  19 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 3  1 1  i  15 

Petersburg,  Va.,  April  2,  j  865 2  10  ..  12 

*Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured.  

Totals 80  370  242  692 

Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg ;  Golding's  Farm ;  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp ;  Malvern  Hill ; 
Hatcher's  Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — The  Forty- third  was  a  fighting  regiment,  and  was  known  as  such  throughout  the  corps  and  at  home. 
It  was  assigned  to  Hancock's  Brigade,  W.  F.  Smith's  Division,  and  participated  with  that  command  in  its  brilliant 
manoeuvre  at  Williamsburg.  It  was  selected  as  one  of  the  five  crack  regiments  to  form  the  famous  Light  Division 
of  the  Sixth  Corps, —  the  division  which  took  such  a  prominent  part  in  the  successful  storming  of  Marye's  Heights. 
Soon  after  this  battle  the  Light  Division  was  discontinued,  and  the  Forty-third  was  placed  in  the  Third  Brigade 
(Second  Division),  in  which  it  remained  without  further  change.  The  three  field  officers,  Col.  Wilson,  Lieut. -Col. 
Fryer,  and  Major  Wallace,  were  killed  at  the  Wilderness.  At  Spotsylvania  the  regiment,  though  thinned  and  shat 
tered,  was  one  of  the  twelve  picked  battalions  which  Upton  led  in  his  historic  charge,  in  which  the  Forty-third  with 
its  usual  dash  captured  some  of  the  enemy's  flags,  Captain  Burhans  falling  dead  with  two  stands  of  colors  in  his 
hands.  The  Third  Brigade  —  General  Bidwell  commanding — bore  almost  the  entire  brunt  of  the  battle  at  Fort 
Stevens,  Washington,  where  the  Forty-third  fought  under  the  approving  eye  of  the  President,  and  helped  to  save 
the  Capital  from  Early's  invading  army.  Lieut. -Col.  Visscher  was  killed  in  this  action,  and  every  regimental  com 
mandant  in  the  brigade  was  killed  or  wounded. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FKJHTING  RECJLMKXTS. 


FORTY-FOURTH   NEW   YORK   INFANTRY    -"ELLSWORTH'S    AVENGERS." 
BAKTLETT'S  BRIGADE  —  GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION -- FIFTH  ('OKI'S. 


(I)  COL.  STEPHEN  W.  STKYKEK 


(3)  COL   JAM&S  0    KICK;  BKIU.-UKN.,  (Killed). 


\\  < ONNKH 


<    »M  r  \  S  It  - 

KILLED  AXL  DIEC  <>*  WOITNUS.                j    DIKD  or  DIPKAHK,  ACOIDKNTK,  [N  I'uiaox,  ,t<-. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officer*. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

i 

• 

i 

• 
• 
• 
• 

i 
I 

•    • 

28 

M 

18 

13 

18 

20 

21 
17 
13 

16 

•     • 

28 

'5 
18 

'4 
1  8 

20 
2  I 

'7 
M 
17 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 

2 

I 
>4 

'7 

»s 

16 

M 
16 

16 

J3 

'3 
10 

I 

'4 
1? 

'5 
16 

'4 
16 
16 

'3 
»3 

I  2 

15 
.58 

144 

'37 
162 

'52 
1  66 

182 
161 
'56 
'52 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

4 

178 

182 

2                  145 

'47 

'•585 

182  killed  ==  I  1.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded.  643  ,  total  of  missing  and  captured,  79  ;  died   in  Confederate  prisons,    io. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Yorktown,  Va i 

Hanover  C.  H.,  Va 34 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 17 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 21 

Manassas,  Va 13 

Fredericksburg,  Va 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Middleburg,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 36 

Present,   also,   at   Seven   Days ;    Antietam ;  Shepherdstown ;    Mine    Run ;    Totopotomoy ;   VVeldon   Road. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va 3 

Wilderness,  Va 12 

Spotsylvania,  Va 21 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 6 

Petersburg,  Va 5 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 2 

Place  unknown i 


NOTES. — The  enlisted  men  in  this  regiment  were  the  finest  of  any  in  the  service.  They  were  recmited 
from  every  county  in  the  State,  in  conformity  to  requirements  calling  for  unmarried,  able-bodied  men,  not  over 
thirty  years  of  age,  not  under  five  feet  eight  inches  in  height,  and  of  good  moral  character.  The  men  were  of  a 
high  order  of  intelligence,  and  when  the  regiment  was  organized  it  was  found  that  the  average  age  was  twenty-two, 
and  the  average  height  five  feet  ten  and  one-half  inches.  The  men  wore  a  zouave  uniform  during  the  first  year 
of  their  service.  At  Hanover  Court  House,  its  first  battle,  the  Forty-fourth  made  a  gallant  fight,  losing  27  killed 
and  59  wounded;  at  Gaines's  Mill  —  Lieutenant-Colonel  Rice  commanding  --it  lost  5  killed,  22  wounded,  and 
29  missing  ;  and  at  Malvern  Hill,  it  killed,  84  wounded,  and  4  missing,  out  of  225  who  were  engaged.  The 
regiment  was  then  in  Butterfield's  Brigade  of  Morell's  (ist)  Division.  Two  new  companies  (C  and  E)  joined 
in  October,  1862  (one  of  them  composed  of  students  from  the  State  Normal  School  at  Albany),  and  took  the 
place  of  two  companies  which  had  been  consolidated  with  the  others.  At  Gettysburg, —  then  in  Vincent's  Hrig- 
ade,  Barnes's  Division,  —  the  Forty-fourth  was  one  of  the  first  regiments  to  seize  and  hold  Little  Round  Top, 
meeting  its  greatest  loss  there;  casualties,  20  killed,  82  wounded,  and  3  missing;  total,  111.  At  Manassas,— 
Major  Freeman  Conner  commanding, —  the  regiment  lost  5  killed,  48  wounded,  and  18  missing,  out  of  12  officers 
and  148  men  in  action  ;  at  the  Wilderness,  it  lost  4  killed  and  63  wounded  ;  and  at  Spotsylvania,  8  killed,  48 
wounded,  and  9  missing.  Mustered  out  September  24,  1864. 


196 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FORTY-EIGHTH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
BARTON'S  BRIGADE --TURNER'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  H.  PERRY,  D.  D.  (Died).         (2)  COL.  WILLIAM  B.  BARTON ;  BVT.  BEIQ.-GEN.        (3)  COL.  WILLIAM  B.  COAN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 

2 

I 

4 

2 
I 
T 

• 

I 
2 

2 

2 
23 

J9 
29 

24 
18 

T9 
17 

22 
IO 

35 

4 

25 
2O 

33 
26 

T9 

20 

17 

23 
12 

37 

I 

• 
• 
• 

• 

I 

• 
* 
• 
• 

•     • 

!3 
12 

12 

J7 

.14 

1  1 

!5 

16 
1  1 

10 

I 

*3 
12 

12 

J7 

M 
12 

J5 
16 
1  1 

IO 

J9 
223 

2I5 

229 

214 
202 
224 
227 
206 
205 
209 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G  . 

H. 

T  , 

K  

Totals  

18 

218 

236 

2 

!3' 

*33 

2,173 

236  killed=io.8  per  cent. 
Wounded  in  addition  to  the  above,  623  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  44. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 17 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 1 1 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va i  o 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 6 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va.,  August  16,  1864 10 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 2 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 4 

Wilmington,  N.  C „  4 

By  Prison  Guard i 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Bluffton,  S.  C i 

Morris  Island,  S.  C 8 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C 83 

Sanderson,  Fla .  .        i 

Olustee,  Fla 47 

On  Picket,  Fla i 

Chester  Heights,  Va 7 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 22 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Fort  Pulaski ;  Tybee  Island  ;  Skull  Creek  ;  Coosahatchie  River ;  Proctor's  Creek  ;  Chaffin's 
Farm  ;  Darbytown  Road  ;  Fair  Oaks  ( 1 864)  ;  Fort  Anderson. 

NOTES. —  Organized  and  commanded  by  Rev.  James  H.  Perry,  D.  D.,  a  Methodist  clergyman,  who  had  been 
educated  at  West  Point,  and  had  distinguished  himself  in  the  Mexican  War.  He  commanded  the  regiment  until 
June  1 8,  1862,  when  he  died  suddenly  at  Fort  Pulaski.  The  Forty-eighth  left  Fort  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  on  Septem 
ber  15,  1 86 1,  and  after  a  brief  stay  in  Washington  and  Annapolis  sailed,  October  2ist,  for  Fort  Monroe,  where  it 
joined  General  W.  T.  Sherman's  Expedition  to  Hilton  Head-  Shortly  after  the  fall  of  Fort  Pulaski,  the  Forty- 
eighth  was  assigned  to  garrison  duty  in  the  fort  where  it  remained  for  one  year.  At  Fort  Wagner,  in  company 
with  Strong's  Brigade,  the  regiment  participated  in  that  memorable  assault,  and  succeeded  in  entering  one  of  the 
strongest  bastions.  They  held  it  several  hours,  but  for  want  of  support  had  to  abandon  their  costly  prize  after 
losing  54  killed,  112  wounded,  and  76  missing;  total,  242.  On  February  20,  1864,  the  regiment  fought  at 
Olustee,  Fla.,  where  it  sustained  a  loss  of  47  killed,*  163  wounded,  and  34  captured,  and  then  sailed  for  Virginia, 
where  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  James  in  the  campaign  before  Richmond  and  Petersburg.  In  this  campaign  it 
served  in  the  Second  Brigade  (Barton's),  Second  Division  (Turner's),  Tenth  Corps.  While  at  Cold  Harbor  the 
division  was  attached,  temporarily,  to  the  Eighteenth  Corps.  At  Fort  Fisher  the  regiment  was  in  Pennypacker's 
(3d)  Brigade,  Ames's  Division.  The  Forty-eighth  lost  859  men,  killed  and  wounded,  during  the  terrible  fight 
ing  of  the  last  twenty  months  of  its  service,  -  -  a  nobie  record. 

"•Including  mortally  wounded. 


TllKKK    HUNDKKI)    Kl(JHTIN(J    JtKCJIMKNTS. 


FORTY-NINTH   NEW  YORK   INFANTRY— "  SECOND   BUFFALO." 
NEIL'S  BRIGADE -- GETTY'S  DIVISION- -SIXTH  CORPS. 


(l)CoL.  DANIEL  P.  BIWVKLL;  HVT.  BIUO.-OKN.  (Killed).          (2)  Coi..  KKASTfS  I).  HOLT  (Killed*.        (8)  Coi..  fJEOROE  II.  SELKIRK. 


COMPANIES. 

KlI.I.KI)   AND  PtKI)  OF  WOITNIW. 

I)IKI>  or  DIHKAHK,  AIVIHKNT*.  IN  PIUHON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

'5 

121 
126 
I03 
'56 

'45 
117 

'52 
i^3 
'39 
I25 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 

i 
i 
i 
i 

2 
I 
2 

• 

I 

I 

•    • 

IO 
I  2 

»5 

1  8 

i? 

I  2 

'3 

5 
'7 

7 

4 
I  I 

U 

1  6 

'9 
19 

'3 
'5 

5 
18 

8 

2 

• 
1 

• 
• 
• 

• 

I 
I 

• 

I 
29 
21 
12 

'5 
10 

IO 

25 

18 
16 
i7 

3 

29 

22 
I  2 

15 
IO 

IO 

25 

'9 

'7 
'7 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

J5 

126 

141 

5 

'74 

179 

1,312 

141  killed  =  10.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  521  •  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  24. 


BATTLES.  K.&MW 

Spotsylvania,  Va 52 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 5 

Fort  Stevens,  D.  C 7 

Charlestown,  W.  Va .  • i 

Opequon,  Va 3 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 1 1 

Petersburg,  Va 3 

Place  unknown 2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Yorktown,  Va.,  April  5,  1862 i 

Chickahominy,  Va.,  June  27,  1862 i 

White  Oak  Swamp,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 

Fredericksburg,  Va.  (1862)   2 

Fredericksburg,  Va.  (1863) 4 

On  Picket,  Pa.,  June  4,  1 863 i 

Fairfield,  Pa i 

Wilderness,  Va 39 

Present,  also,  at  Dranesville  ;  Williamsburg  ;  Golding's  Farm  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Crampton's  Pass  ;  Gettysburg  ; 
Rappahannock  Station  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Buffalo,  September  18,  1861.     The  regiment  arrived  in  Washington,  September  21, 
1 86 1,  and  was  assigned  soon  after  to  Davidson's  Brigade,  W.  F.  Smith's  Division.     In  March,  1862,  this  division 
was  placed   in  Keyes's  (Fourth)  Corps  and  accompanied  it  to  the  Peninsula;  but  on  May  18,  1862,  the  division 
was  detached  and  used  in  forming  the  Sixth  Corps,  in  which   command  (Third  Brigade,  Second  Division)  the 
regiment  served  until  the  end  of  the  war.     Although  the  regiment  participated  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac  in  1862  and  1863,  its  losses  were  comparatively  small  until  1864,  when  it  encountered  some  hard 
fighting  and  severe  losses.     The  Forty-ninth  started  on  Grant's  Virginia  campaign,  May  4,  1864,  with  384  men, 
losing  at  the  Wilderness,  29  killed,  54  wounded,  and  6  missing ,  and  at  Spotsylvania,  24  killed,  89  wounded,  and 
1 8  missing.     Among  the  killed  in  these  battles  were  ten  officers.     At  Spotsylvania  the  regiment  behaved  with 
especial  gallantry,  its  percentage  of  loss  in  that  battle  being  a  remarkable  one.     Its  term  of  service  expired 
September  i  7,  1864,  while  fighting  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  and  the  remnant  of  the  regiment  went  home.    The 
rei:nlisted  men  and  recruits  with  unexpired  terms  were  left  in  the  field  and  formed  into  a  battalion  of  four  com 
panies  which  served  through  the  war.     At  Cedar  Creek  this  battalion  sustained  a  loss  of  8  killed  and  30  wounded. 
The  Forty-ninth  suffered  a  severe  and  unusual  loss  in  the  number  of  its  field  officers  killed  in  action.     Colonel 
Bidwell,  who  had  been  brevetted  General,  was  killed  at  Cedar  Creek  ;  Major  Ellis  was   mortally  wounded  at 
Spotsylvania  (shot  with  a  ramrod) ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Johnson  was  killed  at  Fort  Stevens,  while  in  command ; 
and  Colonel  Holt  fell  in  the  final  and  victorious  assault  at  the  fall  of  Petersburg. 


198  EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

FIFTY-FIRST   NEW   YORK   INFANTRY -- "SHEPARD   RIFLES." 
FERRERO'S   BRIGADE  —  STURGIS'S   DIVISION  --  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EDWARD  FERRERO  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  (3)  COL.  CHARLES  W.  LsGENDRE  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(2)  COL.  ROBERT  B.  TOTTER  ;  MAJOR-GEN.  (4)  COL.  JOHN  G.  WRIGHT  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


•  • 


•  • 


Losses.  Officers.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded  ............................................        9  T93  202 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc  ..........................................        2  105  107 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  ..............................................  69  69 

Totals  .................................    _ii  367  378 

Battles.  Killed.         Wounded*     Missing.  \      Total. 

Roanoke  Island,  N.  C  ............................................        3  I  J  9  23 

New  Berne,  N.  C  ................................................      n  60  ..  71 

Manassas,  Va  ....................................................      10  49  17  76 

Chantilly,  Va  ......................................................  8  5  13 

South  Mountain,  Md  ..............................................        4  I2  ••  l6 

Antietam,  Md  ...................................................      19  68  .  .  87 

Fredericksburg,  Va  ...............................................      10  61  2  73 

Jackson,  Miss  .....................................................  i 

Knoxville,  Tenn  ...................................................  i 

Wilderness,  Va  ..................................................      20  54  5  79 

Spotsylvania,  Va  .................................................      1  1  32  •  •  43 

North  Anna,  Va  ....................................................  i  •  •  i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va  .............................................        3  8  6  17 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va  .............................................      10  21  2  33 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va  ...............................................  i  •  •  J 

Peebles's  Farm,  Va  ..............................................        2  10  332  344 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va  ...........................................      21  73  4  98 

"•Includes  the  mortally  wounded.    ^Includes  the  captured. 

Totals  ...................    124  471  382  977 

Present,  also,  at  Blue  Springs,  Tenn.  ;  Campbell's  Station,  Tenn.  ;  Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss.  ;  Cold  Harbor, 
Va.  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Fort  Stedman,  Va.  ;  Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va. 

NOTES.  —  Recruited  in  New  York  City,  and  formed  by  uniting  the  "  Scott  Rifles,"  two  companies,  and  the 
"Union  Rifles,"  two  companies,  with  the  Shepard  Rifles.  It  was  mustered  in  by  companies  from  July  2  7  to 
October  23,  1861.  In  January,  1862,  it  embarked  at  Annapolis  on  the  Burnside  Expedition,  having  been  assigned 
to  Reno's  Brigade.  At  the  battle  of  New  Berne  it  encountered  the  brunt  of  the  fighting,  and  sustained  the 
severest  loss  of  any  regiment  in  that  action.  During  its  subsequent  service  it  was  in  the  Second  Division  which 
was  commanded,  successively,  by  Reno,  Sturgis,  and  Potter.  The  Fifty-first  distinguished  itself  particularly  at 
Antietam,  where,  under  Colonel  Potter,  it  supported  the  Fifty-first  Pennsylvania,  of  the  same  brigade,  in  their 
desperate  charge  across  the  stone  bridge,  an  action  which  forms  one  of  the  most  brilliant  episodes  of  the  war. 
Following  the  fortunes  of  the  Ninth  Corps  it  served  under  Burnside  on  the  Carolina  coast,  took  part  in  Pope's 
Virginia  campaign,  fought  under  McClellan  in  Maryland,  was  present  at  the  Siege  of  Vicksburg,  participated  in 
the  fighting  in  East  Tennessee,  in  the  gallant  defense  of  Knoxville,  and  then  returned  to  Virginia  in  time  to 
take  part  in  Grant's  campaigns  of  1864  and  the  final  triumphs  of  the  following  year.  The  regiment  reenlisted 
in  December,  1863,  and  in  the  following  winter  was  recruited  anew  nearly  to  its  maximum.  During  the  campaigns 
of  1862-63  the  regiment  served  in  Ferrero's  Brigade  ;  in  the  battles  of  1864-65  it  was  in  Curtin's  (ist)  Brigade, 
Potter's  (2d)  Division.  The  graves  of  the  Fifty-first  are  scattered  far  and  wide.  Few  regiments  saw  a  more 
active  service,  and  none  left  a  more  honorable  record. 


THRKE  HUNDKKD  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  i  •  • 

FIFTY-SECOND  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY     "GERMAN  RANGERS." 
ZOOK'S   BRIGADE  -  -  HANCOCK'S   1  )i VISION    -  SECOND  Cows. 


(1)  COL.  PAUL  FRANK  ;  BVT.  BRIO.-GES  («>  c,,i..  IIKXKV  M.  KARPLES. 


Totals  ......................      14 


Losses.                                                                                                                                                    Ojfiffrs.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded "14                  1 39  153 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 94  94 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 1 03  1 03 


Battles.  Killed.       Wounded*     Missing.  \     Total. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va  ...................................................      15  If>3  4  122 

Glendale,  Va  ......................................................  2  15  17 

Antietam,  Md  ...................................................        4  12  2  18 

Fredericksburg,  Va  ...............................................       6  37  .  .  43 

Chancellorsville,  Va  ..............................................       3  31  9  43 

Gettysburg,    Pa  ..................................................        2  26  i  o  38 

Bristoe  Station,  Va  .................................................  3  6 

Mine  Run,  Va  .....................................................  3  .  .  3 

Wilderness,  Va  ....................................................  4  2  6 

Po  River,  Va.,  May  10,  1864  .......................................      10  44  24  78 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  1  2,  j  864  ....................................        6  35  43 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  18,  1864  ....................................        5  36  43 

North  Anna,  Va  ...................................................  2  .  .  2 

Totopotomoy,  Va  ..................................................  4  i  5 

Cold  Harbor,  Va  ..................................................  3 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  16-18,  1864  ..................................        9  43  2  54 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va  ...........................................      24  97  .  .  121 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.  (6  cos.),  August  14,  1864  ...........................  2 

Ream's  Station,  Va.  (6  cos.)  .........................................  2  29  31 

White  Oak  Road,  Va.,  March  31,  1865  ..............................        5  23  3° 

Sutherland  Station,  Va.,  April  2,  1865  ................................        6  27  3  36 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded.    ^Includes  the  captured. 

Totals  .................      95  541  116  752 

Present,  also,  at  Peach  Orchard  ;  Savage  Station  ;  Malvern  Hill  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 
NOTES.  —  Recruited  in  New  York  City,  was  mustered  in  by  companies  from  August  3  to  November  4,  1861. 
It  proceeded  to  Washington,  November  12,  1  86  1,  where  it  was  assigned  to  the  Third  Brigade,  First  Division, 
Second  Corps,  in  which  it  remained  during  its  entire  service.  In  April,  1862,  the  Fifty-second  accompanied  the 
corps  to  the  Peninsula,  and  at  Fair  Oaks  the  regiment  went  into  its  first  action,  where,  under  command  of  Colonel 
Frank,  it  establised  a  reputation  for  efficiency  underfire.  Out  of  320  who  were  engaged  there,  122  were  killed  or 
wounded,  while  each  of  the  field-officers  had  their  horses  shot  under  them.  But  the  deadliest  fighting  was  en 
countered  at  Spotsylvania,  where  the  regiment  participated  in  the  hand-to-hand  struggle  and  terrible  musketry  fire 
at  the  famous  Angle.  Here  Count  Van  Haake  and  Baron  Von  Steuben,  both  of  whom  were  Prussian  officers  on 
furlough,  were  killed  while  fighting  as  line  officers  in  the  Fifty-second.  Major  Edward  Venuti  was  killed  at  Gettys 
burg.  Col.  Frank  was  mustered  out  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  service.  He  was  succeeded  by  Col.  Karples,  who 
had  been  in  command  of  the  regiment  much  of  the  time,  Colonel  Frank  having  been  placed  in  command  of  the 
brigade.  The  Fifty-second  was  composed  of  men  of  German  birth  ;  yet  it  fought  for  the  flag  of  the  Union  as 
gallantly  as  ever  Germans  fought  on  the  battle  fields  of  their  fatherland. 


200  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

FIFTY-NINTH   NEW   YORK   INFANTRY. 
HALL'S  BRIGADE  —  GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  LINN  TIDBALL.        (2)  COL.  WILLIAM  NORTHEDGE.        (3)  COL.  WILLIAM  A.  OLMSTED  ;  BVT.  BKIG.-GEN. 

Losses.  Officers.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 14  1 29  143 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 65  65 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 62  62 


Totals 14  256  270 

Battles.  Killed.      Wounded*    Missing. \      Total. 

Antietam,  Md 48  153  23  224 

Fredericksburg,  Va 5  39  . .  44 

Chancellorsville,  Va i  7  7  15 

Gettysburg,  Pa.  (4  cos.) 6  28  .  .  34 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 5  2  7 

Blackburn's  Ford,  Va.,  Oct.  15,  1863 i  .  .  i 

Mine  Run,  Va . .  i  i 

Wilderness,  Va 2  8  4  14 

Spotsylvania,  Va 4  23  5  32 

North  Anna,  and  Totopotomoy,  Va 5  27  ..  32 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 9  27  .  .  36 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 12  51  61  124 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va 8  12  20 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 18  5  23 

Ream's  Station,  Va 4  37  41 

Boydton  Road,  Va i  5  ..  6 

Farmville,  Va , 2  .  .  2 

"Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlnoludes  the  captured. 

Totals 93  406  157  656 

Present,  also,  at  Malvern  Hill  (August  1862)  ;  Thoroughfare  Gap  (1863)  ;  Williamsport ;  Hatcher's  Run; 
High  Bridge ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Recruited  in  New  York  City,  and  in  the  counties  of  Jefferson,  Lewis,  Putnam,  and  Westchester. 
It  was  organized  at  Green  Point  (East  New  York)  in  October,  1861,  leaving  the  State  on  the  igth  of  November, 
following.  It  was  stationed  for  several  months  in  the  defences  of  Washington,  under  General  Wadsworth,  and 
remained  there  while  the  Army  was  on  the  Peninsula;  but  in  August,  1862,  the  Fifty-ninth  joined  General 
McClellan's  forces,  which  were  then  starting  on  their  victorious  Maryland  campaign,  and  was  assigned  to  Dana's 
(3d)  Brigade,  Sedgwick's  (2d)  Division,  Second  Corps.  The  regiment  saw  its  first  fighting  at  Antietam,  where 
it  was  engaged  in  Sedgwick's  bloody  affair  at  the  Dunker  church.  It  went  into  that  action  with  21  officers  and 
300  men,  of  whom  224  were  killed  or  wounded.  Nine  officers,  including  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  L.  Stetson, 
were  killed  or  mortally  wounded  there,  a  loss  of  officers  killed  which  was  exceeded  in  only  two  other  instances 
during  the  war ;  several  other  officers  were  wounded  there,  while  seven  of  the  eight  color  corporals  were  either 
killed  or  disabled.  The  regiment,  becoming  reduced  in  numbers,  was  consolidated  into  four  companies  in  1863, 
and  took  these  four  companies,  only,  into  the  fight  at  Gettysburg.  It  fought  there  in  Hall's  Brigade  of  Gibbon's 
(2d)  Division  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Max  Thoman,  commanding  the  regiment,  was  killed  there.  The  Fifty-ninth 
remained  in  the  Second  Division  (Gibbon's)  until  the  end  of  the  war.  General  Alex.  S.  Webb  commanded  the 
brigade  in  the  Wilderness  campaign  and  was  wounded  at  Spotsylvania.  He  was  succeeded  by  Colonel  H.  B. 
Me  Keen  who  was  killed  at  Cold  Harbor.  Mustered  out  June  30,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  201 

SIXTY-FIRST  NEW  YORK  INFANTRY  —  "  CLINTON   GUARD." 

MII.KS'S  I'.KiiiADi     -BARLOW'S  DIVISION -- SECOND  CUKI*S. 


(1)  Cou  FRANCIS  C.  BARLOW  ;  MAJOII-GKN..  U.  S.  V.  (3)  COL.  OSCAR  K.  BROADY. 

(8)  COL.  NELSON  A.  MILES ;  BVT.  MAJOK-GKS.,  U.  8.  A.  (4)  COL.  GEORGE  W.  SCOTT ;  BVT.  RRUI.-GEN..  U.  8.  V. 

I*'*"-                                                                                                                                  ~pffi^.          En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 16  177  193 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 2  90  92 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 31  31 

Totals 18  298  316 

Battles.  Killed.        Wounded*  Missing. \      Total. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 31  73  5  no 

Peach  Orchard,  Va 4  . .  4 

White  Oak  Swamp,  Va 2 

Glendale,  Va 6  55  18  79 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 2  22  27 

Antietam,  Md 6  34  i  41 

Fredericksburg,  Va 9  27  . .  36 

Chancellorsville,  Va i  \  6  i  o  27 

Gettysburg,  Pa 6  56  . .  62 

Bristoe  Station,  Va . .  i  i 

Wilderness,  Va : 3  . .  3 

Corbin's  Bridge,  Va.,  May  8,  1 864 5  31  . .  36 

Po  River,  Va.,  May  10,  1 864 3  10  ..  13 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12-18,  1 864 13  38  53 

North  Anna  and  Totopotomoy,  Va i  2  . .  3 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 2  17  3  22 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 1 8  78  i  o  1 06 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va.,  July  27,1 864 i  i 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  August  16,  1864 2  5  7  14 

Ream's  Station,  Va 3  1 1  25  39 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 2  9  i  12 

Farmville,  Va 4  12  16 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals 116  509  88  713 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Savage   Station  ;  Mine   Run  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  White  Oak  Road  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  Sixty-first  had  the  good  fortune  and  honor  to  be  commanded  by  men  who  proved  to  be 
among  the  ablest  soldiers  of  the  war. .  They  made  brilliant  records  as  colonels  of  this  regiment,  and,  being  pro 
moted,  achieved  a  national  reputation  as  division  generals.  The  Sixty-first  saw  an  unusual  amount  of  active 
service  and  hard  fighting.  At  Fair  Oaks,  under  command  of  Colonel  Barlow,  they  lost  1 10  killed  and  wounded, 
out  of  432  who  were  in  the  action ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  W.  C.  Masset,  and  five  of  the  color-guard  were  killed  in 
this  fight.  At  Antietam  the  regiment  captured  two  stands  of  colors,  and  at  Fredericksburg,  under  Colonel  Miles, 
it  sustained  a  severe  loss  in  proportion  to  its  numbers,  the  colonel  being  severely  wounded  there. 
The  regiment  was  recruited  from  various  counties  in  the  State,  one  company  being  composed  of 
students  from  Madison  Uuiversity.  It  was  organized  at  New  York  City,  from  August  22d  to  October  26,  1861. 
It  reenlisted  at  the  end  of  its  three  years' term,  and  served  until  July,  1865.  It  served  through  the  war  in  the 
First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Second  Corps.  This  division  was  commanded  successively  by  Generals  Richardson 
(killed  at  Antietam),  Hancock,  Caldwell,  Barlow  and  Miles. 


202 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTY-THIRD   NEW   YORK   INFANTRY. 
IRISH  BRIGADE  —  HANCOCK'S   DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  BURKE. 

(2)  COL.  HENRY  FOWLER. 


(3)  COL.  RICHARD  C.  BENTLEY ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GKN. 

(4)  COL.  JOHN  II.  GLEASON  ;  BVT.  MAJOK-GEN. 
(5)  COL.  JAMES  D.  BRADY. 


Losses. 

Officers. 

1C 

En.  Men. 
141 

62 
3° 

Total. 
156 

63 
30 

Totals 16 


233 


Total  enrollment,  1,411  ;   killed, 


156;=  ii. o  per  cent. 
Killed. 
I 


9 
6 


.  i 


1 1 


Total. 
4 

2 

8 

70 

2O2 

44 
6 

23 
9 

95 
31 
4 
8 

29 
78 
1 1 
27 

5 

i 

657 

White   Oak  Swamp  ;  Malvern 
Hill ;  Mine  Run  ;  Po  River  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES.  —  Third  Regiment,  Irish  Brigade.  Like  the  other  regiments  in  that  brigade,  the  Sixty-third  carried 
a  green  flag.  On  it  was  the  name  of  the  State  with  the  regimental  volunteer  number.  The  flag  instead  of  being 
blue  like  the  State  flags  in  other  brigades,  was  a  deep  rich  green,  and  on  it  was  embroidered  an  Irish  harp, 
a  sunburst,  and  a  wreath  of  shamrock.  Each  regiment  of  the  brigade  carried,  also,  the  National  colors  —  elegant 
silken  flags  which  displayed  the  Stars  and  Stripes.  At  Antietam  the  regiment  lost  six  officers  killed  near  "Bloody 
Lane,"  and  sixteen  men  were  killed  or  wounded  in  that  battle  while  carrying  the  colors ;  its  total  loss  being  202 
killed  or  wounded  out  of  341  who  entered  the  field.  The  brigade  carried  the  position  at  Antietam  in  the  face 
of  a  severe  fire  ;  Meagher's  line  was  then  relieved  by  Caldwell's  fine  brigade,  which  advanced  through  them  by 
breaking  into  columns  of  companies  to  the  front,  while  Meagher's  men  retired  by  the  right  of  companies  to  the 
rear,  these  two  noted  brigades  executing  the  manoeuvre  as  steadily  as  if  on  parade.  The  regiment  having  retin- 
listed,  fought  in  all  the  battles  of  Grant's  Virginia  campaign,  sustaining  further  terrible  losses  in  men  and  officers, 
the  latter  including  Major  Thomas  Tuohy,  a  gallant  and  intrepid  soldier  who  fell  mortally  wounded  at  the  Wilder 
ness.  With  the  other  regiments  of  the  Irish  Brigade,  it  served  throughout  the  war  in  the  Second  Brigade,  First 
Division,  Second  Corps. 


Battles. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 

On  Picket,  Va.,  June  24,  1862 

On  Picket,  Va.,  June  26,  1862 i 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va 2 

Antietam,  Md 35 

Fredericksburg,  Va 2 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa.  (2  cos.) 5 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 

Wilderness,  Va 

Spotsylvania,  Va 

North  Anna,  Va 

Totopotomoy,  Va 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  August  14-18,  1864 

Ream's  Station,  Va 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 

Farmville,  Va 

*Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tine-hides  the  captured. 

Totals 77  444 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Gaines's  Mill ;  Peach  Orchard  ;  Savage   Station 


Wounded  * 

Missin. 

2 

I 

2 

•    * 

7 

17 

51 

165 

2 

38 

4 

3 

2 

10 

8 

2 

7 

78 

8 

22 

3 

4 

•    * 

4 

2 

23 

5 

48 

19 

10 

i 

4 

23 

4 

*   • 

i 

136 


249 


TlIKKK    HUNDKKI)    FlUHTING   REGIMENTS.  203 

SIXTY-FOURTH  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY— "CATTARAUGUS  REGIMENT." 

I  '.KM  )« >K  K's     P,i;i< ;  \  |»K      -  BARLOW'S    DIVISION  -     SECOND    COKI»S. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  J.  PAKKKK.  (3)  Col..  LEMAN  W.  UKADI.KY. 

(2)  COL.  DANIEL  G.  BIN(iHAM.  (4)  COL.  WILLIAM  »;I.KNNY;  MVT.  HIIIO.-«EN. 


Losses.  Officers.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 13  1 60  173 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 5  85  90 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 29  29 

Totals 1 8  274  292 

Battles.  Killed.      Wounded*    Missing.\      Total. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 30  143  ..  173 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va 2  1 1  25  38 

Antietam,  Md 8  42  . .  50 

Fredericksburg,  Va 4  68  .  .  72 

Chancellorsville,  Va 15  21  8  44 

Gettysburg,  Pa 15  64  19  98 

Auburn,  Va.,  October  14,  1863 54  17 

Bristoe  Station,  Va.,  October  14,1 863 i  17  25 

Mine  Run,  Va i  2  . .  3 

Wilderness,  Va 8  .  .  8 

Po  River,  Va 2  10  4  1 6 

Spotsylvania,  Va 10  41  59 

North  Anna,  Va 2  .  .  2 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2  . .  2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 2  10  ..  12 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 7  28  .  .  35 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 2  28  30 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  August  14-18,  1864 i  i  2  4 

Ream's  Station,  Va 4  12 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1 864 4  12  i  17 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 3  13  i  17 

Sutherland  Station,  Va 2  4  i  7 

Farmville,  Va 5  1 1  •  •  1 6 

•Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tint-hides  the  captured. 

Totals 117  510  130  757 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Gaines's  Mill ;  Savage  Station  ;  Peach  Orchard  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Glendale  ; 
Malvern  Hill;  Strawberry  Plains;  Sailor's  Creek;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Formerly  the  Sixty-fourth  Militia,  but  reorganized  as  a  volunteer  command  at  Klmira  in  the  autumn 
of  1861.  The  regiment  arrived  at  Washington,  December  n,  1861,  and  went  into  camp  near  the  capitol.  It 
commenced  active  sen-ice  in  Virginia,  January  2,  1862,  performing  picket  duty,  with  an  occasional  recon- 
noissance,  until  April  5,  1862,  when  it  sailed  for  the  Peninsula  with  General  McClellan's  Army.  It  served  there 
in  Richardson's  Division  —  afterwards  Hancock's  —  remaining  in  that  division  (ist  Division,  2<1  A.  C.)  until  the 
end  of  the  war.  The  Sixty-fourth,  under  Colonel  Bingham,  distinguished  itself  at  Chancellorsville,  where,  in 
company  with  four  other  regiments,  it  held  successfully  an  advanced  skirmish-line  against  the  persistent  attack  of 
a  large  force  of  the  enemy.  This  line  was  in  charge  of  Colonel  Nelson  A.  Miles  of  the  Sixty-first  New  York, 
and  the  brilliancy  of  the  affair  became  a  matter  of  history.  The  regiment  fought  at  Gettysburg  in  Caldwell's 
Division  (same  division),  and  lost  there  98  out  of  the  20  officers  and  185  men  who  marched  with  the  colors  on 
that  field. 


204:  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

SIXTY-NINTH   NEW   YORK   INFANTRY. 
IRISH  BRIGADE  —  HANCOCK'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND   CORPS. 


COLONEL  ROBERT  NUGENT,  &.  S.;  BVT.  BRIQ.-GEN. 


Losses.                                                                                                                                                   Officers.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 13  246  259 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 86  86 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 56  56 


Totals 13  388  401 

Battles.  Killed.       Wounded.*     Missing. \     Total. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va i  12  i  14 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va i  i  2 

Peach  Orchard,  Va i  i  4  6 

White  Oak  Swamp,  Va 2  15  28  45 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 17  no  28  155 

Antietam,  Md 44  J52  ••  X96 

Fredericksburg,  Va 10  95  23  128 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3  7  •  •  I0 

Gettysburg,  Pa.  (2  cos.) 5  14  6  25 

Bristoe  Station,  Va •  •  2  2 

Wilderness,  Va 7  37  8  52 

Spotsylvania,  Va 17  82  23  122 

Totopotomoy,  Va i  2  3  6 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 5  31  5  41 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault  June  16-18,  1864) 3  22  18  43 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 1 1  26  45 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  August  14-18,  1864 i  5  ••  6 

Ream's  Station,  Va 6  46  52 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 7  33  •  •  4° 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 2  4  ..  6 

Farmville,  Va i  i  •  •  2 

*Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals 138  656  204  998 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Savage  Station  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Po  River  ;  North  Anna  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  White 
Oak  Road  ;  Fall  of  Petersburg  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  There  were  three  regiments,  each  known  as  the  Sixty-ninth  New  York.  One  of  them,  a  militia 
regiment,  was  the  one  which  fought  at  First  Bull  Run,  and  afterwards  volunteered  repeatedly  in  different  emer 
gencies  ;  another,  the  one  whose  losses  are  given  above,  served  through  the  war  in  the  famous  Irish  Brigade,  and 
was  the  one  generally  known  as  the  Sixty-ninth  New  York  ;  the  other,  the  Sixty-ninth  National  Guard  Artillery, 
served  in  the  Corcoran  Legion  and  was  known  officially  as  the  i8ad  New  York  Volunteers. 

The  Sixty-ninth  proper,  to  which  this  page  belongs,  was  organized  in  September,  1861  ;  served  three  years, 
after  which  it  reenlisted,  and  served  through  the  remainder  of  the  war,  its  gallantry  on  many  fields  attesting  anew 
the  fidelity  and  courage  of  the  Irish  soldier.  At  Antietam  this  regiment,  then  in  Richardson's  Division,  fought 
at  the  Bloody  Lane,  where  eight  of  its  color-bearers  were  successively  shot  down.  At  Fredericksburg  a  color- 
sergeant  of  the  Sixty-ninth  was  found  dead,  with  the  flag  concealed  and  wrapped  around  his  body,  a  bullet  having 
pierced  the  flag  and  his  heart.  In  that  battle  the  regiment  lost  16  officers  and  112  men  killed  and  wounded,  out 
of  1 8  officers  and  210  men  engaged.*  The  Sixty-ninth  lost  the  most  men  in  action,  killed  and  wounded,  of  any 
regiment  from  the  State  of  New  York. 

*  Official  Records,  Vol.  xxi ;  but  Captain  Saunders,  in  his  official  report,  states  this  loss  at  16  officers  and  100  men. 


TUREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  205 

SEVENTIETH  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY— "  FIRST   EXCELSIOR." 
SICKLES'S  BRIGADE  -    HOOKER'S  DIVISION- -  THIRD  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  DANIEL  E.  SICKLES  ;  BVT.  MAJOH-GEN..  U.  8.  A.  (3)  Coi..  WILLIAM  DWKillT  ;  BUIU.-GKN.,  U.  S.  V. 

(3)  COL.  J.  E.  FAKNUM;  BVT.  BIUO.-GKN.,  U.  S.  V. 

Losses.  Officers.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 9  j8i  igo 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 2  c2  54 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons I0  10 

Totals ii  243  254 

Total  enrollment,  1,462  ;  killed,  190  ;       12.9  per  cent. 

Battles.                                                                                                                                  KilU-d.  Wounded*  Missing. \      Total. 

Yorktown,  Va 2  . .  2 

Williamsburg,  Va 79  138  113  330 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 2  15  i  18 

Oak  Grove,  Va 3  i  o  i  14 

Malvern  H  ill,  Va i  .  .  i 

Bristoe  Station,  Va.  (1862) 5 

Manassas,  Va i  12  i  o  23 

Fredericksburg,  Va 4  .  .  4 

Chancellorsville,  Va 4  1 1  17  32 

Gettysburg,    Pa 20  93  4  117 

Wapping  I  leights,  Va 1 1  21  . .  32 

Mine  Hun,  Va i  7 

Wilderness,  Va 4  i  <S  5  27 

Spotsylvania,  Va 2  31  i  o  43 

North  Anna,  and  Totopotomoy,  Va .  .  i  o 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded,     tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals 129  376  161  666 

Present,  also,  at  Stafford  Court  House  ;  Glendale  ;  Chantilly  ;  Cold  Harbor  ;  Petersburg. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  New  York  City,  and  musterd  into  service  June  20,  1 86 1 ,  as  the  First  Regiment,  Sickles's 
Brigade.  It  left  the  brigade  camp  on  Staten  Island,  July  23,  1861,  and  was  stationed  at  Washington  a  few  weeks, 
after  which  it  performed  guard  duty  along  the  Maryland  side  of  the  Lower  Potomac.  During  the  Peninsular 
campaign  the  Excelsior  Brigade  was  in  Hooker's  Division,  upon  which  fell  the  brunt  of  the  battle  at  Williamsburg, 
the  Seventieth,  under  Colonel  Dvvight,  being  in  the  thickest  of  the  fighting.  The  regiment  numbered  there, 
according  to  the  official  report,  about  700  men,  and  its  casualty  list  shows  a  loss  of  nearly  one-half.  One  more 
such  fight  would  have  ended  its  existence.  Of  33  officers,  in  that  battle,  seven  were  killed  and  twenty-two 
wounded.  Colonel  Farnum  commanded  the  regiment  at  Gettysburg,  where  it  fought  in  Humphreys's  Division,  on 
the  Emmettsburg  Road  in  the  battle  of  the  second  day,  and  sustained  a  severe  loss  before  it  yielded  this  advanced 
position  and  retired  to  the  second  line.  During  the  pursuit  of  I>ee,  the  Excelsior  Brigade,  on  July  23,  1863, 
attacked  the  Confederate  rear-guard  at  Wapping  Heights,  Va.,  a  fight  in  which  the  main  loss  fell  on  the  Seven 
tieth.  Upon  the  transfer  of  the  Third  Corps  to  the  Second,  the  brigade,  under  command  of  Colonel  W.  R. 
Brewster,  was  assigned  to  Mott's  Division,  and  from  that  time  fought  with  the  Second  Corps  until  the  expiration 
of  its  term  of  service.  It  was  mustered  out  July  i,  1864,  and  the  recruits  transferred  to  the  Eighty-sixth  New 
York. 


206 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTY-SECOND  NEW  YORK   INF ANTRY -  -  "  THIED   EXCELSIOR." 
SICKLES'S  BRIGADE  —  HOOKER'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  NELSON  TAYLOK  ;  BBIO.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  O.  STEVENS  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  S.  AUSTIN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  <fec. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

I 
I 

3 

i 

• 

i 
i 

• 

i 

•     • 

5 
14 

21 
2O 

14 

14 

J9 

21 
I  I 
I  I 

I 
6 

15 

22 

23 
15 
14 
2O 

22 
II 
12 

• 

I 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

II 
IO 

6 
5 

IO 

5 

10 
10 

16 
5 

•     • 

12 
10 

6 

5 

IO 

5 

IO 
10 

16 

5 

IS 
IOI 
132 

'51 
123 

127 

JI5 
1x8 

M5 
118 

I05 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

1  1 

15° 

161 

I 

88 

89 

1,250 

161  killed  =  12.8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  509  ;  captured  and  missing,  158  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  10. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Williamsburg,  Va 77 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 20 

Bristoe  Station,  Va.  (1862) 7 

Manassas,  Va 2 

Fredericksburg,    Va i 

Chancellorsville,  Va 18 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Wapping  Heights,  Va 2 

Mine  Run,  Va 5 

Wilderness,  Va 4 

Spotsylvania,  Va 4 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va 3 

On  Picket,  Va \ 


Gettysburg,  Pa 15 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown ;  Fair  Oaks,  Glendale  ;  Totopotomoy ;  Cold  Harbor;  Deep  Bottom  (i  Co.); 
Peeble's  Farm. 

NOTES. — Recruited  principally  in  New  York  city  and  Chautauqua  county,  Company  B  coming  from  James 
town,  N.  Y.,  and  Companies  D  and  E  from  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.  A  regimental  organization  was  effected  at  Staten 
Island,  where  the  other  regiments  of  Sickles's  Brigade  were  forming,  and  in  June,  1861,  the  command  left  for 
Washington.  The  brigade  was  attached  to  Hooker's  Division  and  ordered  on  duty  along  the  Lower  Potomac, 
where  it  remained  until  it  joined  General  McClellan's  army  in  1862.  Colonel  Taylor  commanded  the  brigade  at 
Williamsburg,  where  it  received  the  principal  force  of  the  enemy's  attack.  The  Seventy-second  held  an 
advanced  position  there,  and  lost  59  killed,  90  wounded,  and  46  missing,  the  most  of  the  latter  being  either 
killed  or  wounded.  The  regiment  was  prominently  engaged  at  Malvern  Hill,  its  losses  in  that  action  amounting 
to  14  killed  and  47  wounded,  out  of  about  300  who  were  in  the  engagement.  Colonel  Stevens  and  four  other 
officers  were  killed  at  Chancellorsville,  the  regiment  losing  in  that  battle,  n  killed,  31  wounded,  and  59  missing; 
total,  101.  At  Gettysburg,  the  Excelsior  Brigade  participated  in  General  Sickles's  grand  battle,  known  as  the 
second  day's  fight,  the  thinned  ranks  of  the  Seventy-second  being  again  sadly  depleted  by  the  enemy's  fire.  Its 
casualties  on  that  field  were  7  killed,  79  wounded,  and  28  missing ;  total,  1 14.  The  Excelsior  Brigade  was  com 
manded,  first  by  General  Sickles,  and  then  by  Colonel  Taylor,  who  was  succeeded  by  Colonel  W.  R.  Brewster. 
The  division  commanders  were  Hooker,  Berry  and  Humphreys.  Upon  the  transfer  of  the  Third  Corps  to  the 
Second,  in  April,  1864,  the  brigade  was  placed  in  Mott's  (4th)  Division,  afterwards  Birney's. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  207 

SKYFATY-THTRI)    NEW    YORK    INFANTRY      "ForK'TII    KXCKLSIOR." 
SICKLES'S  BRIGADE -- HOOKER'S  DIVISION --THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  It.  BKEWSTEK;  UVT.  BIUG.-UKN.  (2)  COL.  MICHAKL  W.  BURNS. 


Losses.  Officer*.  En.  Men.  Total. 

killed  and  mortally  wounded i$  138  i  c6 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc x  62  63 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons ^  j . 

Totals j9  .- ,  |  233 

Total  enrollment,  1,350;  killed,  156;  percentage,  11.5. 

Battles.  Kilh-d.      Wounded*     Missing.\      Total. 

Williamsburg,  Va 1 7  67  20 '  104 

Fair  Oaks,  Va !  I0  ..  n 

Picket  Line,  Va.,  June,  1862 2  3  1 1  16 

Oak  Grove,  Va 2  25  i  28 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va x  T  5 

Bristoe  Station,  Va.  (1862) i o  36  .  .  46 

Manassas,  Va 4  . .  4 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3  31  4  38 

Gettysburg,  Pa 51  103  8  162 

Wapping  Heights,  Va i  7  .  .  8 

Wilderness,  Va 6  54  6  66 

Spotsylvania,  Va 6  22  2  30 

North  Anna,  and  Totopotomoy,  Va i  13  .  .  14 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 6  ..  6 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6  23  .  .  29 

Strawberry  Plains,  V^.  (8  companies) i  2  . .  3 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  August  14-18,  1864 2  2  ..  4 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 3  .  .  3 

Boydton  Road,  Va i  4  29  34 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlndudes  the  captured. 

Totals in  416  86  613 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Glendale  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Mine   Run  ;  Hatcher's   Run  ;  Sailor's 
Creek  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Organized  as  the  Second  Fire  Zouaves,  having  been  largely  recruited  from  the  New  York  Fire 
Department.  It  joined  Sickles's  Brigade,  and  arrived  at  Washington,  897  strong,  in  August,  1861.  The  bricade 
was  stationed  at  Camp  McClellan,  below  Washington,  at  Good  Hope,  Md.,  and  while  there  was  assigned  to 
Hooker's  Division,  which  afterwards  became  famous  by  its  gallant  action  at  Williamsburg.  This  one  division,  also, 
fought  the  battle  of  Bristoe  Station,  Va.,  August  27,  1862 — one  of  the  preliminary  actions  at  Manassas  —  the 
brunt  of  the  fight  falling  on  the  "Excelsior"  Brigade,  which  successfully  carried  a  strong  position  of  the  Confeder 
ates,  but  with  a  loss  of  forty  per  cent.  The  Seventy-third  had  only  8  officers  and  99  men  present  there  ;  three 
of  these  officers  were  killed.  The  One  Hundred  and  Sixty-third  New  York  was  disbanded  January  20,  1863,  and 
the  men  transferred  to  the  Fourth  Excelsior.  By  this  arrangement  the  depleted  ranks  of  the  regiment  received 
a  nominal  accession  of  365  men,  of  whom  about  250  reported  for  duty.  Colonel  Brewster  commanded  the 
"  Excelsior  "  Brigade  at  Gettysburg  and  during  all  its  subsequent  service  in  the  field,  leaving  Colonel  Burns  in  com 
mand  of  the  regiment  both  in  battle  and  camp.  During  the  campaigns  of  1864-5  ^  fought  in  Birney's  (3d) 
Division  of  the  Second  Corps,  the  Third  Corps  having  been  discontinued  in  April,  1864,  and  transferred  to 
the  Second. 


208  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

SEVENTY-FOURTH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY— "  FIFTH   EXCELSIOR." 
EXCELSIOR  BRIGADE  —  HOOKER'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  Cor,.  CHARLES  K.  GRAHAM  ;  BVT.  MAJOK-GEN.  (3)  COL.  THOMAS  HOLT ;  BVT.  BKIG.-GEN. 

(2)  COL.  CHARLES  H.  BURTIS.  (4)  COL.  WILLIAM  H.  LOUNSBERRY. 


Bosses.  Officers.  En.  Men.  Toted. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 122  130 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 2  57  59 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 10  10 

Totals 10  189  199 

Battles.  Killed.        Wounded*     Missing. \      Total. 

Yorktown,  Va i  •  •  i 

Williamsburg,Va 36  54  53  J43 

Fair  Oaks,  Va * i  19  •  •  20 

Oak  Grove,  Va 2  28  .  .  30 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va 9  15  24 

Bristoe  Station,  Va.  (1862) 10  53  i  64 

Manassas,Va i  15  l8  34 

Chancellorsville,  Va : 3  22  15  40 

Gettysburg,  Pa 12  74  3  89 

Wapping  Heights,  Va 4  7  n 

Mine  Run,  Va i  9  ••  10 

Wilderness,  Va i  16  7  24 

Spotsylvania,  Va 3  12  i  16 

North  Anna,  Va 3  2  5 

Totopotomoy,  Va 4  3  7 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i  i 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va > 2  . .  10 

"•Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals 76  335  118  529 

Present,  also,  at  Glendale  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Chantilly  ;  Fredericksburg  ;  Deep  Bottom. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  New  York  in  June,  1861.  Preparatory  to  its  departure  for  the  field  it  was  encamped 
on  Staten  Island  with  other  regiments  of  Sickles's  Brigade.  In  August,  1 86 1,  the  command  left  New  York  for 
Washington,  and  was  stationed  near  there  several  weeks.  The  brigade,  having  been  assigned  to  Hooker's  Division, 
was  ordered  to  occupy  the  line  of  the  Lower  Potomac  in  Maryland,  where  it  patrolled  the  river  for  twenty  miles. 
In  November,  1861,  part  of  the  regiment  crossed  the  river  with  Colonel  Graham  on  an  expedition  to  Mathias 
Point,  Va.  In  April,  1862,  the  brigade  left  its  winter-quarters  in  Maryland  to  join  General  McClellan's  advance 
up  the  Peninsula.  The  Seventy-fourth  distinguished  itself  at  Williamsburg,  where  the  brigade  fought  in  an  abattis 
of  felled  timber,  holding  its  position  successfully  against  the  main  force  of  the  enemy.  The  division  was  com 
manded  at  Chancellorsville  by  General  Berry,  who  was  killed  there.  The  Seventy-fourth  received  but  few 
recruits,  and  when  it  marched  to  Gettysburg  its  thinned  ranks  showed  the  effects  of  bullets  and  disease.  Still  it 
faced  the  hottest  of  the  musketry  on  that  historic  field,  with  the  consequent  heavy  percentage  of  loss.  The  Third 
Corps  was  transferred  to  the  Second  in  March,  1864,  and  with  it  the  Excelsior  Brigade  under  Colonel  Brewster. 
The  brigade  under  this  arrangement  became  the  Second  Brigade  of  Mott's  Division.  The  Seventy-fourth  was 
mustered  out  June  26,  1864;  the  reenlisted  men  and  recruits  with  unexpired  terms  were  transferred  to  the 
Fortieth  New  York.  As  only  one  of  the  "  Excelsior"  regiments  reenlisted,  the  service  of  that  famous  brigade 
terminated  in  July,  1864. 


THKKE  HUNDRED  FICSHTING  KKGIMENTS. 


209 


SEVENTY -SIXTH  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY. 
CUTLER'S   BRIGADE  -  -  WADSWORTH'S  DIVISION  -  -  FIRST  CORPS. 


(I)  COL.  NELSON  W.  GREEN.        (2)  COL.  WILLIAM  P.  WAINWHKiHT  ;  BVT.  Hmo.-GitN.       (3)  COL.  CHAHLES  E.  LIVINGSTONE. 


COMI'A.MKS. 

KILLED  AMI  DIED  or  WOL-NW. 

I)IEI>  OF  DlfKANK,  ACTIDKNTM,  IN  PlllHON,  «tl'. 

Total 

Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

V, 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

2 
2 

• 

I 
I 
I 
I 
I 

i 

i? 

12 

16 
18 
16 

!5 

i5 
17 
18 
16 

3 
'7 
14 
18 

'9 
16 

16 
16 
18 

•9 

!7 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

1  1 

23 

14 

'3 
1  6 

1  8 

'3 
1  1 

20 

'7 

•    • 

I  I 
23 

'5 

'3 
16 

18 

!3 

1  1 

20 

'7 

16 

"51 
140 

146 

152 

149 

'47 
144 
149 

'5' 
146 

Company  A  

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

I  2 

161 

i?3 

1 

'56 

157 

»,49« 

173  killed— 11.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  654  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  51. 


35 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Warrenton  Springs,  Va i 

Gainesville,  Va  | 
Manassas,  Va    j 

South  Mountain,  Md 5 

Fredericksburg,    Va 4 

Gettysburg,  Pa 48 

Wilderness,  Va 38 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 1 


BATTLES.  I 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 4 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 10 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 10 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 2 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va i 

Picket  Line,  Va i 

Gunboat    Mound  City 2 


Present,  also,  at  Antietam ;  Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing;  Chancellorsville  ;  Mine  Run;  Totopotomoy ;  Cold 
Harbor ;  Boydton  Road. 

NOTES. — The  men  of  this  regiment  were  proud  of  the  suggestive  numerals  in  their  regimental  title,  and  by 
theii  gallantry  and  patriotism  pioved  themselves  worthy  of  the  historic  figures  emblazoned  on  their  colors.  The 
Seventy-sixth  was  recruited  in  Cortland  and  Otsego  counties  in  1861,  and  arrived  at  Washington,  Febniary  i, 
1862.  It  was  assigned  soon  after  to  Doubleday's  Brigade,  Hatch's  Division.  Its  first  battle  was  at  Manassas, 
where  the  regiment  under  command  of  Colonel  Wainwright  was  engaged  at  Warrenton  Springs,  Gainesville,  and 
the  other  engagements  incidental  to  the  main  one,  sustaining  a  loss  of  1 1  killed,  88  wounded,  and  48  missing  ; 
total,  147.  The  Seventy-sixth  met  its  greatest  loss  at  Gettysburg.  In  the  first  day's  battle  on  that  field,  it  took  27 
officers  and  348  men  into  the  fight,  and  in  half  an  hour  lost  32  killed,  132  wounded,  and  70  missing  ;  total,  234. 
Major  A.  J.  Grover,  who  was  in  command  of  the  regiment  at  Gettysburg,  was  among;  the  killed.  In  March,  1864, 
the  Seventy-sixth  was  assigned  to  Rice's  Brigade,  Wadsworth's  Division,  Fifth  Corps.  In  the  Wilderness,  the 
regiment  lost  two  color-bearers  killed,  and  three  wounded,  its  casualties  in  that  battle  amounting  to  27  killed,  69 
wounded,  and  186  captured  or  missing;  total,  282.  General  Rice,  the  brigade  commander,  was  mortally 
wounded  at  Spotsylvania  while  leading  the  Seventy-sixth.  A  surgeon  asked  the  dying  general  if  he  could  place 
him  in  an  easier  position.  Rice  replied  :  "  Yes,  turn  me  so  that  I  may  die  with  my  face  to  the  enemy."  The 
regiment  was  mustered  out  in  January,  1865,  its  term  of  enlistment  having  expired.  The  rei-nlisted  men  and 

recruits  were  transferred  to  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-seventh  New  York. 
14 


210 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTY-NINTH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY.— "HIGHLANDERS." 
CHRIST'S  BRIGADE  -  -  WILLCOX'S   DIVISION  -  -  NINTH   CORPS. 


(I)  COL.  JAMES       CAMERON  (Killed). 

(3;  COL.  ISAAC  1-  STEVENS,  OT.  $.;  MAJOR-GEN  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  ADDISON  FARNSWORTII ;  BVT.  BBIG.-GEN. 

(4)  COL.  DAVID  MORRISON  ;  BVT.  BKIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

I 

• 
• 

U 

M 
IO 

M 

8 

7 
1  8 

IO 

T3 

9 

I 

'3 
14 
IO 

15 

9 

7 
18 

IO 

13 

9 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 
13 

9 
1  1 

8 

9 
6 

5 
7 
5 
4 

2 
13 

9 
1  1 

8 

9 
6 

5 
7 
5 
4 

19 
133 

I25 
140 

138 

1J5 
142 

142 

147 

135 

149 

B  

c  

D  ,  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

3 

116 

119 

I 

78 

79 

1,385* 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 40 

Lewinsville,  Va i 

James  Island.  S.  C 36 

Manassas,  Va 9 

Chantilly,  Va 10 

South  Mountain,  Md i 


Total  of  killed,  wounded  and  missing,  502. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Antietam,  Md 8 

Blue    Springs,  Term 2 

Fort  Sanders,  Tenn 5 

Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn i 

Spotsylvania,  Va 5 

Prison-guard i 


Present,  also,  at  Blackburn's  Ford,  Va. ;  Pocotaligo,  S.  C. ;  Kelly's  Ford,  Va. ;  Fredericksburg,  Va. ;  Vicks- 
burg,  Miss. ;  Jackson,  Miss.  ;  Campbell's  Station,  Tenn. ;  Wilderness,  Va. ;  Hatcher's  Run,  Va. ;  Petersburg,  Va. 

NOTES. — Composed  mostly  of  Scotchmen,  uniformed  in  their  national  costume,  the  officers  wearing  kilts 
and  the  men  wearing  pantaloons  of  the  Cameron  tartan.  After  active  service  commenced,  this  dress  was  laid 
aside  and  the  United  States  service  uniform  was  substituted.  The  men  of  the  Seventy-ninth  fully  sustained  the 
honor  and  military  reputation  of  their  native  land,  and  fought  for  the  government  of  their  adoption  as  gallantly  as 
ever  Scotchmen  fought  on  native  soil  or  on  foreign  fields.  Previous  to  the  war  this  regiment  had  belonged 
to  the  State  National  Guard,  and  at  the  outbreak  of  hostilities  it  was  among  the  first  to  tender  its  services.  It 
marched  to  First  Bull  Run,  where  it  sustained  one  of  the  heaviest  losses  on  that  field,  its  casualties  amounting  to 
32  killed,  51  wounded,  115  missing  or  captured.  Colonel  Cameron,  brother  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  was  killed 
there  while  in  command  of  the  regiment.  At  the  battle  of  James  Island  (Secessionville),  it  was  in  Stevens's 
Division,  and  lost  1 10  men  there  out  of  474  engaged.  In  August,  1862,  the  gallant  regiment  fought  again  on  the 
Manassas  Plains,  and  in  the  actions  at  Second  Bull  Run  and  Chantilly  lost  9  killed,  79  wounded,  and  17  missing; 
total,  105.  General  Stevens,  formerly  Colonel  of  the  Higlanders,  was  killed  at  Chantilly,  where,  after  six  color- 
bearers  of  the  Seventy-ninth  had  fallen,  the  General  seized  the  flag  and  shouting,  ".Highlanders  !  My  Highland 
ers  !  Follow  your  General,"  led  the  charge  and  fell  dead  amid  the  cheers  of  victory  with  the  color- staff  grasped 
firmly  in  his  hand.f  The  regiment's  term  of  enlistment  expired  May  13,  1864,  the  order  for  muster-out  reach 
ing  the  men  while  they  stood  in  line  on  the  bloody  field  of  Spotsylvania.  The  recruits  were  organized  into  a 
battalion  which  served  through  the  war,  doing  provost-duty  at  Corps  headquarters. 


*  Does  not  include  the  battalion  organized  in  18(54. 


t  History  of  the  Seventy-ninth  Highlanders  ;  William  Todd. 


THKKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


211 


EIGHTIETH  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY  -"ULSTER  GUARD." 
PAUL'S  BRIGADE-    DOI-HLKDAV'S  DIVISION    -  FIRST  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  (iEORGB  W.  PKA1T  (Killed). 


(2)  Cm..  TIIEODOKK  B.  (JATES;  HVT.  BHHI.  OEN. 


(3)  COL.  JACOB  B.  HARDENBURGH  ;  HVT.  BKH;.-<;EN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  <>K  \VorNDs. 

DIED  OK  DioEAHK,  ACCIDENTS.  IN  I'UIMON,  &<•. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

1  6 

210 
ly7 
IQI 
2  19 
226 

177 

234 
199 

198 
236 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

field  and  Staff  

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

2 
I 
I 
I 

• 

2 

•    • 

9 
1  1 

1  1 

'7 
13 
M 
9 

I  2 
12 
12 

I 

9 
1  1 

1  1 

'7 

'5 

15 

10 

13 

T  2 
14 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
* 

I 

2O 
16 

'3 

22 

'4 
'3 

21 
1  I 

M 
1  2 

I 

20 

16 

13 

22 
14 

13 

2  I 

1  I 

M 

I  2 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

8 

I  2O 

128 

• 

•57 

'57 

2,103 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,   439;  captured   and    missing.    144  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  22. 


BATTLES. 

Norman's  Ford,  Va , 

Rappahannock,  Va , 

Warrenton  Springs,  Va , 

Manassas,  Va 51 

Chantilly,  Va i 

South  Mountain,  Md i 


K.  &M.W 
i 
i 
i 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Antietam,  Md 12 

Fredericksburg,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 47 

Petersburg,  Va 6 

Place  unknown c 


Present,  also,  at  Beverly  Ford  ;  Gainesville  ;  Groveton  ;  Wilderness  ;  Spotsylvania  ;  North  Anna  ;  Totopoto- 
moy  ;  Cold  Harbor  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  This  regiment  was  from  Ulster  county,  and  was  better  known  as  the  Twentieth,  it  having  served  in 
the  State  Militia  for  several  years  under  that  number.  Although  known  officially  as  the  Kightieth  Infantry,  it 
never  accepted  that  designation,  but  adhered  faithfully  to  its  old  militia  number.  Colonel  Pratt,  who  commanded 
it  before  the  war  also,  was  a  gentleman  of  wealth,  education,  and  a  member  of  the  State  Senate.  He  was  killed 
at  Manassas.  At  that  battle  the  regiment  was  in  Patrick's  Brigade,  Hatch's  Division,  and  lost  32  killed,  165 
wounded,  and  82  missing;  total,  279.  At  Antietam  its  casualties  were  6  killed,  40  wounded,  and  8  missing; 
total,  54.  It  distinguished  itself  particularly  at  Gettysburg  by  the  prominent  part  which  it  took  in  the  repulse  of 
Pickett's  charge.  The  regiment  was  then  in  Rowley's  (ist)  Brigade,  Doubleday's  Division  ;  but  during  the  battle 
of  the  third  day,  a  part  of  the  brigade,  including  the  Twentieth,  was  under  the  command  of  Colonel  Gates ;  its 
loss  at  Gettysburg  was  35  killed,  111  wounded,  and  24  missing;  total,  170.  In  July,  1863,  the  regiment  was 
detached  from  its  corps  and  ordered  to  report  to  General  Patrick,  the  Provost  Marshal  of  the  army,  for  duty  in 
his  department.  It  remained  on  provost-duty  at  General  Headquaiters  until  the  final  assault  on  Petersburg,  when 
it  joined  the  assaulting  column  and  lost  several  in  killed  and  wounded.-  The  Twentieth  served  first  as  a  three 
months'  regiment,  leaving  Kingston,  April  28,  1861,  anil  was  stationed  at  Annapolis  Junction,  and  at  Baltimore. 
It  reorganized  under  a  three  years'  enlistment,  and  left  the  State  again,  October  25,  1861.  After  a  short  stay  at 
Washington,  it  crossed  into  Virginia,  November  7,  1861,  and  joined  Wadsworth's  Brigade,  going  into  winter 
quarters  at  Upton's  Hill.  The  regiment  was  continued  in  service  until  January  29,  1866. 


212  KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

EIGHTY-FIEST   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
MARSTON'S  BRIGADE  —  BROOKS'S  DIVISION  —  EIGHTEENTH   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EDWIN  ROSE,  OT.  $.  (3)  COL.  JOHN  B.  RAULSTON. 

(2)  COL.  JACOB  J.  DEFOREST.  (4)  COL.  DAVID  B.  WHITE;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


Losses. 

Officers. 

En.  Men. 
129 
96 

Total. 
142 

97 

Totals 14  225  239 


Battles.  Killed.       Wounded*     Missing.\     Total. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 25  92  20  137 

Seven  Days' Battle,  Va i  i  2 

Swift  Creek,  Va i  4  ••  5 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 2  17  4  23 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 46  159  10  215 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 1 1  32  . .  43 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va 9  50  ..  59 

Darbytovvn  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 3  3 

Picket,  and  Skirmishes 4  26  i  31 

*Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals 98  384  36  518 

Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Yorktown,  Va.  ;  Williamsburg,  Va. ;  Malvern  Hill,  Va. ;  Winston,  N.  C. ;  Free 
Bridge,  N.  C. ;  Williamston,  N.  C.  •  Dismal  Swamp,  Va.  :  Proctor's  Creek,  Va.  ;  Bermuda  Hundred,  Va. ;  Fall  of 
Richmond. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  principally  at  Oswego,  in  the  fall  of  1861.  It  left  Oswego  January  20,  1862,  with  750 
men,  and  at  Albany  received  250  more,  who  had  been  recruited  in  Oneida  county.  It  left  the  State  in  February, 
1862,  and  upon  its  arrival  at  Washington  was  assigned  to  Palmer's  Brigade,  Casey's  Division,  Fourth  Corps.  The 
regiment  fought  well  at  Fair  Oaks,  under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  DeForest,  who  was  wounded, 
and  Major  McAmbly,  who  was  killed  there.  Upon  the  withdrawal  of  the  Army  from  the  Peninsula,  the  Eighty- 
first  was  retained  at  Yorktown  with  General  Keyes's  command.  In  December,  1862,  the  regiment  was  ordered 
to  join  General  Foster's  troops  in  North  Carolina,  where  it  remained  on  duty  in  the  vicinity  of  Beaufort,  S.  C., 
and  Morehead,  N.  C.,  for  several  months.  In  November,  1863,  it  was  stationed  on  outpost  duty  along  the  Dismal 
Swamp  Canal,  Va. 

Having  reonlisted,  the  regiment  went  home  on  a  thirty  days'  furlough,  in  March,  1864,  and  recruited  its  ranks 
preparatory  to  the  spring  campaign.  It  returned  to  Yorktown  where  it  was  ordered  to  join  the  Eighteenth  Corps, 
General  Wm.  F.  Smith  commanding,  and  was  placed  in  Marston's  (ist)  Brigade,  Brooks's  (ist)  Division.  Under 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Raulston,  the  Eighty-first  distinguished  itself  in  the  assault  on  Cold  Harbor,  where  it  led  the 
brigade  in  the  charge,  but  with  a  loss  of  half  its  number.  In  this  battle  it  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  of  any 
infantry  regiment  on  the  field.  Larger  losses  occurred  in  some  of  the  heavy  artillery  regiments  engaged  there, 
but  they  had  three  times  as  many  men  in  line. 

In  July,  1864,  General  Stannard  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  First  Division  and  led  it  in  its  victorious 
assault  on  Fort  Harrison  (Chaffin's  Farm).  Upon  the  discontinuance  of  the  Eighteenth  Corps  the  regiment 
was  transferred  to  Ripley's  Brigade,  Devens's  Division  of  the  newly-formed  Twenty-fourth  Corps.  Colonel 
Raulston  commanded  the  brigade  at  the  battle  on  the  Darbytovvn  Road  and,  also,  at  other  times  and  places. 
The  regiment  was  mustered  out  August  3  i,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 

EIGHTY-SECOND  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY  —  SECOND  N.  Y.  S.  M. 
HARROW'S  BRIGADE    -  GIBBON'S  DIVISION -- SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  W.  TOMPKINS.  (2)  COL.  JAMES  HUSTON  (Killed).  (3)  COL.  HENRY  W.  HUDSON. 

Losses.                                                                                                                                            Officers.           En.  A/ en.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 10                 171  181 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 5                    59  64 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 24  24 


Totals 15  254  269 


Battles.                                                                                                                                Killed.  Wounded*  Missing.\      Totai. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 19  15  i  35 

Siege  of  Yorktown,  Va 2  . .  2 

Fair  Oaks,  Va i  o  6 1  .  .  71 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va 2  i  o  42  54 

Antietam,  Md 21  92  15  128 

Fredericksburg,  Va 7  14  2  23 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3  3  6 

Gettysburg,    Pa 45  132  15  192 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 7  19  . .  26 

Mine  Run,  Va i  .  .  i 

Wilderness,  Va 4  13  12  29 

Spotsylvania,  Va 6  37  51 

North  Anna,  and  Totopotomoy,  Va 4  . .  4 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 7  24  3  34 

Petersburg,  Va i  9  1 1 1  121 

•Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals 129  436  212  777 

Present,  also,  at  Blackburn's  Ford  ;  West  Point ;  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Glendale  ;  Malvern 
Hill ;  Po  River. 

NOTES. —  The  Second  Militia  commenced  recruiting  for  the  war,  April  15,  1861,  and  arrived  at  Washington, 
May  21,  1861.  The  regiment,  having  enlisted  for  three  years,  was  subsequently  designated  as  the  Eighty-second 
Volunteers.  It  was  stationed  near  the  Capital  until  July  3d,  when  it  crossed  into  Virginia,  having  been  assigned  to 
Schenck's  Brigade  of  Tyler's  Division,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  First  Bull  Run.  On  August  5,  1861,  the 
regiment  was  ordered  to  join  Gorman's  Brigade,  Stone's  Division,  Second  Corps,  in  which  command  ( ist  Brigade, 
2d  Division,  ad  A.  C.)  it  remained  without  further  change  during  its  subsequent  three  years  of  service.  At 
Antietam  this  division,  under  Sedgwick,  fought  at  the  Dunker  Church,  where  it  encountered  an  unusually  severe 
fire.  The  Eighty-second  took  339  men  into  that  fight,  of  whom  128  fell  under  the  terrible  musketry,  while  the 
division  sustained  one  of  the  largest  losses  encountered  by  any  division  in  any  one  battle  during  the  war. 

The  regiment  was  actively  engaged  at  Gettysburg,  and,  in  the  battle  of  the  second  and  third  days,  lost  192 
killed  or  wounded  out  of  the  365  who  entered  that  fight.  Colonel  Huston  was  killed  there,  and  the  brigade 
(Harrow's)  lost  over  sixty  percent,  of  its  men.  General  Webb  commanded  the  brigade  during  the  Wilderness 
campaign,  in  which  the  gallant  old  regiment  was  under  fire  almost  daily  until  June  25,  1864,  when  its  term  of 
enlistment  expired.  It  then  returned  home,  and  the  recruits  and  rei;nlisted  men  left  in  the  field  were  transferred 
to  the  Fifty-ninth  New  York. 


214  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

EIGHTY-THIRD   NEW   YORK   INFANTRY  --"  NINTH   MILITIA." 
BAXTER'S  BRIGADE  —  ROBINSON'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  W.  STILES.  (2)  COL.  JOHN  HBNDRICKSON  ;  BVT.  BHIG.-GKN.  (3)  COL.  JOSEPH  A.  MOESCH  (Killed). 


Losses. 

Officers. 

En.  Men. 

71 
15 

Total. 
'56 

73 
15 

Totals  

233 

244 

Battles.  Killed.       Wounded.*     Missing. \     Total. 

Harper's  Ferry,  Va 2  2  . .  4 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va i  i  •  •  2 

Thoroughfare  Gap,  Va i  5  6 

Manassas,  Va i  o  24  4  3  77 

South  Mountain,  Va i  J  •  •  2 

Antietam,  Md 6  105  3  114 

Fredericksburg,  Va 19  103  3  125 

Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing,  Va i  •  •  i 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3  i  4 

Gettysburg,    Pa 6  18  58  82 

Mine  Run,  Va i  29  30 

Wilderness,  Va 18  82  15  115 

Spotsylvania,  Va 29  94  5  128 

North  Anna,  Va ] 

Bethesda  Church,  Va.    )   ' 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i  ••  i 

""Includes  the  mortally  wounded.    1 1ncludes  the  captured. 

Totals 93  441  162  696 

NOTES. —  Originally  the  Ninth  New  York  State  Militia,  of  New  York  City.  It  volunteered  as  a  regiment,  and 
left  New  York  May  27,  1861.  During  the  first  year  of  the  war  it  served  in  Banks's  Division,  doing  duty  in  Mary 
land,  and  along  the  Potomac,  and  in  the  vicinity  of  Harper's  Ferry.  Although  known  officially  as  the  Eighty- 
third  Volunteers,  it  preferred  its  old  militia  number,  and  always  alluded  to  itself  as  the  "  Ninth."  During  Pope's 
campaign,  it  served  in  HartsufFs  (3d)  Brigade,  Ricketts's  (2d)  Division,  McDowell's  Corps,  and  was  hotly 
engaged  at  Manassas.  It  accompanied  the  First  Corps  through  all  the  hard  fighting  of  McClellan's  Maryland 
campaign,  and  then  —  in  Taylor's  Brigade,  Gibbon's  Division  —  fought  at  Fredericksburg,  where  it  suffered  its 
severest  loss.  Colonel  Hendrickson,  who  commanded  the  regiment  in  this  battle,  was  severely  wounded,  losing 
a  leg.  He  was  succeeded  by  Colonel  Moesch,  who  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness  while  leading  his  men  into  action. 
The  regiment,  though  small  in  numbers,  distinguished  itself  particularly  in  the  first  day's  battle  at  Gettysburg  by 
the  promient  part  which  it  took  in  the  capture  of  a  part  of  Iverson's  North  Carolina  Brigade,  an  affair  which 
forms  one  of  the  interesting  features  in  the  history  of  that  greatest  of  battles.  In  March,  1864,  the  First  Corps  was 
merged  into  the  Fifth  and  was  discontinued,  but  the  "  Ninth  "  still  remained  in  Baxter's  Brigade  of  Robinson's 
Division.  Both  Baxter  and  Robinson  were  severely  wounded  in  the  spring  campaign,  and  were  obliged  to 
relinquish  their  commands.  The  ranks  of  the  Ninth  were  again  badly  cut  up  in  the  fighting  at  Spotsylvania,  but 
on  June  7th  the  welcome  orders  to  start  for  home  were  received.  Only  107  officers  and  men  were  left  to  start  on 
the  homeward  march. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  215 


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EIGHTY-FOURTH  NEW  YORK  INFANTRY  -"FOURTEENTH   BROOKLYN." 
CUTLER'S  BRIGADE -- WADSWORTH'S  l)i  VISION  --FIRST  CORPS. 

(1)  COL.  ALFRED  M.  WOOD.  (2)  COL.  KDWAKD  B.  FOWLER;  BVT.  BRIO.-OKN. 


Losses, 
Killed  and  mortally  wounded  

Officers. 
8 

/.//.  Men. 

Total. 
ifii 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc  

'54 

I  02 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  

59 

59 

10 

Totals 


Battles.  Killed, 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 23 

Falls  Church,  Va 2 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va 2 

Manassas,  Va 7 

South  Mountain,  Mil 5 

Antietam,  Md 6 

Fredericksburg,  Va i 

Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 13 

Mine  Run,  Va 

Wilderness,  Va i 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  8th 7 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  loth 6 

On  Picket i 

•Includes  the  mortally  wounded.    4  Includes  the  captured. 

Totals 76  432  209  717 

Present,  also,  at  White  Sulphur  Springs  ;  Gainesville  ;  Groveton  ;  Chancellorsville. 

NOTES. —  Known  also  as  the  Brooklyn  Zouaves  or  "  Red  Legs."  Although  the  regiment  had  existed  before 
the  war  as  the  Fourteenth  of  the  State  Militia  or  National  Guard,  it  became  the  Eighty-fourth  of  the  line  in  the 
volunteer  service.  It  was  ready  for  the  field  on  April  18,  1861,  but  marching  orders  were  not  received  until  May 
1 8th,  when  it  proceeded  to  Washington.  Its  volunteer  number  was  furnished  later,  but  it  was  not  accepted; 
hence,  it  was  known  by  both  numbers.  The  regiment  fought  at  First  Bull  Run,  and,  a  year  later,  under  Colonel 
Fowler,  sustained  another  and  a  heavy  loss  on  the  same  field.  At  Antietam,  under  command  of  Major  DeBevoise, 
it  entered  the  fight  with  about  one  hundred  men,  and  "  the  gallant  regiment  "  was  awarded  "  fresh  laurels"  there, 
in  the  official  report  of  General  Hatch,  the  division  general.  At  the  first  day's  battle  at  Gettysburg,  the  Four 
teenth  attained  a  place  in  history  by  its  efficiency  under  fire,  the  ability  of  its  colonel,  and  its  important  service 
rendered  there  ;  its  tactical  manoeuvres  and  prompt  action  on  that  field  are  mentioned  in  every  account  of  that  battle. 

The  regiment  was  one  of  the  very  first  to  open  fire  in  that  engagement,  and,  in  connection  with  the  Ninety- 
fifth  New  York  and  Sixth  Wisconsin —  forming  a  demi-brigade  under  command  of  Fowler  —  distinguished  itself 
at  the  railroad  cut  in  the  capture  of  Davis's  Mississippi  Brigade. 

The  regiment  was  favorably  known  in  winter-quarters  as  well  as  on  the  field  ;  and  while  encamped  near  Culpeper 
in  1864-5, tne  "  Brooklyn  Boys"  gave  a  series  of  Minstrel  Entertainments,  which  were  enjoyed  and  patronized  by 
the  Corps,  from  headquarters  to  the  wagon  train.  The  "  Fourteenth  "  fought  in  the  Wilderness  Campaign, 
many  of  the  men  falling  at  Spotsylvania  while  expecting  hourly  the  orders  to  march  homeward  for  muster-out. 
On  May  22,  1864,  the  welcome  order  was  received,  and  the  bronzed  and  battle-scarred  battalion  returned  to 
Brooklyn,  where  it  was  greeted  with  the  grandest  ovation  of  the  war. 


210 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


EIGHTY-SIXTH  NEW  YORK  INFANTRY  --"  STEUBEN  RANGERS. 
WARD'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  BENAJAH  F.  BAILEY 

(2)  COL.  BENJAMIN  L.  HIGGINS. 


(3)  COL.  JACOB  II.  LANSING. 

(4)  COL.  NATHAN  II.  VINCENT. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

2 
2 
I 

3 

•    • 

I? 

12 

16 

6 

J9 

i5 
26 

J7 

13 

18 

3 
17 

J3 
16 

7 
J9 

i5 
28 

X9 
M 

21 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

•  • 

9 
M 
18 
ii 
10 
8 
16 

20 
I  I 

12 

•    * 

9 
M 
18 
1  1 
10 
8 

J7 
20 

\  i 
J3 

12 
130 
124 
136 

"5 

131 

124 

i39 
i33 
i39 

i25 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T  . 

K  

Totals  

i3 

159 

172 

2 

129 

*3T 

1,318' 

172  killed  =  13.0  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed    and  wounded,  611  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  n. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 5 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault  1864) 4 

Jones  House,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 i 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 12 

Deep  Bottom,  Va i 

Boydton  Road,  Va 6 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.  (1865) : 

Farmville,  Va 3 

Place  unknown 2 


BATTLES.  K.  icM.  W. 

Manassas,  Va 23 

Chancellorsville,  Va 14 

Beverly  Ford,  Va 6 

Gettysburg,  Pa 20 

Mine  Run,  Va 6 

Wilderness,  Va 1 6 

Po  River,  Va 32 

Spotsylvania,  Va. 15 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Present,  also,  at  Fredericksburg  ;  Wapping  Heights  ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Poplar  Spring  Church  ; 
White  Oak  Road  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Organized  in  October,  1861,  at  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  from  companies  recruited  principally  in  Steuben 
county,  with  some  from  Chemung  and  Onondaga.  After  leaving  Elmira  the  regiment  was  stationed  at  Washing 
ton,  where  it  performed  guard  duty  for  several  months.  It  took  the  field  in  August,  1862, —  in  Piatt's  Brigade 
-  and  was  engaged  at  Manassas,  where  it  lost  13  killed,  67  wounded,  and  38  missing.  At  Fredericksburg,  then 
in  Whipple's  Division,  Third  Corps,  it  was  slightly  engaged,  a  few  men  being  wounded  there  ;  but  at  Chancellors 
ville  the  Eighty-sixth  was  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight ;  in  that  battle  the  intrepid  Lieutenant- Colonel  Chapin  was 
killed,  and  Major  Higgins  was  seriously  wounded.  With  sadly  diminished  ranks  the  men  marched  on  the 
field  at  Gettysburg,  where  they  again  faced  the  enemy's  rifles  until  one-third  of  their  number  had  fallen ;  its  loss 
there  was  u  killed,  51  wounded,  and  4  missing.  The  regiment  reenlisted,  and  in  January,  1864,  went  home  on 
the  customary  veterans'  furlough.  Having  been  transferred  to  the  Second  Corps,  it  fought  under  Hancock  in  the 
campaigns  of  1864.  It  sustained  itself  gallantly  in  a  sharp  fight  at  the  Po  River,  losing  96  men  there,  and  suf 
fering  the  severest  percentage  of  loss  of  any  regiment  in  that  action.  It  lost  201  men  during  the  first  three  weeks 
of  the  Wilderness  campaign  —  May  6th  to  the  25th.  Its  casualties  during  the  siege  of  Petersburg  were  also 
very  large ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Stafford,  a  brave  and  popular  officer  was  killed  there.  The  Eighty-sixth  fairly^ 
earned  its  reputation  as  "the  fighting  regiment  of  the  Southern  Tier." 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  217 

EIGHTY-EIGHTH   NEW  YORK   INFANTRY. 
IRISH  BRIGADE  —  HANCOCK'S  DIVISION -- SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  M.  UAKEH.  (8)  COL.  PATRICK  KKLLY,  B.  «.  (Killed).  (8)  COL.  DENIS  F.  BURKE ;  BVT.  BRIG.-<JKN. 

Losses.  Officers.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 15  136  151 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 3  51  54 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 1 8  1 8 


Totals  ........................      1  8  205  223 


Battles.  Killed.      IVountied*     Afissittf.-^      Total. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va  ...................................................       6  19  .  .  25 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va  ..................................................  i  .  .  i 

Savage  Station,  Va  ...............................................        i  20  55  76 

White  Oak  Swamp,  Va  ............................................        2  i  o  7  19 

Malvern  Hill,  Va  ................................................       5  28  .  .  33 

Antietam,  Md  ...................................................      27  75  .  .  102 

Fredericksburg,  Va  ...............................................      17  97  13  127 

Chancellorsville,  Va  ..............................................        3  23  20  46 

Gettysburg,  Pa.  (2  Cos.)  ..........................................        7  17  4  28 

Bristoe  Station,  Va  .................................................  i  i  2 

Mine  Run,  Va  ....................................................  .  .  i  i 

Wilderness,  Va  ..................................................      10  38  4  52 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  i2th  .......................................        i  15  3  19 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  1  8th  .......................................        i  5  6 

Totopotomoy,  Va  ..................................................  10  ..  10 

Cold  Harbor,  Va  ................................................       3  .  •  1  1 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va  ...........................................        9  41  32  82 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.  (5  Cos.),  August  14-18,  1864  ......................        i  12  13 

Ream's  Station,  Va  ................................................  3  12  15 

Boydton  Road,  Va  ...............................................       3  1  1  •  •  14 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va  ................................................        i  i 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals  ...................      97  435  »52  684 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  North  Anna  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 
NOTES.  —  Fourth  regiment,  Irish  Brigade  ;  a  brigade  which  never  lost  a  flag,  although  it  captured  over  twenty 
stands  of  colors  from  the  enemy.  At  Fredericksburg  the  Eighty-eighth,  in  company  with  the  brigade,  partici 
pated  in  the  gallant  but  unsuccessful  assault  on  Marye's  Heights.  The  brigade  was  then  commanded  by  General 
Meagher,  and  the  division  by  General  Hancock.  While  in  line  at  Fredericksburg  awaiting  the  order  for  the  assault, 
little  sprigs  of  green  were  distributed  among  the  men,  every  officer  and  man  in  the  brigade,  including  Meagher 
and  his  staff,  placing  one  in  his  cap.  After  the  assault  had  failed,  a  long,  well-aligned  row  of  dead  lay  on  the  crest 
of  the  hill  within  a  few  yards  of  the  Confederate  breastworks,  and  by  each  pale  dead  face  was  a  sprig  of  Irish 
green.  The  brigade  became  so  reduced  by  losses  that  the  Sixty-third,  Sixty-ninth,  and  Eighty-eighth  were, 
shortly  before  Gettysburg,  consolidated  into  two  companies  each.  At  that  battle,  the  brigade  halted  for  a  few 
moments,  just  as  it  neared  the  "  wheatfield,"  and  knelt  with  uncovered  heads  while  Father  Corby,  the  Chaplain  of 
the  Eighty-eighth,  gave  them  his  benediction  ;  the  men,  rising  to  their  feet,  went  into  action  immediately. 
Colonel  Kelly,  who  commanded  the  brigade  at  Gettysburg,  was  afterwards  killed  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg, 
where  he  was  again  in  command  of  the  brigade.  Major  William  Horgan  fell  at  Fredericksburg  in  the  desperate 
assault  on  Marye's  Heights. 


218  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

NINETY-THIRD  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY -- "MORGAN   RIFLES." 
HAYS'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  -  -  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  S.  CKOCKER  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN.  (3)  COL.  SAMUEL  McCONIHE  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(2)  COL.  BENJAMIN  C.  BUTLER.  (4)  COL.  HAVILAND  GIFFORD. 


Losses. 

Officers. 

6 

En.  Men 
I2O 

118 

12 

Total. 
126 
I2O 
12 

Totals 8  250  258 

Battles.                                                                                                                               Killed.  Wounded*  Missing. \      Total. 

Harrison's  Landing,  Va  •«<•.» 3  . .  3 

Wilderness,  Va 42  213  5  260 

Spotsylvania,  Va 3  37  5  45 

North  Anna,  Va 4  17  2  23 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2  10  2  14 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i  4  . .  5 

Assault  on  Petersburg,  Va.  (1864) 5  20  1 1  36 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 13  23  21  57 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 2  18  51  71 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 3  . .  3 

Boydton  Road,  Va 4  18  30  52 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 5  30  . .  35 

*Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured.  

Totals 8 1  396  127  604 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Williamsburg  ;  Tunstall's  Station  ;  Antietam  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Peebles's  Farm  ; 
Hatcher's  Run  ;  Jettersville  ;  High  Bridge  ;  Appomattox. 

Present,  also,  as  Headquarters  Guard,  at  Seven  Days'  Battle ;  Fredericksburg ;  Chancellorsville  ;  Gettysburg  ; 
Mine  Run. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Albany  in  January,  1862,  from  companies  recruited  principally  in  Washington  county. 
It  was  formed  by  uniting  four  companies  of  sharpshooters,  which  had  been  recruited  through  the  efforts  of  Lieu 
tenant-Colonel  B.  C.  Butler,  with  companies  formed  under  the  superintendence  of  Colonel  Crocker.  The  regi 
ment  left  Albany  on  the  i4th  of  February,  1862,  with  998  rank  and  file,  going  to  New  York,  where  it  encamped 
on  Riker's  Island  until  March  7th,  when  it  went  to  Washington.  Upon  its  arrival  there  it  was  attached  to 
Palmer's  Brigade  of  Casey's  Division,  and  on  March  30,  1862  embarked  at  Alexandria  for  the  Peninsula  campaign. 
The  Ninety-third  was  detailed,  May  21,  1862,  as  a  guard  at  General  Headquarters,  and  was  retained  on  that  duty 
successively  by  Generals  Burnside,  Hooker  and  Meade.  The  regiment  was  among  the  first  to  reenlist,  going 
home  in  January,  1864,  on  the  usual  thirty  days'  furlough  allowed  to  veteran  or  reenlisted  regiments.  After  nearly 
two  years'  service  at  Army  Headquarters,  it  was  ordered  on  April  19,  1864,  to  report  to  General  Birney's  Division  for 
duty,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Hays's(2d)  Brigade.  Under  command  of  Colonel  Crocker,  the  regiment  earned  new 
laurels  at  the  Wilderness,  in  which  it  lost  17  officers  and  243  men  killed  and  wounded,  out  of  433  who  were 
engaged,  its  gallantry  in  battle  eliciting  the  hearty  thanks  of  its  division  commander.  The  Ninety-third  was  a 
great  favorite  at  headquarters  on  account  of  its  superior  discipline,  drill,  and  general  efficiency.  Having  reenlisted 
at  the  expiration  of  its  three  years'  term,  it  preserved  its  organization  through  the  war,  and  was  mustered  out 
June  29,  1865. 


THRKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


MNF.TY-SKVKNTH  NKNV  VOKK  INFANTRY     "CONKLING  RIFLES." 

BAXTER'S  BRIGADE -- ROBINSON'S  DIVISION-    FIRST  CORPS. 


0)  COL.  CHARLES  WHEELOCK  ;  BVT.  BKKI.-GKN.  (Died). 


(2)  Coi..  JOHN  P.  8POFFORD;  BVT.  BUIO.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEAHK,  ACCIDENTH,  IN  PUIHON,  &r. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

• 
• 

3 
i 

i 

2 
2 

• 

•     • 

9 
'7 
'3 
'5 

'5 
26 

16 

17 
16 

25 

I 
IO 

17 

13 

18 

16 

27 
18 

19 
16 

26 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
* 

• 

•     • 

'5 
14 

'5 
1  1 

1  6 

'4 

!3 

19 

23 
16 

I 

»S 

M 

'5 
1  1 

16 
M 

'3 

iQ 

23 
16 

'57 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  . 

G  

H  

T 

K  

Totals  

I  2 

169 

181 

I 

'56 

Total 
Enrollment. 


'9 

187 

20 1 

2<5 

222 
l89 
222 
2O4 
220 
207 
219 

2,105 


K.&M.W. 

White  Oak  Swamp,  Va.  (1864) i 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) i  2 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 1 6 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 10 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 

Gravelly  Run,  Va 2 

Five  Forks,  Va $ 

Picket  Line,  Va i 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  704  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  51. 
BATTLES.  K.&M.W.  BATTM  - 

Manassas,  Va 15 

South  Mountain,  Md 3 

Antietam,  Md 37 

Fredericksburg,  Va 6 

Gettysburg,  Pa 1 6 

Wilderness,  Va 25 

Spotsylvania,  Va 14 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 1 1 

Present,  also,  at  Cedar  Mountain;  Rappahannock ;  Thoroughfare  Gap ;  Chancellorsville ;  Mine  Run; 
Totopotomoy ;  White  Oak  Road  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Known  also  as  the  Third  Oneida,  being  composed  almost  wholly  of  men  from  Oneida  and  Herki- 
mer  counties.  It  was  mustered  in  at  Boonville,  N.  V.,  on  Febniary  19,  1862,  leaving  that  place  on  March  i2th. 
It  arrived  at  the  National  Capital  on  the  zoth,  where  it  went  into  camp  at  Fort  Corcoran.  In  April,  1862,  it  was 
assigned  to  DuryeVs  Brigade,  and  in  May  took  the  field  with  Ricketts's  Division  of  McDowell's  Corps.  The 
Ninety-seventh  was  under  fire  at  Cedar  Mountain  and  at  Rappahannock,  losing  a  few  wounded  men  in  those  en 
gagements  ;  but  at  Manassas,  under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Spofford,  it  was  actively  engaged,  losing  7 
killed,  42  wounded,  and  62  captured  or  missing  ;  total,  1 1 1.  The  regiment  suffered  its  severest  loss  at  Antietam, 
where  it  *as  commanded  by  Major  Northrup,  its  casualties  in  that  action  amounting  to  24  killed,  74  wounded, 
and  9  missing;  total,  107.  The  Ninety-seventh  —  then  in  Robinson's  Division,  Baxter's  Brigade  —  made  a 
gallant  and  successful  charge  at  Gettysburg,  capturing  the  colors  of  the  Twentieth  North  Carolina  and  382  men. 
Its  loss  in  that  battle  was  12  killed,  36  wounded,  and  78  missing  or  captured.  The  regiment  was  transferred  to 
the  Fifth  Corps  in  March,  1864,  and  served  afterwards  in  that  corps  until  the  end  of  the  war.  It  was  hotly 
engaged  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  in  which  it  lost  1 5  killed,  71  wounded,  and  13  missing  ;  and  at  Spotsylvania, 
where  it  lost  6  killed,  67  wounded,  and  2  missing.  In  its  various  battles  two  color-bearers  were  killed  and  three 
wounded,  while  twenty  more  were  killed  or  wounded  in  the  color-guard.  The  Ninety-seventh  served  in  the 
Second  Division  (First  Corps),  known  successively  as  Ricketts's,  Gibbon's,  Robinson's,  and  Crawford's  (5th  A.  C.). 


220  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

ONE   HUNDREDTH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
PLAISTKD'S  BRIGADE  —  TERRY'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  M.  BROWN  (Killed).  (2)  Coi..  GEORGE  B.  DANDY,  &.  «.;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN.,  U.  S.  A. 


Losses.  Officers.  En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 12  182  194 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc i  131  i32 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 71  7 x 

Totals _£3_  384  _397 

Battles.  Killed.      Wounded*     Missing. \      Total. 

On  Picket,  Va.,  May  30,  1862 2  3  ..  5 

Fair  Oaks, Va '•  •  19  86  71  J76 

Yorktown,  Va.,  Nov.  15,  1862 i  3  3  7 

Folly  Island,  S.  C i  •  •  •  •  i 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.,  July  1 8,  1863 49  97  29  J75 

Siege  of  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C 1 1  3 J  7  49 

Walthall  Junction,  Va 2  15  4  21 

Proctor's  Creek,  Va )  g  iofi 
Drewry's  Bluff,  Va.  ) 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va i  5  •  •  6 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 6  50  25  81 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 4  23  •  •  27 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va i  i  2 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  7,  1864 i  7 

Fair  Oaks,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 i  13  3  J7 

Fort  Gregg,  Va.,  April  2,  1865 14  58  ••  72 

*Includes  tho  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured.  

Totals 1 20  498  288  906 

Present,  also,  at  AVilliamsburg  ;  Bottom's  Bridge  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Wood's  Cross  Roads  ; 
Cole's  Island  ;  Morris  Island  ;  Bermuda  Hundred  ;  Grover  House  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Pursuit  of  Lee  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  One  Hundredth  was  recruited  in  Buffalo,  and  on  March  7,  1862,  started  from  there,  960 
strong,  arriving  at  Washington  March  i2th.  It  embarked  on  March  2ist  for  Fort  Monroe,  where  it  joined 
General  McClellan's  Army,  having  been  assigned  to  Naglee's  (ist)  Brigade,  Casey's  (2d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps. 
Colonel  Brown  was  killed  at  Fair  Oaks,  after  which  Colonel  George  B.  Dandy,  of  the  Regular  Army,  was  assigned 
to  the  command  of  the  regiment. 

The  One  Hundredth  was  present  at  all  the  operations  in  Ch  »-leston  Harbor  in  June,  1863,  and,  under  com 
mand  of  Colonel  Dandy,  shared  in  the  desperate  assault  on  Fort  Wagner.  In  this  action  the  regiment  behaved 
with  signal  gallantry,  and  although  the  attack  was  unsuccessful,  the  flag  of  the  One  Hundredth — 'the  one  pre 
sented  by  the  Board  of  Trade,  Buffalo  —  was  planted  on  the  fort,  the  daring  color-sergeant  falling  dead  beside  it. 
In  May,  1864  —  then  in  Plaisted's  (3d)  Brigade,  Terry's  (ist)  Division,  Tenth  Corps  —  the  regiment  sailed  up 
the  James  River  with  Butler's  Army,  and  was  subsequently  engaged  in  all  its  battles.  In  December,  1864  the 
Tenth  Corps  was  discontinued,  and  the  regiment  became  a  part  of  Plaisted's  (3d)  Brigade,  Foster's  (ist)  Division, 
Twenty-fourth  Corps.  At  the  Fall  of  Petersburg,  April  2,  1865,  it  made  a  gallant  and  successful  assault  on  Fort 
Gregg,  in  which  Major  James  H.  Dandy,  an  able  and  meritorious  officer,  was  killed.  In  July,  1865,  the  regi 
ment  was  consolidated  with  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-eighth  and  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-eighth  New  York 
Volunteers,  and  on  August  28th,  following,  was  mustered  out  of  service. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


221 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTH  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY    -"2o  ST.  LAWRENCE." 
MORRIS'S  BRIGADE  --  RICKETTS'S  DIVISION-    SIXTH 


(1)  COL.  EDWAKD  C.  JAMES. 


(2)  COL.  FREDERICK  K.  EMBKICK. 


(*)  COL.  ANDREW  X.  McDOXALD. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOI-NDS. 

DIED  or  DIHEADE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IIIHON,  Ac. 

Totul 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  >fflrera. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

2 

• 

I 

2 

I 
I 

2 

I 

15 
I  I 

16 
M 

12 

7 

10 

15 

10 

16 

2 

15 
'3 

16 

15 

14 
8 
1  1 

»5 

12 

16 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 
I 

• 
• 

I 

*5 

20 

15 

16 

18 

M 

i? 
16 

18 
1  6 

2 

'5 

20 

15 

17 
1(; 
'5 

»7 
16 

18 
16 

'5 
136 
148 

*43 
138 

'37 
128 

'31 

i34 
132 

I25 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

10 

127 

»37 

4 

1  66 

170 

i>367 

137  killed  —  10.0  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  492  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  52. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Fairmont,  W.  Va 3 

Martinsburg,  \V.  Va i 

Culpeper,  Va.,  Oct.  1 1 ,  1863 3 

Mine  Run,  Va 3 

Wilderness,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 13 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 35 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 i 


BATTLED.  K.A-M.\\. 

Monocacy,  Md 30 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 2 

Opequon,  Va 1 1 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va i 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 15 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 12 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va i 

On  Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  31,1 863 i 


Present,  also,  at  Wapping  Heights  ;  Siege  of  Petersburg  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  One  Hundred  and  Sixth  was  a  St.  Lawrence  county  regiment,  organized  at  Ogdensburg, 
N.  Y.  It  was  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  on  August  27,  1862,  for  three  years.  In  September,  1862, 
it  was  ordered  to  New  Creek,  W.  Va.  Companies  I)  and  F  were  captured,  April  29,  1863,  at  Fairmont,  W.  Va., 
where  they  defended  a  railroad  bridge  for  several  hours  against  a  large  force  of  Confederates.  The  captured 
men  were  immediately  released  on  parole.  The  regiment  left  North  Mountain,  June  13,  1863,  and,  with  the 
other  troops  in  that  vicinity,  retired  before  the  advance  of  Lee's  army.  It  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac, 
July  10,  1863,  while  near  Frederick,  Md.,  and  with  other  new  material  was  organized  as  the  Third  Division 
(Carr's)  of  the  Third  Corps.  This  division  was  transferred,  in  March,  1864,  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  and  its  com 
mand  given  to  General  Ricketts. 

While  in  the  Sixth  Corps  the  regiment  saw  hard  service  and  almost  continuous  fighting.  At  ('old  Harbor  it 
lost  23  killed,  88  wounded,  and  23  missing, —  Lieutenant-Colonel  Charles  Townsend  and  three  other  officers 
being  among  the  killed.  The  Corps  was  ordered  soon  after  to  Maryland,  where,  at  the  battle  of  Monocacy,  the 
regiment  sustained  another  severe  loss.  It  was  actively  engaged  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  in  all  the  battles  of 
the  Corps,  and  then,  returning  to  Petersburg,  participated  in  the  final  campaign.  At  Spotsylvania  the  casualties 
in  the  regiment  aggregated  6  killed  and  32  wounded  ;  at  the  Opequon,  6  killed,  45  wounded,  and  3  missing  ;  and 
at  Cedar  Creek,  8  killed  and  45  wounded.  General  Ricketts  was  wounded  at  Cedar  Creek,  after  which  the 
division  was  commanded  by  General  Seymour. 


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KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND   NINTH   NEW  YOEK   INFANTEY. 
HARTRANFT'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  BENJAMIN  F.  TRACY  ;  BVT.  BRIO.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  ISAAC  S.  CATLIN  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 
• 

2 

• 
• 

2 

• 
• 
• 

I 

•  • 

18 

12 

15 
17 

17 
17 

M 
28 
10 
12 

•     • 

18 

12 

17 

'7 
i? 
19 
M 

28 

10 

13 

• 
• 
• 

• 

•     • 

17 

M 

J9 

M 
14 
M 

12 
21 
14 

25 

•    • 

17 

14 

J9 
M 
M 

14 

I  2 
21 
M 

25 

17 

127 

I36 

'54 

124 

I25 
123 

J35 
130 

136 
146 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

5 

I  60 

'65 

• 

164 

164 

i,353 

165  killed  =  12. i  per  cent. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  614  •  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  41. 
BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 12 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va • 9 

Poplar  Spring  Church.  Va i 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 7 

On  Picket,  Va i 


Wilderness,  Va 21 

Spotsylvania,  Va 48 

Hanovertown,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  1 7,  1 864 45 

Petersburg,  Va.,  Mine  Explosion 15 

Present,  also,  at  Ny  River  ;  North  Anna  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Bethesda  Church  ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ; 
Fort  Stedman. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  and  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  on  August  28,  1862. 
The  companies  were  raised  in  the  Twenty-fourth  Senatorial  District  —  Broome,  Tompkins  and  Tioga  counties. 
The  regiment  left  Binghamton  promptly,  proceeding  to  Annapolis  Junction,  Md.,  where  it  was  placed  on  guard- 
duty  along  the  line  of  railroad  to  Washington,  a  few  of  the  companies  being  stationed  at  Laurel,  Md.  It 
remained  there  the  rest  of  the  year  and  during  all  of  1863.  In  the  spring  of  1864,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to 
join  the  Ninth  Corps,  then  assembling  at  Annapolis,  and  it  accordingly  took  the  field  in  the  ranks  of  that  battle- 
tried  command.  It  was  assigned  to  Hartranft's  (ist)  Brigade,  Willcox's  (3d)  Division — aftervvard's  Harriman's 
Brigade  of  Willcox's  (ist)  Division.  Colonel  Tracy  resigned  May  20,  1864,  and  Colonel  Catlin,  a  gallant  and 
meritorious  officer,  succeeded  to  the  command.  The  corps  left  Annapolis,  April  23,  1864,  and  crossing  the  Rapi- 
dan  on  May  51)1,  the  One  Hundred  and  Ninth  was  engaged  the  next  day  at  the  Wilderness,  in  its  first  battle, 
where  it  lost  1 1  killed,  64  wounded,  and  i  missing.  In  the  charge  of  the  Ninth  Corps  at  Spotsylvania,  the  regi 
ment  lost  25  killed,  86  wounded,  and  29  missing;  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  17,  1864,  26  killed,  81 
wounded,  and  20  missing;  at  the  Mine  Explosion,  July  30,  1864,  n  killed,  24  wounded,  and  18  missing;  and 
at  the  Weldon  Railroad,  August  19,  1864,  7  killed,  12  wounded,  and  i  missing.  The  regiment  was  under  fire 
at  the  battle  on  the  Boydton  Road,  October  27,  1864,  with  a  slight  loss  in  wounded  and  missing,  but  none  killed. 
It  suffered  severely  while  in  the  trenches  before  Petersburg,  where  for  several  weeks  it  lost  men  daily,  either 
killed  or  wounded.  During  its  eleven  months  in  the  field  the  hard  fighting  cost  the  regiment  614  men  in  killed 
and  wounded,  aside  from  the  missing  or  prisoners.  It  was  mustered  out  of  service  June  4,  1865. 


TlIKKE    liUNDKED    Fl<iHTlN(J    KKiil.MKM- 


223 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND   ELEVENTH   NEW  YORK   INFANTRY. 
WILLAKD'S  BRIGADE  —  HAYS'S  DIVISION --SECOND  C 


(1)  COLONEL  JESSE  8EUO1M-: 


(2)  COL.  CLINTON  D.  McDOUUALL;  BvT.Bmu.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIKII  UK  \\  ..i  M.- 

DIKD  or  I)I*KA 
t  )fll<%om. 

SB,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  PitinoN,  &<•. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Offloen. 

Men. 

Total. 

Men. 

Total. 

Kiclil  and  Staff  

2 

2 
2 

I 

3 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
27 
10 

•5 

22 

28 

'4 
31 

22 

'9 
21 

I 
29 
IO 

'7 
^4 
29 

i/ 
31 

22 

'9 

2  I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
I 

• 

1 

• 
• 

•    • 

22 

I  I 

18 

3° 
'7 
'5 
'3 
16 

1  8 
1  8 

•    • 

22 
I  I 

1  8 

3' 

'7 
16 

'3 
16 

18 

18 

i  So 

'3 
199 

142 

'77 
1  86 

172 
1  80 
1  88 

^3 
169 

•7' 
1,780 

Company    \  

B   

c 

D  

E  

F 

G 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

10 

210 

22O 

2 

178 

220  killed  ==  12.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  778  ;  died   in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  74. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 1 6 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 5 

Ream's  Station,  Va i 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 7 

Sutherland  Station,  Va 10 

On  Picket,  June  1 1 ,  1 864 i 

Morton's  Ford  ;  Deep  Bottom  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ; 


BATTLE*).  K.&M.W. 

Bolivar  Heights,  Va 5 

Gettysburg,  Pa 88 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 4 

Wilderness,  Va 59 

Spotsylvania,  Va 15 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Totopotomoy,  Va 4 

Present,  also,  at  Auburn  ;  Cold  Harbor ;  Mine  Run 
Hatcher's  Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  from  companies  recruited  in  Cayuga  and  Wayne  counties.  The  regi 
ment  was  mustered  into  service  on  August  20,  1862,  and  left  Auburn  the  following  day  for  Harper's  Ferry,  where, 
after  joining  that  ill-fated  garrison,  it  was  included  in  its  surrender  shortly  afterwards.  The  men  were  released 
on  parole,  but  were  not  declared  exchanged  until  December,  1862,  when  they  entered  the  field  again,  and  went 
into  winter  quarters  at  Centreville,  Va.,  remaining  there  several  months  in  a  brigade  commanded  by 
General  Alex.  Hays.  On  June  25,  1863,  the  brigade  joined  the  Second  Corps  which  was  then  marching  by 
on  its  way  to  Gettysburg.  The  regiment  left  two  companies  on  guard  at  Accotink  Bridge  ;  with  the  remaining 
eight  companies,  numbering  390  men,  it  was  engaged  at  Gettysburg  on  the  second  day  of  the  battle,  in  the  bril 
liant  and  successful  charge  of  Willard's  Brigade,  losing  there  58  killed,  177  wounded,  and  14  missing  ;  total,  249. 
The  regiment  did  some  more  good  fighting  at  the  Wilderness,  where  it  lost  42  killed,  1 19  wounded,  and  i  7  miss 
ing  ;  total,  178  —  over  half  of  its  effective  strength.  Its  casualties  in  the  fighting  around  Spotsylvania  amounted 
to  22  killed,  37  wounded,  and  13  missing.  From  Gettysburg  until  the  end,  the  regiment  fought  under  Hancock 
in  the  Second  Corps,  participating  in  every  battle  of  that  command.  While  on  the  Gettysburg  campaign,  and 
subsequently  at  Bristoe  Station,  Mine  Run  and  Morton's  Ford,  the  regiment  was  attached  to  the  Third  Brigade, 
Third  Division  (Alex.  Hays's).  Just  before  the  Wilderness  campaign  it  was  placed  in  Frank's  (3(1)  Brigade, 
Barlow's  (ist)  Division.  This  brigade  (Frank's)  was  also  composed  entirely  of  New  York  troops,  the  39th, 
1 1  ith,  125111  and  i26th,  to  which  were  added  in  April,  1864,  the  52d  and  57th  ;  and,  later  on,  the  7th  N.  Y. ; 
all  crack  fighting  regiments. 


224 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  TWELFTH  NEW  YORK  INF.— "  CHAUTAUQUA  KEG'T." 

* 

CURTIS'S  BRIGADE  —  AMES'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JERMIAH  C.  DRAKE  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  F.  SMITH  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  EPHRAIM  A.  LUDWICK. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 
I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 
I 

I 

•     • 

10 

7 

i? 

18 

M 

12 
12 

T9 

3 

IO 

3 
ii 

7 
18 

18 
M 

12 

13 
20 

4 
ii 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

12 
26 
2O 

M 
26 
12 

18 

16 

25 

20 

3 

12 
26 
2O 

14 

27 
12 

18 
16 

25 
20 

16 
144 
136 
171 

146 

154 

143 
145 

J57 

*33 
136 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Toials  

9 

122 

T3J 

3 

190 

193 

1,481 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  451  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  23. 
BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W.  BATTLES. 

I 


Deserted  House,  Va 

Suffolk,  Va 

Carrsville,  Va 

Black's  Island,  S.  C 
Fort  Wagner,  S.  C . 

Olustee,  Fla 

Proctor's  Creek,  Va 


K.&M.W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 54 

3           Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 18 

i           Chaffm's  Farm,  Va 14 

1  Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 1 1 

2  Hatcher's  Run,  Va i 

i           Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 15 

3  Faissons,  N.C i 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 4           Picket  Line i 

Present,  also,  at  Seabrook ;  John's  Island  ;  Petersburg  Mine  ;  Cape  Fear  ;  Fort  Anderson  ;  Wilmington. 

NOTES. — Upon  its  organization,  the  command  of  the  regiment  was  tendered  to  Colonel  Drake,  who  was  then 
a  captain  in  the  Forty-ninth  New  York  Infantry.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Rochester  University,  a  clergyman,  and 
had  left  the  pastorale  of  a  Baptist  Church  in  Westfield,  N  Y.,  at  the  first  call  for  troops.  The  One  Hundred  and 
Twelfth  was  organized  at  Jamestown,  N.  Y.,  from  companies  raised  in  Chautauqua  county,  and  was  mustered  into 
the  United  States  service,  September  ii,  1862.  The  regiment  embarked,  September  16,  1862,  for  Fort  Monroe, 
proceeding  from  there  to  Suffolk,  Va.,  where  it  sustained  a  severe  loss  by  disease.  In  June,  1863 — then  in 
Foster's  Brigade  of  Getty's  Division  —  the  regiment  marched  up  the  Peninsula  on  a  campaign  memorable  for 
the  heat  and  long,  rapid  marches.  In  August,  1863,  it  went  to  Folly  Island,  S.  C.,  taking  part  in  the  operations 
about  Charleston  Harbor;  then,  on  February  23,  1864,  sailed  for  Florida,  encamping  at  Jacksonville  until  April 
2ist,  when  the  Division  embarked  for  the  battle-fields  of  Virginia.  Arriving  at  Yorktown,  it  was  assigned  to 
Drake's  (2d)  Brigade,  Ames's  (3d)  Division,  Tenth  Corps,  Army  of  the  James,  and  soon  after  sailed  up  the 
James  River  to  Bermuda  Hundred,  where  it  disembarked  on  the  6th  of  May.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Carpenter,  a 
very  popular  officer,  was  mortally  wounded  at  Drewry's  Bluff  (May  i6th),  and  Colonel  Drake,  who  was  in  com 
mand  of  the  brigade,  was  killed  at  Cold  Harbor,  where,  in  an  assault,  the  regiment  lost  28  killed,  "140  wounded, 
and  12  missing.  At  Chaffin's  Farm,  its  casualty  list  showed  6  killed,  38  wounded,  and  16  missing;  and 
at  Darbytown  Road,  4  killed,  28  wounded,  and  3  missing.  In  December,  1864,  it  sailed  with  Ames's 
Division  to  Fort  Fisher,  N.  C.,  where  it  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  assault  on  that  stronghold,  and  where 
Colonel  Smith  was  killed. 


TIIKKK  HUNDRED  FKJHTIM;  RBODOEMTS. 


ONE   HUNDRED  AND   FOURTEENTH  NEW   YORK   INFANTRY. 
BEAL'S  BRIGADE-  -  DWKJHT'S  DIVISION- -  NINETEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ELISIIA  B.  SMITH  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  SAMUEL  It.  PKR  I.KK ;  BVT.  BRIO.-GBN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOI:NDS. 

DIED  OF  DIXKASK,  AmiiENTH,  IN  I'KISON,  Ac. 

K 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Stall  

I 

• 

I 
I 
I 

• 

I 

2 

2 

• 
• 

• 

14 
10 

12 

16 

10 

'5 

IO 

9 
8 

8 

I 

14 
1  1 

13 

l? 
10 

16 

12 
I  I 

8 

8 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

24 
22 

21 
2O 

15 
'4 

10 
22 
2O 
24 

•    • 

25 

22 

21 
20 

16 

M 
10 

22 
20 

24 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

112 

(  21 

2 

192 

194 

I 

Total 
Enrollment. 


16 

13 
20 

'3 

15 
10 

20 
I05 

I  10 

106 
1 06 


'.'34 


121  killed— 10.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  423. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.NV 


Fort  Bisland,  IA 3 

Port  Hudson,  La.,  June  14,  1863 21 

Port  Hudson  Trenches,  I^a 7 

Sabine  Cross  Roads,  La 2 

Pleasant   Hill,  I^i 3 

Present,  also,  at   Cane  River,  Mansura ;  Fisher's  Hill. 


Opequon,  Va 44 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 38 

Guerillas i 

Place  unknown 


NOTES. —  Organized  at  Norwich,  N.  Y.,  leaving  there  on  September  6,  1862,  and  journeying  to  Binghamton 
on  canal  boats,  a  long  line  of  them  being  used  for  the  purpose.  Seven  of  the  companies  had  been  recruited  in 
Chenango  county,  and  three  in  Madison.  The  regiment  sailed  from  Haltimore  on  November  6,  1862,  for  New 
Orleans,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Weitzel's  Brigade,  Augur's  Division,  Nineteenth  Corps,  and  stationed  at 
Brashear  City,  La. 

Its  first  experience  under  fire  was  at  Fort  Bisland,  April  12,  1863,  where  several  men  were  wounded, 
some  of  them  mortally.  After  the  Teche  Campaign, —  a  march  through  "the  garden  of  Ixniisiana,"-  —  the  One 
Hundred  and  Fourteenth,  on  May  30,  1863,  joined  its  Corps,  which  had  already  invested  Port  Hudson, 
and  for  forty  days  participated  in  the  incessant  fighting  which  echoed  through  the  magnolia  woods  about  the 
works.  In  the  grand  assault  of  June  i4th,  Colonel  Smith,  while  in  command  of  the  brigade,  was  killed.  The 
total  loss  of  the  regiment  during  the  siege  of  Port  Hudson  was  i  i  killed,  60  wounded,  and  2  missing. 

On  March  15,  1864, —  in  Dwight's  (ist)  Brigade,  Emory's  (ist)  Division, —  it  started  on  Banks's  Red  River 
campaign,  traversing  the  Teche  country  for  the  sixth  time,  and  fighting  at  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  where  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Morse,  the  regimental  commandant,  was  wounded.  The  Nineteenth  Corps  having  been  ordered  to  Vir 
ginia,  the  One  Hundred  and  Fourteenth  embarked  for  Washington  on  July  15,  1864,  and  after  marching  through 
Maryland,  fought  under  Sheridan  in  his  famous  Shenandoah  campaign  against  Early.  At  the  battle  of  the  Ope 
quon,  the  regiment  lost  185  men  killed  and  wounded  —  three-fifths  of  those  engaged  —  eliciting  by  its  gallantry 
a  complimentary  notice  from  the  Division  General.  At  Cedar  Creek  it  lost  21  killed,  86  wounded,  and  8  miss 


ing.     The  regiment  was  mustered  out  at  Elmira  on  June  17,  1865. 


15 


226 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED   AND    FIFTEENTH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY    -"IRON  HEARTS." 

BARTON'S  BRIGADE  —  TURNER'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COLONEL  SIMEON  SAMMON. 


(3)  COLONEL  NATHAN  J.  JOHNSON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

M«n. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 
I 

2 

* 
• 

I 
I 

• 
• 

I 

1 
20 
IO 

18 

IO 

1  1 

10 

13 

12 

J3 

10 

I 

21 
II 
2O 
IO 
II 
I  I 

14 
12 

13 
II 

• 
• 
* 
* 
• 

• 
• 

2 

19 

12 

15 
2O 

25 
I? 

17 

J9 

27 

15 

2 

T9 

12 

*5 
20 

25 
i? 
J7 

r9 

27 

IS 

I? 

108 
no 

TI3 

"5 

129 

ii) 
124 
114 

'31 
118 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H. 

j  , 

K  

Totals  

7 

128 

!35 

• 

1  88 

1  88 

1,196 

135  killed  =  ii. 2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed    and  wounded,  494  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  45. 


BATTLES.  K.  ikM.  W. 

Harper's  Ferry,  Va i 

Olustee,  Fla 54 

Lake  City,  Fla i 

Chesterfield  Heights,  Va 10 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 3 

Proctor's  Creek,  Va i 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M,  W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 6 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 14 

Deep  Bottom,  Va *,  ., 17 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va 6 

Darbytown  Road,  Va 7 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 13 

On  Picket,  July  26,  1864 i 

Present,  also,  at  Petersburg  Mine  ;  Fort  Anderson  ;  Wilmington. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  July  and  August,  1865,  from  the  counties  of  Saratoga,  Montgomery,  Fulton  and 
Hamilton.  Leaving  the  rendezvous  at  Fonda  on  the  291)1  of  August,  it  arrived  two  days  later  at  Sandy  Hook, 
Md.,  where  arms  and  equipments  were  furnished.  Two  weeks  afterwards  the  entire  regiment  was  captured  at  the 
surrender  of  Harper's  Ferry,  and  after  being  paroled  was  ordered  to  Chicago  to  await  exchange.  During  1863, 
the  regiment  was  stationed  at  Hilton  Head  and  Beaufort,  S.  C.,  and  thence,  on  February  5,  1864,  sailed  for 
Florida.  At  the  battle  of  Olustee,  Fla  ,  the  regiment  made  a  gallant  fight,  losing  over  300  in  killed,  wounded  or 
missing.  Leaving  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  on  the  i5th  of  April,  1864,  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifteenth  sailed  with  the 
Tenth  Corps  for  Virginia,  where  it  joined  General  Butler's  Army  of  the  James  and  was  assigned  to  Barton's  (2d)  Brig 
ade,  Turner's  (2<1)  Division,  Tenth  Corps.  In  the  actions  around  Drewry's  Bluff  and  Bermuda  Hundred,  May  6-16, 
1864,  it  lost  6  killed,  87  wounded,  and  7  missing;  total,  100.  While  at  Cold  Harbor  the  brigade  was  attached 
temporarily  to  the  Eighteenth  Corps,  but  on  its  return  to  the  James  it  rejoined  the  Tenth  Corps  and  went  into 
position  before  Petersburg.  Recrossing  the  James,  the  regiment  was  engaged  at  Deep  Bottom,  where  it  lost  5 
killed,  44  wounded,  and  24  missing  ;  total,  73.  At  the  battle  of  Chaffin's  Farm,  the  regiment  was  in  the  fight  at 
Fort  Gilmer,  where  it  lost  half  of  its  number  present  in  action  ;  on  October  27,  1864,  it  joined  in  the  advance  on 
Richmond  on  the  Darbytown  Road,  in  which  affair  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifteenth  sustained  considerable  loss 
from  a  volley  fired  into  them,  through  mistake,  by  the  Ninth  Maine.  In  December,  1864,  the  Tenth  Corps  was 
discontinued,  and  the  regiment  was  transferred  to  Ames's  (2d)  Division  of  the  newly- formed  Twenty-fourth  Corps. 
At  Fort  Fisher  the  regiment  fought  in  Bell's  (3d)  Brigade,  Ames's  Division,  many  of  the  lives  lost  there  occurring 
at  the  explosion  of  the  magazine  the  day  after  the  Fort  was  taken.  Mustered  out  June  17,  1865. 


THKKK  HUXDKKD  FIGHTING  KUGIMKNTH. 


227 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  SEVENTEENTH  NEW  YORK   INFANTRY. 
CURTIS'S  BRIGADE— TURNER'S  DIVISION  — TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  R.  PKASE,   MI.  tf.,  B.  «.;  BVT.  BIUU.-GEN.    (2)  COL.  ALVIN  WHITE.    (3)  COL.  RUFl'S  DA(i(JETT  ;  UVT.  BKIU.-CEN. 


COM  PA  NIBS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OK  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PHISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

•    • 

I  I 

'5 

10 

14 
1  1 

I  2 

>4 

1  2 

17 
20 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 
I 

• 

I 

• 

2 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

10 
IO 
IO 

I  I 

1  2 
1  1 
IO 
14 

'5 
2O 

•    * 

I  2 
I  I 
IO 
I  2 
I  2 

'3 

I  I 

'4 

»5 

20 

• 
• 

1 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

.  . 
i  i 

'4 

10 

•4 
i  i 

I  2 

'4 
1  2 

'7 
20 

16 

'36 
M3 
'39 
'45 
'34 
'52 
'45 
'33 
'55 
'47 

B  

c  

I)  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

7 

I23 

130 

I 

'35 

136 

>,445 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  479  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included), 
BATTLES.  K.  &M.W.  BATTLES. 

Morris  Island,  S.  C i 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 25 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault  1 864) 8 


M  \v 


Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va  .....................  23 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va  ........................  28 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864  ..........  1  1 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C  .........................  30 


Present,  also,  at  the  Siege  of  Suffolk;  Battery  Wagner;  Seabrook  ;  John's  Island  ;  Swift  Creek;  Petersburg 
Mine  ;  Bermuda  Hundred  ;  Fort  Anderson  ;  Wilmington. 

NOTES. —  Organized  in  Oneida  county  in  August,  1862.  It  was  stationed  at  Tennallytown,  Md.,  until  April, 
1863,  when  it  went  to  Suffolk,  Va.  After  participating  in  the  Peninsular  campaign  of  1863,  it  joined  the  troops 
on  Folly  Island,  S.  C.,  where  it  took  part  in  the  siege  of  Fort  Wagner  and  the  operations  about  Charleston 
Harbor.  In  April,  1864,  the  One  Hundred  and  Seventeenth  sailed  for  Virginia,  and  joined  the  Army  of  the 
James,  having  been  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade,  Second  Division  (Turner's),  Tenth  Corps.  It  landed  at 
Bermuda  Hundred  on  the  6th  of  May,  and  ten  days  later  it  was  hotly  engaged  at  Drewry's  Bluff,  where  Colonel 
White  was  wounded.  Loss:  20  killed,  62  wounded,  and  7  missing.  At  Chaffin's  Farm  the  regiment  fought 
gallantly,  losing  15  killed,  76  wounded,  and  33  missing.  At  the  battle  on  the  Darbytown  Road,  October  27, 
1864  —  still  in  the  First  Brigade  (General  Curtis's),  Second  Division  (General  Foster's) — the  regiment  sustained 
a  loss  of  6  killed,  42  wounded,  and  4  missing;  total,  52.  In  December  the  Tenth  Corps  was  discontinued,  and 
Curtis's  Brigade  was  placed  in  Ames's  (2d)  Division  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps.  On  December  7,  1864,  the 
regiment  sailed  with  Butler's  Expedition  to  Fort  Fisher,  N.  C.,  where  it  disembarked  ;  Captain  Stevens,  with 
Companies  H,  and  B,  made  a  short  leconnoissance  in  which  they  intercepted  and  captured  a  battalion  of  230 
men  belonging  to  the  Fourth  North  Carolina  Reserves.  The  troops  re-embarking  returned  to  Virginia,  but  were 
immediately  ordered  back  to  Fort  Fisher,  this  second  expedition  being  under  the  command  of  General  Terry, 
under  whose  direction  a  successful  assault  was  made,  in  which  the  One  Hundred  and  Seventeenth  took  a  con 
spicuous  part  and  sustained  a  heavy  loss.  After  sharing  in  Terry's  North  Carolina  campaign  of  1865,  —  then  in 
Daggett's  ( ist)  Brigade,  Ames's  (2d)  Division,  Tenth  Corps,  —  the  regiment  was  left  on  duty  at  Raleigh,  N.  C., 
where  it  was  mustered  out  on  June  9,  1865.  The  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  (about  250)  were  transferred  to 
the  Fortieth  New  York.  While  at  Cold  Harbor  the  regiment  with  its  brigade  was  attached  for  a  short  time  to 
the  Eighteenth  Corps,  but  the  arrangement  was  only  a  temporary  one. 


228 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE   HUNDRED   AND   TWENTIETH   NEW   YORK   INFANTRY. 
BREWSTER'S   BRIGADE  —  HUMPHREYS'S   DIVISION  —  THIRD   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  II.  SHARPE  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 

(2)  COL.  CORNELIUS  D.  WESTBROOK. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  R.  TAPPAN. 

(4)  COL.  ABRAM  L.  LOCKWOOD. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 

• 

2 
I 

• 

I 

4 
i 
i 

•    • 

13 

12 

I  I 

IO 

IS 

I  I 

22 
12 
2O 
14 

•     • 

14 
12 
I  I 
12 

16 
1  1 

23 
16 

21 

J5 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

• 
• 

I 

4 
• 

I 

21 

16 

i? 

M 
M 

21 
M 

J3 
21 

27 

2 
21 

17 
17 
14 
14 
21 

14 

H 
21 

27 

I? 
148 

I97 

156 
136 

J59 
184 

148 
1  66 
164 

15* 

Company  A  

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

1  1 

140 

*Sl 

3 

I79 

182 

1,626 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  587  ;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  51. 
BATTLES.  K.  &M.W.  BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 


Chancellorsville,  Va 13 

Gettysburg,  Pa 54 

James  City,  Va 3 

Mine  Run,  Va 4 

Wilderness,  Va 1 1 

Spotsylvania,  Va 3 

North  Anna,  Va.  . .  » i 

Totopotomoy,  Va 3 


Cold  Harbor,  Va 2 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 25 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va i 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va i 

Boydton  Road,  Va 13 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.  (March   25,   1865) 12 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 4 

Picket  Line,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Fredericksburg  ;  Wapping  Heights  ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Po  River  ;  Deep  Bottom  ;  Sailor's  Creek ; 
Farmville ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. -- Recruited  in  Ulster  and  Greene  counties  (Tenth  Senatorial  District),  and  organized  at  Kingston, 
N.  Y.  It  was  mustered  into  service  on  August  22,  1862,  with  900  men,  and  was  ordered  immediately  to 
Washington,  where  it  went  into  Camp  near  the  Chain  Bridge.  It  was  attached,  soon  after,  to  the  famous 
Excelsior  Brigade,  in  which  command  it  was  under  fire  at  Fredericksburg,  where  a  few  of  the  men  were 
wounded.  The  regiment  was  actively  engaged  at  Chancellorsville  —  then  in  Berry's  Division  —  exhibiting  a 
commendable  steadiness  and  efficiency.  Its  loss  in  that  battle  was  4  killed,  49  wounded,  and  13  missing.  At 
Gettysburg  —  in  Humphreys's  Division  —  it  became  involved  in  the  disaster  of  the  second  day's  battle,  but  like 
the  rest  of  the  Third  Corps,  it  fell  back  in  good  order  to  the  second  line,  fighting  as  it  went.  Its  casualties  in 
this  battle  aggregated  30  killed,  154  wounded,  and  19  missing;  total,  203.  Eight  officers  were  killed  and  9 
wounded  in  that  battle.  The  Third  Corps  having  been  merged  into  the  Second,  the  One  Hundred  and  Twentieth 
was  placed  in  Brewster's  Brigade  of  Mott's  Division,  and  from  that  time  fought  under  the  Second  Corps  flags, 
the  men,  however,  retaining  their  old  Third  Corps  badge.  Mott's  Division  having  been  discontinued,  the  Excelsior 
Brigade  was  placed  in  Birney's  (3d)  Division,  becoming  the  Fourth  Brigade.  General  Mott  succeeded  eventu 
ally  to  the  command  of  this  division,  and  Colonel  McAllister  to  that  of  the  brigade.  At  the  Wilderness  the  regiment 
lost  5  killed,  48  wounded,  and  8  missing  ;  at  the  battle  on  the  Boydton  Road,  8  killed,  30  wounded,  and  21 
missing;  at  Hatcher's  Run,  6  killed,  32  wounded,  and  46  missing.  Mustered  out  June  3,  1865. 


TllKEK   HUNDKKI)    Fl<!HTlX<»    RKCJIMKNTS. 


229 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  TWENTY-FIRST   NEW  YORK   INFANTRY. 
UPTON'S  BRIGADE  —  WRKJHT'S  DIVISION-- SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  KICIIAKD  FKANCIIOT  ;  HVT.  BHIO.-OKN.,  U.  S.  V.  (2)  COL.  KMOKY  U1TON  ;  UVT.  MAJOH-OKN.,  V.  S.  A. 

(8)  COL.  KCBEUT  OLCOTT,  B.  «. 


('OJII'ANIK 

KII.I.KD  AND  DIED  or  Wot:  N  us. 

I)1EI>  OK  DlSEAHK,  ArriDENTS,  IN  PltlNON,  &<!. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Mm. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Kick!  and  Staff  

• 
1 
I 
2 
I 

• 

2 

2 

3 

• 

2 

•   • 

21 
21 

17 
2O 

18 

'7 
20 

20 

25 
33 

•     • 

22 
22 

»9 

21 

18 
'9 

22 

23 

25 

35 

• 
-> 

I 

• 

I 

• 

•    • 

T  I 
12 

!3 

8 

12 

'3 

J5 
1  1 

I  2 
K) 

•     • 

'3 

12 

'4 

8 

I  2 

14 

IS 

I  I 

I  2 
10 

18 
189 
1  88 
196 
1  68 

'97 
182 

197 
184 
1  88 
190 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  / 

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

M 

212 

226 

4 

117 

121 

1,897 

1,426  enrolled  during  the  war  ;  226  killed—  15.8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  839;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  ig. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.XV. 

Charlestown,  W.  V;i 2 

Opequon,  Va 3 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 17 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Y;i i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.  . .  . i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March   25,  1865 i 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va i 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 10 

Funkstown;    Mine  Run;    Fort  Stevens;    Fisher's   Hill; 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Fredericksburg,   Va 4 

Salem  Heights,  Va 97 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va 6 

Wilderness,  Va 20 

Spotsylvania,  Va 60 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Skirmish,  Va.,  May  7,  1863 i 

Petersburg,  Va  ,  June  23,  1864 i 

Present,  also,  at  Crampton's  Gap;    Gettysburg 
Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  from  companies  raised  in  the  Twentieth  Senatorial  District  —  Otsego 
and  Herkimer  counties.  It  was  mustered  into  service  on  August  23,  1862,  and  the  next  week  started  for  the 
scene  of  active  operations.  It  was  immediately  ordered  to  join  General  McClellan's  Army,  then  in  Maryland, 
and  it  did  so  in  time  to  witness  the  fighting  at  Crampton's  Gap.  It  was  assigned  to  Bartlett's  Brigade,  Brooks's 
Division,  Sixth  Corps,  in  which  command  (Second  Brigade,  First  Division,  Sixth  Army  Corps)  it  served  during 
its  entire  service.  The  regiment  faced  a  terrible  fire  of  musketry  at  Salem  Church,  Va.,  where  it  lost  48  killed, 
1 73  wounded,  and  55  missing;  total,  276,  out  of  453  officially  reported  as  present.  The  missing  ones  were 
mostly  all  killed  or  wounded,  and  the  loss  was  the  heaviest  sustained  by  any  regiment  in  that  battle.  Colonel 
Upton  was  an  officer  of  rare  ability,  and  the  regiment,  which  was  composed  of  unusually  good  material,  soon 
became,  under  Upton's  care,  a  very  efficient  one.  In  the  battle  of  Spotsylvania,  May  loth,  Colonel  Upton  com 
manded,  and  led  in  person,  an  assaulting  column  of  twelve  picked  regiments  belonging  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  the 
One  Hundred  and  Twenty-first  being  placed  in  the  advance,  an  honor  which  cost  it  dear.  Its  losses  at  Spotsyl 
vania  amounted  to  49  killed  and  106  wounded;  none  missing.  The  regiment  captured  four  flags  at  Rappahan 
nock  Station,  and  two  at  Sailor's  Creek.  Its  casualties  at  the  Wilderness  were  15  killed,  37  wounded,  and  21 
missing;  and  at  Cedar  Creek,  10  killed,  42  wounded,  and  5  missing.  General  Wright  commanded  the  division 
at  the  Wilderness ;  General  Russell  at  the  Opequon  ;  and  General  Wheaton  at  Cedar  Creek. 


230 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  TWENTY-FOURTH  NEW  YORK  INF.— "ORANGE  BLOSSOMS." 

WARD'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  A.  V.  H.  ELLIS;  BVT.  BUIG.-GEN.  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  FRANCIS  M.  CUMMINS. 


(3)  COL.  CHARLES  H.  WEYGANT. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 

• 

I 

* 
• 

I 
I 
2 
I 
2 

•    • 

II 

15 
I? 

9 
M 
14 
16 

M 

15 

12 

2 
12 

'5 
18 

9 
14 
15 
i? 
16 

16 
14 

• 

I 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

8 

9 

8 

12 
II 

9 

10 

8 
8 

9 

9 

9 
8 

12 
II 

9 

IO 

8 
8 

9 

14 
122 

152 

118 
148 

121 
IOO 

"3 

I2Q 
I32 

171 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

I  I 

M7 

148 

I 

92 

93 

1,320 

K.  &  M.W 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  18,  1864 3 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 

Boydton  Road,  Va 4 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  31,  1865 i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  April  i,  1 865 i 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 6 

On  Picket,  Va.,  September  14,  1864 i 

On  Picket,  Va.,  September  15,  1864 i 


148  killed  =  ii. 2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  516  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  12. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 57 

Beverly  Ford,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 35 

Wapping   Heights,  Va i 

Mine    Run,  Va • 2 

Wilderness,  Va 8 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 8 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

I 

Present,  also,  at  Manassas  Gap  •  Fredericksburg ;  Auburn  ;  Cold  Harbor ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Deep  Bottom  ; 
Poplar  Spring  Church  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  Orange  county  in  August,  1862,  and  organized  at  Goshen,  N.  Y.  It  was  mustered 
into  service  there,  and  five  days  later  it  crossed  the  Potomac,  930  strong.  After  two  months'  service  in  Vir 
ginia,  the  regiment  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  at  Harper's  Ferry.  It  was  placed  in  Whipple's  Division, 
with  which  command  it  was  under  fire  at  Fredericksburg,  and  hotly  engaged  at  Chancellorsville.  In  the  latter  engage 
ment  it  lost  28  killed,  161  wounded,  and  15  missing  ;  a  total  of  204  out  of  550  engaged.  The  regiment  marched 
on  the  field  of  Gettysburg  with  290  officers  and  men,  of  whom  28  were  killed,  57  wounded,  and  5  missing. 
Colonel  Ellis  and  Major  Cromwell  were  killed  there,  reeling  lifeless  from  their  saddles  while  cheering  and  encourag 
ing  their  men.  The  regiment  has  erected  a  costly  monument  at  Gettysburg,  which  is  surmounted  by  a  life-size 
marble  statute  of  their  heroic  colonel.  In  April,  1864,  the  Third  Corps  was  ordered  discontinued,  after  which 
the  "  Orange  Blossoms  "  served  in  the  ranks  of  the  Second  Corps,  but  the  men  still  retained  the  old  diamond- 
shaped  badge  on  their  caps,  and  the  piece  of  orange  ribbon  on  their  coats.  In  July,  1864,  Mott  succeeded  to 
the  command  ofBirney's  Division  (3d  Division,  2d  A.  C.),  and  General  DeTrobriand  to  the  command  of  Ward's 
old  Brigade.  In  Hancock's  celebrated  charge  at  Spotsylvania  —  May  i2th  —  the  regiment  was  in  the  front  line, 
where  its  diminished  ranks  were  again  decimated,  Colonel  Cummins  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Weygant  being 
wounded  in  the  assault.  Its  losses  at  Spotsylvania  were  7  killed,  46  wounded,  and  8  missing;  total,  61. 


THREK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  KEGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  TWENTY-FIFTH   NEW  YORK   INFANTRY. 
FRANK'S  BRIGADE    -BARIA>\V'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  I,.  WILLAKI)    B.  «.  (Killed). 


(*)  C»i..  LEVIN  CKAXDELL. 


L.  JOSEPH  HVDE. 


COM  PAN  IBM. 

KlI.I.KI)  AND  DIED   OF  Wot'NIJH. 

DlEI)  OF  Dl.HKAXE,  ArrlDKXT*,  Is   I'ICIMIN,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  Xfieers. 

Men. 

Total. 

•     • 

8 

1  2 

9 

10 

'9 
8 

1  1 

8 

'3 
IS 

"3 

Field  and  StafT  

3 
I 

• 

3 
i 

2 

• 

3 

2 

• 

•     • 

12 
10 
10 

'4 

7 

10 

16 
U 

10 
10 

3 

'3 
10 

10 

I? 

8 

I  2 

16 
16 

I  2 

10 

• 
• 

I 

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

8 

1  1 

9 

U) 

19 

8 

1  1 
8 

•3 
'5 

16 
142 

"5 

I  22 
128 
I  29 

136 
122 
107 
121 
I  10 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

'5 

112 

127 

I 

I  12 

1,248 

127  killed  —  10.1  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  464  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  58. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va 1 6 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6 

Deep  Bottom,  Va i 

Ream's  Station,  Vu 3 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 6 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 

By  Prison  Guard i 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Harper's  Ferry,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 38 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 4 

Wilderness,  Va 9 

Po  River,  Va 6 

Spotsylvania,  Va 16 

Spotsylvania,  Va.  (May  18) 4 

Totopotomoy,  Va 

Present,  also,  at  Mine  Run  ;  Morton's  Ford  ;  North  Anna;  Jerusalem  Road  ;  Strawberry   Plains  ;  Hat<  lu T'S 
Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ,  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Recniited  and  organized  at  Troy,  N.  Y.  It  was  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  August  29, 
1862,  and  left  the  State  immediately,  en  route  for  Harper's  Ferry,  where  it  was  captured  on  September  i5th, 
at  the  surrender  of  that  post.  The  captured  garrison  was  immediately  paroled,  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty- 
fifth  proceeding  to  Annapolis,  from  whence  it  was  sent  to  a  paroled  camp  at  Chicago,  111.,  there  to  await  notice  of 
its  exchange.  After  a  two  months'  stay  at  Chicago,  the  men  were  declared  exchanged,  upon  which  the  regiment 
returned  to  Virginia.  During  the  winter  and  spring  of  1863  it  was  encamped  at  Centreville,  Va.,  where  it  was 
attached  to  General  Alex.  Hays's  Brigade.  In  June,  1863,  that  command  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and 
marched  with  it  to  Gettysburg,  where  Colonel  Willard  was  killed  while  in  command  of  the  brigade,  the  regiment 
losing  there  26  killed,  104  wounded,  and  9  missing.  At  Gettysburg  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fifth  was  in 
Alex.  Hays's  (3d)  Division,  Second  Corps;  and  it  fought  under  Hays  again  at  Bristoe  Station,  an  action  in  which 
the  regiment  particularly  distinguished  itself  by  its  dash  and  intrepid  bearing  in  a  critical  situation.  In  1864,  it 
was  transferred  to  Barlow's  (ist)  Division,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  bloody  fighting  about  Spotsylvania. 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Myer  fell  mortally  wounded  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness.  The  casualties  in  the  regiment 
at  the  Wilderness  were  6  killed,  17  wounded,  and  5  missing  ;  at  Po  River  and  Spotsylvania,  10  killed,  74  wounded, 
and  6  missing ;  at  North  Anna  and  Totopotomoy,  5  killed  and  6  wounded.  It  commenced  the  final  campaign  of 
1865  witn  1 2  officers  and  219  men  "present  for  duty,"  although  the  names  of  547  men  were  still  carried  on  the  rolls. 


232 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE   HUNDRED   AND   TWENTY-SIXTH  NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
WILLARD'S  BRIGADE  —  ALEX.  HAYS'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ELIAKIM  SHERRILL  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  JAMES  M.  BULL. 


(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  II.  BAIRD  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  IRA  SMITH  BROWN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

I 

I 

• 
* 

I 

2 
I 

4 
i 

2 

I 

IO 

25 
14 

20 

12 
U 
13 

9 
8 
1  1 

4 
1  1 

26 

14 
20 

13 

16 

M 
13 
9 
13 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

*    • 

12 
12 
II 

15' 
14 
12 
II 
12 
II 
12 

*    • 

12 
I  2 
I  I 

IS 
14 
12 

II 

13 
II 

12 

M 

106 

IOI 

107 
in 
103 
104 
96 

IO2 

94 
98 

f  omnanv  A   . 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

16 

137 

153 

I 

122 

123 

1,036 

153  killed  =  14.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  535  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  25. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.  W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W 


Cold  Harbor,  Va 3 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 10 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 2 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 3 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 2 

Ream's  Station,  Va 3 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  20,  1864 i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 2 

Sutherland  Station,  Va i 


Maryland  Heights,  Md 17 

Gettysburg,  Pa 64 

Auburn  Ford,  Va.,  Oct.  13,  1864  ) 5 

Bristoe  Station,  Va.,  Oct.  13,  1864  j 7 

Morton's  Ford,  Va 3 

Wilderness,  Va 18 

Po  River,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 6 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Mine  Run  ;  North  Anna  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  from  the  counties  of  Ontario,  Seneca,  and  Yates.  It  was  under  fire 
for  the  first  time  at  Maryland  Heights,  where  it  received  the  main  force  of  the  enemy's  attack,  a  large  share  of 
the  casualties  occurring  in  its  ranks.  During  the  fighting  at  Harper's  Ferry  it  lost  13  killed  and  42  wounded; 
total,  55.  The  regiment  was  surrendered  two  days  after,  together  with  the  rest  of  the  garrison  at  Harper's 
Ferry,  and  being  paroled  immediately  was  ordered  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  it  spent  two  months  in  Camp  Parole, 
awaiting  notice  of  its  exchange.  Returning  to  Virginia,  the  winter  of  1862-3  was  passed  in  camp  at  Union 
Mills,  Va.  In  June,  1863,  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  was  placed  in  Willard's  Brigade,  Alex. 
Hays's  (3d)  Division,  Second  Corps,  with  which  it  marched  to  Gettysburg,  where  the  regiment  won  honorable 
distinction,  capturing  five  stands  of  colors  in  that  battle.  Colonel  Willard,  the  brigade  commander,  being  killed 
there,  Colonel  Sherrill  succeeded  him,  only  to  meet  the  same  fate,  while  in  the  regiment  the  casualties  amounted 
to  40  killed,  181  wounded,  and  10  missing;  total,  231.  At  Bristoe  Station  the  regiment  won  additional  honors 
by  its  conspicuous  gallantry,  and  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  in  that  action  ;  casualties,  6  killed,  33  wounded,  and 
10  missing;  total,  49.  The  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-sixth  having  been  transferred  to  Barlow's  (ist)  Division, 
entered  the  spring  campaign  of  1864  with  less  than  300  men,  of  whom  100  were  detailed  at  headquarters  as  a 
provost-guard.  Its  casualties  at  the  Wilderness  were  5  killed,  62  wounded,  and  9  missing ;  and  at  Po  River 
and  Spotsylvania,  6  killed,  37  wounded,  and  7  missing.  Colonel  Baird  was  killed  at  Petersburg. 


TiutKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


288 


ONE  HUNDRED   AND   THIRTY-SEVENTH   NEW   YORK   INFANTRY. 
GREENE'S  BRIGADE  —  GEARY'S  DIVISION  —  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(I)COL.  DAVID  IRELAND,  B.  *.  (Died). 


KOKKT  VAN  vooinn<. 


COMPANIKM. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUND*. 

DIED  or  DIHKANK,  ACOIDKNTH,  IN  I'KIMON,  «tc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

(  >ftVt>rs. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 

I 

• 

i 

• 

i 
i 

• 

•    • 

12 
I  I 

14 
I  I 
I  I 

T3 
»S 

10 

1  1 

12 

I 

•     • 

M 
12 

M 
I  I 
12 

T3 

16 

10 
12 
12 

I 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 

2 

I 

15 

I  2 

'3 
1  6 

M 
16 

22 

17 
12 

'3 
I  2 

3 

'5 

I  2 
!3 

1  6 

'4 
16 

22 

»7 
I  2 

'5 

I  2 

M 

"3 

128 

I05 
103 

I  IO 
121 
109 
I04 
IO2 
IO2 

*     •     • 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I    

K 

Unassigned  Co.  (1865).  . 
Totals  

6 

121 

I27 

4 

I63 

I67 

1,1  I  I 

127  killed  =-  11.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  490  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  7. 

BATTLKS. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 5 

Gettysburg,  Pa 52 

Wauhatchie,  Term 31 

Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn 10 

Ringgold,  Ga i 

Resaca,  Ga i 


K.&M.W. 

Pine  Knob,  Ga 10 

Nose's  Creek,  Ga i 

Kencsaw  Mountain,  Ga i 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 12 

Atlanta.  Ga i 

Siege  of  Savannah,  Ga 2 


Present,  also,  at  Missionary  Ridge  ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  Cassville  ;  Lost  Mountain  ;  Sherman's  March  ;  The 
Carolinas ;  Averasboro. 

NOTES.  —  Organized  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  from  companies  raised  in  the  Twenty-fourth  Senatorial  District, 
—  Broome,  Tompkins,  and  Tioga  counties.  Recruiting  commenced  August  15,  1862,  the  full  regiment  being 
mustered  into  service  on  the  25th  of  the  following  month.  Leaving  Binghamton,  two  days  later,  1,008  strong, 
it  went  to  Harper's  Ferry,  arriving  there  on  September  30,  1862.  While  there  it  was  assigned  to  the  Third 
Brigade,  Second  Division  (Geary's),  Twelfth  Corps — the  "White  Star"  Division  —  in  which  it  remained 
permanently.  This  regiment  won  special  honors  at  Gettysburg,  then  in  Greene's  Brigade,  which,  alone  and  unas 
sisted,  held  Gulp's  Hill  during  a  critical  period  of  that  battle  against  a  desperate  attack  of  vastly  superior  force. 
The  casualties  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-seventh  at  Gettysburg  exceeded  those  of  any  other  regiment  in 
the  Corps,  amounting  to  40  killed,  87  wounded,  and  10  missing.  The  gallant  defense  of  Culp's  Hill  by  Greene's 
Brigade,  and  the  terrible  execution  inflicted  by  its  musketry  on  the  assaulting  column  of  the  enemy  form  one  of 
the  most  noteworthy  incidents  of  the  war.  The  Twelfth  Corps  left  Virginia  in  September,  1863,  and  went  to 
Tennessee,  joining  Grant's  Army  at  Chattanooga.  In  the  month  following  their  arrival  the  regiment  was  engaged 
in  the  midnight  battle  at  Wauhatchie,  Tenn.,  where  it  lost  15  killed  and  75  wounded;  and,  a  few  weeks  later, 
fought  with  Hooker  at  Lookout  Mountain  in  the  famous  "  battle  above  the  clouds ;"  casualties  in  that 
battle,  6  killed  and  32  wounded.  In  April,  1864,  the  corps  number  was  changed  to  the  Twentieth,  General 
Hooker  being  placed  in  command.  A  large  accession  was  received  from  the  Eleventh  Corps,  but  Colonel  Ireland 
and  General  Geary  retained  their  respective  commands.  The  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-seventh  shared  in  all 
the  marches  and  battles  of  the  Atlanta  campaign,  and  then  marched  with  Sherman  to  the  Sea. 


234 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE   HUNDRED   AND   FORTIETH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
WEED'S  BRIGADE  —  AYRES'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTH   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  PATRICK  H.   O'RORKE,   OT.  $.,  &.  a.  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  GEORGE  RYAN,  WM..  tf.,  B.  a.  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  ELWELL  S.   OTIS,  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  S.   GRUNTSYNN. 


COMPANIES 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

3 
i 

i 

i 

i 
i 

2 
2O 
I  I 

J5 
1  1 

20 
IO 

J3 
J9 

J3 

7 

5 

21 
II 

16 
ii 

20 
IO 

*3 

20 
14 

8 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

I 

• 
• 

•    • 

2O 

J3 
i7 

21 

16 
14 

9 
16 

21 
21 

•    • 

2O 

13 

17 

22 

16 

15 

9 
16 

21 

21 

J5 

i?3 

148 

187 
162 
171 
167 
172 
1  80 
176 
156 

B  . 

r  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G. 

T    . 

K. 

Totals. 

8 

141 

149 

2 

168 

170 

1,707 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  533  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  77. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 4 

Gettysburg,  Pa 41 

Wilderness,  Va 55 

Spotsylvania,  Va 17 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 3 

Picket  Line,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 

Weldon   Railroad,  Va 7 

Poplar  Spring  Church.  Va i 

Hatcher's   Run,  Va 5 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 3 

Five  Forks,  Va 6 


Present,  also,  at  Fredericksburg  ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Mine  Run  •  North  Anna  ;  Totopotomoy ;  White 
Oak  Swamp  (1864)  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES.  —  Organized  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  mustered  into  service  September  13,  1862,  leaving  the  State  on 
September  20.  The  regiment  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  in  November,  and  was  assigned  to  Warren's  (3d) 
Brigade,  Sykes's  (2d)  Division,  Fifth  Corps.  It  was  present  with  this  command  at  Fredericksburg.  where  it  was 
under  fire  for  the  first  time,  a  few  of  the  men  being  wounded  there.  Colonel  O'Rorke  was  killed  at 
Gettysburg  while  leading  his  men  into  action  on  Little  Round  Top,  where  their  prompt  action  aided  largely 
in  seizing  that  important  position,  the  regiment  losing  there  26  killed,  89  wounded,  and  18  missing;  total  133. 
The  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  was  then  in  Ayres's  Division — the  division  of  regulars.  In  1864  the  regulars 
were  brigaded  in  one  command  under  Ayres,  and  the  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  was  placed  in  the  same  brigade  ; 
the  division  was  commanded  by  General  Charles  Griffin.  But  in  June,  1864,  the  regiment  was  transferred  to  the 
First  Brigade  of  Ayres's  (2d)  Division.  This  brigade  was  commanded  in  turn  by  Colonel  Gregory,  General 
Joseph  Hayes,  Colonel  Otis,  and  General  Winthrop.  The  latter  officer  fell  mortally  wounded  at  Five  Forks. 
The  regiment  was  in  the  hottest  of  the  fighting  at  the  Wilderness,  and  suffered  severely  there,  losing  23  killed,  1 18 
wounded,  and  114  captured  or  missing;  total,  255.  Three  days  later — on  May  8th  —  it  was  engaged  in  the 
first  of  the  series  of  battles  at  Spotsylvania,  in  which  action  Colonel  Ryan  and  Major  Milo  L.  Starks  were  killed. 
At  Spotsylvania  the  casualties  in  the  regiment  were  1 2  killed  and  48  wounded  ;  and  at  the  Weldon  Railroad,  4 
killed,  19  wounded,  and  51  captured  or  missing.  The  regiment  was  composed  of  exceptionally  good  material  ; 
the  men  were  a  neat,  clean  lot,  and  in  their  handsome  Zouave  costume  attracted  favorable  attention  wherever 
they  appeared. 


TlIltKK    HUNDKKD    FlHHTIXd    liKGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED  .AND  FORTY-SECOND  NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
CURTIS'S  BRIGADE -- TURNER'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ROSCIUS  W.  JUDSON  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GBN.  (2)  COL.  NEWTON  M.  CURTIS  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-QKN. 

(3)  COL.  ALI1KKT  M.  BARNEY;  BVT.  BKHI-OEN. 


('OH  PA  MRS 

KILLED  ANI»  DIEM  or  WOITSD*. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IUHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers, 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

2 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

3 

I  I 

16 

14 
IO 

12 
IO 

»3 
1  1 

'4 
15 

126 

•    • 

I  I 
18 

15 

10 
I  2 
10 

13 

I  I 

14 

J5 

• 
» 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

•    • 

'7 
16 
16 

14 
M 
1  8 

M 
J7 

i? 

18 

•     • 

'7 
16 
16 
14 
14 
19 
14 
18 

17 
18 

M 
IS* 

153 
123 

118 

'35 
140 

»33 
136 

'32 
134 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

T 

K  

Totals  

129 

2 

161 

163 

*,37° 

Total  of  killed   and   wounded,    502  ;  died   in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  10. 
BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 


K.&M.NV. 


John's  Island,  S.  C i 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 22 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va 20 

Cold  Harbor,  Va v 5 

Petersburg    Mine,    Va 4 


Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 16 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va 1 6 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  October  27,  1864 •  •  22 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 21 

Place  unknown 2 


Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Suffolk  ;  Petersburg  Assault ;  Fort  Anderson  ;  Wilmington. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Ogdensburgh  from  companies  recruited  in  St.  Lawrence  and  Franklin  counties,  and 
was  mustered  in  September  29,  1862.  Proceeding  immediately  to  Washington,  it  remained  on  duty  there  until 
April  19,  1863,  when  it  moved  to  Suffolk,  Va.  It  participated  in  the  campaign  of  Gordon's  Division,  up  the 
Peninsula  in  June,  and  in  the  Maryland  march,  soon  after  Gettysburg.  From  Warrenton,  Va.,  the  regiment  went 
to  Morris  Island,  S.  C.,  arriving  there  August  17,  1863.  In  the  following  May,  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty- 
second  returned  to  Virginia,  and  joined  Butler's  Army  of  the  James,  having  been  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade, 
Second  Division  (Turner's),  Tenth  Corps.  While  at  Cold  Harbor  the  division  was  attached  for  a  short  time  to 
the  Eighteenth  Corps.  The  losses  in  the  regiment  at  Drewry's  Bluff  and  Bermuda  Hundred -- May  16-20,  1864 
—  were  19  killed,  78  wounded,  and  22  missing;  at  Chaffin's  Farm,  6  killed,  51  wounded,  and  10  missing;  and 
at  Darbytown  Road,  8  killed,  90  wounded,  and  5  missing.  In  December,  1864,  the  Tenth  Corps  was  merged  in 
the  newly-formed  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  the  regiment  being  placed  in  Curtis's  (ist)  Brigade,  Ames's  (2(1) 
Division.  In  the  same  month  this  division,  including  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-second,  sailed  with  Butler  on 
the  first  expedition  against  Fort  Fisher,  N.  C.  It  landed  there,  and  when  the  brigade  was  recalled  from  its 
advance  the  regiment  had  secured  a  position  near  to  and  in  rear  of  the  fort, —  so  near  that  Lieutenant  Walling  had 
captured  a  battle  flag  which  had  been  shot  down  from  the  parapets.  A  battalion  of  the  enemy  were  captured  by 
the  One  Hundred  and  Seventeenth  New  York,  and  the  whole  opposition  of  the  Confederates  was  so  weak  that 
the  officers  believed  that  the  fort  could  have  been  taken  then  with  small  loss.  The  statements  of  General 
Curtis  and  other  officers  were  so  positive  on  this  point,  that  General  Grant  was  largely  influenced  by  them  in 
his  decision  to  order  a  second  attempt.  In  this  second  affair,  which  was  successful,  General  Curtis  led  the  assault 
and  fell  seriously  wounded,  but  survived  to  enjoy  his  honors  as  the  "  Hero  of  Fort  Fisher." 


236 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FORTY-SIXTH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
AYRES'S  BRIGADE — GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  KENNER  GARRARD, 


1.  P.,  B.  a.;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.,  U.  S.  A.  (2)  COL.  DAVID  T.  JENKINS  (Killed). 

(3)  COL.  JAMES  GRINDLAY  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN.,  U.  S.  V. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

* 

2 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

• 

•    * 

*5 

12 
IO 
I  I 

13 

21 

7 
i? 

IO 
10 

2 

15 

14 

10 

ii 

14 

21 

8 
18 

IO 
10 

• 
* 
• 
• 
• 

I 

I 

• 

•    • 

14 

23 
14 

22 

25 

22 

13 

13 

22 

I  I 

•    • 

M 

23 
14 

22 
26 
22 

J3 
13 

23 
I  I 

18 

i74 
181 
172 

J73 
170 

1  80 

iS1 

T52 
170 

166 

B  

c. 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

7 

126 

J33 

2 

I79 

181 

1,707 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  482  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  81. 
BATTLES.                                                                          K.  &  M.  W.  BATTLES. 
I 


K.&M.W. 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 7 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 8 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 6 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 13 

Five  Forks,  Va 5 


Fredericksburg,  Va 

Chancellorsville,  Va 5 

Gettysburg,  Pa 7 

Williamsport,  Md i 

Mine  Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 65 

Spotsylvania,  Va 7 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Present,  also,  at  Rappahannock  Station;  Bristoe  Station;  White  Oak  Swamp  (1864);  Hatcher's  Run; 
Chapel  House ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. --Recruited  in  Oneida  county,  and  organized  at  Rome,  N.  Y.  It  was  mustered  into  the  service  of 
the  United  States  on  October  10,  1862,  and  proceeded  immediately  to  Washington.  In  November,  1862,  it 
joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  at  Snicker's  Gap,  Va.,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Warren's  Brigade,  Sykes's 
Division,  Fifth  Corps,  a  division  composed  mostly  of  regulars.  It  marched  with  them  to  Fredericksburg,  where 
it  participated  in  its  first  battle.  When  the  Durye"e  Zouaves  were  mustered  out,  in  May,  1863,  the  recruits  of 
that  famous  regiment  were  transferred  to  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-sixth ;  they  numbered  283  men,  and  were 
a  valuable  accession.  In  1864,  a  similar  transfer  was  made  from  the  Forty- fourth  New  York  when  this  regiment 
went  home.  The  regiment  encountered  its  severest  fighting  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May  5,  1864,  where 
it  suffered  a  terrible  loss,  not  only  in  killed  and  wounded,  but  in  captured  men,  nearly  200  having  been  taken 
prisoners.  Colonel  Jenkins  and  Major  Henry  H.  Curran  were  killed  in  that  bloody  encounter,  while  the  total  loss 
of  the  regiment  was  20  killed,  67  wounded,  and  225  captured  or  missing.  In  1865,  the  regiment  was  in  Winthrop's 
(ist)  Brigade,  Ayres's  (2d)  Division,  and  was  prominently  engaged  in  that  command  at  the  battles  of  White 
Oak  Road,  and  Five  Forks,  General  Winthrop  being  killed  in  the  latter  engagement  while  leading  a  successful 
charge  of  the  brigade.  The  One  Hundred  and  Forty-sixth  was  well  drilled,  and  at  one  time  wore  a  conspicuous 
Zouave  uniform.  General  Joseph  Hayes,  its  last  brigade  commander,  in  taking  leave  of  the  regiment  wrote, — 
that  "  associated  for  a  long  time  with  the  infantry  of  the  Regular  Army,  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-sixth  yields 
the  palm  to  none."  The  war  having  ended,  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  of  service  July  16,  1865. 


THUKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  RI.<.IMI:NTS. 


237 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FORTY-SEVENTH  NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
CUTLKK'S  BRIGADE  —  WADSWORTH'S  DIVISION  -  -  FIRST  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ANDREW  S.  WARM  I ; 


(2)  Cou  JOHN  (J.  BUTLER. 


(8)Coi..  FRANCIS  C.  MILLER. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DlKD  OF  PlSKASK,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PlIIHON,  Ac. 

Total 

Kim  ill  incut. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 
• 
• 

2 
2 

2 

• 
* 

2 

I 

•    • 

19 
17 
2O 

II 
12 
12 

25 

7 
9 

22 

•    • 

19 

J7 
20 

13 

M 
M 

25 

7 
1  1 

23 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

•    • 

M 
18 

20 

19 
2O 

26 
10 
26 

1  1 

I  I 

•    • 

'4 

18 

20 

20 
2O 
27 
10 

26 

1  1 
I  I 

»5 

2  I  I 

215 
21  2 

2O  I 
207 
203 
212 
2OO 
214 
212 

B  

c  

I)  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K. 

Totals  

9 

J54 

,63 

2 

175 

177 

2,102 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  581  ;  died   in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  62. 
BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 


K.&M.W. 


Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va.,  June  16-1  7,   1864 15 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 6 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 

Five  Forks,  Va 4 

Picket  Line i 


Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 76 

Haymarket,  Va i 

M  ine  Run,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va 28 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 1 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 2 

Present,  also,  at  Chancellorsville  ;  Totopotomoy ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Hicksford  ;  Chapel  House  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — The  One  Hundred  and  Forty-seventh  was  organized  in  the  city  of  Oswego,  N.  V.,  from  companies 
recruited  in  Oswego  county,  and  was  mustered  into  service  on  September  23,  1862.  Its  first  casualties  in  battle 
occurred  May  29,  1863,  in  the  affair  at  Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing  below  Fredericksburg,  one  of  the  preliminary 
movements  of  the  Chancellorsville  campaign.  The  regiment,  under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Miller, 
then  marched  to  Gettysburg.  The  brigade  —  Cutler's  —  was  the  first  infantry  to  arrive  on  that  field,  and  to  it 
fell  the  honor  of  opening  that  famous  battle,  the  first  volley  coming  from  the  rifles  of  the  Fifty-sixth  Pennsylva 
nia.*  When  Cutler's  troops  were  forced  back,  the  order  to  retire  failed  to  reach  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty- 
seventh,  as  Colonel  Miller  fell  wounded  and  senseless  just  as  he  received  it,  and  so  the  gallant  band,  under 
Major  Harney,  continued  to  hold  their  ground.  A  temporary  success  near  by  enabled  them  to  retire  in  good 
order;  but  not  all  of  them,  for  of  the  380  who  entered  that  fight,  76  were  killed  or  mortally  wounded,  146  were 
wounded,  and  79  were  missing;  total,  3Oi.| 

During  Grant's  bloody  campaign  of  1864-5,  tne  regiment  fought  in  Warren's  Fifth  Corps,  being  actively- 
engaged  in  all  its  battles.  In  December,  1864,  the  remnant  of  the  Seventy-sixth  New  York  infantry  was  trans 
ferred  to  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-seventh  New  York. 

•  This  honor  is  also  claimed  by  the  Fourteenth  Brooklyn,  of  the  same  brigade ;  but,  after  list'-ning  attentively  to  an  exhaustive  argument, 
made  on  the  ground,  and  in  whieh  both  parties  were  ably  represented  by  surviving  itartici pants,  thu  evidence  appeared  to  favor  the  Fifty-sixth 
Pennsylvania. 

t  From  inscription  on  monument  at  Gettysburg. 


238 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE   HUNDEED  AND   FORTY-NINTH  NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
GREENE'S  BRIGADE  —  GEARY'S  DIVISION  —  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  A.  BARNUM  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  NICHOLAS  GRUMBACH. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUSON,  <fec. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 
* 

• 

• 
• 

I 
2 

1  1 

17 

'5 
IO 

I  I 

15 
IO 

13 

12 
15 

I 
1  1 

T7 
J5 

10 

1  1 

15 

10 

13 
13 
17 

• 
• 
• 
* 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

8 

9 

8 

9 

7 
6 
8 
8 

IO 

5 

•    * 

8 

9 

8 

9 

7 
6 
8 
8 

IO 

5 

14 
112 

128 
122 

J34 

*35 
92 

101 

136 

87 

94 

B 

c 

D  

E   

F   

G 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  . 

4 

I29 

133 

• 

78 

78 

i^SS 

BATTLES. 


133  killed  =  11.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  486. 
K.&M.W.  BATTLES. 


Chancellorsville,  Va 38 

Gettysburg,  Pa 12 

VVauhatchie,  Term 3 

Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn 12 

Ringgold,   Ga 6 

Resaca,  Ga 3 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 12 


K.&M.W. 

Lost  Mountain,  Ga 3 

Pine  Knob,  Ga 7 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  G.a 7 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 23 

Atlanta,  Ga 3 

Siege  of  Savannah,  Ga 3 

Place  unknown i 


Present,  also,  at  Missionary  Ridge  ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  Averasboro  ;  Bentonville  ;  The  Carolinas. 

NOTES.  -  -  The  companies  composing  this  regiment  were  recruited  in  Onondaga  county,  and  organized  at 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.  It  was  mustered  in  on  September  18,  1862,  the  Colonelcy  having  been  accepted  by  General 
Barnum,  who  had  already  served  with  distinction  as  Major  of  the  Twelfth  New  York.  The  regiment  left  Syra 
cuse  on  September  23,  1862,  and  within  a  short  time  joined  General  McClellan's  army.  It  was  assigned  to  the 
Third  Brigade,  Geary's  Division,  Twelfth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Chancellorsville,  losing  there  15 
killed,  68  wounded,  and  103  captured  or  missing.  At  Gettysburg  the  regiment  participated  in  the  famous 
defense  of  Gulp's  Hill,  made  by  Greene's  Brigade,  in  which  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-ninth,  fighting  behind 
breastworks,  lost  6  killed,  46  wounded,  and  3  missing,  but  inflicted  many  times  that  loss  on  its  assailants.  With 
the  Twelfth  Corps,  it  was  transferred  to  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  and  the  Onondaga  boys  fought  as  bravely 
in  Tennessee  as  in  Virginia  or  at  Gettysburg.  At  Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn.,  they  captured  five  flags  while 
fighting  under  Hooker  in  that  memorable  affair,  their  casualties  amounting  to  10  killed  and  64  wounded.  Before 
starting  on  the  Atlanta  campaign  the  Twelfth  Corps  was  designated  the  Twentieth,  its  command  being  given 
to  General  Hooker.  The  regiment  started  on  that  campaign  with  380  fighting  men,  of  whom  136  were  killed  or 
wounded  before  reaching  Atlanta.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Charles  B.  Randall,  a  gallant  and  skilful  officer,  was  killed 
at  Peach  Tree  Creek,  in  which  action  the  regiment  sustained  its  heaviest  loss  while  on  that  campaign,  its  casual 
ties  there  aggregating  17  killed,  25  wounded,  and  10  missing.  The  regiment  after  marching  with  Sherman  to 
the  Sea  was  actively  engaged  in  the  Siege  of  Savannah,  and  then  marched  through  the  Carolinas  on  the  final 
campaign  which  ended  in  the  surrender  of  Johnson. 


THKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


239 


ONE   HUNDRED  AND  SIXTY-FOURTH  NEW   YORK   INFANTRY. 
MURPHY'S  BRIGADE--  GIBBON'S  DIVISION -- SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  E.  McMAHON  (Died). 


(2)  COL.  .JAMKS  I'.  McMAHON  (Killed). 


(8)  COL.  WILLIAM  I)K  I.ACKY  ;  BVT.  BRIO.-GBN. 


ClIMPANIBH. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'KIMON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

'3 
84 

86 

94 

82 

9' 

87 
96 

101 

99 

95 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  )fflcers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Stall  

I 
2 
2 

• 

I 

• 
• 

3 

i 

• 
• 

i 

10 

•3 

10 

-4 
10 

'3 
ii 

6 
'3 
15 

2 
I  2 

'5 

IO 

5 

IO 
!3 

14 

7 

'3 

'5 

2 

• 
• 
* 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

IO 

9 

IO 
IO 

16 
1  1 

I  2 
20 

7 
20 

3 

10 

9 

10 
10 

17 

I  1 

12 
20 

7 
20 

B  

c  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I 

K  

Totals  

10 

106 

116 

3 

126 

1  29 

928 

116  killed— 12.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  ami  wounded,  437  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously   included),  69. 


K.AM.W 

i 


BATTLES. 

Deserted  House,  Va 

Suffolk,  Va  ...............................  2 

Edenton  Road,  Va  .........................  i 

Franklin,  Va  ..............................  i 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  18,  1864  ..............  24 

Cold  Harbor,  Va  ..........................  56 


K.AM.W. 


BATTLES. 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 14 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 7 

Ream's  Station,  Va 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va i 

Salisbury  Prison,  N.  C i 

Present,  also,  at  North  Anna  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Deep  Bottom  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Farmville  ; 
Appomattox. 

NOTES. — One  of  the  four  regiments  forming  the  Corcoran  Legion,  a  brigade  composed,  mostly,  of  Irish 
soldiers.  The  One  Hundred  and  Sixty-fourth  was  recruited  in  New  York,  Brooklyn,  Buffalo,  ami  in  the  counties 
of  Niagara  and  St.  Lawrence.  It  was  organized  in  New  York  City,  and  mustered  into  service  on  November  19, 
1 862.  The  Legion  was  ordered  to  the  Peninsula  soon  after,  where  it  was  placed  in  the  Seventh  Corps.  On  the  29th 
of  January,  1863,  the  brigade  started  on  the  Blackwater  Expedition  (General  Corcoran  commanding  the  Division), 
during  which  it  saw  its  first  fighting,  at  the  affair  known  as  the  Deserted  House.  The  gallant  behavior  of  the 
Legion  in  this  engagement  elicited  a  General  Order  from  Department  Headquarters  which  was  highly  compli 
mentary  to  the  command.  In  April,  1863,  it  was  actively  engaged  in  the  Siege  of  Suffolk.  General  Corcoran 
commanded  the  Legion  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  Fairfax,  Va.,  December  22,  1863.  From 
July,  1863,  until  May,  1864,  the  Legion  was  stationed  near  Washington,  after  which  it  joined  Grant's  army  at 
Spotsylvania,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Gibbon's  (2(1)  Division,  Second  Corps.  At  Cold  Harbor  it  was  in  the 
assaulting  column,  and  succeeded  in  carrying  the  portion  oi  the  enemy's  works  in  its  immediate  front,  but  with  a 
heavy  loss  in  men  and  officers.  Seven  officers  of  the  regiment  were  killed  in  that  assault,  including  Colonel 
McMahon,  who  was  shot  down  after  having  with  his  own  hands  planted  the  regimental  colors  on  the  Confederate 
works  ;  the  regiment,  however,  was  obliged  to  fall  back,  owing  to  the  failure  at  other  points  of  the  line,  having 
lost  16  killed,  59  wounded,  and  82  missing.  The  Legion  was  commanded  at  Spotsylvania  by  Colonel  Murphy 
(i82d  N.  Y.),  who  afterwards  fell  mortally  wounded  at  Dabney's  Mills.  The  casualties  in  the  regiment  at 
Spotsylvania  were  12  killed,  66  wounded,  and  14  missing;  total,  92.  Mustered  out  July  15,  1865. 


24:0 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED   AND   SIXTY-NINTH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY 
DRAKE'S   BRIGADE  —  AMES'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CLARENCE  BUELL.  (2)  Coi,.  JOHN  McCONIIIE  ;  BVT.  BRIO. -GEN.  (Killed).  (3)  COL.  ALONZO  ALDEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON.  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

2 

* 

I 

2 

I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

I 

I 

13 

14 

J5 
M 
20 

20 

12 
I  I 
12 

'5 

2 

IS 

H 

16 
16 

21 
21 
1  2 
I  2 
I  2 

16 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

• 
* 

• 

I 

I 
2O 

6 

12 
10 

16 
18 
1  1 

13 

8 

TO 

I 
2O 
6 

12 
11 

17 

l8 

II 
13 

8 
ii 

18 

147 
I31 

J54 
161 
162 
148 

122 

127 

156 

141 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

K  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

10 

M7 

157 

3 

I25 

i  ,»8 

1,467* 

157  killed  =  10.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  618  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  23. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.  W. 

Suffolk,  Va 2 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C 4 

Chester  Station,  Va.      ) 14 

Walthall  Junction,  Va.  J 12 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor..  Va .  , 19 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  30,  1864 26 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 7 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 1 8 

Dutch  Gap,  Va.,  August  13,  1864 8 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va 6 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C J39 

Present,  also,  at  Edenton  Road  ;  Carrsville ;  Blackwater ;  Zuni;  Nansemond ;  South  Anna;  Drewry's  Bluff; 
Darbytown  Road ;  Wilmington. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  mustered  in  by  companies  during  September  and  October,  1862, 
the  men  coming  from  Rensselaer  and  Washington  counties.  The  regiment  was  actively  engaged  in  the 
defence  of  Suffolk,  Va.,  April,  1863,  where  it  served  in  Foster's  Brigade.  Corcoran's  Division.  In  the  following 
summer  it  participated  in  the  operations  about  Charleston  Harbor,  and  in  May,  1864,  it  moved  with  the  Army 
of  the  James  to  Bermuda  Hundred.  The  regiment  disembarked  there  with  Butler's  Army,  and  hard  fighting, 
with  its  consequent  heavy  losses,  immediately  ensued.  At  Cold  Harbor  it  fought  in  Martindale's  Division  ;  Col 
onel  McConihe  was  killed  in  that  battle.  The  One  Hundred  and  Sixty-ninth  held  a  perilous  position  in  the 
trenches  before  Petersburg,  losing  men  there,  killed  or  wounded,  almost  every  day.  While  there,  on  the  evening  of 
June  30,  1864,  the  brigade  (Barton's)  was  ordered  to  charge  the  enemy's  lines,  so  that,  under  cover  of  their  fire, 
Curtis's  Brigade  could  throw  up  an  advanced  rifle-pit ;  but  the  regiment  while  going  into  position  was  prema 
turely  discovered  by  the  enemy,  and  thereby  drew  upon  themselves  a  severe  fire,  which  not  only  frustrated  the 
plan,  but  cost  the  regiment  many  lives.  The  regiment  was  one  of  those  selected  for  the  expedition  against  Fort 
Fisher;  it  was  then  in  Bell's  (3d)  Brigade,  Ames's  Division,  Tenth  Corps,  and  took  part  in  the  desperate  but 
victorious  assault  on  that  stronghold.  A  large  proportion  of  its  losses  there,  however,  occurred  at  the  explosion 
of  the  magazine,  after  the  fort  had  been  captured.  After  the  fall  of  Fort  Fisher,  the  regiment  accompanied  the 
Tenth  Corps  in  its  advance  on  Wilmington.  It  was  mustered  out  July  19,  1865. 


*  Does  not  include  men  transferred  from  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-second  New  York,  after  the  war  had  ended. 
t  Including  those  killed  by  the  explosion  of  the  magazine,  the  day  after  thp  fort  was  captured 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


241 


ONE   HUNDRED  AND  SEVENTIETH   NEW  YORK  INFANTRY. 
MURPHY'S  BRIGADE  —  GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  PETER  McDERMOTT. 


(2)  Coi..  JAMKS  1'.  MclVOK;  HVT.  MAJOR-OEX. 


OiMTAMKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DIME  AXE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKIMON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Offloen. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 
I 
I 
I 

2 
I 
I 

• 

I 

•    • 

13 
l? 

8 

'5 

'3 

6 

7 

12 

J3 
iS 

I 

!3 
18 

9 
16 

14 
8 

8 

J3 

T3 
16 

i 

• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 

I 

• 

•  • 

IO 

9 
8 

IO 

ii 

12 

8 

9 
9 

10 

•    • 

10 
10 

8 

IO 

1  1 

12 

8 
9 

IO 
10 

'5 
107 

127 

93 
92 

96 
89 

100 

96 

87 

IOO 

B  . 

c  . 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

119 

129 

2 

96 

98 

I,OO2 

129  killed  — »  12.8  per  cent. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  481  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  48. 
BATTLES.  K.  &M.W.  BATTLES. 


Suffolk,  Va 2 

Cajrsville,  Va i 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  18,  1864 12 

North  Anna,  Va 43 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  16-18,  1864 36 


K.AM.W. 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 1 1 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 6 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 3 

Ream's  Station,  Va 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 2 

Present,  also,  at  Deserted   House;    Suffolk;    Edenton  Road;  Totopotomoy;  Strawbeny  Plains ;  Vaughn 
Road  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES.  —  When  General  Corcoran  returned  from  his  year  of  imprisonment  in  Richmond,  he  raised  the 
brigade  of  Irish  regiments  known  as  the  Corcoran  Legion,  composed  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-fifth,  One 
Hundred  and  Sixty-fourth,  One  Hundred  and  Seventieth,  and  One  Hundred  and  Eighty-second  (Sixty-ninth 
N.  Y.  S.  M.)  New  York  regiments.  The  One  Hundred  and  Seventieth  was  recruited  in  New  York  and  Brooklyn, 
and  was  mustered  in  at  Staten  Island  on  October  7,  1862.  It  embarked  for  Fort  Monroe  in  November,  and 
after  a  few  weeks'  service  on  the  Peninsula  went  to  Suffolk.  It  was  actively  engaged  in  the  defence  of  Suffolk, 
at  which  time  the  Legion  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Murphy,  of  the  Sixty-ninth  N.  Y.  S.  M.,  and  the  division 
by  General  Corcoran  —  the  First  Division,  Seventh  Corps.  It  remained  on  duty  in  that  vicinity  until  July,  1863, 
when  the  Legion  (General  Corcoran  commanding)  was  ordered  to  Washington,  where  it  performed  garrison  and 
outpost  duty.  In  May,  1864,  it  was  transferred  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  placed  in  Gibbon's  (•(!) 
Division  of  the  Second  Corps,  the  Legion,  under  command  of  Colonel  Murphy,  arriving  just  in  time  to  take  part 
in  the  closing  battles  around  Spotsylvania.  At  the  North  Anna  the  One  Hundred  and  Seventieth  encountered  a 
severe  musketry  fire,  its  casualty  list  there  being  the  largest  of  any  regiment  in  that  battle  :  loss,  22  killed,  55 
wounded,  and  22  missing;  total,  99.  It  met  with  another  heavy  loss  at  Petersburg,  June  16-22,  1864,  where 
its  casualties  amounted  to  22  killed,  1 1 1  wounded,  and  3  missing ;  total,  136.  Most  of  this  loss  occurred  in  the 
assault  of  June  16.  The  regiment  was  again  hotly  engaged  at  Ream's  Station,  where  Major  Donnelly  was  killed. 
From  June,  1864,  until  the  close  of  the  war,  the  Legion,  together  with  the  Eighth  New  York  Heavy  Artillery, 
formed  the  Second  Brigade  of  the  Second  Division,  Second  Corps. 
16 


242 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIRST   NEW  JERSEY   CAVALRY. 
DAVIES'S  BRIGADE  —  D.  M.  GREGG'S  DIVISION  —  CAVALRY  CORPS,  A.  P. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  HALSTED.  (2)  COL.  PERCY  WYNDHAM.  (3)  COL.  JOHN  W.  KESTER. 

(4)  COL.  HUGH  J.  JANEWAY  (Killed).  (5)  COL.  MYRON  H.  BEAUMONT. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 

• 
• 
• 

I 

I 

2 
I 

3 

•    • 

15 

12 

5 
9 
14 

5 
8 

10 
ii 
10 

9 
8 

4 

!5 
12 

5 
9 
M 
6 

9 

JO 

!3 
IO 

IO 

1  1 

2 

• 

I 

• 

• 
* 

I 

* 
• 
• 
• 
* 

•    • 

18 
16 
8 
'4 

I  2 
*7 

18 

14 

16 

21 

17 
14 

2 

18 

i? 

8 

M 

1  2 

J7 
*9 
M 
16 

21 

!7 
14 

23 
270 

257 
246 
211 
226 

186 
229 
229 
242 
248 
246 

233 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I    

K  , 

L  

M  

Totals  . 

I  2 

116 

128 

4 

'85 

189 

2,846 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  457  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  35. 


BATTLES.  K,  &  M.W 

Picket,  Va.,  Feb.  25,   1862 i 

Rappahannock,  Va.,  May  14,  1862  i 

Strasburg,  Va.,  June  i,  1862.    i 

Woodstock,  Va.,  June  2,  1862  ....  i 

Harrisonburg,  Va.,  June  6,  1862. .  .  3 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va.,  Aug.  9,  1862  2 

Brandy  Station,  Va.,  Aug.  20,  1862.  I 

Rappahannock,  Va.,  Aug.  21,  1862.  i 

Aldie,  Va.,  Oct.   31,  1862 i 

Brandy  Station,  Va.,  June  9,  1863  4 

Aldie,  Va.,  June  22,  1.863 •  •  •  I 

Sulphur  Springs,  Va.,  Oct.  12,  1863  8 

Mountain  Run,  Va.,  Nov.  27,  1863.  10 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Guerrillas,  Va.,  Dec.  17,  1863 i 

Warrenton,  Va.,  Jan.  15.  1864 I 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va.,  May  5,  1864.  .  21 

Beaver  Dam,  Va.,  May  9,  1864   ...  i 

Richmond  Raid,  Va.,  May — ,  1864  2 

Hanovertown,  Va.,  May  26,  1864.  .  i 

Hawes's  Shop,  Va.,  May  28,  1864.  .  21 

Trevilian    Station,   June  n,  1864.  .  2 

Petersburg,  Va.,  July  — ,  1864.  ...  2 

Shenandoah,  Va.,  July — ,1864....  i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va.,  July  28,  1864. .  .  7 

Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  Aug.  14,  1864.  .  2 

Vaughn  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  i,  1864...  4 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Bellefield  Station,  Va.,  Dec.  10,  1864  4 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va..  Feb.  6,  1865..  3 

Picket,  Va.,  March  4,  1865 ,  I 

Dinwiddie  C.  H.,  March  30,  1865. .  2 

Chamberlain's  Creek,  March  31, '65  i 

Burke's  Station,  Va.,  April  4    1865.  2 

Amelia  Springs,  Va.,  April  5,  1865.  3 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va.,  April     6,  1865.  2 

Farmville,  Va.,  April     7,1865 2 

Appomattox,  Va.,  April  9,  1865. ...  I 

Andersonville  Prison i 

Place  unknown. 5 


NOTES. — Of  the  272  cavalry  regiments  in  the  Union  Army,  the  First  New  Jersey  stands  sixth  in  point  of  losses 
in  action.  It  was  organized  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  August  14,  1861,  and  arrived  at  Washington  the  same  month,  where 
it  remained  encamped  during  the  succeeding  fall  and  winter.  In  February,  Colonel  Halsted  resigned,  and  was 
succeeded  by  Percy  Wyndham,  an  officer  of  the  Italian  army  who  had  seen  some  service  in  Europe.  The  regi 
ment  took  the  field  early  in  1862,  entering  upon  a  series  of  arduous  and  perilous  campaigns  which  ended  only 
with  the  war.  In  addition  to  the  actions  above  mentioned,  the  regiment  was  engaged  in  a  large  number  of  affairs 
in  which  it  lost  men  wounded  or  captured.  In  1862  it  served  in  General  Bayard's  cavalry  brigade;  at  Gettys 
burg,  it  was  in  Macintosh's  (ist)  Brigade,  Gregg's  (ad)  Division,  Cavalry  Corps;  in  1864  Davies  commanded 
this  brigade,  in  which  the  regiment  remained  without  further  change.  Colonel  Janeway  fell  at  Amelia  Springs ; 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Virgil  Broderick  and  Major  John  H.  Shelmire  were  killed  at  Brandy  Station  ;  Major  James 
H.  Hart  was  killed  at  Dinwiddie  C.  H.,  March  31,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


24H 


FIRST   NEW  JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
FIRST  JERSEY  BRIGADE  — WRIGHT'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL  WILLIAM  R  MONTGOMERY  :  CT.  13.,  BRIO.  OKI*.  U.  8.  V. 

9) COL.  ALFRED  T.  TOKBEKT  :  IB.  $.,  B.  4..  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  U.  8.  A. 


(3)  COL.  MAHK  W.  COL  LETT  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  1IKNUY. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DINEAPE,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  PRIHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers.                   Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 
• 

2 

• 
• 

I 
2 
I 

• 

I 

•    • 

II 
12 

23 

16 

23 

*3 

8 

12 

8 
18 

2 
1  1 
12 

25 
16 

23 
14 

10 

'3 

8 

'9 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

5 
5 
7 
14 
1  1 

5 

10 

8 

7 
18 

•    • 

5 
5 
7 
M 
1  1 

5 
1  1 

8 

7 
18 

'7 
I  2O 

I25 
142 

I25 
126 

I  IO 

114 

127 
114 

204 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

144 

^53 

I 

90 

91 

1,324 

153  killed  —  11.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  546;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  ig. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  15,  1861 i 

Games'  Mill,  Va 44 

Manassas,  Va 1 1 

Crampton's  Pass,  Md 9 

Salem  Heights,  Va 19 

Wilderness,  Va 37 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 12 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 8 

Snicker's    Gap,  Va i 

Winchester,  Va i 

Cedar   Creek,  Va 2 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 8 


Present,  also,  at  West  Point ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Glendale  ;  Chantilly  ;  Antietam  ;  Freder- 
icksburg ;  Gettysburg  ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Mine  Run ;  Fisher's  Hill ;  Hatcher's  Run ;  Sailor's  Creek ; 
Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Trenton,  May  21,  1861.  Arriving  at  Washington  June  29th,  it  was  assigned  to  the 
First  Jersey  Brigade,  and  during  the  following  fall  and  winter  was  stationed  in  Virginia,  near  Fairfax  Seminary. 
In  April,  1862,  the  division-- Franklin's  —  moved  to  Yorktown  and  joined  the  Peninsular  army,  the  brigade, 
under  General  Taylor,  becoming  the  First  Brigade  of  Slocum's  (ist)  Division,  Sixth  Corps.  The  regiment  was 
slightly  engaged  at  West  Point,  and  at  Gaines's  Mill  encountered  a  severe  musketry  fire,  losing  21  killed,  80 
wounded,  and  58  missing;  Major  David  Hatfield  fell,  mortally  wounded,  at  Gaines's  Mill.  The  brigade  was 
engaged  at  Manassas,  August  27,  1862,  in  the  action  at  Bull  Run  Bridge,  in  which  the  First  Regiment  lost  132 
in  killed,  wounded  and  prisoners ;  General  George  W.  Taylor,  the  brigade  commander,  was  mortally  wounded  in 
this  affair,  while  the  brigade  lost  339  out  of  about  1,100  engaged.  General  Brooks  commanded  the  division  at 
Salem  Church,  a  bloody  repulse  in  which  the  regiment  lost  7  killed,  71  wounded,  and  27  missing;  Colonel  Col- 
lett  was  killed  at  the  close  of  the  action.  In  the  Wilderness  campaign  the  divsion  was  commanded  by  General 
Wright :.  the  casualties  of  the  regiment  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania,  May  5-14,  were  20  killed,  156 
wounded,  and  48  missing.  During  all  its  active  service  it  had  been  in  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Sixth 
Corps.  It  was  mustered  out  June  23,  1864;  the  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  were  formed  into  a  battalion  of 
three  companies  which  remained  in  the  corps  during  the  war. 


244 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRD   NEW  JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
FIRST  JERSEY  BRIGADE  —  WRIGHT'S  DIVISION -- SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  W.  TAYLOR ;  BRIG.  GEN.  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  HENRY  W.  BROWN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  Ix  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

2 

I 

• 

I 
I 

3 

• 

•    • 

15 

*7 

II 

12 
IS 
II 

14 

*5 
18 

17 

•    • 

15 

18 
J3 

12 

J9 
ii 

15 
16 

21 
17 

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

•    • 

9 

5 
10 

7 
8 

8 

7 
8 

10 

8 

•     » 

9 

5 
10 

7 
8 

8 

7 

9 
10 

8 

18 
118 

124 
124 

118 

J31 
109 

118 

I25 
128 

I25 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

T  , 

K  . 

Totals. 

9 

148 

J57 

I 

80 

81 

1,238 

157  killed  =  12.6  per  cent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  537  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  9. 


BATTLES. 

Scout  duty,  Va.  (1861). 
Munson's  Hill,  Va .  .  . . . 
Burke's  Station,  Va .  . . 

Williamsburg,  Va 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 

Glendale,Va 

Manassas,  Va 

Crampton's  Gap,  Md . . 


K.  &  M.W 
i 

2 
I 
I 

58 
I 

6 


K.  &  M.W. 

22 


BATTLES. 

Salem  Heights,  Va 

Gettysburg,  Pa  ............................  i 

Wilderness,  Va.,  May  5  .....................  4 

Spotsylvania,  May  8th  ......................  13 

Spotsylvania,  May  gth  ......................  5 

Spotsylvania,  May   loth  .....................  7 

Spotsylvania,  May   1  2th  .....................  1  8 

Cold  Harbor,  Va  ..........................  4 


Present,  also,  at  West  Point ;  Glendale  ;    Chantilly  ;    Antietam  ;    Fredericksburg  ;  Rappahannock    Station  ; 
Mine  Run  ;  Petersburg  ;  Opequon  ;  Cedar  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. —  The  regiment  was  fully  organized,  officered,  and  equipped  by  May  18,  1861,  but  was  not  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  until  June  4th.  It  left  the  State,  1,051  strong,  on  June  28,  1861,  and  was  placed 
in  the  First  Jersey  Brigade,  consisting  of  the  First,  Second,  Third  and  Fourth  New  Jersey  regiments  ;  the  brigade, 
under  command  of  General  Kearny,  was  encamped  for  several  months  at  Fairfax  Seminary,  engaged  on  outpost 
duty  and  occasional  scouting  expeditions.  In  1862  the  brigade  was  assigned  to  the  First  Division  (Slocum's), 
Sixth  Corps,  in  which  division  it  served  during  the  war  without  further  change.  The  regiment  met  with  a  severe 
loss  at  Gaines's  Mill,  its  casualties  on  that  field  amounting  to  35  killed,  136  wounded,  and  44  missing ;  total,  215. 
The  brigade,  under  Colonel  Brown,  encountered  more  hard  fighting  at  Salem  Church,  the  loss  of  the  regiment  in 
that  battle  aggregating  n  killed,  69  wounded,  and  15  missing.  Its  hardest  fighting  and  greatest  percentage  of 
loss  occurred  in  the  Wilderness  campaign,  where  the  remnant  of  the  regiment  was  engaged  in  some  of  the  most 
desperate  fighting  of  the  war ;  its  losses  during  the  bloody  contest  at  Spotsylvania,  were  20  killed,  98  wounded, 
and  30  missing  ;  total,  148.  On  the  day  after  the  assault  at  Cold  Harbor,  the  regiment  was  ordered  home  for 
muster-out.  The  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  were  consolidated  into  one  company  which  remained  in  the  First 
Division,  being  known  as  Company  A,  Third  New  Jersey  Battalion. 


THREK  HUNDRED  FKJHTING  REGI.MKNTS. 


FOURTH   NEW   JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
FIRST  JERSEY  BRIGADE-  -WRIGHT'S  DIVISION  —  HIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  H.  SIMPSON  i   t».  $.,  B.  *.,  BVT.  BRIU.  UKN.  U.  8.  A. 
(8)  COL.  WILLIAM  H.  HATCH  (Killed). 


(8)  COL.  WILLIAM  C.  BTRNEY  ;  BVT.  MAJOU-OKN.  U.  S.  V. 
(4)  COL.  EDWAIil)  L.  CAMPBELL  ;  BVT.  BKIU.  GKN.  U.S.  V. 


COMPANIES. 

KlI.I.Kll    AND   DlKU   OK   WolTNDS. 

DIED  or  1  MM  v-i  .  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men  . 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  . 

2 

I 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

• 

2 

I 

'5 
17 
16 

»9 

'3 
14 
M 

'5 
18 

M 

3 
16 

»7 

16 

'9 
'3 
U 
14 

15 

18 

16 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1 

I 

• 

•     • 

10 

9 
10 

9 

1  1 

7 
1  6 

10 

9 

I  2 

•    • 

10 

9 

10 

9 

1  1 

* 

16 
1  1 

10 

I  2 

23 

208 

198 
204 

'93 
162 

187 
178 

•77 
,65 

172 

B  

C  , 

I)  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

5 

156 

161 

2 

I03 

105 

1,867 

Original  enrollment,  909  ;  killed,  131  ;  percentage,  14.4. 
Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  588  ;  died   in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  27. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  28,  1861 i 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 52 

Manassas,  Va 2 

Crampton's  Gap,  Md 12 

Antietam,  Md i 

Fredericksburg,    Va 1 1 

Wilderness,  Va 27 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 31 

Cold  Harbor,  Va *  6 

Snicker's  Gap,  Va i 

Winchester,  Va 2 

Opequon,    Va 5 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 5 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 


Present,  also,  at  West  Point ;  Seven  Days  Battle  ;  Chantilly  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Trenton,  and  mustered  in  August  19,  1861.  It  left  the  State  the  next  day,  proceed 
ing  to  Virginia  where  it  was  assigned  to  the  famous  Jersey  Ilrigade,  then  under  command  of  General  Kearny. 
The  brigade  was  encamped  in  Virginia  for  several  months,  engaged  on  picket  duty  and  in  perfecting  its  drill  and 
discipline.  On  March  7,  1862,  it  broke  camp  and  participated  in  the  advance  on  Manassas.  In  April,  the  bri 
gade  embarked  for  the  Peninsula,  and  upon  the  evacuation  of  Yorktown  sailed  up  the  York  to  West  Point  where 
it  disembarked  and  was  present  at  the  action  which  occurred  there.  At  Gaines's  Mill  the  regiment,  in  company 
with  the  Eleventh  Pennsylvania  Reserves,  held  its  ground  after  all  other  troops  had  fallen  back,  and  being  sur 
rounded  was  forced  to  surrender;  the  casualties  were  45  killed,  103  wounded,  and  437  captured  or  missing. 
The  Jersey  Brigade  distinguished  itself  in  Slocum's  brilliant  and  victorious  charge  up  the  mountain-side  at 
Crampton's  Gap,  the  brigade  being  commanded  by  General  Torbert ;  the  loss  in  the  Fourth  was  10  killed  and 
26  wounded.  At  First  Fredericksburg  the  regiment  lost  9  killed,  35  wounded,  and  36  missing ;  Colonel  Hatch 
was  mortally  wounded  there.  In  the  fighting  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania,  the  regiment  lost  23  killed, 
139  wounded,  and  23  missing;  total,  185.  A  large  number  of  recniits  and  conscripts  were  received  in  the  latter 
part  of  1864,  but  the  most  of  them  joined  after  the  fighting  was  about  over. 


246 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTH  NEW  JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
SECOND  JERSEY  BRIGADE  —  HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  SAMUEL  H.  STARR;  ».  S. 


(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  J.  SEWELL ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  ASHBEL  W.  ANGELL. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 

• 

2 
I 

2 

1 
2 
2 
I 

I 

23 
1  1 

8 

IS 
10 

ii 
10 

8 

12 
17 

I 
24 
1  1 
10 

16 

12 
II 
I  I 
10 

J4 

1  8 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

15 

4 
4 

9 
10 

8 

10 

1  1 

5 
9 

•    • 

15 

4 
4 
9 

10 

8 

10 

ii 

5 
9 

15 
233 
129 

158 
246 
140 
1  08 

155 

137 

*34 
114 

B  

c  . 

D. 

E  . 

F  

G  

H  

T  . 

K  

Totals  

1  2 

126 

138 

• 

85 

85 

1,569 

Original  enrollment,  861  ;  killed,  98;  percentage,  11.3. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  524  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  10. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Yorktown,  Va 4 

Williamsburg,  Va 24 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 6 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 2 

Manassas,  Va 12 

Chancellorsville,  Va 28 

Gettysburg,  Pa 25 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

McLean's  Ford,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 18 

Spotsylvania,  Va i 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 3 

Petersburg,  Va i  o 

Poplar  Spring   Church,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Gleridale ;  Malvern  Hill;  Bristoe  Station  (1862);  Chantilly ;  Fredericksburg ;  Kelly's 
Ford  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy ;  Deep  Bottom  ;  Boydton  Road. 

NOTES. — Organized,  officered,  and  equipped  by  August  22,  1861,  and  on  the  following  week  it  went  to  Wash 
ington,  encamping  on  Meridian  Hill.  It  was  assigned  to  the  Second  Jersey  Brigade,  which  was  composed  of  the 
Fifth,  Sixth,  Seventh  and  Eighth  New  Jersey  regiments.  This  brigade  afterwards  became  the  Third  Brigade  of  the 
Second  (Hooker's)  Division,  Third  Corps.  In  December,  1861,  it  moved  to  Budd's  Ferry,  Md.,  about  45  miles 
below  Washington,  where  it  remained  on  duty  until  April,  1862,  when  it  joined  McClellan's  Army,  then  in  front 
of  Yorktown.  Hooker's  Division  did  most  of  the  fighting  at  Williamsburg,  in  which  action  the  regiment  lost  9 
killed,  67  wounded,  and  27  missing.  At  Chancellorsville  the  brigade  was  conspicuous  for  its  efficiency,  the  Fifth 
capturing  three  of  the  enemy's  flags ;  its  casualties  there  were  13  killed,  102  wounded,  and  6  missing,  out  of  320 
present,  as  officially  reported.  General  Mott,  the  gallant  commander  of  the  brigade,  being  wounded,  Colonel 
Sewall  succeeded  him  during  the  rest  of  the  action  ;  General  Berry,  the  division  general,  was  killed.  At  Gettys 
burg,  the  casualties  were  13  killed,  65  wounded,  and  16  missing;  Colonel  Sewall  was  among  the  wounded.  In 
March,  1864,  upon  the  discontinuance  of  the  Third  Corps,  the  brigade  was  transferred  to  Mott's  Division  of  the 
Second  Corps  ;  it  ceased  to  exist  as  a  distinctive  Jersey  Brigade,  as  four  regiments  from  other  States  were  added. 
The  losses  of  the  regiment  in  May  and  June,  1864,  were  15  killed,  129  wounded,  and  12  missing.  It  was 
mustered-out  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  September  7,  1864;  the  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  were  consolidated  into  a 
battalion  of  four  companies,  and  transferred  to  the  Seventh  New  Jersey. 


TlIHKK   llL'NDHKD   FlCiHTlNU    RKGIMKNTS. 


247 


SIXTH   NEW  JERSEY   INFANTRY. 
SECOND  JERSEY  BRIGADE  —  HUMPHKEYS'S  DIVISION-    TIIIKD  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  T.  IIATFIELI). 

(2)  COL.  OERSHOM   MOTT  ;  MAJOH-QRX. 


(8)  COL.  GEORGE  C.  BUHLING  ;  UVT.  BRIO.  GRN. 
(4)  COL.  STEIMIKN  R.  GILKYSON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  Worxus. 

DIED  OK  DIHKASE,  ACCIDENTH,  IN  PKIMON,  &e. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Meu. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Stafl"  

2 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 

•    * 

16 
I  I 
12 
I  I 

'3 
10 

«4 
1  1 

»3 

13 

2 
16 
I  I 

13 
1  1 

J3 

10 

'4 
1  1 

'3 
J3 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 

7 
6 
6 

7 

3 
10 

8 

9 
10 

5 

r 

7 
6 

6 

7 
3 

10 

8 

9 
10 

5 

'5 
130 

142 
130 
123 
123 
1  06 
1  29 
'38 

'32 
126 

B  

c 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

Totals  

3 

124 

127 

i 

71 

72 

1,294 

Original  enrollment,  898;  killed,   115;  percentage,  12.8. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  433;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  8. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Williamsburg,  Va 59 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 7 

Manassas,  Va 21 

Chancellorsville,  Va i  r 

Gettysburg,  Pa 5 

McLean's  Ford,  Va i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 9 

Spotsylvania,  Va 3 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va 8 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 

Guerillas,  Va.,  May  18,  1864 i 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Glendale ;  Malvern  Hill;  Bristoe  Station  (1862);  Chantilly  :  Fredericksburg ; 
Kelly's  Ford  ;  Mine  Run  ;  North  Anna  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Cold  Harbor  ;  Deep  Bottom  ;  Peebles's  Farm  ;  Boydton 
Road. 

NOTES. — Organized  August  19,  i86i,and  leftthe  State  September  loth,  with  898  officers  and  men.  Arriving 
at  Washington  it  encamped  on  Meridian  Hill  with  the  Second  Jersey  Brigade.  In  December,  1861,  the 
brigade  was  ordered  on  duty  along  the  Lower  Potomac,  where  it  joined  Hooker's  Division.  It  took  the  field  in 
April,  1862,  moving  up  the  Peninsula  with  the  Third  Corps.  The  brigade  was  in  the  thick  of  the  fight  at 
Williamsburg,  and  the  "Jersey  Blues"  won  a  place  in  history  that  day  ;  the  losses  there  in  the  Sixth  Regiment  were 
39  killed,  74  wounded,  and  26  missing ;  among  the  killed  were  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  P.  Van  Leer,  who  was 
in  command  at  that  battle,  and  Adjutant  Aaron  Wilks.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Mott  of  the  Fifth  was  transferred  to 
the  colonelcy  of  the  Sixth  soon  after  this  battle.  The  brigade,  under  General  Mott,  distinguished  itself  at  Chan 
cellorsville  by  the  persistency  with  which  it  held  its  ground  and  repulsed  the  repeated  advances  of  the  enemy , 
the  regiment  lost  there  6  killed,  53  wounded,  ami  8  missing.  The  brigade  was  transferred  in  March,  1864,  to 
the  Second  Corps,  becoming  the  First  Brigade  (McAllister's)  of  Mott's  (4th)  Division.  This  division  was 
subsequently  merged  into  Birney's  (3d)  Division,  and  later  on,  Mott  succeeded  Birney.  The  losses  of  the  regi 
ment  during  May  and  June,  1864,  were  15  killed,  99  wounded,  and  6  missing.  It  fought  in  the  ranks  of  the 
Second  Corps  until  August,  1 864,  when  it  was  ordered  home  for  muster-out.  The  recruits  and  reenlisted  men 
remaining  in  the  field,  were  transferred  to  the  Eighth  New  Jersey. 


248 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTH  NEW  JERSEY  INFANTRY. 


SECOND  JERSEY  BRIGADE  —  HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOSEH  W.  EEVERE ;  BRIO.  GEN.  (2)  COL.  LOUIS  R.  FRANCINE  ;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN.  (Killed). 

(3)  COL.  FRANCIS  PRICE  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

3 

• 
• 

2 
2 
I 
I 
I 

• 

.  • 

T9 
ii 

i? 

12 

*3 

II 

II 
12 

8 

12 

I 

'9 
14 
17 

12 

15 
!3 
12 

13 

9 

12 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

16 
10 

18 
18 

9 
3 

5 
'5 

12 
M 

2 

16 

10 

18 
18 

9 
3 
6 

15 

12 
14 

'9 
302 

280 

273 
326 

215 
231 

220 

273 
206 

238 

B  

c  

D. 

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

II 

126 

137 

2 

121 

123 

2,583 

Original  enrollment,  920;  killed,  102;  percentage,  n. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  485  :  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  18. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.  June  18,  1864 15 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 5 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 8 

Picket,  Va.,  Nov.,  1864 5 

Armstrong  House,  Va 2 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 

Farmville,  Va i 


Bristoe  Station  (1862)  ;  Chantilly;    McLean's   Ford; 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Williamsburg,  Va 40 

Oak  Grove,  Va i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va 6 

Fredericksburg,   Va i 

Chancellorsville,  Va 10 

Gettysburg,  Pa 24 

Wilderness,  Va 3 

Spotsylvania,  Va 10 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Fair  Oaks  ;  Glendale 
Kelly's  Ford  ;  Mine  Run  ;  North  Anna ;  Deep  Bottom  ;  Peeble's  Farm  ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Seven  companies  proceeded  to  Washington,  Sept.  19,  1861  ;  the  others  followed  on  Oct.  3d;  the 
whole  regiment,  920  strong,  encamping  on  Meridian  Hill,  where  it  remained  until  December,  when  it  moved  to 
Budd's  Ferry,  Md.  In  company  with  the  Fifth,  Sixth,  and  Eighth  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  it  formed  what  was 
known  as  the  Second  Jersey  Brigade,  and  was  assigned  to  Hooker's  Division,  Third  Corps.  It  was  hotly  engaged 
at  Williamsburg,  where  its  casualties  aggregated  26  killed,  90  wounded,  and  7  missing.  General  Mott  com 
manded  the  brigade,  and  General  Berry  the  division  at  Chancellorsville,  a  battle  in  which  the  brigade  rendered  good 
service,  and  the  Seventh  captured  five  stands  of  colors ;  the  Seventh  lost  there  6  killed,  and  41  wounded.  The 
brigade  was  commanded  at  Gettysburg  by  Colonel  George  C.  Burling  (Sixth  New  Jersey),  the  losses  in  the  regi 
ment  amounting  to  15  killed,  86  wounded,  and  13  missing;  Colonel  Francine  was  mortally  wounded  in  the  battle 
of  the  second  day.  In  March,  1864,  the  Third  Corps  was  merged  into  the  Second,  the  brigade  being  assigned  to 
Mott's  Division.  The  regiment  encountered  hard  fighting  at  Spotsylvania,  and  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg,  June 
1 8th ;  its  losses  in  May  and  June,  1864,  amounting  to  12  killed,  97  wounded,  and  60  captured  or  missing.  In 
November,  1864,  the  men  of  the  Fifth  New  Jersey  Battalion  were  transferred  to  the  Seventh,  and  it  also  received 
a  large  number  of  conscripts  and  recruits.  The  original  members  were  mustered  out  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  Oct.  7, 
1864,  but  enough  men  remained  in  the  field  to  preserve  the  organization. 


THKKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


1MU 


EIGHTH  NEW    JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
SECOND  JERSEY  BRIGADE  —  HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ADOLPH  J.  JOHNSON. 


(8)  COL.  JOHN  RAMSEY  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-QW. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS.  Is  PUIHON,  <fcc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

(  >fficera. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 
• 

2 

• 

2 
I 
I 
I 
I 

• 

•    • 

16 

i? 
16 

17 
18 

i? 
14 
18 

17 

'7 

I 

16 

«7 

18 

'7 
20 

18 

i5 

19 
18 

'7 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

'4 

9 

15 

8 

10 
8 
8 

I  2 
20 

5 

•     • 

'4 
9 

'5 
8 

10 

8 
9 

I  2 
20 

5 

2O 
234 
249 

245 
236 

23' 
218 

228 
263 
270 
213 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T 

K  

Totals  

9 

167 

176 

i 

109 

I  IO 

2,407 

Of  the  889  originally  enrolled,  127  were  killed  —  14.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  624;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  21. 


BATTLM.  K.  A  M  \\ 

Williamsburg,  Va 42 

Fair  Oaks,  Va.,  June   16,1862 i 

Glendale,   Va 2 

Kettle   Run,  Va.,  Aug.  27,  1862 2 

Manassas,  Va i  o 

Chancellorsville,  Va 32 

Gettysburg,  Pa 12 

Wilderness,  Va 1 1 

Totopotomoy,  Va 4 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 7 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 4 

Picket  Line,  Petersburg 7 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 4 

Boydton  Road,  Va 12 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 20 

Armstrong  House,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 i 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 

Farmville,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Chantilly  ;  Fredericksburg  ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Spotsyl- 
vania  ;  North  Anna  ;  Cold  Harbor ;  Poplar  Spring  Church  ;  Amelia  Springs  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — The  above  enrollment  may  give  an  erroneous  idea  of  the  size  of  the  regiment.  Fully  one- third 
vere  not  enrolled  until  after  the  regiment  was  through  its  hardest  fighting  ;  they  were  conscripts,  of  whom  over 
400  deserted,  most  of  them  deserting  before  they  joined  the  regiment,  although  their  names  went  to  swell  the 
enrollment.  The  Eighth  left  the  State  October  i,  1861,  and  joined  the  Second  Jersey  Brigade  at  Meridian  Hill, 
Washington.  Having  been  assigned  to  Hooker's  Division  it  fought  at  Williamsburg,  where  it  lost  35  killed,  122 
wounded,  and  4  missing;  total,  161  ;  Major  Peter  M.  Ryerson  was  among  the  killed.  At  Chancellorsville,  the 
division  (Berry's)  took  a  prominent  part,  the  Jersey  Brigade  encountering  there  the  severest  fighting  in  its  expe 
rience.  The  Eighth  lost  in  that  battle,  18  killed,  101  wounded,  and  6  missing,  out  of  268  muskets  officially 
reported  present.  Humphreys  commanded  Hooker's  old  division  at  Gettysburg,  where  the  casualties  of  the 
regiment  amounted  to  7  killed,  38  wounded,  and  2  missing,  out  of  a  small  number  engaged.  When  the  Thiid 
Corps  was  broken  up,  in  March,  1864,  the  division  was  transferred  to  the  Second  Corps  and  General  Mott  placed 
in  command.  The  regiment  fought  in  all  the  succeeding  battles  of  the  Second  Corps,  earning  laurels  for  itself 
and  for  its  State.  At  Deep  Bottom,  August  16,  1864,  it  numbered  only  about  100  men;  under  the  gallant  Ram 
sey  it  won  official  mention  for  its  admirable  bearing  in  that  battle. 


250 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ELEVENTH  NEW  JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
CARE'S  BRIGADE  —  HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ROBERT  McALLISTER ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  SCHOONOVER. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers.                  Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

• 
2 
I 
2 
2 

• 

I 
I 

I 

•   • 

6 
1  1 

6 

17 

16 

10 

15 

13 

26 

1  1 

r 

6 

13 

7 

r9 

18 

10 

16 

M 

27 
1  1 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

5 
1  1 

10 

12 
12 
12 
14 

I? 

5 
9 

•    • 

5 
1  1 

10 

12 
12 

I  2 

14 

'7 

5 
9 

15 

J57 
1  68 

184 

i95 
172 

174 

181 
170 
178 
162 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  . 

G. 

H. 

T  . 

K.  ...  ,  

Totals  . 

I  I 

J31 

142 

• 

107 

107 

^756 

Gettysburg,  Pa. . 
Mine  Run,  Va . . . 
Wilderness,  Va . . 
Spotsylvania,  Va. 
Barker's  Mills,  Va 


Original  enrollment,  979  ;  killed,  117;  percentage,  11.9. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  502  ;    died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  19. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va 10 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 

Picket,  Petersburg,  Va 7 

Boydton  Road,  Va 7 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 4 

Armstrong  House,  Va 2 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 4 

Chancellorsville,  Va 35 

40 

ii 


i 
10 


Skirmishes,  Va 2 

Present,  also,  at  Wapping  Heights ;  Kelly's  Ford ;  North  Anna ;  Totopotomoy ;  Cold  Harbor ;  Deep 
Bottom  ;  Peebles's  Farm  ;  Amelia  Springs  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES.— The  Eleventh  reported  at  Washington,  August  26,  1862,  and  moved  directly  into  Virginia  where,  in 
November,  it  was  assigned  to  Carr's  (ist)  Brigade.  Sickles's  (2d)  Division,  Third  Corps.  The  regiment  made 
a  splendid  fight  at  Chancellorsville,  the  division,  under  General  Berry,  taking  a  very  prominent  part ;  Berry  was 
killed  and  the  regimental  casualties  amounted  to  18  killed,  146  wounded,  and  5  missing;  total,  169,  out  of  about 
500  present  for  duty.  The  division  was  commanded  by  Humphreys,  at  Gettysburg,  and  in  the  battle  of  the 
second  day  fought  at  the  Emmettsburg  Road.  The  Eleventh  took  275  officers  and  men  into  that  action,  losing 
17  killed,  124  wounded,  and  12  missing ;  total,  153.  Major  Phillip  J.  Kearney  was  mortally  wounded  in  this 
battle.  In  the  action  at  Locust  Grove  (Mine  Run),  November  27,  1863,  the  regiment  lost  6  killed,  20  wounded, 
and  4  missing.  This  was  the  last  battle  of  the  Third  Corps,  for  in  March,  1864,  the  War  Department  issued  the 
foolish  and  unjust  order  directing  that  the  gallant  organization  be  broken  up  and  transferred  to  the  Second  Corps. 
The  Eleventh  thereupon  became  part  of  McAllister's  Brigade,  Mott's  Division,  Second  Corps,  in  which  Corps  it 
fought  during  the  remainder  of  the  war.  This  brigade  distinguished  itself  in  the  action  at  the  Boydton  Road, 
Colonel  McAllister  receiving  a  brevet  brigadier's  commission  for  his  services  on  that  field.  A  large  number  of 
conscripts  were  sent  to  the  regiment  in  1864-5,  but  the  fighting  was  done,  for  the  most  part,  by  the  original 
regiment. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


251 


TWELFTH   NEW  JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
SMITH'S  BRIGADE -- HA YS'S  DIVISION-    SECOND  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  ROBERT  C.  JOHNSON. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN*  II.  \VILLETTS. 


COL.  JOHN'  WILUAN:  HVT.  BRIO.  OEM. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOTNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  Ix  Piii.sox,  Ac. 

Tnuil 
Ktinillinent. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officer*. 

Men. 

Total. 

I 
i 

• 
• 

I 

*    • 

»4 
17 
I? 

9 

21 
26 

'5 

16 

18 

'5 

I 

'5 

»7 
18 

10 

22 
27 

16 

I? 

18 
16 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 

2 

I 

8 

2 

2 
I 

7 

5 
1  1 

10 

•     • 

12 
I  I 

8 

12 
12 
I  I 

7 

5 
1  1 

10 

18 

'93 

179 

1  88 
170 
1  80 

'83 
'77 
176 
200 
184 

Con"*  psny  A  •  

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

1  68 

177 

• 

99 

99 

1,848 

Original  enrollment,  992  ;  killed,  163  ;  percentage,  16.8. 

Enrollment  prior  to  Lee's  surrender,  1,548  ;  killed,  177  ;  percentage,  11.4. 

Total  killed  and  wounded,  587  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  14. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.u. 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 7 

Deep  Bottom,  Va i 

Ream's  Station,  Va 4 

Boydton  Road,  Va 5 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 4 

Place  Unknown i 


BATTLES.  K.&.M.W 

Chancellorsville,  Va 48 

Gettysburg,  Pa 28 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 2 

Morton's  Ford,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va 23 

Spotsylvania,  Va 27 

North  Anna,  Va 4 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 20 

Present,  also,  at  Auburn  Mills  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Farmville  ; 
Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Left  the  State  September  7,  1862,  joining  the  main  Army  in  December,  when  it  was  placed  in  the 
Second  Brigade  (Win.  Hays's),  Third  Division  (French's),  Second  Corps.  In  this  brigade  it  fought  at  Chancel 
lorsville,  its  first  battle;  its  casualties  there  were  24  killed,  132  wounded,  and  22  missing;  total,  178.  General 
Alex.  Hays  led  the  division  at  Gettysburg,  and  General  Thomas  A.  Smyth,  the  brigade.  During  that  battle  the 
Twelfth  distinguished  itself  on  the  afternoon  of  the  second  day  by  a  gallant  charge  of  four  companies,  in  which 
they  captured  the  Bliss  barn,  a  building  situated  midway  between  the  lines,  and  filled  with  the  enemy's  sharp 
shooters  ;  seven  Confederate  officers  and  92  men  were  captured  by  the  Jerseymen  in  this  notable  affair ;  but,  not 
without  severe  loss  to  the  four  companies  engaged.  The  losses  of  the  entire  regiment  at  Gettysburg  were  23 
killed,  83  wounded,  and  9  missing.  Upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Army,  in  March,  1864,  the  regiment  was  placed 
in  Carroll's  (3d)  Brigade  of  Gibbon's  (2d)  Division,  a  famous  brigade  in  which  seven  States  were  represented. 
The  Twelfth  crossed  the  Rapidan  with  425  men,  of  which  number  177  were  killed  or  wounded  during  the  bloody 
week  of  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas  H.  Davis,  who  commanded  at  these 
battles,  was  killed  at  Spotsylvania.  The  Twelfth  made  a  charge  at  North  Anna,  deployed  in  one  rank,  which 
General  Smyth  pronounced  the  finest  he  ever  saw.  Another  hard  fight,  this  time  at  Cold  Harbor,  and  the 
regiment  was  reduced  to  90  muskets.  In  February,  1865,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Willian  of  the  Eighth  New 
Jersey  was  promoted  to  the  colonelcy  of  the  Twelfth. 


252 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FOURTEENTH  NEW  JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
MORRIS'S  BRIGADE  —  RICKETTS'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  S.  TRUEX  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


(2)  COL.  CALDWELL  K.  HALL ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  JACOB  J.  JANEWAY. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 
I 

• 

I 
I 

• 
• 

2 
I 

• 

•    • 

12 
12 
10 
II 

15 
17 

7 
23 
17 

J5 

I 

J3 
J3 

10 
12 

16 

17 

7 

25 

18 

T5 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
* 

•  • 

*7 
9 

5 

12 
I  I 
I  I 
I  I 

8 
ii 

'5 

•    • 

17 

9 

5 

12 
I  1 
II 
II 

8 
ii 

]5 

16 
118 

"3 
J53 

133 

123 

i37 
1  08 
114 

137 
1  60 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

8 

J39 

147 

• 

I  IO 

I  10 

1,312 

147  killed  =  ii. 2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  524  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  32. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Mine   Run,  Va 17 

Wilderness,  Va 2 

Spotsylvania,  Va 5 

Hanover  Court  House,  Va.  (1864) i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 57 

Picket,  Va.,  June  6,  1864 i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Monocacy,  Md 40 

Opequon,   Va 12 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va i 

Cedar   Creek,  Va 6 

Siege   of  Petersburg,  Va 3 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 


Present,  also,  at  Wapping  Heights  ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Fort  Stedman  ;  Sailor's  Creek ;  Appo- 
mattox. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Freehold,  N.  J.,  and  left  the  State,  1,007  strong,  on  September  2d,  1862.  Colonel 
Truex  had  served  as  major,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Hall  as  adjutant,  of  the  Fifth  N.  J.  V.  It  was  ordered  on 
guard  duty  along  the  B.  &  O.  R.  R.  near  Monocacy,  Md.,  where  it  remained  until  June,  1863,  when  it  moved  to 
Harper's  Ferry.  In  the  following  month,  upon  Lee's  invasion,  the  garrison  (French's  Division)  was  withdrawn 
to  Frederick,  where  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  soon  after  Gettysburg,  becoming  the  Third  Division  of 
the  Third  Corps.  The  regiment  was  under  fire  at  Locust  Grove  (Mine  Run)  for  the  first  time,  where  it  lost  14 
killed,  and  49  wounded ;  its  casualties  were  the  largest,  numerically,  of  any  regiment  engaged  in  the  various 
actions  incidental  to  the  Mine  Run  campaign.  Upon  the  discontinuance  of  the  third  Corps,  March,  1864,  the 
division  was  transferred  to  the  Sixth  Corps  as  Ricketts's  Third  Division,  the  regiment  being  placed  in  Morris's 
(ist)  Brigade.  Its  casualties  in  May  and  June,  1864,  nearly  all  of  which  occurred  at  Cold  Harbor,  were  29 
killed,  107  wounded,  and  15  missing;  the  latter  were  mostly  killed.  In  July  the  division  returned  to  Maryland 
to  meet  Early's  invasion,  and  at  the  Monocacy  the  regiment  lost  24  killed,  87  wounded,  and  29  missing,  out  of 
350  men  engaged.  In  the  battle  of  the  Opequon,  Major  Peter  Vredenburgh  was  killed  while  leading  a  charge 
on  a  battery,  the  regiment  losing  in  that  action  6  killed,  and  56  wounded.  Colonel  Truex  commanded  the 
brigade  in  the  final  and  victorious  assault  of  the  corps  on  the  works  at  Petersburg. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS 


258 


FIFTEENTH  NEW  JERSEY  INFANTRY. 
FIRST  JERSEY  BRIGADE -- WRIGHT'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 

(l)Cou  SAMUEL  FOWLEK.  (2)  COL.  WILLIAM  II.  PENKOSE,  B.  «.•   HVT.  BRIO.  OKN.  IT.  8.  A. 

(3)  COL.  EDWAKD  L.  CAMPBELL;  BVT.  Bitio.  OEN.  U.  ».  V. 


CON  PA  NIX*. 

KM  i  in  AN»  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DlKl)  OF  ]>I»KASK,  AcClUENTfl,  [N  I'lUSON,  &C. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers.  * 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

2 

• 

2 
I 

• 

I 

• 

I 

2 
28 
2-J 
22 

34 

22 
21 
16 

25 
'7 
18 

3 

3° 

27 

24 

35 

22 

22 

16 

25 
'7 

19 

• 
* 

1 

• 
• 

• 

•     • 

'7 
IO 

'3 
'5 

'4 

I  2 
1  2 
I  I 
16 
I  I 

•     • 

•7 
1  1 

•3 
>5 
M 

12 
I  2 
I  I 
16 

i  r 

'5 
172 

170 
171 

'85 

165 
164 
170 
161 

'55 
J74 

Company  *\  •  •  •  •  •  

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H. 

T 

K. 

Totals  . 

8 

232 

240 

1 

'31 

'32 

1,702 

240  killed  — =  14.1  per  cent. 

Of  the  947  originally  enrolled,  190  were  killed  ==  20  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  856;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),.  19. 


BATTLES. 

Fredericksburg,  Va. 
Salem  Heights,  Va. 
Gettysburg,  Pa. . . . 
Brandy  Station,  Va. 


K.&M.W. 
.       8 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Cold   Harbor,  Va 18 

Winchester,  Va 4 

Opequon,    Va 9 

Fisher's   Hill,  Va 4 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 27 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 3 


Wilderness,  Va 7 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  8 31 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  10 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12 80 

Present,  also,  at  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Hanover  C.  H.  (1864) ;  Weldon  Railroad  ;  Strasburg  ; 
Charlestown  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Fort  Stedman  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — The  Fifteenth  left  the  State  Aug.  27,  1862,  with  947  officers  and  men.  Colonel  Fowler  was  forced 
to  resign  within  a  few  months  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  died  before  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  succeeded 
by  Penrose,  then  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Third  United  States  Infantry.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Campbell  had  served 
with  honor  in  the  Third  New  Jersey,  and,  as  Colonel  Penrose  was  in  command  of  the  brigade  much  of  the  time, 
led  the  Fifteenth  in  most  of  its  battles.  The  regiment  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  at  Harper's  Ferry  on 
October  i,  1862,  and  was  assigned  to  the  First  Jersey  Brigade,  Brooks's  (ist)  Division,  Sixth  Corps ;  it  remained 
in  the  First  Division  during  its  entire  term  of  service.  It  was  under  fire  at  the  first  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  sus 
taining  a  small  loss,  but  in  the  second  battle  at  that  place  —  Salem  Church  —  it  lost  24  killed,  126  wounded,  and 
4  missing.  On  May  4,  1864,  the  regiment  crossed  the  Rapidan  with  15  officers  and  429  muskets  available  in 
action;  nearly  300  of  these  fell  at  Spotsylvania,  the  muster-out  rolls  bearing  the  names  of  116  who  were  killed 
or  mortally  wounded  there.  In  two  weeks  the  command  was  reduced  to  6  officers  and  136  muskets.  The  rem 
nant  of  the  regiment  fought  under  Sheridan  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  where  they  sustained  another  terrible  per 
centage  of  loss  at  Cedar  Creek ;  Major  Lambert  Boeman  was  killed  in  that  action.  The  rolls  of  the  Fifteenth 
were  swelled  by  large  accessions  of  conscripts  and  substitutes  who  joined  in  the  winter  of  1864-5,  but  not 
most  of  the  fighting  was  over.  The  loss  of  life  fell  largely  on  the  old  regiment. 


254 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTH   PENNSYLVANIA   CAVALRY  (80TH   PA.  VOLS.) 
MINTY'S  BRIGADE  —  GARRARD'S  DIVISION  —  CAVALRY  CORPS,  A.  C. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  C.  WYNKOOP. 


(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  B.  SIPES. 


(3)  COL.  CHARLES  C.  McCORMICK  ,  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment, 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

I 
I 

T 

1 

* 
• 

2 

•    • 

1  1 

7 
8 

4 

9 
10 

M 

7 
6 

3 

7 
8 

2 
I  I 

8 

9 
4 
10 

IO 

J5 

7 
6 

5 
7 
8 

• 
• 
• 
* 

3 

i 

i 

• 
• 

16 
20 

M 
20 

18 
9 

12 
I  I 

17 

24 

14 
IO 

16 

20 

14 
23 

J9 

9 

12 
I  I 

18 
24 

14 

10 

24 
222 
211 

215 
190 

196 
2I7 
2O2 
203 
214 
2O6 
2OI 
2OI 

Company  A  

B  

C  

D  

E  . 

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

8 

94 

IO2 

5 

I85 

190 

2,502 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Lebanon,  Tenn.,  May  5,  1862. ....  4 

McMinnville,  Tenn.,  July  6.  1862. .  i 

Murfreesboro,  Tenn.,  July  13,  1862  n 

Verbilla,  Tenn..  Aug.  9,  1862 I 

Gallatin,  Tenn.,  Aug.  21,  1862  ....  2 

Fayetteville,  Tenn.,  Sept.,  9.  1862.  i 

Brentwood,  Tenn.,  Sept.  19,  1862.  .  i 

Bear  Wallow,  Ky..  Sept.  20,  1862.  .  i 

Lavergne,  Tenn.,  Oct.  8,  1862.    ...  i 

Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  Oct.  22,  1862.  i 

Stone's  River,  Tenn.,  Dec.  31,  1862  5 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Unionville,  Tenn.,  March  6,  1863. .  3 

Snow  Hill,  Tenn.,  April  3,  1863  ...  2 

Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  June  27,  1863..  9 

Chickamauga,  Ga.,  Sept.  18,  1863  .  6 

Mission  Ridge, Tenn..  Sept.  21,  1863  2 

Cumberland  Mountains,  Oct.  4,  '63  I 

Dallas,  Ga.,  May  27,  1864 5 

Big  Shanty,  Ga.,  June  9,  1864 2 

McAfee's  X  Roads,  June  n,  1864.  .  2 

Noonday  Creek,  Ga.,  June  20,  1864  3 

Flat  Rock,  Ga..  July  28,  1864 i 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  Aug.  12,  1864 3 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Lovejoy's  Station,  Aug.  20,  1864. . .  10 

Vining's  Station,  Sept.  2,  1864 i 

Rome,  Ga.,  Oct.  13,  1864 2 

Lead's  X  Roads,  Nov.  i,  1864. ...  2 

Bardstown,   Ky..  Dec.  29,  1864  ...  2 

Selma,  Ala.,  April  2,  1865 , . . .  7 

Columbus,  Ga.,  April  16,  1865.    ...  2 

Near  Macon,  Ga.,  May  5,  1865  ....  2 

Picket  Duty    2 

Guerrillas 2 

Place  unknown 2 


NOTES. —  Organized  at  Harrisburg  in  the  fall  of  1861,  from  companies  in  various  parts  of  the  State.  It  left 
Harrisburg,  December  19,  1861,  and  went  to  Jeffersonville,  Ind.,  where  it  was  placed  in  a  Camp  of  Instruction, 
but  after  a  four  weeks'  stay  took  the  field  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee.  The  Second  and  Third  Battalions  were 
actively  engaged,  May  5,  1862,  in  an  affair  at  Lebanon,  Tenn. ;  the  Third  Battalion,  on  July  13,  1862,  was  over 
powered  and  captured  after  a  hard  contest  at  Murfreesboro,  Tenn.  The  Seventh  distinguished  itself  by  a  gallant 
charge  through  the  streets  of  Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  on  June  27,  1863.  This  charge  was  made  by  three  companies 
under  Captain  Davis,  who  with  his  men  dashed  through  the  main  street,  up  to  the  public  square,  in  which  there 
was  a  battery  commanding  the  approach.  The  men  rode  through  the  fire  of  canister  up  to  the  muzzles  of  the 
guns,  into  the  battery,  fought  for  a  while  over  the  cannons,  and  then,  aided  by  troops  which  entered  the  town  at 
other  points,  drove  the  garrison  through  the  streets,  out  into  the  country  and  into  the  Duck  River.  The  Seventh 
lost  two  officers  killed  in  this  charge.  The  regiment  reenlisted  in  the  spring  of  1864,  and  then  accompanied 
Sherman's  Army  on  the  Atlanta  campaign.  It  participated,  in  the  spring  of  1865,  in  Wilson's  expedition  to  the 
Gulf,  and  —  in  Long's  Division — took  part  in  the  daring  and  successful  assault  on  the  enemy's  intrenchments  at 
Selma,  Ala. 


TlIKKE   HUNDRED   FlOHTiNCi    ItEGLM  KYI'S. 


ELEVENTH   PENNSYLVANIA  CAVALRY  (108TH   PA.  VOLS.) 
SPEAR'S  BRIGADE -- KAUTZ'S  DIVISION --CAVALRY  CORPS, 


(1)  COL.  JOSIAH  HAHLAN. 


(2)  COL.  SAMUEL  P.  SPEAR  ;  BVT.  BKIO.-OKN. 


(3)  COL.  FRANK  A.  STRATTON  ;  BVT.  Bmo.  OBN. 


I'uMl1  \Mt  - 

l\n  1  1  li   AND   DlKI)  OK   WoUNL>8. 

DlKI>  OF  DlfKAKE,  ACCIIIKNTH,  IN  PltlHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 
2 
I 

• 

3 
i 

• 
• 

i 

• 

i 
i 

•    • 

8 
8 

3 

7 
'9 
7 
8 

10 

9 

9 
1  1 

9 

•    * 

9 
10 

4 

7 

22 

8 
8 
10 
10 

9 

12 
IO 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 

•    • 

'7 

I  2 

'3 

18 

*3 

23 
13 

'3 

13 

18 

15 

12 

•     * 

'7 

I  2 

!3 
18 

'3 

23 
'3 
13 

»3 

18 

15 

12 

23 
1  81 

*75 
192 

161 
177 
1  80 
176 
168 

'75 

184 

149 
182 

B  

c  

D  . 

E  

F  . 

G  

H  

I    

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

1  1 

1  08 

ng 

• 

1  80 

I  80 

2,123 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  64. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Suffolk,  Va..  May  30,  1862 i 

Franklin,  Va.,  Aug.   31,1862 I 

Cassville,  Va..  Oct.  15.  1862 i 

Beaver  Dam,  Va.    Dec.  2,  1862. ...  i 

Deserted  House,  Jan.  30,  1863   ....  2 

Norfolk,  Va.,  Feb.  10,  1863 r 

Suffolk,  Va.    March  12",  1863 i 

Franklin,  Va.,  March  17,  1863 3 

Suffolk,  Va.,  April  13,  1863 i 

Suffolk,  Va..  April  15,  1863  2 

Carrsville,  Va.,  May  17,  1863 i 


BATTLES.  K.£M.\V. 

Suffolk,  Va.,  June  4,  1863   3 

South  Anna,  Va.    June  26,  1863. ...  2 

Guerrillas,  Va.,  Sept.   12,  1863..    ..  i 

Blackwater,  Va.,  Nov.  10,  1863   ...  i 

Jarrett's  Station,  May  7,  1864 4 

Flat  Creek  Bridge,  May  14,  1864    .  5 

City  Point,  Va.,  May  17,   1864.    ...  3 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  9,  1864 5 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  15,  1864    .  .  i 

Staunton  Bridge,  June  27,  1864....  3 

Fair  Oaks,  Va.,  Sept.  29,  1864 r 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Ream's  Station,  June  29,  1864..  ..  27 
Ream's  Station,  Aug.  25,  1864.  .  11 
James  River,  Va.,  Oct.  3,  1864..  .  .  i 

Darby  town  Road,  Oct.  7,  1864 14 

Richmond,  Va.,  Oct.  30,  1864 i 

New  Market  Heights,  Dec.  10,  1864     2 

Guerrillas,  Va.,  Feb.  15,  1865 i 

Five  Forks,  Va.,  April  i,  1865 7 

Deep  Creek,  Va.,  April  3,  1863    ...      i 

Anderson ville  Prison i 

Place  unknown   9 


NOTES. — The  Eleventh  was  raised  originally  as  an  independent  regiment  under  special  authority  from  the 
War  Department,  but  was  afterwards  placed  in  the  Pennsylvania  line.  Some  of  the  companies  were  raised  in 
other  states ;  two  came  from  New  York,  one  from  Iowa,  one  from  Ohio,  and  one  from  New  Jersey.  It  organ 
ized  at  Philadelphia,  October  5,  1861,  and  the  same  month  went  to  Virginia,  1130  strong.  After  a  month's  stay 
in  a  camp  of  instruction  it  proceeded  to  Fort  Monroe,  where  it  spent  six  months,  or  more  in  drill  and  light 
duty.  Active  service  commenced  in  May,  1862,  some  of  the  companies  doing  duty  near  Suffolk,  while  five  com 
panies  served  with  General  McClellan's  Army  on  the  Peninsula.  In  1863,  the  regiment  was  employed  on  scout 
ing  and  outpost  duty  in  the  vicinity  of  Suffolk  and  the  Blackwater,  during  which  several  minor  affairs  or 
skirmishes  occurred,  with  considerable  loss  in  wounded  and  killed.  Over  400  of  the  men  reenlisted  in  the  fall  of 
1863,  which,  with  the  recruits,  preserved  the  organization  of  the  regiment  after  its  term  had  expired.  In  1864, 
it  fought  in  Kautz's  Cavalry  Division  (afterwards  Mackenzie's),  and  at  Ream's  Station  lost  over  one  hundred  in 
killed  and  wounded,  including  three  officers  killed.  At  Five  Forks  another  sharp  contest  occurred,  in  which 
Major  Monroe  and  two  officers  were  killed,  together  with  several  of  their  men. 


256 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTH  PENNSYLVANIA  RESERVES  (34TH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY). 
FISHER'S   BRIGADE  —  CRAWFORD'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  SENECA  G.  SIMMONS,    ffi®.  P.,  &.  S.  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  JOSEPH  W.  FISHER ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  <fcc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

4 

2 

2 

• 

I 
1 
I 
I 

• 

2 

• 

13 

7 
18 

ii 

22 
8 

16 
10 

7 
J5 

4 
IS 

9 

18 

12 
23 

9 
i? 

IO 

9 
15 

• 
* 
* 
* 
'  • 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 

•  • 
10 

9 

7 
6 

6 

5 
4 
6 

10 

5 

10 

9 

7 
6 

6 

5 
4 
6 

IO 

5 

19 

112 

H5 
96 

101 
IOI 

96 

97 
in 

no 

88 

B  

C  . 

D. 

E  

F  

G  

H. 

T  , 

K  

Totals  

14 

127 

141 

• 

68 

68 

1,046 

141  killed  =  13.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  481. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Mechanicsville,  Va 16 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 13 

Glendale,  Va 29 

Manassas,  Va 4 

South  Mountain,  Md 3 

Antietam,  Md 4 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 46 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 3 

Guerillas  ;  Brentsville,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 16 

Picket,  Sept.  16,  1862 i 


Present,  also,  at  Malvern  Hill ;  Gettysburg ;  Mine  Run  •  North  Anna ;  Totopotomoy. 


NOTES. —  Organized  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  June  20,  1861,  from  companies  recruited  in  the  central  counties  of 
the  State.  The  regiment  was  immediately  assigned  to  duty  at  Cumberland,  Md.,  but  in  August  it  marched  to 
Washington,  and  joined  the  division  of  Pennsylvania  Reserves  encamped  at  Tenallytown.  It  was  placed  in  the  First 
Brigade,  then  commanded  by  General  John  F.  Reynolds ;  the  division  was  commanded  by  General  George  A. 
McCall.  The  Reserves  marched  into  Virginia  in  October,  1861,  where  they  performed  the  duties  incident  to  an 
army  of  occupation  until  June  9,  1862,  when  they  were  ordered  to  reinforce  General  McClellan's  Peninsular 
Army.  The  regiment  was,  soon  after,  engaged  at  Mechanicsville,  where  it  received  the  hottest  of  the  enemy's 
fire.  It  fought  well  the  next  day  at  Gaines's  Mill,  and  three  days  later  again  faced  the  enemy  at  Glendale. 
Colonel  Simmons  was  killed  there  while  in  command  of  the  brigade  ;  the  regiment  losing  10  killed,  57  wounded, 
and  49  missing.  It  met  with  another  severe  loss  at  Fredericksburg,  the  casualties  in  that  battle  amounting  to  18 
killed,  87  wounded,  and  61  missing  ;  total,  166.  Major  Frank  Zentmeyer  was  among  the  killed,  and  the  missing 
ones  were  all  killed  or  wounded.  The  Fifth  participated  in  the  opening  battles  of  General  Grant's  campaigns  in 
Virginia  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  George  Dare,  who  was  in  command,  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness.  The  regiment  left 
the  field  on  May  31,  1864,  and  proceeded  to  Harrisburg,  where  it  was  mustered-out,  June  13,  1864. 


THKEE  HUNDRED  FIGIITINO  KKUIMKNTS. 


EIGHTH  PENNSYLVANIA  RESERVES  (37TH  PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY). 
FISHER'S  BRIGADE  —  CRAWFORD'S  DIVISION --FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  C.EOKOE  S.  HAYS. 


(2)  Coi..  SILAS  M   BAILKY. 


158  killed  --  14.8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  490;    Total  of  captured  and  missing,  147. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Mechanicsville,  Va 4 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 29 

White  Oak  Swamp,  Va i 

Glendale,  Va • 19 

Manassas,  Va 7 


I'll  MI-AMES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IUBON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

l 

• 
1 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

Men. 

•    • 

2O 

22 

'3 

9 

'7 
14 
15 

7 

21 

'5 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
20 

23 

!3 
I  1 

'7 
14 

!5 

7 

22 
15 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

5 
4 
4 
6 

7 
8 

8 

9 
8 

9 

•    * 

5 
4 
4 
6 

7 
8 
8 

9 
8 

9 

'7 

116 

95 
97 
116 

88 
95 

1OI 

90 
149 
98 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I 

K. 

Totals  . 

5 

153 

I58 

• 

68 

68 

1,062 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

South  Mountain,  Md 22 

Antietam,  Md 15 

Fredericksburg,  Va 44 

Wilderness,  Va 7 

Spotsylvania,  Va 10 


Present,  also,  at  Dranesville  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Chantilly. 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Pittsburg,  June  28,  1861,  arriving  at  Washington,  July  23d.  The  Reserves  took  the 
field  in  October,  crossing  into  Virginia  where  they  were  engaged  on  outpost  duty  for  several  months.  In  May, 
1862,  the  division  advanced  to  Fredericksburg,  but  returning  immediately  embarked  for  the  Peninsula  where  it 
joined  General  McClellan's  Army,  then  in  front  of  Richmond.  Two  weeks  later  the  regiment  took  part  in  the 
Seven  Days  Battles,  its  losses  amounting  to  32  killed,  113  wounded,  and  85  missing;  total,  230.  Returning  to 
the  Rappahannock,  the  division  was  transferred  to  McDowell's  Corps  —  afterwards  the  First.  Throughout  the 
battle  summer  and  autumn  of  1862,  the  Eighth  fought  in  every  engagement,  and  then  the  remnant  of  the  gallant 
regiment  marched  to  the  field  of  Fredericksburg.  There  the  Reserves,  under  Meade,  charged  a  strong  position 
of  the  enemy,  and,  though  successful  at  points,  were  finally  repulsed,  the  Eighth  losing  131  men,  or  half  its 
number.  In  February,  1863,  the  Reserves  were  ordered  into  the  defences  of  Washington,  having  been  with 
drawn  from  active  service  in  order  that  they  might  rest  and  recruit  their  shattered  ranks.  The  Eighth  remained 
there  until  the  spring  of  1864,  when  it  rejoined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  the  division  having  been  again 
assigned  to  the  Fifth  Corps.  The  regiment  fought  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania,  and  then  on  May  17, 
1864,  while  confronting  the.  enemy's  lines,  received  the  welcome  order  which  announced  the  expiration  of  its 
term  of  service. 
17 


258 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


NINTH  PENNSYLVANIA  RESERVES  (38TH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY). 
JACKSON'S  BRIGADE  —  MEADE'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CONRAD  F.  JACKSON;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN.  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  ROBERT  ANDERSON. 


(3)  MAJOK  CHARLES  BARNES. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 
I 

I 

• 
• 

I 

] 

•    » 

J5 
1  1 

14 
13 

M 

M 
7 
J3 
M 
16 

•    * 

I? 

12 

IS 

J3 
H 

H 
8 

T3 

15 
16 

• 

I 

• 
* 

• 

2 
1 

3 

• 

6 

7 
8 

5 
7 
4 

• 

3 

7 
3 

• 

6 

7 
8 

5 
7 
4- 

I? 

128 

99 
'OS 

91 
no 

118 

IOI 

114 
104 

IOI 

B  

c  

D  

E  . 

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

r3i 

i37 

I 

49 

5° 

1,088 

BATTLES. 


137  killed  =  12.5  percent. 
Total  casualties,  71  killed,  336  wounded,  100  missing. 


K.&M.  W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.  W 


Dranesville,  Va 4 

Mechanicsville,  Va 2 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 12 

Glendale,  Va 25 

Manassas,  Va 28 

South  Mountain,  Md 17 


Antietam,  Md 31 

Fredericksburg,  Va 14 

Culpeper  C.  H.,  Va i 

Picket,  Sept.  25,  1861 i 

Gunboat  Service,  June  2,  1862 i 

Place  Unknown i 


Present,  also,  at  Malvern  Hill ;  Gettysburg  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Wilderness. 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Pittsburg,  June  28,  1861,  eight  of  the  companies  coming  from  Allegheny  County,  one 
from  Crawford,  and  one  from  Beaver.  The  regiment  arrived  at  Washington,  July  26,  1861,  where  it  joined 
McCall's  Division  of  Pennsylvania  Reserves,  then  encamped  at  Tenallytown,  Md.  It  remained  thereuntil  October, 
at  which  time  the  Reserves  marched  into  Virginia.  The  regiment  was  assigned  to  the  Third  Brigade,  General  E. 
O.  Ord  ;  this  brigade  fought  the  battle  of  Dranesville,  December  20,  1861,  one  of  the  first  of  the  Union  victo 
ries.  The  division  marched  with  McDowell  in  his  advance  on  Manassas,  in  the  spring  of  1862,  and  then  was 
transferred  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  where  it  was  actively  engaged  in  the  Seven  Days  Battle.  At  Glendale  it 
made  a  desperate  fight  over  Cooper's  Battery,  in  which  affair  it  captured  the  colors  of  the  Tenth  Alabama. 
Rejoining  McDowell's  Corps  it  fought  at  Manassas,  where  it  lost  12  killed,  52  wounded,  and  35  missing.  Closely 
following,  came  South  Mountain  and  Antietam,  the  casualties  in  the  latter  amounting  to  17  killed,  and  66 
wounded.  General  C.  F.  Jackson,  the  brigade  commander  and  former  Colonel  of  the  Ninth,  fell  mortally 
wounded  at  Fredericksburg.  In  the  spring  of  1864,  the  regiment  crossed  the  Rapidan  with  Grant,  but  on  May 
4th,  while  in  line  of  battle  at  the  Wilderness  ready  to  go  into  action,  its  term  of  service  expired,  and  the  men 
were  ordered  to  return  to  Washington  for  muster-out. 


THREE   HUXDKKD   FlOHTIN(}    REGIMENTS. 


259 


TENTH   PENNSYLVANIA  RESERVES  (39rn   PA.    INFANTRY). 
FISHER'S  BRIGADE — CRAWFORD'S  DIVISION-   FIFTH  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  S.  McCALMONT,  BB.  fl. 

(2)  COL.  JAMES  T.  KIRK. 


(3)  COL.  ADOMItAM  J.  \VAHXEK  :  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN. 

(4)  COL.  1KA  AY  EH.  Jn. 


C'OXPANIEH. 

KILLED'AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTO,  IN  PIUSON.  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment, 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Officers. 

Mi-n.                      Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
2 

• 
• 
• 
t 
• 

1 

2 

• 

I 

•    • 

22 

I  I 
10 

15 
15 
!? 
M 
'5 

23 
1  I 

I 

24 
1  1 

IO 

'5 
»5 
i? 
IS 

J7 
23 

12 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1 
4 

5 
6 

3 
3 
3 
5 
4 
9 
4 

i 
4 

5 
6 

3 
3 
3 
5 
4 
9 
4 

47 

'4 
126 
106 
109 
1  08 
107 
i  1  1 

I  21 
IOO 

'43 

I05 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  , 

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

7 

J53 

I  60 

• 

47 

",15° 

. 

160  killed  —  13.9  per  cent. 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  14;  total  casualties  97  killed,  336  wounded,  136  missing  ;  a  large 
proportion  of  the  latter  were  killed. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Mechanicsville,  Va 4 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 42 

Glendale,  Va 27 

Manassas,  Va 22 

South  Mountain,  Md 8 

Antietam,  Mil i 

Fredericksburg,    Va 24 


BATTLES.  K.&M.NV. 

Gettysburg,  Pa 2 

15ristoe  Station,  Va i 

Manassas  Junction,  April  15,1 864 2 

Wilderness,  Va 6 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 8 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Dranesville  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy. 


NOTES. — Recruited  in  Western  Pennsylvania  in  May,  1861,  with  rendezvous  at  Pittsburg.  The  men  were  of 
more  than  usual  intelligence  and  education.  Company  I  was  recruited  from  the  students  at  Allegheny  College, 
Meadville,  Pa.,  while  Company  D  came  from  Jefferson  College  ;  the  other  companies  were  composed  largely  of 
similar  material,  teachers  and  pupils  serving  in  the  ranks  together.  The  regiment  arrived  at  Washington  July  24, 
1 86 1,  and  joined  the  Reserves  at  their  Camp  of  Instruction,  Tenallytown,  Md.  It  participated  in  the  brilliant 
success  of  Ord's  Brigade  at  Dranesville,  Va.,  December  20,  1861,  and  early  in  the  following  spring  marched  with 
the  Reserves  in  the  advance  on  Manassas.  In  June,  1862,  the  division  under  General  McCall  was  ordered  to 
the  Peninsula  where  it  was  assigned  to  General  Fitz  John  Porter's  Corps — the  Fifth  —  and  fought  with  Porter 
at  Gaines's  Mill.  The  loss  of  the  Tenth  in  that  engagement  was  23  killed,  86  wounded,  and  25  missing  ;  total, 
134.  After  leaving  the  Peninsula,  the  Reserves  rejoined  the  First  Corps,  but  owing  to  their  heavy  losses  in  1862, 
they  were  ordered  soon  after  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg  to  return  to  Washington  that  they  might  rest  and 
recruit.  Hence,  they  were  absent  from  Ghancellorsville  ;  but  when  they  heard  that  their  native  State  was  invaded, 
they  petitioned  for  orders  to  march  to  its  defence,  and  two  of  the  three  brigades,  accordingly,  rejoined  the  army 
and  fought  at  Gettysburg. 


260 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ELEVENTH   PENNSYLVANIA  RESERVES  (40TH  PA.  INFANTRY). 

McCANDLESS'S  BRIGADE  —  CRAWFORD'S   DIVISION  —  FlFTH   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  F.  GALLAGHER ;  BVT.  BKIG.  GEN. 


(2)  COL.  SAMUEL  M.  JACKSON ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 
I 
2 
2 
I 

• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

I 

'9 

22 

T9 

22 
25 

8 

23 
T3 

T  I 

22 

I 

21 

23 
21 

24 
26 

8 
24 

M 
i  1 

23 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

18 
6 
8 

13 

IT 

1  1 
6 

8 

IS 
16 

*     • 

18 
6 
8 

14 
ii 

ii 
6 

8 

IS 
16 

18 

I2O 
117 
lOp 
124 
II9 
I07 
98 
114 

I25 
128 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H. 

T  . 

K  

Totals  . 

I  I 

185 

196 

I 

112 

IJ3 

M79 

196  killed  =  16.6  per  cent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  681  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  22. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Mechanicsville,  Va i 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va.  (9  Cos.) 71 

Glendale,  Va.  (Co.  B.) 9 

Manassas,  Va 14 

South  Mountain,  Md 1 6 

Antietam,  Md i  o 

Fredericksburg,  Va 49 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Gettysburg,  Pa 5 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va., to 

Spotsylvania,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 6 

Place  unknown i 


Present,  also,  at  Dranesville  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Rappahannock   Station  ;  Mine  Run ;  North  Anna  ;  Totopoto- 


moy. 


NOTES. — The  Eleventh  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  regiment  in  the  Pennsylvania  Reserves,  while  its 
percentage  of  loss  is  among  the  largest  of  any  in  the  war.  It  was  recruited  in  Western  Pennsylvania,  and  arrived 
July  26,  1 86 1,  at  Washington,  where  it  was  assigned  to  the  Second  Brigade,  which  was  then  commanded  by 
General  Meade.  At  Gaines's  Mill,  the  Eleventh  held  its  position  in  the  face  of  a  terrible  fire  until  the  othei- 
troops  had  been  forced  to  fall  back,  when,  being  surrounded  by  the  enemy,  it  was  obliged  to  surrender;  Company 
B  was  detailed  on  fatigue  duty  just  before  the  fight  commenced,  and  thus  escaped  the  fate  of  their  comrades. 
The  captured  men  and  officers  were  exchanged  August  5th,  rejoining  the  Army  before  it  left  the  Peninsula. 
Resuming  their  place  in  the  First  Corps,  the  Reserves  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Manassas  and  South  Mountain  ; 
when  they  entered  the  field  at  Antietam,  the  Eleventh  had  less  than  200  men  inline.  Some  recruits  were  obtained, 
and  some  of  the  wounded  returned,  so  that  it  went  into  action  at  Fredericksburg  with  394  officers  and  men ;  of 
these,  21  r  were  killed  or  wounded.  After  a  few  months  of  needed  rest  at  Washington  the  Reserves  were  assigned 
to  the  Fifth  Corps,  in  which  command  they  served  at  Gettysburg  and  in.  the  Wilderness  campaign.  The  Eleventh 
was  relieved  from  duty,  May  30,  1864,  and  ordered  home  for  muster-out,  the  recruits  having  been  transferred  to 
the  One  Hundred  and  Ninetieth  Pennsylvania. 


THREE   HUNDRED    FUJHTING   REGIMENTS. 


THIRTEENTH  PENNSYLVANIA   RESERVES-  -  "BUCKT AILS." 
's  I:I;IC\I.K  -CRAWFORD'S  DIVISION-- FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  L.  KANE;  BVT.  MAJ.  GEN.  (2)  COL.  CHARLES  J.  BIDDLK.  (8)  Coi..  HUGH  W.  McNEIL  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  CHARLES  F.  TAYLOR  (Killed).  (5)  MAJOR  W.  R.  HARTS1H  >|;N 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIEI;  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUMON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

2 
I 
I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

2 

I 

• 

I 

20 

'3 

14 

'3 
1  1 

M 
18 

15 
ll 
1S 

3 
22 

'4 

15 

'4 
1  1 

15 
1  8 

i? 

18 

15 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

*     • 

7 
7 
9 

9 
1  1 

8 

12 

9 
7 
9 

•    • 

7 
7 
9 
9 
1  1 

9 

I  2 

9 

7 

10 

16 

"3 
102 

103 
107 
118 

"3 
119 

128 
126 
i  20 

B   

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

1  I 

'51 

162 

2 

88 

90 

1,165 

162  killed  —  13.9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  604  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  16. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Dranesville,  Va 4 

Harrisonburg,  Va.  (Cos.  G,  C,  H,  I) 15 

Cross  Keys,  Va.  (Cos.  G,  C,  H,  I) 3 

Mechanicsviile,  Va.  (Cos.  A,  B,  D,  E,  F,  K) 5 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va.  (Cos.  A,  B,  D,  E,  F,  K) i 

Glendale,  Va.  (Cos.  A,  B,  D,  E,  F,  K) 15 

Catlett's  Station,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va 7 


BATTLES.  K.  Jt  M  \V. 

South  Mountain,  Md 19 

Antietam,  Md 1 1 

Fredericksburg,  Va 35 

Gettysburg,  Pa 12 

Wilderness,  Va 7 

Spotsylvania,  Va 23 

Bethesda  Church,  Va •    4 


Present,  also,  at  New  Creek  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Williamsport ;  Mine  Run  ;  North  Anna ;  Totopotomoy. 

NOTES. — Known  also  as  the  First  Pennsylvania  Rifles,  or  Kane  Rifles.  It  was  recruited  in  April,  1861, 
from  the  lumbermen  of  the  Pennsylvania  forests ;  the  men  were  strong  and  hardy,  each  being  a  skillful  marks 
man,  armed  with  his  own  rifle.  The  regiment  was  subsequently  armed  with  Sharpe's  rifles,  and  then  again  with 
Spencer  seven-shooters.  Each  man  wore  a  bucktail  on  his  hat,  and  hence  their  name  ;  one  which  became 
famous  throughout  the  army,  because  of  the  extraordinary  efficiency  of  the  regiment.  It  took  the  field  in  June, 
proceeding  to  Cumberland,  Md.,  in  which  vicinity  it  was  actively  engaged  on  scout  and  picket  duty  until 
October,  when  it  joined  its  division  —  the  Pennsylvania  Reserves  —  at  Washington.  In  the  spring  of  1862,  four 
companies,  under  Colonel  Kane,  served  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  while  the  others  accompanied  the  Reserves  to 
the  Peninsula.  The  regiment  was  united  again  at  Manassas,  in  which  battle  they  were  engaged,  and  then 
marched  with  General  McClellan  to  Antietam,  where  Colonel  McNiel  was  killed.  The  Bucktails  met  with  a 
severe  loss  at  Fredericksburg,  their  casualties  there  amounting  to  19  killed,  1 13  wounded,  and  29  missing  ;  total, 
161.  At  Gettysburg  the  brigade,  led  by  the  gallant  McCandless,  rendered  good  service  near  Little  Round  Top. 
Colonel  Taylor,  who  was  killed  there,  was  a  brave  officer  and  a  gentleman  of  culture  and  accomplishments  ;  he 
was  a  brother  of  Bayard  Taylor.  The  Bucktails  did  good  work  under  Grant  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania, 
after  which  they  were  mustered  out  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  June  1 1,  1864,  their  term  of  service  having  expired. 


262 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ELEVENTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
PAUL'S  BRIGADE  —  ROBINSON'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


COL.  RICHARD  COULTER ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS.  IN  PRISON,  &o. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
2 

2 
I 

I 

3 

T 

•     • 

IO 

24 
26 

20 

24 
24 

26 

21 

33 
16 

2 
IO 
26 
26 
22 

25 
24 
26 
22 
36 

T 

* 

I 
2 

I 

10 

15 
21 

19 

25 

16 

25 
1  1 

2 
10 

2  I 
20 

25 

18 

25 
1  1 

17 

17 
190 

2O6 
22O 
208 
223 
I99 
203 
I94 
2O6 

1  86 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I  

K. 

Totals  . 

1  2 

224 

236 

4 

177 

181 

2,052 

236  killed  =  11.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  869  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  44. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M. W. 

j  Thoroughfare    Gap,  Va 22 

(  Manassas,  Va 50 

Rappahannock,   Va i 

Antietam,  Md 29 

Fredericksburg,  Va 17 

Gettysburg,  Pa 13 

Wilderness,  Va 30 

North  Anna,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

(  Spotsylvania,  Va.,May  8th 8 

•<  Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  loth 13 

(  Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  1 2th 2 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 5 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 12 

Gravelly  Run,  Va 10 

Five  Forks,  Va 7 


Cold  Harbor,  Va 9 

Present,  also,  at  Cedar  Mountain ;  Chantilly ;  South  Mountain  ;  Chancellorsville  ;  Mine  Run ;  Totopoto- 
moy ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Originally  a  three  months  regiment  which  was  organized  in  April,  1861,  and  was  under  fire  July  2, 
1 86 1,  at  Falling  Waters,  Md.  Reentering  the  service  for  three  years,  it  was  again  mustered  in  at  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
It  left  there  November  27,  1861,  and  proceeded  to  Annapolis  with  nine  companies,  numbering  813  officers  and 
men  ;  the  tenth  company  joined  the  command  nine  months  later,  on  the  eve  of  its  first  battle  —  at  Thoroughfare 
Gap,  Va.  In  May,  1862,  it  joined  McDowell's  Corps,  having  been  assigned  to  Hartsuffs  (3d)  Brigade,  Rickett's 
(2d)  Division,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Manassas  ;  it  lost  there  44  killed,  1 14  wounded,  and  88  missing  ;  a 
total  of  246,  including  the  losses  at  Thoroughfare  Gap  and  Rappahannock ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Martin  was 
among  the  killed.  The  whole  brunt  of  the  fight  at  Thoroughfare  Gap  fell  on  the  Eleventh:  Three  weeks  later 
the  men  were  again  hotly  engaged  at  Antietam,  where  124  more  fell  under  the  enemy's  fire.  The  reenlisted  men 
received  their  furlough  in  February,  1864,  and  went  home,  276  in  number,  returning  the  next  month  with  314 
additional  recruits.  The  regiment  entered  Grant':  campaign  as  a  part  of  Baxter's  Brigade,  Robinson's  Division, 
Fifth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  was  engaged  at  the  Wilderness  and  at  Spotsylvania,  Major  Keenan  losing  his 
life  in  the  latter  battle.  While  carrying  the  State  flag  of  the  Eleventh,  three  color  bearers  were  killed,  and 
eleven  wounded.  The  service  of  this  regiment  was  a  long  and  active  one,  and  its  loss  in  battle  was  exceptionally 
large. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


TWENTY-SIXTH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
CARR'S  BRIGADE  —  HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  F.  SMALL. 


(2)  COL.  BENJAMIN  C.  TILGHMAN  ;  Bvr.  BRIO.  OBH. 
(3)  COL.  ROBERT  L.  BODINK  ;  BVT.  BKIO.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  ANI>  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUSON.  &<•. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
I 

• 

• 
• 

I 

I 
2 
I 

I 

M 
13 

12 

'5 
»7 
J7 

10 

'3 

'5 
16 

I 

'5 

13 

12 

1S 

17 

'7 

II 
H 
17 
'7 

I 

• 
• 
• 

.  • 

* 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

•    • 

I  I 
2 

9 
5 
9 

7 
8 

9 

5 
6 

I 
1  I 
2 

9 

5 
9 

7 
8 

9 

5 

7 

2  I 

'54 

'43 
149 

'57 
136 
148 
144 
169 

'58 
144 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  . 

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K. 

Totals  

6 

T43 

M9 

2 

7i 

73 

i,523 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  489;  captured  and  missing,  65  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  23. 


BATTLES. 

Yorktown,  Va . . . 
Williamsburg,  Va. 
Oak  Grove,  Va. . , 


K.  &M.W. 
i 

7 

2 


Seven  Days  Battle,  Va 2 

Manassas,  Va 1 1 

Fredericksburg,   Va 6 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 28 

Gettysburg,  Pa 65 

Mine   Run,  Va 10 

Wilderness,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 12 


Present,  also,  at  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp ;  Glendale  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Chantilly  ;  Kelly's  Ford ; 
North  Anna ;  Totopotomoy. 


NOTES. — The  Twenty-sixth  was  one  of  the  first  regiments  that  marched  to  the  defence  of  the  National  Capital. 
In  company  with  the  Sixth  Massachusetts,  it  was  attacked  by  a  mob  while  passing  through  Baltimore,  on  April  19, 
1861,  in  which  affair  the  regiment  lost  one  man  killed  and  several  wounded.  The  regiment  was  not  mustered-in 
until  May  5th,  when  it  was  sworn  in  for  three  years ;  the  enrollment,  however,  included  very  few  of  the  original 
command  who  were  at  Baltimore,  as  they  had  tendered  their  services  for  a  short  term  only.  The  Twenty-sixth 
encamped  at  Washington  in  May,  1861,  and  in  October,  having  been  assigned  to  Graver's  Brigade,  Hooker's 
Division,  moved  to  Budd's  Ferry,  Md.,  where  it  was  stationed  until  the  spring  campaign  of  1862.  At  Chancel 
lorsville —  in  Berry's  Division  —  it  made  a  good  fight,  Colonel  Tilghman  being  severely  wounded,  while  the  regi 
ment  lost  1 1  killed,  71  wounded,  and  9  missing.  Its  hardest  fighting  occurred  at  Gettysburg,  where,  out  of  382 
engaged,  it  lost  30  killed,  176  wounded,  and  7  missing;  total,  213;  two  officers  and  three  color  bearers  were 
killed  there.  In  1864  the  regiment  served  in  McAllister's  Brigade,  Mott's  Division,  Second  Corps.  It  took  part 
in  Hancock's  grand  charge  at  Spotsylvania,  and  in  the  subsequent  movements  to  the  Pamunkey ;  at  the  latter 
place  it  embarked  for  Washington,  June  3,  1864,  en  route  for  home.  It  was  mustered-out  at  Philadelphia,  June 
1 8,  1864,  the  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  remaining  in  the  field  having  been  transferred  to  the  Ninety-ninth 
Pennsylvania. 


264: 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-EIGHTH   PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY. 
CANDY'S  BRIGADE  —  GEARY'S  DIVISION  —  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  W.  GEAKY ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  (2)  COL.  GABRIEL  DE  KORFONAY.  (3)  COL.  THOMAS  J.  AHL. 

(4)  COL.  HECTOR  TYNDALE  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  (5)  COL.  JOHN  FLYNN  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and   Staff.  . 

I 
I 

I 
I 

• 

I 
I 

I 
IO 

8 

15 

J7 
1  1 

12 

J3 
1  1 

IO 

14 

5 
4 

7 
6 

7 

2 
1  I 

9 
16 

'7 

ii 

J3 

14 
ii 

10 

M 

5 
4 

7 
6 

7 

I 

• 

• 
• 

• 

I 
I 

I 

6 

10 

18 
8 

5 

9 
8 

9 
8 

18 

8 

3 

2 
I 
10 

2 

6 

10 

18 
8 

5 

9 
8 

10 
8 
18 
8 

3 

3 

i 

10 

18 
198 

i85 

222 
231 
182 
2OI 
232 
205 
228 

239 

no 
no 
103 
no 

91 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K 

L  

M  

N  

o  

p  

6 

'51 

*57 

3 

I24 

127 

2,665 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  551. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 3 

Pine  Knob,  Ga 15 

Gulp's   Farm,  Ga 2 

Kenesavv  Mountain,  Ga 2 

Marietta,  Ga 2 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 1 1 

Dalton,  Ga i 

North  Edisto,  S.  C i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Linden,  Va i 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 2 

Antietam,  Md 64 

Old  Wilderness  Tavern,  Va i 

Chancellorsville,  Va 25 

Gettysburg,  Pa 6 

Wauhatchie,  Tenn i 

Ringgold,  Ga 13 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 7 

Present,  also,  at  Manassas ;  Lookout  Mountain ;  Resaca ;  Siege  of  Atlanta ;  Siege  of  Savannah. 

NOTES.  —  Organized  at  Philadelphia  in  June,  1861.  Leaving  there  on  July  27th,  it  proceeded  to 
Harper's  Ferry,  where  it  was  attached  to  General  Banks's  command.  It  remained  for  a  year  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  Upper  Potomac  and  Shenandoah  Valley,  during  which  time  it  was  constantly  engaged  on  important 
outpost  duty,  varied  by  occasional  reconnoissances  or  sharp  skirmishes.  In  1862,  it  was  assigned  to  the  First 
Brigade  of  Greene's  (2d)  Division,  and  fought  in  that  command  at  Antietam,  where,  under  Major  Pardee,  it 
charged  the  enemy's  position  at  the  Dunker  Church,  and  checked  the  Confederate  advance.  Its  loss  at  Antietam 
was  44  killed,  217  wounded,  and  5  missing;  total,  266;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Tyndale,  who  commanded  the 
brigade  in  that  battle,  was  severely  wounded.  In  October,  1862,  companies  L,  M,  N,  O,  and  P,  were  transferred 
to  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-seventh  Pennsylvania,  and  Major  Pardee  was  promoted  to  the  Colonelcy  of  that 
regiment.  At  Chancellorsville,  the  Twenty-eighth  was  commanded  by  Major  L.  F.  Chapman,  an  intrepid  and 
skilful  officer,  who  lost  his  life  there.  The  regimental  loss  at  Chancellorsville  was  17  killed,  60  wounded,  and  24 
missing;  total,  101.  The  Twenty-eighth  was  afterwards  transferred  to  the  Western  Army,  in  which  it  fought  at 
Lookout  Mountain,  and  in  the  long  and  bloody  Atlanta  campaign. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  KEGIMENTS. 


2G5 


FORTY-FIFTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
BLISS'S  BRIGADE  —  POTTER'S  DIVISION  -  -  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  WELSH;  RHIU.CEN. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  I.  CURTIN  ;   BVT.  BRIO.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

Kii.i.Kii  AND  DIKO  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON.  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment, 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  >flicers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Stall  

I 
I 

• 

I 
2 
I 
2 

• 

I 

3 
i 

I 
2O 

T9 

21 

'4 
33 
'3 

!9 
29 

18 

•>  «7 

2 
21 

'9 

22 

16 
34 
»5 
19 
3° 

21 

28 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

21 
22 

25 
24 
25 
27 
25 
3° 
23 
3° 

•    • 

2  I 
22 

25 
24 
25 
2? 
25 

3° 
23 
3° 

»9 

197 

205 

195 

'83 
1  88 
216 
185 
199 
1  86 
187 

B  

c 

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H. 

T  , 

K  

Totals  

!3 

214 

227 

• 

252 

252 

1,960 

227  killed  —  ii.  5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  873  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  98. 


BATTLM.  K.  &M.W. 

Otter  Island,  S.  C 4 

James  Island,  S.  C i 

South  Mountain,  Md 43 

Antietam,  Md 6 

Jackson,  Miss 4 

Blue   Springs,  Tenn 4 

Campbell's  Station,  Tenn 2 

Knoxville,  Tenn i 

Wilderness,  Va 34 

Spotsylvania,  Va 13 


K.&M.  w. 
.  . . .  i 
.  . . .  i 

.  .    .      41 


BATTLEH. 

North  Anna,  Va < 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.  (assault) 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.   (trenches) 4 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 20 

Picket,  Petersburg,   July,  1864 5 

Picket,  Cold  Harbor,  June,  1864 i 

Mine  Explosion,  Va 14 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va 17 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 1 1 


Present,  also,  at  Fredericksburg  ;  Vicksburg,  Miss. ;  Ny  River,  Va.  :  Weldon  Railroad  ;  Hatcher's  Run. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Camp  Curtin,  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  on  October  21,  1861,  the  men  having  been  enlisted 
mostly  in  Tioga,  Centre,  and  I^ancaster  Counties.  It  embarked  at  Baltimore,  November  i9th,  for  Fort  Monroe, 
and  after  remaining  there  a  month  re-embarked  for  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.  It  returned  to  Virginia  in  August,  1862, 
having  been  assigned  to  Willcox's  (ist)  Division,  Ninth  Corps;  Colonel  Welsh  was  placed  in  command  of  the 
brigade.  At  South  Mountain  the  Forty-fifth  drove  the  Confederates  from  a  strong  position,  but  their  gallantry 
cost  them  a  loss  of  27  killed  and  107  wounded.  In  the  spring  of  1863,  the  Ninth  Corps  was  transferred  to  the 
Western  Army ;  it  subsequently  took  part  in  the  operations  about  Vicksburg,  and  then  in  the  fighting  with  Long- 
street's  Corps  at  the  Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.  In  January,  1864,  426  of  the  men  reenlisted  for  the  war,  thus 
ensuring  a  continuance  of  the  regimental  organization.  The  Ninth  Corps  having  returned  to  Virginia  in  1864, 
the  regiment  participated  in  Grant's  campaigns  and  was  hotly  engaged  at  the  Wilderness,  where  it  lost  1 7  killed, 
1 19  wounded,  and  7  missing  ;  and  at  Cold  Harbor,  where  181,  or  over  half  the  regiment  were  killed  or  wounded, 
Major  Kelsey  being  among  the  killed.  The  Forty-fifth  took  part  in  all  the  hard  fighting  at  Petersburg,  Colonel 
Curtin  falling  severely  wounded  in  the  assault  of  June  18.  In  the  fighting  at  the  crater  of  the  exploded  Mine,  it 
captured  the  flag  of  the  Sixth  Virginia.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  July  17,  1865. 


266 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FORTY-SIXTH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
KNIFE'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLIAMS'S  DIVISION  —  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOSEPH  F.  KNIFE  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


(2)  COL.  JAMES  L.  SELFRIDGE  ;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEX. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 

• 

I 

2 

3 
i 

i 

• 

i 

2 

•    • 

13 

16 

17 

20 

16 
16 
20 

15 
ii 

21 

2 
M 

16 
18 

22 

*9 
17 

21 

15 
12 

23 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

13 

IS 

16 
ii 

10 

12 

18 

16 

12 

J3 

I 
13 
15 

16 

1  1 
10 

12 

*9 
16 

12 
13 

18 

170 
186 
187 
164 
172 
191 
189 
176 

165 

176 

B  . 

C  . 

D. 

E  . 

F  

G  

H  

I  

K. 

Totals  

M 

I65 

I79 

2 

136 

*38 

r>794 

179  killed  =  10  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  622. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Skirmish,  April  26,  1862 i 

Winchester,  Va 12 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 55 

Antietam,  Md 7 

Chancellorsville,  Va 7 

Gettysburg,  Pa 2 

Decherd,  Tenn.  (Guerillas) 2 

Fayetteville,  Tenn.  (Guerillas) T 

Resaca,  Ga 9 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Pine  Mountain,  Ga 4 

Lost  Mountain,  Ga i 

Gulp's   Farm,  Ga 8 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 51 

Siege  of  Atlanta 4 

Montieth  Swamp,  Ga 2 

Averasboro,  N.  C i 

Bentonville,  N.C 2 


New  Hope  Church,  Ga 9 

Present,  also,  at  Kernstown,  Va. ;  Manassas,  Va. ;  Cassville,  Ga. ;  Savannah,  Ga. 

NOTES. —  Organized  in  September,  1861,  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  the  regiment  was  ordered,  soon  after,  to  Har 
per's  Ferry,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Crawford's  Brigade,  Williams's  Division,  Banks's  Corps,  subsequently  the 
Twelfth  Corps.  It  remained  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Upper  Potomac  until  the  early  part  of  1862,  when  it  moved 
with  Banks  up  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  Stonewall  Jackson's  presence  there  made  an  active  campaign  in 
which  the  Forty-sixth  took  a  prominent  part.  At  Cedar  Mountain,  Banks  gave  battle  with  his  little  army, 
and  a  bloody  contest  ensued.  The  Forty-sixth  entered  that  engagement  with  23  officers  and  481  men;  it  lost 
there  31  killed,  102  wounded,  and  1 1 1  missing  or  captured  ;  eleven  officers  were  killed  or  wounded.  The  regi 
ment  was  in  line  with  the  Twelfth  Corps  at  Antietam,  Chancellorsville  and  Gettysburg,  after  which  the  Corps  was 
ordered  to  Tennessee.  Having  reenlisted  for  the  war  it  was  granted  a  thirty  days  furlough  in  January,  1864, 
after  which  it  returned  with  its  ranks  well  recruited.  The  Corps  number  was  changed  to  the  Twentieth  and  the 
command  given  to  General  Hooker.  The  regiment  shared  in  all  of  Sherman's  hard  fighting  in  his  advance  on 
Atlanta,  during  which  occurred  the  battle  of  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga.,  in  which  it  withstood  a  desperate  attack ; 
five  of  the  officers  lost  their  lives  in  this  affair.  The  Forty-sixth  marched  through  Georgia  and  the  Carolinas  with 
Sherman ;  thence  through  Virginia,  over  its  old  battle  grounds,  to  Washington  where  it  took  part  in  the  Grand 
Review  at  the  close  of  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTLVJ  REGIMENTS. 


2G7 


FORTY-EIGHTH   PENNSYLVANIA    INFANTRY. 
BLISS'S  BRIGADE  —  POTTER'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  NAGLE  ;  BRIG.  GBN. 

(2)  COL.  JOSHUA  K.  SIEGFRIED;  BVT.  BRIO.  G«K. 


(3)  COL.   OEOROK  W.  OOWAN  (Ktllod). 

(4)  COL.  ISAAC  F.  BRANNON. 


C'OMPANIEH. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'HISON,  AT. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

2 
2 
2 
I 

I 

'3 
16 
1  1 
1  1 

'9 
i9 

M 

18 

«9 
'4 

3 
'3 

'7 
1  1 

1  1 
20 

*9 

16 

20 
21 

15 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

* 
• 

I 

•  • 

'5 
M 
17 
I? 

12 

'9 
I  I 

16 
I  I 
10 

I 

»S 

M 

17 
1  8 

12 

'9 
1  1 

16 

I  2 
10 

21 

199 
198 
189 
198 
1  80 
187 
181 
194 
169 

t73 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

I  I 

'55 

1  66 

3 

142 

'45 

1,889 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  529  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  28. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Manassas,   Va 20 

South  Mountain,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 14 

Fredericksburg,    Va 1 1 

Campbell's  Station,  Va i 

Knoxville,  Term 4 

Wilderness,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 27 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 5 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 1 6 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 19 

Picket,  Va.,  June  23,1 864 2 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 19 

Peebles's  Farm,  Va 5 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 15 


Present,  also,  at  New  Berne,  N.  C. ;  Chantilly,  Va. ;  Blue  Springs,  Tenn. ;  Mine  Explosion,  Va. ;  Weldon 
Railroad,  Va. ;  Hatcher's  Run,'  Va. 


NOTES. — Recruited  in  the  mining  regions  of  Schuylkill  County.  Leaving  the  State,  September  24,  r86i,  it 
proceeded  to  Fort  Monroe,  where  it  remained  encamped  until  November  nth,  when  it  sailed  for  Hatteras  Island, 
N.C.  It  served  in  Burnside's  Department,  and  in  April,  1862,  was  assigned  to  Nagle's  Brigade,  Reno's  Division, 
in  which  command  it  fought  at  Manassas.  The  regiment  followed  the  various  fortunes  of  the  Ninth  Corps  in  all 
its  wanderings  ;  fought  well  at  Antietam  and  Fredericksburg  ;  then  shared  the  hardships  of  the  campaign  in  West 
Tennessee;  and,  in  1864,  having  reenlisted  for  the  war,  rejoined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  At  Antietam  the 
regiment  lost  8  killed,  5 1  wounded,  and  i  missing  ;  and  at  Spotsylvania,  i  7  killed  and  86  wounded.  Though  an 
efficient  regiment  in  battle,  the  Forty-eighth  became  famous  by  reason  of  its  connection  with  the  Mine  at  Peters 
burg.  This  mine  was  excavated  entirely  by  the  men  of  the  Forty-eighth  under  the  supervision  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Pleasants,  who  conceived  the  idea,  planned  and  carried  it  out.  The  main  gangway  was  over  500  feet 
long ;  8,000  pounds  of  powder  were  successfully  exploded,  forming  a  crater  250  feet  long,  and  25  feet  deep. 
Colonel  Pleasants  and  his  men  received  a  special  acknowledgment  of  their  services  in  General  Orders,  No.  32. 
The  regiment  fought  its  last  battle  April  2,  1865,  at  the  Fall  of  Petersburg,  in  which  Colonel  Gowan  was  killed. 
He  entered  the  service,  as  a  Lieutenant,  serving  with  honor  in  every  campaign,  only  to  meet  his  fate  in  the  final 
battle. 


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EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FORTY-NINTH   PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY. 
RUSSELL'S  BRIGADE  —  WRIGHT'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  H.  IRWIN  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN.        (2)  COL.  THOMAS  M.  RULINGS,  B.  3.  (Killed).        (3)  COL.  BOYNTON  J.  HICKMAN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 

I 

2 

* 

2 
2 

I 

16 

20 

J3 
T9 

21 

18 

29 

23 

23 
i 

3 

1? 

22 

13 

X9 

21 

18 
29 

25 

25 
i 

• 
• 
• 

• 
* 
• 
• 

I 
16 
2O 

IS 

16 

21 

21 

16 
16 

M 

I  2 

I 

16 

2O 
IS 

16 

21 

21 

1  6 

16 
M 

12 

19 

148 

164 

138 
147 

155 
156 
132 
126 

128 

* 

B  

c  

D  . 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

T  . 

K. 

Totals  

9 

184 

193 

• 

168 

168 

1,313 

193  killed  =  14.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  736;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  24. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 09 

Hanovertown,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 10 

Opequon,  Va 1 8 

Petersburg,  Va 6 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 18 

Picket,  Va.,  June  16,  1862 i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Yorktown,  Va i 

Williamsburg,  Va i 

Garnett's  Hill,  Va 3 

Golding's  Farm,  Va 4 

Antietam,  Md i 

Marye's  Heights,  Va 3 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va 5 

Wilderness,  Va 12 

Present,  also,  at  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Crampton's  Gap  ;  Fredericksburg  (1862) ; 
Salem  Church  ;  Gettysburg ;  Mine  Run  ;  Fort  Stevens,  B.C.;  Hatcher's  Run. 

NOTES. — Recruited  in  Mifflin,  Centre,  Chester,  Huntingdon,  and  Juniata  Counties.  It  arrived  at  Washing 
ton  September  22d,  1861,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Hancock's  Brigade  of  Wm.  F.  Smith's  Division,  a  brigade 
composed  of  exceptionally  good  regiments.  Under  its  able  general  the  brigade  soon  won  distinction  at  Williams- 
burg,  where,  by  its  brilliant  and  effective  manoeuvres,  it  aided  materially  in  securing  a  victory ;  that  it  accom 
plished  the  same  with  but  little  loss,  reflected  all  the  more  credit  on  its  "  superb  "  commander.  In  the  spring  of 
1863  the  Forty-ninth  was  transferred  to  the  Third  Brigade,  First  (Brooks's)  Division,  Sixth  Corps,  in  which 
command  it  remained  during  the  rest  of  the  war.  The  brigade  —  Sixth  Maine,  Forty-ninth  Pennsylvania,  One 
Hundred  and  Nineteenth  Pennsylvania,  and  Fifth  Wisconsin — distinguished  itself  particularly  at  Rappahannock 
Station,  carrying  the  enemy's  works  by  a  bayonet  charge  in  which  some  of  the  regiments  lost  heavily.  However 
fortunate  the  Forty-ninth  may  have  been  in  previous  battles,  it  was  destined  to  suffer  a  terrible  loss  at  Spotsyl 
vania.  In  that  battle  it  was  one  of  the  twelve  selected  regiments  which  formed  the  assaulting  column  under  the 
gallant  Upton.  In  that  charge,  260  of  its  men  were  cut  down  by  the  enemy's  fire,  and  Colonel  Hidings  and 
Lieutenant-Colonel  John  B.  Miles  were  killed.  Two  days  later  the  regiment  was  engaged  in  the  bloody  contest 
at  the  "Angle  "  with  still  further  loss.  From  May  6th  to  May  i3th,  1864 — including  the  Wilderness  and  Spot 
sylvania —  this  regiment  lost  317,  in  killed  or  wounded,  out  of  the  530  who  crossed  the  Rapidan. 

"•Consolidated  with  Company  B,  January,  1863. 


TllltKK   HUNDRED   FIGHTING    REGIMENTS. 


liG'J 


FIFTIETH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
CHRIST'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION --NINTH  CORPS. 


(l)CoL.  BENJAMIN  C.  CHRIST;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN. 


WOOL.  WILLIAM  II.  TELFOHD. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  WOUNDS. 

DIKD  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Knrollaient. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

» 
• 

I 
I 
I 

• 
• 

2 

• 

2 

*    * 

21 

8 

25 
18 

'9 
M 

I  2 
12 
I  I 

16 

I 

21 

8 

26 
19 

20 

14 

12 

»4 
I  I 

18 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
* 

2 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

21 

»3 

12 

32 
23 

'5 
17 
16 

14 
'7 

•    • 

21 

14 
12 

32 
23 
17 

18 
16 
M 
17 

I? 
203 
l64 
177 

215 

181 
182 
189 
176 
164 

221 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

8 

156 

164 

4 

% 

180 

184 

1,889 

K.&M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 20 

Spotsylvania,  Va 41 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 8 

Petersburg,  Va.  June  1 7,  1864 16 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 3 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 12 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 9 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va 2 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  594  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  76. 
BATTLKS.  K.&M.W.  BATI 

Pocotaligo,  S.  C 4 

Picket,  S.  C.,  1862 i 

Manassas,  Va 16 

Chantilly,   Va 1 1 

South  Mountain,  Md i 

Antietam,  Md 12 

Jackson,  Miss i 

Blue  Springs,  Tenn i 

Campbell's   Station,  Tenn 2 

Knoxville,  Tenn 3 

Present,  also,  at  Coosa  River,  S.  C. ;  Fredericksburg ;  Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss. ;  Hatcher's    Run ;  Fort 
Stedman. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  in  September,  1861,  having  been  recruited  in  the  central  part  of  the 
State.  Proceeding  to  Annapolis  it  was  brigaded  with  General  Stevens's  command,  and  in  October  sailed  with 
General  Sherman's  (T.  W.)  expedition  to  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.  The  regiment  remained  in  this  department  sev 
eral  months,  during  which  time  it  had  a  varied  experience  in  campaigning  and  fighting  ;  at  Pocotaligo,  Captain 
Charles  H.  Parker  was  killed  while  bravely  leading  a  forlorn  hope  across  the  string  pieces  of  an  abandoned 
bridge.  In  July,  1862,  the  Fiftieth  joined  the  Ninth  Corps  at  Fort  Monroe,  then  on  its  way  to  reinforce  Pope. 
It  was  actively  engaged  in  the  battles  of  Manassas  and  Chantilly,  in  which  the  regiment  lost  19  killed,  119 
wounded,  and  15  missing ;  total,  153.  After  more  hard  fighting, at  Antietam,  it  was  transferred  with  the  Corps  to 
the  West,  where  it  participated  in  the  Siege  of  Vicksburg,  it  being  then  in  Potter's  (2d)  Division.  In  the  fighting 
before  Jackson,  Miss.,  the  regiment  lost  its  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Thomas  S.  Brenholz,  who  was  mortally  wounded 
there.  The  Fiftieth  shared  the  privations  and  dangers  of  the  campaign  at  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  and  then  returned 
to  Virginia  in  the  spring  of  1864,  it  having  rei-nlisted  in  the  meanwhile  and  received  its  veteran  furlough.  It 
fought  under  Grant  from  the  Rapidan  to  Appomattox,  and  was  mustered  out  July  30,  1865.  Its  casualties  at 
Spotsylvania  were  23  killed,  109  wounded,  and  1 13  captured  or  missing.  At  the  dedication  of  the  Gettysburg 
monument,  July  4,  1865,  the  Fiftieth  was  present  by  order  of  the  War  Department  as  a  representative  of  the  army. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTY-FIRST   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
HARTRANFT'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


U)  COL.  JOHN  F.  HARTKANFT  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  J.  BOLTON ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 
I 

2 
2 

I 

• 

I 
I 
I 

•     • 

25 
IO 

18 

J5 
1  1 

17 
T9 
i7 
M 
19 

2 
26 
II 
20 

17 
II 

18 

J9 

18 

15 
20 

• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
* 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

20 

6 

17 
17 

8 

9 
17 
H 
IS 
14 

•     • 

2O 

6 

17 

17 

8 

9 
i? 
M 
15 
M 

18 
228 

174 
191 

206 
181 

201 

228 

235 
I87 

196 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Toials  . 

12 

165 

177 

• 

T37 

J37 

2,045 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  647  ;    died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  41. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

New  Berne,  N.  C i 

Camden,  N.C 4 

JVIanassas,  Va _j_ 

Antietam,  Md 8 

South  Mountain,  Md ^32 


Fredericksburg,   Va 23 

Milldale,  Miss i 

Knoxville,  Tenn i 

Wilderness,  Va 17 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  3,  1864 17 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 14 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 6 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 15 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 8 

Boydton  Road,  Va T 

Fort  Stedman,  Va i 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 


Spotsylvania,  Va 23 

Present,  also,  at  Roanoke  Island,  N.  C. ;  Chantilly,  Va. ;  Vicksburg,  Miss. ;  Campbell's  Station,  Tenn. ; 
Reams's  Station,  Va. ;  Peebles's  Farm,  Va ;  Hatcher's  Run,  Va. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Harrisburg,  November  7,  1861.  In  January,  1862,  it  sailed  from  Annapolis  with 
Burnside's  Expedition  to  North  Carolina,  having  been  assigned  to  Reno's  Brigade.  It  returned  to  Virginia 
with  the  Ninth  Corps  in  August,  1862,  and  was  engaged  at  the  battles  of  Manassas ;  it  was  then  in  Ferrero's 
Brigade  of  Reno's  Division.  The  Fifty-first  achieved  historic  prominence  at  Antietam  by  its  famous  charge 
across  the  stone  bridge  which  spans  the  Antietam  Creek.  The  enemy's  rifle  pits  and  batteries  commanded 
the  approaches  to  this  bridge ;  after  repeated  attempts  by  other  troops,  Colonel  Hartranft  led  his  regiment 
across  the  narrow  roadway  of  the  span,  and  gained  a  position  on  the  opposite  bank.  In  this  daring  affair 
the  regiment  was  ably  supported  by  the  Fifty-first  New  York  under  Colonel  Robert  B.  Potter.  The  casual 
ties  of  the  Fifty-first  Pennsylvania  at  the  bridge,  and  in  the  subsequent  fighting  of  that  day,  amounted  to  21 
killed,  and  99  wounded,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas  S.  Bell  being  among  the  killed.  The  regiment  afterwards 
fought  with  the  Ninth  Corps  in  Mississippi  and  Tennessee.  It  reonlisted,  went  home  on  furlough,  was  fully  re 
cruited,  and  then  served  under  Grant  in  the  Virginia  campaigns.  At  Cold  Harbor  it  took  part  in  an  advance 
against  the  enemy's  lines  in  which  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edwin  Schall,  who  was  in  command,  was  killed  while 
leading  his  men. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  KIJ.IMKNTS. 


271 


FIFTY-THIRD    PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 


BROOKE'S  BRIGADE  —  BARLOW'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 

(1)  COL.  JOHN  R.  BKOOKE  ;  BVT.  MAJOK-GEN.  (2)  COL.  OCTAVIUS  8.  BULL. 

(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  R.  MINTZER;  BVT.  BRIO.  «EN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AXU  DIEU  OK  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUSON,  Jtc. 

TuUil 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

* 
• 
• 

i 

• 

i 

• 

• 

i 
i 

•  • 

25 
14 

15 

27 

10 

19 

25 
21 

21 
IS 

1 

25 
M 

15 
28 

10 
20 

25 
21 

22 

'9 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

21 
»9 

18 

19 

8 

21 
23 

19 

18 

27 

•     • 

21 
»9 

18 

*9 

8 

21 

24 

*9 

1  8 

27 

1  8 
207 

J74 
178 

2IO 
I63 
206 
246 
209 
211 
I7I 

Company  A  

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I  , 

K  

Totals  

5 

195 

200 

I 

»93 

194 

i»993 

200  killed  •=  10  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  787;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  56. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 22 

Seven  Days  Battle,  Va 3 

Antietam,  Md 

Fredericksburg,  Va 39 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 1 1 

Bristoe  Station,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 2 

Spotsylvania,  Va 41 


BATTLES.  K.  A  M.W. 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Cold   Harbor,  Va 16 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 18 

Petersburg    Trenches,  Y;i 9 

Deep  Bottom,  Va .\ 

Ream's    Station,  Va i 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  18,  1864 i 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 20 

Farmville,  Va 2 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Gaines's  Mill ;  Peach  Orchard  ;  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Malveni 
Hill ;  Mine  Run  ;  Po  River  ,  North  Anna  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Recruiting  commenced  in  September,  1861,  the  companies  being  raised  in  various  counties.  An 
organization  was  effected  at  Harrisburg,  November  5,  1861,  after  which  the  regiment  proceeded  immediately  to 
Washington.  It  wintered  in  Virginia,  near  Alexandria,  and  then  went  with  General  McClellan  to  the  Peninsula, 
having  been  assigned  to  French's  (3d)  Brigade,  Richardson's  (ist)  Division,  Second  Corps,  remaining  in  that 
famous  division  throughout  its  service.  Its  first  experience  in  battle  was  at  Fair  Oaks  ;  Major  Thomas  Yeager 
was  killed  there,  the  total  loss  of  the  regiment  amounting  to  13  killed,  64  wounded,  and  17  missing.  General 
Richardson  was  killed  at  Antietam,  and  Geneial  Hancock  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  division.  General 
Zook  commanded  the  brigade  at  Fredericksburg,  where,  in  that  bloody  assault,  the  Fifty-third  lost  21  killed,  133 
wounded,  and  i  missing,  out  of  the  283  men  who  were  in  line  that  day.  In  December,  1863,  the  regiment 
rei;nlisted  for  the  war,  and  so  was  present  at  all  the  battles  of  the  Second  Corps.  It  participated,  with  severe  loss, 
in  Hancock's  charge  at  Spotsylvania,  in  the  assaults  at  Cold  Harbor  and  Petersburg,  and  was  actively  engaged  in 
the  battle  near  Hatcher's  Run,  on  March/3 1,  l865>  an  engagement  known  as  White  Oak  Road,  or  Boydton  Road. 
Its  losses  at  Spotsylvania  were  26  killed,  123  wounded,  and  28  missing  ;  total,  1 77.  The  regiment  was  mustered 
out  June  30,  1865. 


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REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTY-FIFTH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
WHITE'S  BRIGADE  —  AMES'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


COL.  RICHARD  WHITE. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men, 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

2 

• 
• 

2 
I 

•  • 
22 
22 

15 

15 

18 

18 

22 

15 

28 

26 

•     • 

22 
22 

*5 

16 

19 

20 

22 
JS 

3° 

27 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
* 
• 

I 

37 
3° 

31 
28 

22 

25 
21 

3° 

20 
23 

2 

37 
31 

31 

28 

22 

25 
22 

3° 

20 
23 

J9 

T95 
179 

158 
166 
168 
170 

»75 
163 

167 
198 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

7 

2OI 

208 

3 

268 

271 

i,758 

208  killed  =  II. 8  per  cent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  782  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  96. 


BATTLES. 

Edisto  Island,  S.  C • 

Pocotaligo,  S.  C 6 

Swift  Creek,  Va 6 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 58 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va 10 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 41 

Picket,  S.  C.,  March    29,1862 i 

Present,  also,  at  Appomattox. 


K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

2           Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  June  15,  1864) 46 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 12 

Chaffin's   Farm,  Va 15 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  30,  1865 6 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 

Rice's   Station,  Va i 

Place  unknown 2 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.  Leaving  the  State  November  22,  1 86 1,  it  went  to  Fort  Monroe  ; 
thence,  after  a  short  stay,  it  proceeded  to  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.,  and  in  February,  1862,  was  ordered  to  Edisto 
Island.  The  regiment  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Pocotaligo,  October  22,  1862,  after  which  it  was  stationed 
for  fourteen  months  at  Beaufort,  S.  C.  It  reenlisted  in  January,  1864,  and  went  home  on  a  veteran  furlough, 
returning  in  March  with  enough  recruits  to  fill  the  ranks  to  the  maximum.  It  embarked  in  the  following  month 
for  Virginia,  where  it  joined  Butler's  Army  and  was  placed  in  the  Third  Brigade,  Ames's  Division,  Tenth  Corps, 
Colonel  White  being  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  brigade.  At  Drewry's  Bluff  the  division  was  attacked  by 
Beauregard's  forces,  which  advanced  in  the  morning  under  the  concealment  of  a  thick  fog ;  the  regiment,  occu 
pying  an  exposed  position,  received  the  full  force  of  the  attack,  losing  over  300  men  killed,  wounded,  and  cap 
tured ;  Colonel  White  and  164  men  were  taken  prisoners.  At  Cold  Harbor  the  Fifty-fifth  fought  in  Stannard's 
Brigade,  Martindale's  Division,  Eighteenth  Corps,  sustaining  a  loss  of  12  killed,  no  wounded,  and  29  missing.  In 
the  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  15,  1864,  the  regiment  lost  24  killed,  124  wounded,  and  8  missing;  total,  156. 
In  December,  1864,  the  Eighteenth  Corps  was  discontinued,  upon  which  the  regiment  was  assigned  to  Fairchild's 
(4th)  Brigade,  Foster's  (ist)  Division,  Twenty- fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  took  part  in  the  closing  bat 
tles  of  the  war.  The  Fifty-fifth  lost  750  men,  killed  or  wounded,  during  the  eleven  months  preceding  Lee's 
surrender. 


THKEE  HUNDRED  FIUHTINU  REGIMENTS. 


273 


FIFTY-SEVENTH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
GRAHAM'S  BRIGADE  —  BIKNEY'S  DIVISION  --  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL  WILLIAM  MAXWELL. 

(•_•)  COL.CIIAKLKS  T.  CAMPBELL  ;  BKI«.  GEN. 


(3)  COL.  PETER  SIDES. 

(4)  COL.  GKOKUK  ZINN  ;  BVT.  BRIO.  GKN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  op  DISEASE.  ACCIDENT*,  L\  PIHSON.  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  atul  Staff  

2 
I 

t 

3 

i 

t 

v> 

1 

I 

'7 
16 

20 

13 
M 
'5 
«4 

'3 

ii 
»S 

3 
18 

16 

20 

14 
17 

J5 
14 
14 
M 
16 

. 
. 
. 
• 
. 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

20 
26 
24 
25 
17 

I(; 
19 

16 

26 

25 

•    • 

2O 
26 
24 
25 
'7 
19 
19 

1  6 

26 

25 

18 

2IO 
I72 
166 
166 

14_> 

'45 
124 

'34 

'52 
162 

Comnanv  A  . 

B  

C  . 

I). 

E  . 

F  . 

G. 

H. 

I 

K 

Totals  

12 

149 

161                      .                  217 

217 

1,59' 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Wilderness,  Va 38 

Spotsylvania,  Va 8 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 8 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va i 

Boydton  Road,  Va 2 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 i 


161  killed  —  10.1  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  593  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  50. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Yorktown,  Va i 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 1 6 

Glendale,  Va 13 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 2 

Manassas,  Va i 

Fredericksbtirg.    Va 28 

Chancellorsville,  Va 20 

Gettysburg,  Pa 18 

Mine    Run,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Williamsburg ;  Chantilly  ;  Kelly's  Ford ;  Po  River ;  Totopotomoy ;  Strawberry  Plains  ; 
Deep  Bottom  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  having  been  recruited  mostly  in  the  western  part  of  the  State.  It 
arrived  at  Washington  in  December,  1 86 1,  where  it  remained  a  couple  of  months,  and  then  marched  into  Virginia, 
encamping  near  Alexandria.  With  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  it  took  the  field  early  in  1862,  under  General 
McClellan,  and  was  actively  engaged  in  the  siege  operations  at  Yorktown.  It  was  then  in  Jameson's  Brigade, 
Kearny's  Division,  Third  Corps,  At  Fair  Oaks  it  lost  1 1  killed,  48  wounded,  and  i  missing,  Major  Culp  being 
among  the  killed.  At  Fredericksburg,  out  of  3*16  present,  there  was  a  loss  of  18  killed,  80  wounded,  and  52 
missing,  many  of  the  latter  being  killed  or  wounded.  In  that  battle  the  brigade  was  commanded  by  General  J. 
H.  Ward.  At  Chancellorsville  the  loss  was  10  killed,  43  wounded,  and  18  missing;  at  Gettysburg,  1 1  killed,  46 
wounded,  and  58  missing  ;  at  the  Wilderness,  22  killed,  128  wounded,  and  3  missing.  These  were  the  casualties 
as  officially  reported.  Upon  the  discontinuance  of  the  Third  Corps  the  regiment  became  a  part  of  Alex.  Hays's 
Brigade,  Birney's  (3d)  Division,  Second  Corps.  The  hard  fighting  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania  reduced 
the  ranks  so  that  it  was  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  six  companies.  In  January,  1865,  it  received  an  acces 
sion  of  four  companies  from  the  Eighty-fourth  Pennsylvania,  which  had  also  been  consolidated  previous  to  the 
transfer.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Zinn  of  the  Eighty-fourth  was  made  Colonel  of  the  Fifty-seventh.  The  regiment 

was  mustered  out  June  29,  1865. 
18 


274 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTY-FIRST  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
NEIL'S  BRIGADE  —  GETTY'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  OLIVER  H.  RIPPEY  (Killed). 
(3)  COL.  GEORGE  C.  SPEAR  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  GEORGE  F.  SMITH. 

(4)  COL.  ROBERT  L.  ORR. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Fiplrl  and  Staff.  . 

4 

3 

4 

3 
i 

2 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

I 

32 

22 

22 
24 

23 

23 
20 

22 
14 
15 

5 

35 
26 

25 
25 
25 
23 

20 

22 

15 

16 

• 
• 

I 

• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

IO 
10 

13 
13 

12 
IO 

8 
8 

7 
8 

I 
IO 
1  1 

13 

J3 

12 
IO 

8 
8 

7 
8 

16 
203 
194 
204 
181 
209 
206 
191 
202 
1  80 

2OI 

B  . 

C  . 

D. 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

19 

218 

237 

I 

IOO 

IOI 

1,987 

237  killed  =  11.9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  872  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  19, 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 92 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 4 

Antietam,  Md » i 

Williamsport,  Md 2 

Fredericksburg,  Va.  (1862) 2 

Marye's  Heights,  Va 15 

Wilderness,  Va., 34 

Spotsylvania,  Va 44 


K.  &  M.W. 

6 


BATTLES. 

Fort  Stevens,  D.  C 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 8 

Opequon,  Va 3 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va 2 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 6 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 4 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 10 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 


Cold  Harbor,  Va 2 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Salem  Heights  ;  Gettysburg  ;  Rappahannock  Station ;  Sailor's  Creek ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — There  were  more  officers  killed  in  the  Sixty-first  Pennsylvania  than  in  any  other  regiment  in  the 
entire  Union  Army.  Colonel  Rippey  and  four  line  officers  were  killed  at  Fair  Oaks  ;  Colonel  Spear  and  a  Lieu 
tenant  fell  dead  at  the  storming  of  Marye's  Heights ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  W.  Crosby  was  killed  in  the  final 
and  victorious  assault  of  the  Sixth  Corps  at  Petersburg ;  the  adjutant  and  four  other  officers  lost  their  lives  at  the 
Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania ;  another  fell  at  Malvern  Hill ;  another  at  Fort  Stevens ;  two  at  Cedar  Creek,  and 
two-at  Charlestown  in  the  Shenandoah.  With  such  officers  to  lead  there  was  a  consequent  heavy  loss  among 
their  men.  At  Fair  Oaks  the  Sixty-first  suffered  the  most  of  any  regiment  in  that  battle,  its  casualties  amounting 
to  68  killed,  152  wounded,  and  43  missing;  a  total  of  263,  but  not  without  exacting  from  the  enemy  an  equiva 
lent  of  loss,  the  official  reports  making  mention  of  the  large  number  of  the  enemy's  dead  which  lay  in  front  of 
the  position  occupied  by  the  Sixty-first.  While  on  the  Peninsula  it  was  in  Abercrombie's  Brigade,  of  Couch's 
Division,  Fourth  Corps.  At  Marye's  Heights  it  formed  part  of  the  famous  "  Light  Division  "  of  the  Sixth  Corps, 
and  through  the  Wilderness  and  Shenandoah  campaigns  it  fought  in  Neil's  (3d)  Brigade,  Getty's  (2d)  Division, 
Sixth  Corps.  Its  losses  at  the  Wilderness  were  20  killed,  113  wounded,  and  18  missing;  at  Spotsylvania,  31 
killed,  102  wounded,  and  6  missing.  It  was  organized  at  Pittsburg  in  August,  1861,  reenlisted  in  1864,  and  was 
mustered  out  June  28,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIUHTINC;  RECJIMENTS. 


SIXTY-SECOND   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
SWEITZER'S  BRIGADE  —  GRIFFIN'S   DIVISION-- FIFTH  CORPS, 


(1)  COL.  SAMUEL  W.  BLACK  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  JACOB  B.  SWE1TZEH  :  BVT. 


COMPANIES. 

KM  1  1  n   ANII  DlKIl  OF  WorXDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IUSON,  Ac. 

Totjil 
Enrollment. 

Officers.                  M«-n.                    Total. 

Officers. 

M, 

Total. 

Field  anil  Staff  

5 
i 

• 
I 
2 

• 
• 
2 
2 
I 
I 

• 

2 

•    • 

10 

9 
10 

8 
M 

20 

'9 
16 

10 

9 
1  8 

9 

5 
1  1 

9 
1  1 

10 

'4 
20 

21 

18 
1  1 
10 
18 
1  1 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

6 
8 

8 
8 

'3 

2 

6 
9 

8 
10 

5 
6 

•    • 

6 
8 

8 
8 

'3 

2 

6 

9 
8 

10 

5 
6 

'7 

I05 
1  06 

I  I  2 

'3° 

•58 
142 

161 

'35 
114 

148 
118 

I25 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  . 

G  

H  

I    

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

J7 

'52 

169 

• 

89 

89 

*>57l 

169  killed  =  10.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  ami  wounded,  633  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  8. 

K.  &  M.  W. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.  W. 

Wilderness,  Va 14 

Spotsylvania,  Va 30 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 9 

Petersburg,  Va 2 

Gunboat  service i 

Manassas  ;  Antietam  ;  Shepherdstown  ;  Rappahannock 


BATTLES. 

Yorktown,  Va i 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 27 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 21 

Harrison's  Landing,  Va i 

Fredericksburg,   Va 13 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3 

Gettysburg,  Pa 45 

Present,  also,  at  Hanover  C.  H. ;    Seven  Days; 
Station ;  Mine  Run. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  July,  1861,  six  companies  coming  from  Allegheny  County,  the  others  from  the  west 
ern  part  of  the  State.  The  regiment  encamped  in  Virginia  in  September,  1861,  and  after  six  months  of  drill, 
discipline,  and  field  duty,  confronted  the  enemy  at  the  Siege  of  Yorktown.  After  the  fall  of  Yorktown  —  in  May, 
1862  —  it  moved  up  the  Peninsula,  then  in  Griffin's  Brigade,  Morell's  Division,  Fifth  Corps,  in  which  command 
it  fought  at  Gaines's  Mill.  Colonel  Black  was  killed  in  that  battle,  the  regiment  losing  15  killed,  73  wounded, 
and  76  missing.  It  was  engaged,  four  days  later,  at  Malvern  Hill,  where  its  colors  were  cut  down  five  times,  but 
were  borne  from  the  field  flying.  At  Gettysburg  the  division  was  commanded  by  General  Barnes  ;  it  fought  there 
in  the  historic  wheat  field,  the  Sixty-second  losing  in  that  battle  28  killed,  107  wounded,  and  40  missing  ;  Major 
William  G.  Long  and  five  line  officers  were  killed  there.  The  winter  of  1863-4  was  passed  quietly  in  winter 
quarters;  then,  in  May,  1864,  with  557  men,  the  regiment  entered  upon  the  bloody  campaign  which  occurred 
between  May  6th  and  June  i8th  of  that  year.  In  the  hard  fighting  about  Spotsylvania  it  lost  14  killed  (includ 
ing  Lieutenant- Colonel  James  C.  Hall,  who  was  in  command),  112  wounded,  and  18  missing;  total,  144.  The 
Sixty-second,  during  its  active  sen-ice,  was  always  in  the  Second  Brigade,  First  Division,  Fifth  Corps,  Colonel 
Sweitzer  commanding  the  brigade  during  the  most  of  the  time.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  July  13,  1864, 
its  term  of  service  having  expired. 


276 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTY-THIED   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
GRAHAM'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ALEX.  RAYS,  OT.  $.,  &.  3.;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  A.  S.  MORGAN. 


(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  S.  KIRK  WOOD  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  JOHN  A.  BANKS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 

I 

2 

• 

I 

I 

2 
2 

3 
i 

*     • 

23 
1  1 

JO 

*5 
M 
IS 

25 

22 
2O 
14 

4 
24 
'3 

IO 

16 

*5 
J7 

27 
25 

20 
15 

* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

i 

•     • 

]3 

10 

1  1 

10 

1  1 

J9 

1  1 

IO 

1  1 

27 

!3 
IO 

1  1 

10 

1  1 

>9 
ii 

IO 

1  1 

j8 

*7 

'51 
103 

136 

'58 
146 

112 

141 

*39 
132 

106 

B  

C. 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

*7 

169 

1  86 

i 

J33 

*34 

!»34i 

BATTLES. 


186  killed  =  13.8  per  cent. 

* 

Total  killed  and  wounded,  721  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  27. 

K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Skirmish,  Va.,  Nov.,  1861 i 

Pohick    Church,  Va 4 

Yorktown,  Va 3 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 37 

Skirmish,  Va.,  June  21,  1862 i 

Oak  Grove,  Va 3 

Glendale,  Va 14 

Manassas,  Va 25 

Fredericksburg,  Va 3 

Chancellorsville,  Va 17 

Present,  also,  at  Seven  Days  ;  Chantilly  ;  Totopotomoy. 


Gettysburg,  Pa 3 

Auburn  Mills,  Va i 

Kelly's  Ford,  Va 2 

Mine   Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 48 

Spotsylvania,  Va 5 

North  Anna,  Va 4 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va 13 


NOTES. —  Seven  companies  were  recruited  in  Pittsburg,  or  in  its  vicinity  ;  the  others  were  from  the  western 
counties.  The  regiment  was  organized  in  August,  1861,  joining  the  army  in  October  of  the  same  year,  where  it 
was  assigned  to  Heintzelman's  Division.  It  performed  outpost  duty  in  Virginia  for  several  months,  during  which 
an  affair  occurred  on  the  picket  line  in  which  Captain  Chapman  and  Quartermaster  Lysle  were  killed.  When 
the  Third  Corps  moved  to  the  Peninsula  the  Sixty-third  went  there  with  its  brigade  (Jameson's),  and  took  part 
in  some  of  the  hardest  fighting  in  that  campaign.  At  Fair  Oaks,  with  only  eight  companies  in  line,  it  held  its 
position  steadily  in  the  face  of  a  musketry  fire  which  cut  down  over  a  hundred  men ;  23  were  killed,  79  wounded, 
and  20  missing.  At  Manassas,  Colonel  Hays  was  severely  wounded,  the  regiment  losing  15  killed,  94  wounded, 
and  1 1  missing.  It  was  hotly  engaged  again,  at  Chancellorsville,  where  it  lost  many  of  its  most  valued  officers. 
In  that  battle,  Colonel  Kirkwood,  Adjutant  McGranahan,  and  four  line  officers  were  killed.  After  the  discontinu 
ance  of  the  Third  Corps,  with  its  gallant  organization,  the  regiment  was  placed  in  Hays's  Brigade,  Birney's 
Division,  Second  Corps.  General  Hays  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness,  and  in  the  same  battle  the  Sixty-third  lost 
191  of  its  number  killed  or  wounded,  out  of  485  in  line.  Its  term  of  service  expired  September  9,  1864.  The 
recruits  and  reiJnlisted  men  remaining  in  the  field  were  transferred  to  the  Ninety-ninth  Pennsylvania,  while  the 
others,  few  in  number,  returned  to  their  homes. 


TllKKK     Ilr.NDHKl)    Fl<JHTl.\<J     1IK«MM  KNTS. 


277 


SIXTY-NINTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 

1'im.AHKi.i'iiiA  r.i;i(,\Di:   -GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOSHUA  T.  OWEN  .  BHICJ.  .'JEN. 


COL.  DENNIS  O'KANE  (Killed). 


(8)  COL.  WILLIAM  DAVIS. 


COMPANIES. 


Field  and  Staff. 

Company  A  .  . . 

B... 

c... 

D... 
E... 
F... 

G... 
H... 
I  ... 
K... 


Totals , 


Kll  1  1  l>   AM)    DlKI>   <>r    \\  MI    MI-. 

DIED  or  DISKASK,  ACTIUKNTS,  Ix  PIUHON,  Ac. 

Total 

<  »fflc«TS. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Enrollment. 

T 

>•> 

I 

4 

• 

•    • 

•    • 

17 

I 

U 

'4 

• 

•7 

•7 

21  I 

• 

'7 

i? 

• 

'3 

'3 

204 

• 

»9 

19 

• 

9 

9 

'65 

2 

22 

24 

• 

1  1 

i  i 

I76 

• 

5 

5 

I 

10 

1  1 

149 

I 

'3 

'4 

I 

M 

'5 

170 

I 

22 

23 

• 

IO 

IO 

'56 

2 

18 

20 

[ 

5 

6 

J54 

I 

20 

21 

• 

7 

7 

172 

I 

16 

17 

• 

1  1 

1  1 

141 

12 

1  66 

178 

3 

107 

no 

i,7i5 

178  killed  —  10.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  638  ,  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  29. 


BATTLES.  K.  &MAV 

Mine    Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va i  o 

Cold  Harbor,   Va 10 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 13 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1 864 

Deep  Bottom,  Va i 

Ream's  Station,  Va i 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 3 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 4 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Munson's  Hill,  Va i 

Yorktown,  Va 2 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 2 

Skirmish,  Va.,  June  18,  1862 i 

Picket,  Va.,  June  19,  1862 2 

Savage  Station,  Va 4 

Glendale,  Va 8 

Chantilly,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 26 

Fredericksburg,  Va 18 

Gettysburg,  Pa 56 

Present,  also,  at  Peach  Orchard  ;  Malvern  Hill;  Chancellorsville  ;  Bristoe  Station;  North  Anna;  Totopot- 
omoy  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  Philadelphia  Brigade  occupies  a  prominent  place  in  the  history  of  the  battle  of  Gettysburg. 
Under  command  of  General  Alex.  S.  Webb,  it  held  that  particular  point  on  the  line  which  is  familiar  to  the 
battle-field  tourists  as  "  the  high-water  mark  of  the  Rebellion."  This  position  was  the  focus  of  a  concentrated 
fire  during  the  unprecedented  artillery  combat  of  the  third  day ;  and  when  that  storm  of  missiles  was  followed  by 
the  grand  assault  known  as  Pickett's  charge,  the  enemy's  column  made  its  most  daring  and  desperate  thrust 
against  that  point  of  the  line  which  was  held  by  Webb  and  his  men.  It  was  here  that  Cushing's  Battery  made 
its  gallant  fight,  and  here  that  General  Armistead,  the  leader  of  the  Confederate  assault,  fell  dead  at  the  muzzle 
of  one  of  Cushing's  guns.  The  Sixty-ninth  entered  that  fight  with  258  officers  and  men,  and  held  the  stone  wall 
in  front  of  the  brigade ;  it  lost  there  40  killed,  80  wounded  and  9  missing,  Colonel  O'Kane  and  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Tschudy  being  among  the  killed.  At  Antietam,  it  was  in  Sedgwick's  Division,  and  fought  at  the  Dunker 
Church;  its  loss  in  that  battle  was  1 9  killed,  58  wounded,  and  15  missing.  This  regiment,  like 'the  New  York 
Sixty-ninth,  was  composed  mostly  of  Irish  blood,  and  fully  sustained  the  reputation  of  the  Irish  soldier  for  gal 
lantry  in  battle.  It  was  recruited  in  Philadelphia,  and  served  continuously  in  the  Second  Division  of  the  corps. 
General  Owen  commanded  the  brigade  in  the  campaigns  of  1864. 


278 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTY-FIRST   PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY  - -"  CALIFORNIA  REGIMENT." 
PHILADELPHIA   BRIGADE  —  GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EDWARD  D.  BAKER  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  ISAAC  J.  WISTAIt ;  BKIG.-GEN. 


(3)  COL.  RICHARD  P.  SMITH. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  . 

I 
I 

3 
i 

2 

2 
2 

I 
I 

1  1 

9 

21 
14 

4 
8 
18 

22 
IO 
2O 
10 

I 
12 
12 
22 
16 

4 
8 

20 
24 
IO 
21 
I  I 

• 
i 

• 
• 

I 

» 
• 
• 

•    * 

7 
6 

IO 

J3 

8 

7 

9 

8 

10 

9 
1  1 

•    * 

7 
6 

10 

13 

8 

8 

9 

8 

10 

9 
1  1 

19 

177 

138 
192 

163 
146 
144 

158 
228 

147 
M3 

•    •    • 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Cos.  L.M.  N.O.  P  

M 

147 

161 

I 

98 

99 

J>655 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  565  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  21. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W 


Picket,  Va.,  Sept.  21,  1861 

Falls  Church,  Va 

Poolesville,  Md 

Ball's  Bluff,  Va 


Antietam,  Md 37 

Fredericksburg,  Va.  (1862) 9 

Fredericksburg,  Va.  (1863) i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 24 

Mine    Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va i  o 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 6 


I 

3 

i 

••  34 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 5 

Picket,  Va.,  June   3,  1862 i 

Picket,  Va.,  June   8,1862 3 

Picket,  Va.,  June   9,1862 i 

Peach  Orchard,  Va 6 

Savage  Station,  Va 2 

Glendale,  Va 8      i 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;   Malvern  Hill ;  Bristoe  Station  ;  Totopotomoy. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  Philadelphia,  May  1861,  by  Edward  D.  Baker,  United  States  Senator  from  California. 
In  July  the  regiment  proceeded  to  Fort  Monroe,  whence,  after  a  short  stay,  it  returned  to  Washington  and  com 
menced  active  service  in  Northern  Virginia.  In  October  it  was  assigned  to  Stone's  Division,  and  soon  after  took 
part  in  the  affair  at  Ball's  Bluff.  Colonel  Baker,  who  was  in  command  of  the  brigade,  was  killed  there,  the  regi 
ment  losing  13  killed,  40  wounded,  and  228  captured  or  missing.  The  Seventy-first  was  organized  with  fifteen 
companies,  but  after  the  Peninsular  campaign  the  five  superfluous  companies  were  discontinued,  and  the  men 
transferred  to  the  others.  It  was  assigned  to  the  Second  Division  of  the  Second  Corps,  in  which  division  it 
remained  without  change.  Sedgwick  commanded  the  division  at  Antietam,  where  it  was  engaged  in  one  of  the 
bloodiest  contests  of  the  war.  Its  loss  in  that  battle  was  26  killed,  95  wounded,  and  18  missing  —  one-third  of 
its  number  on  that  field.  At  Gettysburg,  it  was  stationed  at  the  angle  of  the  stone  wall  against  which  Armistead 
and  his  Confederate  brigade  made  such  a  desperate  attack  during  Pickett's  charge.  In  this  battle  the  Seventy- 
first,  under  Colonel  Smith,  lost  21  killed,  58  wounded,  and  19  missing,  out  of  24  officers  and  397  men  carried 
into  action.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  July  9,  1864,  ifs  term  of  service  having  expired 


TIIKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


27D 


SEVENTY-SECOND   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY  -"  BAXTER  ZOUAVES." 
PHILADELPHIA  BRIGADE  —  GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  DE  WITT  ('.  BAXTER  ;  Bv  r.  HUIU.-UEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED 

AND  DIED  OK  \ 
Men. 

VofM)-. 

Total. 

DIED  OK  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'UIMON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

(  >fticcrs. 

(  )flU-ere. 

Men. 

i   •  i 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
2 
2 
I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

2 

I 

M 

22 

18 

26 

16 
1  1 

10 

1  1 

20 

2 
24 

19 

27 

16 

12 
10 
21 
II 
20 

I 
I 

* 

I 

8 
1  1 

10 

9 

7 

10 
10 

8 

7 
26 

2 

9 
1  1 

10 
10 

9 

10 
10 

8 

7 
26 

16 
170 

'73 

•58 
i  76 

'79 
1  28 

J45 
1  60 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Cos.  L.M.N.O.  P  

Totals  

I  I 

182 

'93 

2 

117 

119 

,596 

193  killed  «  12. g  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  736;  total  of  captured  and  missing,  165. 

K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 3 

Picket,  Va.  (June    1862) 6 

Savage  Station,  Va 24 

Antietam,  Md 5g 

Fredericksbu  rg,  Va 9 

Gettysburg,  Pa 64 

Bristoe  Station,  Va i 


BATTLES.  K.  A  M.W 

Mine    Run,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va 7 

Spotsylvania,  Va 5 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 6 

Petersburg,  Va 

Jerusalem    Road,    Va. 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Peach  Orchard  ;  Glendale  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Chantilly  ;  Chancellorsville  ;  North 
Anna. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  Philadelphia  as  a  "Fire  Zouave"  regiment.  It  was  organized  in  August,  1861,  with 
fifteen  companies,  five  of  which  were  disbanded  in  1862  and  the  men  distributed  to  the  other  ten  companies.  In 
the  fall  of  1 86 1,  the  regiment  was  in  Stone's  Division,  which  was  guarding  the  Maryland  side  of  the  Upper 
Potomac.  In  March,  1862,  it  moved  up  the  Shenandoah  Valley  in  Banks's  command,  but  was  transferred  soon 
after  to  the  Peninsular  Army.  There  the  Philadelphia  Brigade  was  placed  under  command  of  General  Wm.  W. 
Burns,  and  was  assigned  to  Sedgwick's  Division.  At  Savage  Station  —  one  of  the  Seven  Days  battles — the  regi 
ment  lost  14  killed  and  85  wounded;  at  Antietam  it  fought  under  Scdgwick  at  the  Dunker  Church,  where  it  lost 
38  killed,  163  wounded,  and  36  missing;  total,  237.  General  Alex.  S.  Webb  commanded  the  brigade  at  Gettys 
burg.  In  that  battle  the  Seventy-second  occupied  an  exposed  position  during  the  terrible  artillery  firing  of  the  third 
day,  and  then  took  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  repulse  of  Pickett's  Virginians.  The  monument  of  the  Seventy- 
second,  which  stands  on  that  historic  spot,  states  in  its  inscription,  that  the  regiment  had  473  men  in  line  that 
day  and  that  their  loss  was  44  killed,  145  wounded,  and  2  missing;  total,  191.  At  Mine  Run,  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Theodore  Hesser  was  killed  on  the  skirmish  line,  while  in  command  of  the  regiment.  Its  shortened 
lines  were  actively  engaged  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness  campaign,  and  then,  while  in  the  trenches  before 
Petersburg,  August,  1864,  it  received  the  order  for  its  muster-out. 


280 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTY-SIXTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
BARTON'S  BRIGADE  —  TURNER'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  M.  POWER. 

(2)  COL.  D.  C.  STRAWBRIDGE. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  C.  CAMPBELL. 

(4)  COL.  JOHN  S.  LITTELL  ;  BVT.  BRIG. -GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON.  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Meu. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

• 

I 

2 

• 
• 

2 

3 
i 

• 

*  • 

20 

u 

H 

10 

'3 
26 

13 

M 
20 

»7 

•    • 

21 
16 

M 
IO 

T3 

28 

13 

i? 

21 
17 

I 

• 
• 

I 

* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

20 
28 

16 

18 

20 
21 

13 

17 
21 

18 

I 

20 
28 

*7 

18 
20 

21 

13 

I? 
21 

18 

20 
2IO 
209 

T73 

208 

190 
203 
204 
169 

1  86 

170 

B  . 

C  . 

D. 

E  . 

F  

G  . 

H  

T 

K. 

Totals  . 

9 

161 

170 

2 

192 

194 

1,942 

Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  623;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  52. 


BATTLES. 

James  Island,  S.  C 

Pocotaligo,  S.  C • 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.,  July  n,  1863 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.,  July  18,  1863 , 

Siege  of  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C • 

Chesterfield  Heights,  Va 

Swift  Creek,  Va 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 

Present,  also,  at  Fort  Pulaski ;  Wilmington. 


K.  &  M.  W. 

2 

.      16 

•      59 

7 

2 

7 
i 


22 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 9 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 9 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 9 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 13 

Chaffm's  Farm,  Va 3 

Darbytown  Road,  Va 2 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 7 


NOTES. — Fort  Wagner  was  a  memorable  locality  of  the  war  by  reason  of  many  varied  incidents  of  siege  and 
assault,  together  with  the  dramatic  character  which  invested  some  of  those  thrilling  scenes.  There  were  two  dis 
tinct  assaults ;  the  first  occurred  July  n,  1863,  and  the  second,  just  one  week  later.  The  Seventy-sixth  took  a 
conspicuous  part  in  the  first  assault,  which  was  made  by  three  regiments  only ;  the  Ninth  Maine,  Seventy-sixth 
Pennsylvania,  and  the  Seventh  Connecticut  —  under  General  Strong  the  brigade  commander.  The  Seventy-sixth 
occupied  the  centre  of  the  line,  its  advance  taking  it  over  a  ridge  where  it  was  exposed  to  the  fire  of  the  fort. 
The  assault  failed,  but  not  until  1 80  of  the  regiment  had  been  cut  down.  Another  attempt  was  made  on  the 
1 8th  with  an  assaulting  column  of  the  three  brigades,  but  it  also  failed,  and  General  Strong  was  killed.  The 
Seventy-sixth  had  the  honor  of  participating  in  the  successful  assault  on  Fort  Fisher.  It  was  then  in  Penny- 
packer's  Brigade,  Ames's  Division ;  General  Terry  commanded  the  expedition.  As  these  troops  remained  in 
North  Carolina,  the  Tenth  Corps  which  had  been  discontinued  was  reorganized  with  Terry  in  command.  Gen 
eral  Pennypacker  was  badly  wounded  at  Fort  Fisher,  and  Colonel  Littell  succeed  to  the  command  of  the  brigade. 
The  Seventy-sixth  was  organized  at  Harrisburg  in  October,  1861  ;  it  proceeded  immediately  to  Hilton  Head, 
S.  C.,  and  remained  in  that  Department  until  it  entered  the  Virginia  campaign  of  1864.  In  the  actions  at 
Drewry's  Bluff  and  its  vicinity  the  regiment  lost  15  killed,  119  wounded,  and  10  missing;  total,  144.  It  reen- 
listed  and  served  through  the  whole  period  of  the  war. 


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281 


EIGHTY-FIRST   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
CROSS'S  BKKJADK   -  CALIWKIJ/S   DIVISION  -  -  SECOND  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  MILLER  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  CHARLES  F.  JOHNSON. 


(8)  COL.  HENRY  HOYI)  MrKEKN  (Killwl). 
(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  WILSON. 


Losses. 

Officers. 
.        l8 

2 

En.  Afcn. 
190 

75 

21 

Total. 
208 

77 

21 

Totals  .... 

20 

286 

306 

Total  enrollment,  1,608  ;  killed, 
Battles. 
Fair  Oiks   Va. 

208—  12.9  per  cent. 

KilU 
8 

32 
4 
5 

5 
104 

44 
141 

38 

49 

5 
6 

63 
i 

33 
18 

6 

9 
8 

4 
23 

ft/.  *     Missing.  \ 
51 

I 

12 

5 

2 

20 
19 

8 

4 

i 

3 
i 

4 
i 

Total. 
91 

7 
18 

5 
130 

22 

5' 

6  1 
62 

5 
7 
77 

2 

44 

25 

i  i 

28 

12 

7 
35 

Glendale   Va. 

Malvern  Hill  Vi. 

6 

4. 

Cold    Harbor    Va. 

8 

6 

Totals 128  643  147  918 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Peach  Orchard  ;  Wilderness  ;  Po  River ;  North  Anna ;  Strawberry  Plains  ; 
Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Philadelphia  in  October,  1861 .  After  encamping  near  Washington  for  several  months, 
it  commenced  active  service  in  the  field,  March,  1862, —  then  in-  Howard's  (ist)  Brigade,  Richardson's  (ist) 
Division,  Sumner's  (zd)  Corps.  Colonel  Miller  was  killed  in  the  first  battle —  Fair  Oaks  —  and  at  Malvern  Hill 
his  successor,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Eli  T.  Conner,  fell  dead  while  gallantly  leading  his  men.  The  division  was  com 
manded  by  Hancock  at  Fredericksburg,  where  the  Eighty-first  took  part  in  the  memorable  assault  of  that  day, 
losing  176  out  of  261  present  on  the  field.  Enough  of  the  men  reenlisted,  in  January,  1864,  to  ensure  a  contin 
uance  of  the  organization,  and  they  received  a  veteran  furlough.  Hard  fighting  with  further  heavy  losses  were 
encountered  in  Grant's  campaigns,  and  at  Cold  Harbor,  Colonel  McKeen,  was  killed,  while  in  command  of  a 
brigade.  The  Eighty-first  took  part  in  all  the  battles  of  the  First  Division,  being  hotly  engaged  at  Farmville,  at 
which  place  the  Second  Corps  fought  its  last  battle. 


282 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


EIGHTY-THIRD   PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY. 
BARTLETT'S  BRIGADE  —  GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION  -  -  FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  W.  McLANE  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  STRONG  VINCENT  ;  BRIG. -GEN.  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  O.  S.  WOODWARD  ;  BYT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(4)  COL.  CHAUNCEY  P.  ROGERS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUXDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers.                 Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•2 

I 
2 

2 

• 
• 

•   • 

23 

22 
2O 

25 

31 

26 

22 
28 

45 
28 

i 

4 

23 

22 

2O 

25 

33 

27 

24 
28 

47 
28 

i 

I 
I 

• 
• 

• 

•    • 

12 

16 

IO 

II 

J9 
16 

14 

22 

9 

22 

•      • 

•    * 

12 

16 
II 

12 

T9 
16 

14 

22 

9 

22 

•      • 

20 
172 

116 
188 
162 
236 

200 
I67 

*73 

i93 
181 

•  •    • 

Company  A  •  

B  

c  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Band  

II 

271 

282 

2 

15* 

]53 

i,  808 

282  killed  =  15. 5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded    071  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  23. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Hanover  Court   House,  Va i 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 6 1 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 50 

Manassas,  Va 26 

Fredericksburg,  Va 5 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 18 

Guerrillas,  Va.,  December  10,  1863 i 

Wilderness,  Va 20 

North  Anna,  Va. 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  8th ° .  57 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May   loth 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 15 

Peebles's  Farm,  Va i  o 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 5 

Gravelly  Run,  Va i 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 3 

Five  Forks,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Mechanicsville  ;  Peach  Orchard  ;  Savage  Station  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Glen- 
dale ;  Antietam  ;  Shepherdstown  Ford;  Aldie ;  Rappahannock  •  Station  ;  Mine  Run;  Totopotomoy  ;  Weldon 
Railroad  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  Eighty-third  encountered  more  fighting  and  lost  more  men  in  battle  than  any  other  Pennsyl 
vania  regiment ;  in  fact,  its  loss  in  action  was  exceeded  by  only  one  other  in  the  entire  Union  army.  None  of  its 
losses  were  caused  by  blunders,  none  occurred  in  disastrous  routs ;  its  dead  always  lay  with  their  faces  to  the 
enemy.  With  its  "  twin  regiment,"  the  Forty-fourth  New  York,  it  was  assigned  to  Butterfield's  Brigade,  Morell's 
Division,  Fifth  Corps.  Colonel  McLane  was  killed  at  Gaines's  Mill,  and  Vincent  fell  at  Gettysburg  while  in 
command  of  the  brigade.  At  Gaines's  Mill,  the  regiment  lost  46  killed,  51  wounded,  and  99  missing ;  four  days 
later,  at  Malvern  Hill,  it  lost  33  killed,  115  wounded,  and  18  missing — a  total  of  362,  out  of  the  554  present  at 
Gaines's  Mill.  At  Manassas,  under  Lieutenant-Colonel  McCoy,  it  lost  14  killed,  72  wounded,  and  n  missing, 
out  of  224  officially  reported  by  McCoy  as  present  and  engaged.  It  had  the  honor,  at  Gettysburg,  of  participat 
ing  in  the  brilliant  manoeuvre  of  its  brigade — .Vincent's — in  seizing  Little  Round  Top  at  a  critical  moment, 
helping  materially  to  save  the  fortunes  of  the  day.  At  Spotsylvania,  its  casualties  amounted  to  21  killed,  119 
wounded,  and  24  missing;  total,  164.  General  McClellan  once  publicly  pronounced  the  Eighty-third  "one  of 
the  very  best  regiments  in  the  army." 


TIIKI.I;   I  li  M>I;I:I>   I-'HUI  i 1\«.    L'I:<,IMI  \  rs. 


I'-:', 


EIGHTY-FOURTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 

CARR'S  BRIGADE- -HUMPHREYS'S  DIVISION  — THIRD  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  G.  MURRAY  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  SAMUEL  M.  BOWMAN ;  BVT.  BRIO.  OEN. 


COMPANIES 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUND*. 

DlKDOK  DlSKASK,   AcflDKNTN,  IN  I'lllWIIX,  <fcf. 

Total 
Knrollmrnt. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Start  

2 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

* 
• 

I 

•    • 

14 

8 

12 
10 

'4 

18 

10 
IO 
IO 

'3 

2 
'5 

8 

I  2 
IO 

'5 
18 

ii 

10 
IO 

14 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

7 
1  1 

ii 
10 

12 

9 

IO 

7 
1  1 

10 

•     • 

7 
1  1 

1  1 

10 
I  2 

9 
I  I 

7 
1  1 

10 

'9 
128 

81 
172 

113 
'31 

105 
1  20 

90 

'59 
,67 

(  'omnAnv  A  . 

B  . 

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

119 

I25 

I 

98 

99 

1,285 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  491  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  17. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Kernstown,  Va 30 

Port  Republic,  Va 3 

Cedar  Mountain,   Va i 

Manassas,  Va 2 

Fredericksburg,    Va 1 1 

Chancellorsville,  Va 29 

Mine    Run,  Va 4 

Wilderness,  Va i  o 


BATTLES. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 

North  Anna,  Va 

Totopotomoy,  Va 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 

Petersburg,  Va 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va, 


K.&M.W. 
.  .  .        12 

3 

4 

3 

8 

4 
. . .         i 


Present,  also,  at  Front  Royal ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Hatcher's  Run. 


NOTES. —  Although  a  Third  Corps  regiment,  the  Eighty-fourth  saw  much  .active  service  while  in  other  com 
mands.  Soon  after  its  organization,  in  1861,  it  was  ordered  to  the  Upper  Potomac,  and  thence  to  the  Shenandoah 
Valley  where  it  served  under  General  Lander,  and,  after  his  death,  in  Shields's  Division.  It  was  with  Shields  at 
Kernstown,  and  was  hotly  engaged  there  ;  Colonel  Murray  and  two  line  officers  were  killed  there,  the  regiment 
losing  21  killed,  and  71  wounded.  At  Cedar  Mountain  and  Manassas  it  was  in  Ricketts's  Division,  of  McDowell's 
Corps;  at  Fredericksburg  and  Chancellorsville  it  was  in  Carroll's  Brigade,  Whipple's  Division,  Third  Corps.  At 
Chancellorsville  it  lost  215  in  killed,  wounded,  missing,  and  prisoners,  out  of  391  present.  The  regiment  was  not 
engaged  at  Gettysburg,  having  been  detailed  as  a  train-guard.  Upon  the  discontinuance  of  the  Third  Corps  it 
was  again  transferred,  this  time  to  Mott's  Division,  Second  Corps.  Colonel  Bowman  having  been  detailed  on 
duty  elsewhere,  the  command  of  the  regiment  devolved  on  Lieutenant-Colonel  Milton  Opp,  an  experienced  and 
efficient  officer  who  fell  mortally  wounded  at  the  Wilderness.  The  regiment  was  mustered-out  in  November,  1864, 
but  enough  recruits  and  rei'-nlisted  men  remained  to  form  a  battalion  of  four  companies.  This  battalion  was 
consolidated  January  13,  1865,  with  the  Fifty-seventh  Pennsylvania,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Zinn  of  the  Eighty  - 
fourth  became  colonel  of  the  Fifty-seventh.  Its  casualties  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania  May  5-13,  1864, 
were  13  killed,  70  wounded,  and  2  missing. 


284 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


NINETY-THIRD  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
WHEATON'S  BRIGADE  —  GETTY'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  M.  McOARTER. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  M.  MARK. 


(3)  COL.  CHARLES  W.  ECKMAN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

» 

3 

• 

3 

• 
2 
I 
I 
I 

• 

I 

M 

2O 

16 

12 
12 

15 
M 
21 

M 

22 

I 

I? 

20 

J9 

12 

14 

16 
15 

'  22 

M 

22 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

7 
9 
9 
J3 

12 

T3 

8 

10 

J3 

7 

I 

7 
9 
9 
13 

12 
J3 

8 

10 

T3 

7 

17 

189 

181 

204 

183 
196 

203 

183 
171 
214 
167 

B  

C. 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T  , 

K  

Totals  

I  I 

161 

172 

I 

IOI 

IO2 

1,908 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  641. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Williamsburg,  Va 8 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 40 

Salem  Heights,  Va 14 

Gettysburg,  Pa i 

Wilderness,  Va 34 

Spotsylvania,  Va 19 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 3 

Petersburg,  Va.  ( 1 864) 4 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Fort  Stevens,  D.  C i 

Berryville,  Va i 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 5 

Opequon,  Va 1 1 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va 2 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 9 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 15 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Seven  Days  ;  Fredericksburg ;  Marye's  Heights ;  Sailor's  Creek  ; 
Appomattox. 


NOTES. — This  regiment  was  raised  through  the  efforts  of  Colonel  McCarter,  a  Methodist  clergyman  who  had 
served  as  a  Chaplain  in  the  three  months  service.  It  was  organized  at  Lebanon,  Pa.,  in  October,  1861.  In  March, 
1862,  it  was  assigned  to  Peck's  Brigade,  Couch's  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  and  went  to  the  Peninsula.  The  regi 
ment  was  in  the  hottest  of  the  fight  at  Fair  Oaks,  where  it  displayed  remarkable  steadiness  under  fire.  Its  losses 
there  were  20  killed,  84  wounded,  and  22  missing;  Colonel  McCarter  was  severely  wounded  and  lost  two  horses 
killed.  After  Antietam  the  division  was  transferred  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  the  Ninety-third  becoming  a  part  of 
Rowley's  Brigade,  Newton's  Division.  General  Wheaton  commanded  the  brigade  at  Salem  Heights,  where  the 
regiment  lost  8  killed,  53  wounded,  and  18  missing.  In  February,  1864,  about  300  reenlisted,  and  a  large  num 
ber  of  recruits  were  received.  The  regiment  entered  the  spring  campaign  of  1864  with  about  750  men;  in  the 
opening  battle  at  the  Wilderness  it  lost  15  killed  and  114  wounded,  which  was  followed  the  next  week  by  further 
heavy  losses  at  Spotsylvania.  It  fought  under  Sheridan  in  the  Valley,  and  at  the  Opequon  lost  7  killed  and  32 
wounded.  Returning  to  Petersburg,  it  was  engaged  with  severe  loss,  March  25,  1865,  in  the  advance  of  the 
Sixth  Corps  at  the  time  Fort  Stedman  was  re-captured.  Having  served  through  the  whole  war,  it  was  mustered 
out  June  27,  1865. 


TmtEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


NINETY-FIFTH  PENNSYLVANIA    INFANTRY. 
UPTON'S  BRIGADE -- WRIGHT'S  DIVISION --SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  M.  GOSL1NE  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  GUSTAVU8  W.  TOWN  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  HAKl'EK. 


(.'OMI'AMKH. 

KM  run  AM>  DIED  OK  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIIINON,  Ac. 

T-.tnl 
Enrollment. 

(  tfllitere. 

Men 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

6 

I 

2 

* 

I 

1 

•     • 

23 
14 
22 

18 
16 

23 

1  1 

15 

1  2 

'7 

6 
24 
>4 
24 
18 

16 
24 

12 

'5 
I  2 

17 

• 

• 
• 

1 

• 
* 
• 

6 

7 
10 

8 

ID 

5 
9 
7 
7 
3 

•    • 

6 

7 
10 

8 
10 

5 

IO 

7 
7 
3 

H 
229 

198 
246 
205 
21  2 

U8 

222 

190 
'74 

'34 

(Company  A  

B  

C  . 

D  

E  . 

F  

G  . 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

1  1 

171 

182 

I 

72 

73 

1)962 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  667  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  13. 
BATTLKS.  K.  &M.W.  BATTLES. 


West  Point,  Va 8 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 31 

Crampton's  Pass,  Md 2 

Antietam,  Md 3 

Fredericksburg,   Va i 

Salem  Heights,  Va 39 

Gettysburg,  Pa i 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 12 

Spotsylvania,  Va 41 


K  AM  w. 
Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Petersburg,  Va.  ( 1 864) j 

Charlestown,  W.  Va 2 

Fisher's    Hill,  Va i 

New    Market,  Va i 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 15 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March   25,  1865 i 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 3 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 12 


Present,  also,  at  Seven  Days  ;  Marye's  Heights  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Fort  Stevens  ;  Opequon  ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. — The  Ninety-fifth  lost  six  field  officers,  killed  in  action ;  two  colonels,  two  lieutenant-colonels,  a 
major  and  an  adjutant, —  a  loss  in  mounted  officers,  with  but  one  parallel  in  all  the  regiments  in  the  war.  I 
was  raised  in  Philadelphia,  and  arrived  at  Washington  in  October,  1861.  It  passed  the  winter  of  1861-2  in 
winter-quarters  near  Alexandria,  Va.,  and  took  the  field  in  March,  1862.  After  taking  part  in  the  advance  on 
Manassas,  it  proceeded  to  the  Peninsula,  with  Newton's  Brigade,  P'ranklin's  Division,  and  with  this  command 
was  engaged  at  West  Point.  Slocum  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  division,  which,  under  his  charge,  dis 
tinguished  itself  at  Gaines's  Mill.  In  that  battle  Colonel  Gosline  and  Major  Wm.  B.  Hubbs  were  killed  ;  the 
regiment  lost  there  10  killed,  84  wounded,  and  1 8  missing.  At  Salem  Heights  the  regiment  fought  in  Russell's 
Brigade  of  Brooks's  Division,  its  losses  there  amounting  to  23  killed,  no  wounded,  and  20  missing;  total,  153. 
In  this  action,  Colonel  Town,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Hall,  Adjutant  Dunton,  and  two  line  officers  were  killed. 
About  250  men  rei:nlisted,  and,  a  large  number  of  recruits  having  been  received,  the  Ninety- fifth  entered  the 
Wilderness  campaign  with  nearly  its  full  complement  of  men.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edward  Carroll,  the  com 
mandant  of  the  regiment,  fell  dead  in  the  first  day's  fighting  at  the  Wilderness.  During  the  fighting  at  Spot 
sylvania,  it  lost  26  killed,  82  wounded,  and  27  missing  ;  and  at  Cedar  Creek,  8  killed,  27  wounded,  and  4  missing. 


286 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


NINETY-SIXTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
BARTLETT'S  BRIGADE  —  BROOKS'S  DIVISION  -  -  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  L.  CAKE. 


(2)  COL    WILLIAM  H.  LESSIG. 


G'OMPANIKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 
I 
I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
* 

•  • 

16 

6 

12 

13 
!7 

8 

'5 

18 
9 

1  2 

2 

'7 

7 
13 
J3 
T7 
9 

J5 
18 

9 

]  2 

• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

8 
8 

7 
8 

12 

6 

9 
10 

5 
1*3 

8 
8 

7 
8 

12 

6 

9 
10 

5 
M 

15 

JI5 
107 

iii 
94 
J33 

IO2 
III 
126 

I05 
*34 

B  

C  . 

D. 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K. 

Totals  . 

6 

1  26 

132 

1 

86 

87 

M53 

132  killed  =  n. 4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  429  ;  captured  and  missing,  64  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  12. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W, 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 18 

Crampton's  Gap,  Md 27 

Antietam,  Md 2 

Bowling  Green  Road,  Va  j 
Salem  Heights,  Va.  ) 


BATTLES. 

Wilderness,  Va 

Spotsylvania,  Va 

Cedar   Creek,  Va 

Cold  Harbor,  Va o 3 


K.&M.  W. 
3 

. ...     59 
3 


Present,  also,  at  West  Point ;  Seven  Days  ;  Fredericksburg ;  Marye's  Heights  (1863) ;  Gettysburg;  Rappa- 
hannock  Station  ;  Petersburg;  Opequon  ;  Fisher's  Hill. 


NOTES. — Recruited  mostly  in  Schuylkill  County.  It  left  the  State  in  November,  1861,  and,  arriving  in  Vir 
ginia  soon  after,  was  assigned  to  Slocum's  Brigade,  Franklin's  Division.  General  Slocum  commanded  the  division 
at  Gaines's  Mill,  where  the  regiment  was  engaged  and  received  a  gratifying  mention  in  the  official  reports. 
Loss,  at  Gaines's  Mill,  13  killed,  6 1  wounded,  and  13  missing.  It  again  distinguished  itself  in  the  successful 
charge  at  Crampton's  Gap,  where  Major  Lewis  J.  Martin  was  killed.  It  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  of  any 
regiment  in  that  action,  its  casualties  amounting  to  20  killed  and  70  wounded  —  fully  one-fourth  of  the 
number  engaged.  Still  harder  fighting  and  greater  losses  were  encountered  in  1864,  at  Spotsylvania,  where  the 
Ninety-sixth  was  selected  as  one  of  the  twelve  regiments  of  the  Sixth  Corps  to  take  part  in  Upton's  charge ;  it 
proved  a  dearly  bought  honor,  its  losses  there,  and  in  the  other  fighting  about  Spotsylvania,  amounting  to  31 
killed,  115  wounded,  and  32  missing;  total,  178.  During  this  campaign  the  regiment  was  still  in  the  First 
Brigade,  First  Division,  Sixth  Corps,  General  Upton  commanding  the  brigade,  and  General  Wright,  the  division. 
Subsequently,  General  Russell  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  division.  Not  enough  of  the  men  reenlisted 
to  warrant  the  continuance  of  the  regimental  organization  after  the  expiration  of  its  term  of  service,  which 
occurred  September  22,  1864,  while  in  the  Shenandoah  campaign.  The  original  members  of  the  regiment 
returned  to  their  homes,  and  the  reenlisted  veterans,  together  with  the  recruits,  were  transferred  to  the  Ninety- 
fifth  Pennsylvania. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FICJIITING  REGIMENTS. 


NINETY-SEVENTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 

I'ENXYI'ACKER'S   I ',i;i« ;  \  HI .         AMES'S    DIVISION -- TENTH    CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  R.  GUS8.       (2)  COL.  GALUSHA  PENNYPAOKER;  BVT.  MAJOH  GEN.       (3)  COL.  JOHN  WAINWRIGHT ;  BVT.  MAJOII-GEK. 


<'OMPANIKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  <>K  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'UISON.  &e. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

(  tffieers. 

Men. 

Total 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

1 

• 
• 

2 

• 

I 

I 
I 

I 

'3 
8 

'3 

12 
IO 

25 
IO 

15 

9 
M 

2 

'3 

8 

'3 
'4 
10 

25 
1  1 

15 

10 

15 

* 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

•     • 

'5 
23 

25 

I  2 

27 

15 

23 

16 
16 

1  2 

•    • 

15 
23 

26 

12 

27 

'5 
23 
16 

i" 

I  2 

16 
217 
194 
213 
181 

221 

193 

195 

216 

163 
»9S 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

130 

136 

2 

l84 

186 

2,004 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  519,  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  20. 
Of  the  1,039  originally  enrolled,  104  were  killed,  and  117  died  of  disease. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

James's  Island,  S.  C 4 

Morris  Island,  S.  C 4 

Ware  Bottom  Church  Va.,  May  18,  1864 14 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va.,  May  20,  1864 56 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va.,  August  25,  1864 2 

Picket,  S.  C.,  April,  1863 i 

Picket,  Va.,  August  25,  j  864 i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.  \V. 

Petersburg,  Va 5 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 14 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va i  i 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va 10 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va 2 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 2 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C 9 


Present,  also,  at  John's  Island,  S.  C. ;  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C. ;  Swift  Creek,  Va. ;  Drewry's  Bluff,  Va. ;  Wilming 
ton,  N.  C. 

NOTES. —  Eight  companies  were  recruited  in  Chester  County,  and  the  others  in  Delaware.  It  left  the  State 
November,  1861,  going  to  Fort  Monroe,  and  thence  to  Port  Royal,  S.  C.  It  remained  in  that  Department  sixteen 
months,  during  which  it  made  several  expeditions  along  the  Florida  and  Georgia  coast,  and  was  under  fire  in  some 
minor  engagements.  It  took  part  in  the  operations  about  Charleston  Harbor,  and  in  the  grand  assault  on  Fort 
Wagner,  in  which  affair  it  was  in  Stevenson's  Brigade  of  reserves.  In  April,  1863,  it  left  Fernandina,  Fla.,  and 
sailed  for  Virginia,  where  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  James, —  having  been  assigned  to  White's  (ist)  Brigade, 
Ames's  (3d)  Division,  Tenth  Corps.  In  the  fighting  at  Green  Plains,  near  Bermuda  Hundred,  May  i8th  and 
2Oth,  it  lost  29  killed,  186  wounded,  and  22  captured  or  missing  ;  total,  237  ;  seve"n  color  bearers  were  shot,  and 
Colonel  Pennypacker  was  wounded  three  times.  The  regiment  occupied  an  exposed  position  in  the  trenches 
before  Petersburg,  and  lost  men  almost  daily  during  the  siege, —  in  addition  to  those  lost  in  the  fighting  at  the 
Mine  Explosion.  It  had  in  the  meanwhile  been  transferred  to  the  Second  Division,  in  which  it  afterwards  re 
mained  without  further  change.  Colonel  Pennypacker  commanded  the  brigade  at  Chaffin's  Farm,  where  he  was 
again  wounded.  He  led  the  brigade,  also,  in  its  victorious  assault  at  Fort  Fisher,  where  he  received  another 
serious  wound  while  planting  the  colors  of  the  Ninty-seventh  on  the  enemy's  inner  line  of  works. 


288 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CVIIL  WAR. 


ONE   HUNDREDTH    PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY    -"ROUNDHEADS." 
LEASURE'S  BRIGADE  —  STEVENSON'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  DANIEL  LEASURE ;  BVT.  BKIG.  GEN. 


(2)  Coi..  NORMAN  J.  MAXWELL  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PUISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 
I 

2 

I 

• 
• 

I 

2 

I 
I 

3 

• 

•     • 

18 

13 

27 

21 

3° 

22 
20 
12 
6 

J9 

20 

4 

!9 

J5 
28 

21 

3° 
23 

22 
!3 

7 

22 
20 

• 
• 
• 
* 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
22 

17 
20 

t$ 

21 

21 
16 
12 
8 

J7 
r3 

I 

22 

I? 

2O 

15 
21 

23 

16 

12 

8 

17 
13 

18 
184 
184 
198 
192 
191 

2OI 
2O2 

181 

82 

1  86 
195 

B  . 

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

M  

Totals  

16 

208 

224 

2 

183 

185 

2,014 

224  killed  =  ii. i  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  887  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  29. 


BATTLES.                                                                             K.  &  M.W. 

Legare's  Point,  S.  C 3 

James  Island,  S.  C 13 

Manassas,  Va 27 

Chantilly,   Va 7 

South  Mountain,  Md 12 

Antietam,  Md 2 

Jackson,  Miss i 

Blue   Springs,  Tenn i 

Campbell's   Station,  Tenn i 

Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn 5 

Wilderness,  Va 4 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

North  Anna,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 2 

Cold    Harbor,  Va 18 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 21 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 23 

Weidon  Railroad,   Va 7 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 5 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Picket,  Va.,  Dec.  13,  1864 i 

Fort   Stedman,  Va 22 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 


Spotsylvania,  Va 44 

Present,  also,  at  Port  Royal,  S.  C. ;  Coosaw  River,  S.  C. ;   Fredericksburg,  Va. ;  Vicksburg,  Miss. 

NOTES. — The  Pennsylvania  Roundheads  proved  on  many  a  hard  fought  field  that  they  were  worthy  of  their 
nom  de  guerre,  and  their  ancestral  namesakes.  Bates,  the  historian,  says  that  they  were  recruited  in  a  part  of  the 
State  which  was  settled  by  English  Roundheads  and  Scotch-Irish  Covenanters.  Be  that  as  it  may,  there  was  no 
stancher  stuff  in  Cromwell's  regiments  than  in  the  blue-coated  line  that  dressed  on  the  colors  of  the  Hundredth 
Pennsylvania.  They  were  well  officered,  Colonel  Leasure  being  a  man  of  remarkable  soldierly  ability,  and 
although  in  command  of  the  brigade  most  of  the  time,  the  regiment  was  always  ably  handled.  Lieut.-Col.  Dawson 
fell,  mortally  wounded,  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg ;  Lieut.-Col.  Pentecost  was  killed  at  Fort  Stedman ;  Major 
Hamilton  and  Adjutant  Leasure  fell  in  the  fighting  at  the  Petersburg  Mine.  Five  line-officers  fell  at  Manassas, 
the  casualties  in  that  battle  amounting  to  15  killed,  117  wounded,  and  8  missing.  At  Spotsylvania  it  sustained 
a  loss  of  23  killed,  1 10  wounded,  and  2  missing  ;  total,  135.  Like  all  the  Ninth  Corps  regiments  its  service  was  a 
varied  one ;  it  made  long  journeys  by  sea  and  land,  and  fought  its  battles  in  many  and  widely  separated  States. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FH;HTIX<J  REGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED   AND  SECOND  PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY. 
WHEATON'S  BRIGADE -- GETTY'S  DIVISION -- SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)COL.  THOMAS  A.  ROWLEY;  BRIU.-«KN. 
(2)  COL.  JOS K I'll  M.  KINKKAD. 


(8)  COL.  JOHN  W.  PATTERSON  (Killed) 
(4)  COL.  JAMKS  PATCIIELL. 


COMPANIES. 

KII.LKH  ANI>  l>n  ii  or  WOI;NDM. 

DlKIl  OK  DlSKAHK,  AcriDKNTH,  IN  PKIBON,  &C. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

(  ifllcers 

Men. 

Total. 

(  >flictT8. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 

• 

i 

2 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
I 

• 
• 

•  • 

15 
'4 
1  1 

10 

»9 

M 
6 

34 
1  1 

7 
16 

14 

4 
IS 

'5 

13 

1  1 

19 

'5 
6 

34 
1  1 

8 
16 
14 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

i 

• 

i 
8 

4 
6 

8 
6 

5 
5 

13 

6 

6 

7 
6 

I 

8 

4 
6 
8 
6 

5 
5 

*3 

6 

6 
8 
6 

17 
201 

.65 
178 
184 
170 
171 
1  60 
198 
140 
.78 

171 

1  66 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

10 

i?i 

181 

i 

81 

82 

2,099 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  68<) ;  total  of  captured  or  missing.  140 

K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 

Williamsburg,  Va 5 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 18 

Savage  Station,  Va i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 12 

Salem  Heights,  Va 21 

Wilderness,  Va 48 

Spotsylvania,  Va 10 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 15 


BATTLES.                                                                     K  &  M.W. 

Petersburg,  Va.  (1864) 6 

Charlestown,  W.  Va i 

Opequon,  Va 1 6 

Strasburg,  Va i 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va 2 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 21 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 2 

Fall  of  Petersburg 2 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown ;  Fredericksburg ;  Gettysburg ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Fort  Stevens ;  Sailor's 
Creek ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Pittsburg  in  August,  1861.  Five  companies  went  to  Washington  that  month,  the  others 
following  soon  after.  It  occupied  winter-quarters  near  the  Capitol,  where  the  time  was  spent  in  drills  and  light 
duty.  It  embarked  at  Alexandria  in  March,  1862,  and  proceeded  with  General  McClellan's  Army  to  the  Peninsula, 
where  it  took  part  in  the  operations  before  Yorktown,  and  did  some  good  fighting  at  Williamsburg.  It  fought  at 
Fair  Oaks,  in  Peck's  Brigade,  Couch's  Division,  Fourth  Corps, losing  there  i  2  killed,  47  wounded,  and  10  missing. 
At  Malvern  Hill  it  made  a  successful  charge,  in  which  Major  Poland  was  killed.  Immediately  after  Antietam  the 
division  was  transferred,  and  became  Newton's  Division  of  the  Sixth  Corps.  General  Wheaton  commanded  the 
brigade  in  the  fighting  at  Marye's  Heights  and  Salem  Church,  in  which  the  regiment  lost  12  killed,  54  wounded, 
and  103  missing  or  captured.  Nearly  all  the  men  rei;nlisted,  and  a  large  number  of  recruits  were  received,  which 
enabled  it  to  take  the  field  in  1864  with  full  ranks.  The  regiment  encountered  its  hardest  battle  at  the  Wilderness, 
where  its  casualties  amounted  to  163  in  killed  and  wounded.  Colonel  Patterson  was  among  the  killed.  Lieu 
tenant-Colonel  Mcllwaine  lost  his  life  at  Cold  Harbor,  and  Major  Coleman  was  killed  while  leading  the  regiment 
at  Cedar  Creek.  In  the  latter  action  the  regiment  lost  1 2  killed  and  80  wounded. 
19 


290 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDEED  AND  FIFTH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
GRAHAM'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION — THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL   AMOR  A.  McKNIGHT  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  W.  CORBETT. 


(3)  COL.  CALVIN  A.  CRAIG  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  JAMES  MILLER. 


COMPANIES 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

4 
i 
i 

2 
2 

• 

I 

• 

I 

2 

• 

•  • 
23 

3° 
J9 

21 
2O 
27 
21 
21 
28 
21 

4 
24 

31 
21 

23 
2O 

28 
21 

22 

3° 

21 

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

17 

15 

12 

8 
II 

12 

r3 

!? 

22 

12 

•    • 

I? 

15 
12 

8 
ii 

12 

'3 
17 

22 

12 

18 

203 
204 
214 

193 
192 

184 
187 
208 
198 
191 

B  . 

C  . 

D. 

E  . 

F  . 

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

14 

231 

245 

• 

T39 

T39 

1,992 

245  killed  =  12.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded    783;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included), 


BATTLES.                                                                      K  &  M.  W. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 53 

Oak  Grove,  Va 3 

Chickahominy,  Va i 

Glendale,  Va 22 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Warrenton   Junction,  Va 3 

Manassas,  Va 10 

Fredericksburg,  Va 3 

Chancellorsville,  Va 14 

Gettysburg,  Pa 22 

Auburn,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 56 


K.&M.W. 

8 

...  2 

4 


BATTLES. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 

North  Anna,  Va 

Totopotomy,  Va 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 10 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 2 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 8 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  Oct.  2,  1864 i 

Boydton  Road,  Va 1 1 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  25,  1865 2 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  March  30,  1865 i 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 2 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Williamsburg  ;  Chantilly  ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Po  River  ;  Cold  Harbor  ; 
Strawberry  Plains ;  Poplar  Spring  Church  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Recruited  from  the  counties  of  Jefferson,  Clarion,  and  Clearfield.  The  men  were  mostly  from  the 
forest  regions,  possessing  the  hardy  characteristics  and  manly  traits  incidental  to  mountaineers  and  lumbermen. 
The  regiment  left  its  barracks  in  Pittsburg  in  November,  1861.  After  some  hard  service  in  the  trenches  before 
Yorktown,  and  some  skirmishing  at  Williamsburg — then  in  Kearny's  Division, — it  faced  the  enemy  at  Fair  Oaks, 
in  one  of  the  deadliest  struggles  of  the  war,  winning  praise  from  generals  and  historians  alike.  Its  losses  at 
Fair  Oaks  were  large  —  41  killed,  112  wounded,  and  8  missing;  total,  161.  At  Gettysburg,  the  regiment  took 
247  men  into  action,  and  lost  8  killed,  115  wounded,  and  9  missing;  total,  132,  or  more  than  half.  In  April, 
1864,  the  division  was  transferred  to  the  Second  Corps,  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifth  being  assigned  to  Gen 
eral  Alex.  Hays's  Brigade.  In  the  first  battle  of  the  ensuing  campaign  —  the  Wilderness — it  lost  38  killed, 
1 16  wounded,  and  6  missing.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Greenwalt  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness,  Colonel  McKnight 
at  Chancellorsville,  Colonel  Craig  at  Deep  Bottom,  and  Major  John  C.  Conser  at  the  Boydton  Road. 


THREE.  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND   ELEVENTH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
KANE'S  BRIGADE  —  GEARY'S  DIVISION  -  -  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.   MATTHEW  SCHLAUDKCKER.  (2)  COL.  GEORGE  A.  coBIIAM,  Jit.  (Killed);  BVT.  RRKI.-OKN. 

(3)  COL.  THOMAS  M.  WALKER  ;  HVT.  BIUO.-GKN. 


COMPANIES. 

Kii  i  MI  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DINKAMK,  ACCIDKNTM,  IN  PRISON,  <kc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Offloera. 

Men 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 
2 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 

•     • 

'5 

'9 

i7 
19 
M 

'3 

6 

9 
T3 
13 

2 

16 

21 

17 

19 
14 
14 
6 

9 
i4 
'3 

I 
I 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

*     • 

M 

16 

14 
18 

21 

22 

M 
I  I 

'3 

I  2 

I 

'5 
16 

14 
18 

21 

23 
14 
12 

13 
12 

2O 

1  66 
1  88 
197 
196 
194 
199 

'75 

•58 
179 

1  80 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I 

K. 

Totals  

7 

138 

145 

4 

"55 

^59 

1,852* 

Total  of  killed  and  *vounded,  549. 


BATTLES. 


K.&.M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W. 


Cedar  Mountain,  Va 21 

Antietam,  Md , 33 

Chancellorsville,  Va 6 

Gettysburg,  Pa 6 

Wauhatchie,  Tenn 13 

Ix>okout  Mountain,  Tenn 3 

Resaca,  Ga 5 

Cassville,  Ga i 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 24 


New  Hope  Church,  Ga 9 

Dallas,  Ga.,  May  27,1 864 2 

Dallas,  Ga.,  May  28,  1864 i 

Dallas,  Ga.,  May  29,  1 864 i 

Dallas,  Ga.,  May  31,1 864 3 

Pine  Knob,  Ga.,  June  15,  1864 4 

Gulp's  Farm,  Ga.,  June  i  7,  1864 3 

Grier's  Farm,  Ga.,  June  21,1 864 3 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 3 


Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  28,  1864 i  Sherman's  March  (foraging) 3 

Present,  also,  at  Manassas ;  Missionary  Ridge  ;  Ringgold,  Ga. ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  Savannah.  Ga. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  Erie,  Warren,  and  Crawford  Counties,  and  organized  at  Erie  in  January,  1862.  It 
was  quartered  in  Baltimore  during  the  following  March  and  April.  In  May  it  joined  Banks's  command  at  Harper's 
Ferry,  having  been  assigned  to  Prince's  Brigade,  of  Augur's  Division,  in  which  it  fought  at  Cedar  Mountain.  The 
regiment  was  commanded  in  that  battle  by  Major  Walker,  its  casualties  amounting  to  7  killed,  74  wounded,  and  9 
missing.  The  division,  under  General  Greene,  distinguished  itself  at  Antietam  by  the  tenacity  with  which  it  held 
its  position  near  the  Dunker  Church.  The  regiment  took  only  243  men  into  that  action,  but  lost  26  killed,  76 
wounded,  and  8  missing.  In  March,  1863,  the  One  Hundred  and  Eleventh  was  one  of  ten  regiments  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  especially  mentioned  in  General  Orders  as  standing  best  in  the  inspection  reports.  In 
September,  1863,  the  corps  was  ordered  to  Tennessee,  and  on  October  28,  1863,  the  regiment  fought  at  Wau 
hatchie,  Tenn.,  where  Major  Boyle  was  killed.  In  the  Atlanta  campaign  its  fighting  was  continuous  and  severe, 
the  hardest  battle  for  the  One  Hundred  and  Eleventh  occurring  at  Peach  Tree  Creek,  where  Colonel  Cobham 
was  killed.  The  regiment  marched  from  Atlanta  to  the  sea,  and  while  in  the  Carolinas  the  One  Hundred  and 
Ninth  Pennsylvania  was  discontinued,  and  the  men  were  transferred  to  its  ranks. 


*  The  enrollment  includes  308  men,  transferred  from  the  One  Hundred  and  Ninth  Pennsylvania,  in  March,  I8C5,  after  the 
ended. 


had 


292 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  SIXTEENTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
IRISH  BRIGADE  —  BARLOW'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  DENNIS  HEENAN. 


(2)  COL.  ST  CLAIR  MULHOLLAND  ;  Bvr.  MAJ.  GEN. 
(3)  COL.  DAVID  W.  MEGRAW. 


COMPANIES. 

• 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

• 

I 

2 

• 
• 
* 
• 

2 
I 

•    • 

5 
6 

6 
ii 

J5 
25 
J5 
15 
15 
24 

I 
6 
6 

7 
J3 
'5 
25 
15 
15 
17 
25 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

*    • 

6 

7 
6 

9 

7 

12 
15 

8 
6 

12 

•    • 

6 

7 
6 
10 

7 

12 
15 

8 
6 

12 

16 

109 
181 
140 
198 

J93 
144 

181 
186 
141 

172 

B  . 

C  . 

D. 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

8 

137 

145 

I 

88 

89 

1,661 

Tocal  of  killed  and  wounded,  528  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  28. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


Cold  Harbor,  Va 22 

Petersburg  Assault,  June  16,  1864 10 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 8 

Williams  Farm,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 8 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 3 

Ream's   Station,  Va 1 1 

White  Oak  Road,  March  31,  1865 4 

Sutherland  Station,  April  2,  1865 i 


Fredericksburg,   Va 25 

Chancellorsville,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 3 

Bristoe  Station,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 13 

Po  River,  Va.,  May  i  o 4 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12 21 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  18 7 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Present,  also,  at  Mine  Run  ;  North  Anna  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Farmville  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Pennsylvania  furnished  a  regiment  for  the  famous  Irish  Brigade ;  it  was  the  One  Hundred  and 
Sixteenth.  It  was  recruited  in  Philadelphia  in  the  summer  of  1862,  and  leaving  the  State  in  September,  pro 
ceeded  to  Virginia.  In  October  it  joined  the  main  army,  then  at  Harper's  Ferry,  where  it  was  assigned  to  the 
Irish  Brigade,  Hancock's  Division.  It  took  part  in  the  bloody  assault  on  Marye's  Heights,  where  each  man  in 
the  brigade  placed  a  sprig  of  green  in  his  cap  just  before  the  charge,  and  where  so  many  of  them  fell  in  front  of 
the  enemy's  works.  The  official  reports  state  that  this  regiment  had  247  men  in  line  that  day;  their  loss  was 
7  killed,  67  wounded,  and  14  missing;  all  three  of  its  field-officers  were  wounded.  After  this  battle  the  regi 
ment  was  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  four  companies,  as  it  had  become  much  reduced  in  numbers.  At 
Chancellorsville  the  regiment  received  words  of  praise  from  Hancock  for  gallant  services  rendered  on  that  field. 
In  the  spring  of  1864,  six  new  companies  were  recruited,  and  the  old  battalion  companies  were  filled  up  to  their 
maximum.  Three  of  the  new  companies  were  from  Pittsburg ;  they  were  raised  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Richard 
C.  Dale,  who  was  killed  at  Spotsylvania.  From  the  Wilderness  to  Appomattox,  the  One  Hundred  and  Sixteenth 
was  engaged  in  all  the  battles  of  the  First  Division,  and  proved  itself  worthy  of  a  place  in  the  brigade.  Colonel 
Mulholland,  who  commanded  the  battalion  in  1863,  led  the  reorganized  regiment  in  most  of  its  battles,  and  was 
badly  wounded  at  Spotsylvania. 


TllRKK    Hi   M>Ki:i>    Fl(JHTIN«i     I J I .«  .  I  M  K.NTS. 


293 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  EIGHTEENTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY.  -"(JOHN 

EXCHANGE   REGIMENT." 

BARTLETT'S  BRIGADE  —  GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION --FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CHAKLES  M.  I'HEVOST ;  BVT.  BKIU.  HEN. 


(2)  COL.  JAMES  (JWYN  ;  HVT.  MAJOU  (iK.s. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIEI>  or  Worxint. 

DIED  OK  DISEASE,  ACCIUKNTH,  I.x  I'lunox,  Ac. 

Total 

Knr.  ill  IIH  ni 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  ami  Staff.  . 

• 
* 

• 
• 

I 

2 

3 

• 
• 

3 

•     • 

M 
12 

14 
II 
21 
12 
II 

7 
16 

14 

•    • 

M 
12 

14 
I  I 

22 
14 
M 
7 

16 

17 

• 
• 

I 

* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

9 
7 
6 

M 

18 

9 
7 
»5 
14 

12 

•     • 

9 

7 
7 
M 
18 

9 
7 
IS 
«4 

12 

'5 

•3' 
117 

1  20 
123 

I23 

I25 
114 

128 
149 

'3' 

C\»nin:inv  A  . 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

9 

132 

141 

I 

III 

I  12 

1,^76 

141  killed  —  ii  percent. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  502  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  73. 
BATTLES.  K.AM.W  BATTLES. 


K.&M.U. 


Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va .  v i 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va 1 1 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va i 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 

Hatcher's  Run,  March  29,  1865 i 

Gravelly  Run,  Va.,  March  31,1 865 i 

Five  Forks,  Va.,  April  i ,  1 865 i 


Shepherdstown,  Va 78 

Fredericksburg,   Va 14 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 3 

Mine   Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 6 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 1 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  18,  1864 i 

Bowling  Green,  Va i 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Antietam  ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Known  in  the  Corps  as  "  the  regiment  that  fought  at  Shepherdstown."  The  One  Hundred  and 
Eighteenth  had  been  in  service  less  than  three  weeks  when  it  marched  on  the  field  at  Antietam.  It  was  in  the 
reserves  there,  but  in  the  pursuit  succeeding  that  victory  it  was  given  a  place  in  the  advance,  and  crossed  the 
river  at  Shepherdstown  Ford,  close  upon  the  enemy's  rear.  Advancing  too  far  without  proper  support,  it  was 
attacked  at  a  disadvantage  by  overpowering  numbers,  and  forced  back  to  the  river,  where,  in  addition  to  its  pre 
vious  loss,  it  had  to  recross  the  ford  under  a  severe  fire.  Its  casualties  in  this  affair  were  63  killed,  101  wounded, 
and  105  missing  or  prisoners,  out  of  the  800,  or  thereabouts,  who  were  engaged.  Five  officers  were  killed,  and 
Colonel  Prevost  was  wounded  while  waving  the  colors  to  encourage  his  men.  This  regiment  was  raised  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Philadelphia  Corn  Exchange,  which  furnished  the  necessary  aid  and  means ;  in  addition,  it 
paid  a  bounty  of  ten  dollars  to  each  recruit.  The  One  Hundred  and  Eighteenth  was  under  a  heavy  fire  at 
Fredericksburg,  then  in  Barnes's  Brigade,  its  losses  there  amounting  to  5  killed,  56  wounded,  and  37  missing. 
At  Gettysburg,  the  division  was  commanded  by  General  Barnes,  and  the  brigade  by  Colonel  Tilton  of  the 
Twenty-second  Mass.  During  the  campaigns  of  1864-65  it  was  in  Bartlett's  (3d)  Brigade,  Griffin's  (ist) 
Division,  and  during  that  time  was  engaged  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Fifth  Corps.  It  was  mustered  out  June  ist, 
1865,  having  received  upon  its  return  a  flattering  reception  from  the  Corn  Exchange. 


294 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED   AND   NINETEENTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
RUSSELL'S  BRIGADE  —  WRIGHT'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  PETER  C.  ELLMAKER. 


(2)  COL.  GIDEON  CLARK  ;  BVT.  BBIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

3 

i 

• 
• 

i 

• 

i 
i 

•  • 

ii 

12 

15 

12 

12 
10 

M 

20 

12 

M 

2 
II 

15 

15 

13 
12 

IO 

15 
2O 

»3 

15 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    * 

6 
6 

4 

5 

12 

6 

9 
13 
4 
6 

•    • 

6 
6 

4 
6 

12 

6 

9 
13 

4 
6 

15 

"5 

121 

*35 
117 

124 

122 

118 

US 
114 

I2O 

B  

c. 

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I  , 

K  

Totals  

9 

132 

141 

I 

71 

72 

1,216 

141  killed  =  11.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  519;    died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included).  21. 


BATTLES.                                                                             K.  &M.  W 

Fredericksburg,  Va.,  April  29,  1863 i 

Salem  Church,  Va 24 

Banks's  Ford,  Va  ,  May  6,  1863 i 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va, 17 

Brandy  Station,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 1 8 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 56 

Hanover,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 4 

Opequon,   Va 7 

Petersburg,  Va 8 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 3 


Present,  also,  at  First  Fredericksburg ;  Marye's  Heights ;  Gettysburg;  Mine  Run;  Weldon  Railroad;  Fort 
Stevens ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Recruited  at  Philadelphia  in  August,  1862.  It  arrived  at  Washington,  September  ist,  and  after  a 
month's  stay  proceeded  to  Harper's  Ferry  where  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  It  was  there  assigned  to 
General  Calvin  E.  Pratt's  Brigade  of  Howe's  Division.  The  regiment  was  under  fire  at  the  first  battle  of  Fred 
ericksburg,  1862,  but  was  not  actively  engaged.  In  the  second  battle  —  May  3,  1863 — it  took  part  in  the 
engagement  at  Salem  Church,  where  it  sustained  a  loss  of  10  killed,  74  wounded,  and  38  missing,  a  total  of  122 
out  of  432  present  for  duty.  It  was  at  that  time  in  Russell's  Brigade,  Brooks's  Division.  In  the  affair  at  Rappa 
hannock  Station  the  brigade  made  a  successful  bayonet  charge,  capturing  the  works,  together  with  a  large  number 
of  prisoners,  flags,  and  cannon.  The  loss  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Nineteenth  was  7  killed,  37  wounded,  and  i 
missing ;  Colonel  Ellmaker  led  the  brigade,  General  Russell  being  in  command  of  the  division.  The  regiment 
was  hotly  engaged  at  Spotsylvania,  being  one  of  the  picked  regiments  in  Upton'S  storming  party  on  May  loth; 
on  the  1 2th  it  participated  in  the  bloody  contest  at  the  "Angle  "  where  Major  Truefit  and  Captain  Warner,  the 
regimental  commandants  were  killed.  The  loss  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania — May  5th  to  i2th — was 
231  killed  and  wounded,  out  of  about  400  effectives  that  crossed  the  Rapidan.  It  also  suffered  a  heavy  percentage 
of  loss  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  its  previous  casualties  having  left  but  few  in  line.  Early  in  the  spring  of  1863, 
the  regiment  was  transferred  to  the  Third  Brigade,  First  Division,  in  which  command  it  remained  without  further 
change.  This  division  was  commanded,  successively,  by  Generals  Brooks,  Wright,  Russell,  and  Wheaton ;  the 
brigade  by  Generals  Russell,  Eustis,  and  Edwards. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  TWENTY-FIRST    PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY. 
ROWLEY'S  BRIGADE  —  DOUBLEDAY'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


(1i  COL.  CHAPMAN  BIDDLE. 


(2)  COL.  ALEXANDER  DIDDLE. 


(3)  COL.  JAMES  8.  WAKNEH. 


COMPANIES 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOODS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS.  IN  I'UISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

• 

1 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

l 
2O 

9 

9 
10 

IO 

16 

7 
6 

IO 

6 

2 
21 

9 
IO 

IO 

10 

16 

8 
6 

10 

7 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
IO 

4 
6 

3 

7 
8 

2 

5 
9 
9 

2 
10 

4 
7 
3 

7 
8 

2 

5 
9 
9 

•7 
'05 

77 
90 

86 

95 

96 

75 

58 
100 

92 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I 

K  

Totals  

5 

104 

109 

2 

64 

66 

891 

109  killed  =  12.2  per  cent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  402  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  18. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Fredericksburg,  Va 45 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 29 

Wilderness,  Va 4 

Spotsylvania,  Va 9 

North  Anna,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.JfcM.W. 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 2 

Petersburg,  Va 6 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 8 

Five  Forks,  Va 2 

Salisbury  Prison,  N.  C i 


Present,   also,   at  Totopotomoy ;    Cold   Harbor ;    Weldon   Railroad ;    Peeble's   Farm ;    Boydton    Road ; 
Hatcher's  Run ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. —  This  gallant  little  regiment  sustained  a  heavy  loss  in  proportion  to  its  numbers.  At  no  time  did  it 
have  a  full  complement  of  men,  yet  it  distinguished  itself  on  all  occasions  by  its  efficiency.  It  was  recruited 
mostly  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  organized  there  in  September,  1862.  It  joined  McClellan's  Army  in  October, 
and  was  placed  in  McCandless's  Brigade,  Meade's  Division,  Pennsylvania  Reserves.  With  this  command  it  fought 
in  its  initiatory  battle  at  Fredericksburg,  with  a  loss  of  14  killed,  1 14  wounded,  and  10  missing  ;  total,  138.  The 
brigade,  under  Colonel  Chapman  Biddle,  was  engaged  at  Gettysburg  in  the  battle  of  the  first  day,  its  operations 
being  conspicuous  in  the  history  of  that  day.  The  regiment  marched  on  that  field  with  only  263  officers  and 
men;  of  this  number,  12  were  killed,  106  wounded,  and  61  missing  or  captured;  many  of  the  prisoners  were 
wounded  before  they  were  captured.  Upon  the  transfer  of  the  First  to  the  Fifth  Corps,  the  regiment  was  placed 
in  Roy  Stone's  Brigade,  of  Wadsworth's  Division.  It  had  received  no  recruits,  and  entered  the  spring  campaign 
of  1864  with  only  200  men.  It  fought  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Fifth  Corps,  and  in  October  the  morning  report 
showed  only  89  men  present  for  duty.  In  the  spring  of  1865  it  entered  on  the  final  campaign  in  Coulter's  (3d) 
Brigade,  Crawford's  (3d)  Division,  Fifth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Five  Forks,  and  was  present  at 
the  last  surrender. 


296 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE   HUNDRED   AND   THIRTY-NINTH   PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY. 
WHEATON'S  BRIGADE —GETTY'S  DIVISION — SIXTH  CORPS. 


COLONEL  FKEDERICK  H.  COLLIEK ;  BVT.  BKIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 
2 
I 

• 

2 
I 
I 

• 

I 

* 

•     » 

23 

16 
M 

13 

ii 

16 

10 
12 
IO 
IO 

2 

25 
17 
M 

IS 

12 

17 
10 

12 
II 
10 

2 
I 

• 

I 

* 
• 

I 

• 
t 
• 

•  • 

ii 

18 

7 
7 
3 

5 
6 

M 

7 
8 

2 
12 

18 
8 

7 

3 
6 

6 
M 

7 
8 

16 
130 
126 
116 

97 

9i 
104 

100 

101 

103 

86 

• 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  . 

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

135 

MS 

5 

86 

91 

1,070 

145  killed  =  13.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  531. 


BATTLES.                                                                            K.  &M.W. 

Fredericksburg,   Va.  (1862) i 

Fredericksburg,    Va.  ( 1 863) 17 

Gettysburg,  Pa 4 

Brandy   Station,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va.,  May  5,  1864 45 

Wilderness,  Va.,  May  6,  1864 2 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  9,  1864 2 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12,1 864 24 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  18,  1864 i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  2,  1864 6 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  3,  1864 6 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  9,  1864 i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  18,  1864 7 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  19,  1864 i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  23,  1864 i 

Fort  Stevens,  D.  C 4 

Opequon,  Va 6 

Flint's  Hill,  Va.,  Sept.  2 1,  1864 3 

Cedar   Creek,  Va 6 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March  25,  1864 4 

Fall   of  Petersburg,  Va 2 

Nov.  1864,  Place  unknown i 


Present,  also,  at  Antietam  ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Fisher's  Hill ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Appomattox. 


NOTES. — Recruited  principally  in  Pittsburg  and  its  vicinity.  It  left  the  State  September  2,  1862,  and  went 
to  Washington.  It  joined  the  army  just  before  the  battle  of  Antietam,  and  was,  soon  after,  assigned  to  Rowley's 
(3d)  Brigade,  Newton's  (3d)  Division,  Sixth  Corps.  It  was  under  fire  with  slight  loss  at  Fredericksburg,  but  in 
the  second  battle  on  that  field — 1863  —  it  was  hotly  engaged  at  Salem  Church,  where  it  lost  ii  killed,  54 
wounded,  and  ii  missing.  The  regiment  entered  upon  the  campaign  of  1864,  in  Getty's  Division,  and  at  the 
Wilderness  encountered  its  hardest  fighting;  it  lost  there  190  in  killed  and  wounded,  besides  several  who  were 
missing  ;  Major  Snyder  fell  from  his  horse,  killed  while  cheering  his  men.  At  Cold  Harbor  the  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-ninth  took  part  in  the  storming  of  the  works,  where  Lieutenant- Colonel  Moody  and  two  line  officers  were 
killed.  In  the  final  and  victorious  assault  on  the  works  at  Petersburg,  the  regiment  took  a  prominent  part,  and  the 
Color-Sergeant,  David  W.  Young,  was  one  of  three  color-bearers  in  the  army — one  in  each  corps  —  who  received 
a  congratulatory  letter  from  General  Grant,  complimenting  them  as  being  the  "  three  soldiers  most  conspicuous 
for  gallantry  in  the  final  assault."  Each  letter  was  accompanied  by  a  large  sum  of  money  which  had  been  raised 
for  that  purpose  by  patriotic  citizens. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FORTIETH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 


ZOOK'S  BRIGADE  —  CALDWELL'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COLONEL  RICHARD  P.  ROBERTS  (Killed). 


(2)  COLON  EL  JOHN  FRASKR;  BVT. 


Co*  PA  NIK*. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  Ac- 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

• 

2 

• 

I 

I 

3 
i 

• 
• 

I 

18 

«5 

25 
24 

12 

23 
19 
25 
13 
13 

2 
J9 

15 

27 

24 

13 
24 
22 

26 

13 
13 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

11 

24 

8 

12 

18 
6 

12 

9 
U 
J3 

•    • 

l  I 
24 
9 

I  2 

18 
6 

12 

9 
14 
J3 

13 
114 
126 

112 
1  08 
IOI 

116 
103 
129 
109 

IOI 

Company    *\  

B   

c 

D  

E  

F   

G 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

10 

188 

198 

I 

127 

128 

1,132 

198  killed  —  17.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  732  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  28. 


BATTLES.  K.A  M.\V. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 15 

Gettysburg,  Pa 6 1 

Mine    Run,  Va i 

Bristoe  Station,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 

Corbin's  Bridge,  Va 4 

Po  River,  Va 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 52 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Present,  also,  at  Strawberry  Plains ;  Appomattox. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Totopotomoy,  Va i  o 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 8 

Petersburg,  Va 14 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 5 

Ream's   Station,  Va i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 4 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va i 

Farmville,  Va 5 


NOTES.— The  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  sustained  the  greatest  percentage  of  loss  in  action  of  any  regiment 
from  Pennsylvania.  It  was  recruited  in  the  western  counties,  and  left  the  State  September  10,  1862.  It  was 
stationed  awhile  in  Maryland,  and  during  the  following  winter  it  occupied  quarters  at  Falmouth,  Va.,  having  been 
assigned  to  Zook's  (3d)  Brigade,  Hancock's  (ist)  Division.  On  April  28,  1863,  it  broke  camp  to  march  to 
Chancellorsville.  In  that,  its  first  battle,  it  lost  7  killed,  28  wounded,  and  9  missing.  General  Caldwell,  who 
succeeded  Hancock,  commanded  the  division  at  Gettysburg.  Arriving  on  that  field,  the  division  moved  into  the 
"  whirling  vortex  "  of  death  in  the  wheat-field  where  it  stubbornly  contested  the  Confederate  advance  until  half 
the  division  lay  dead  or  wounded  on  the  field.  General  Zook  was  killed  ;  Colonel  Roberts,  who  succeeded  him 
in  command  of  the  brigade,  also  fell  dead.  The  loss  of  the  regiment  was  37  killed,  144  wounded,  and  60  miss 
ing  ;  a  total  of  241  out  of  the  589  who  were  engaged.  Desperate  as  the  fighting  had  been  at  Gettysburg,  the 
regiment  encountered  at  Spotsylvania  an  equally  heavy  loss,  and  with  less  men  in  line.  It  was  engaged  in  Han 
cock's  grand  charge  on  May  1 2th,  and  in  all  the  other  actions  of  the  Second  Corps  about  Spotsylvania,  its  losses 
there  amounting  to  34  killed,  126  wounded,  and  9  missing.  General  Miles  commanded  the  division  at  Farm 
ville,  where  the  Second  Corps  and  the  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  fought  their  last  battle.  In  this  final  engage 
ment  the  regiment  met  with  a  severe  loss  ;  two  officers  were  among  the  killed,  falling  with  the  goal  of  a  safe 
return  full  in  sight. 


298 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND   FORTY-FIRST   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
GRAHAM'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


COLONEL  HENKY  J.  MADILL  ;  BVT.  MAJOK-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

• 
* 

I 
12 

J5 
15 
13 

12 
2O 

19 

I  I 

*9 

24 

3 

J3 

15 
16 

13 

12 
20 
2O 
12 

J9 

24 

2 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

•    • 

8 
3 

10 
10 

14 
6 

2 

7 

5 
ii 

2 
8 

3 

10 
10 

M 
6 

2 

7 
5 

12 

16 
116 

IOI 

98 

IOO 

95 
97 

IOI 
112 
IOO 
IOI 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I  . 

K  

6 

161 

167 

3 

76 

79 

*,°37 

167  killed  =  16.  i  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  died  of  wounds,  616. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Fredericksburg,  Va 2 

Chancellorsville,  Va 62 

Gettysburg,  Pa 49 

Auburn  Va 4 

Mine   Run,  Va . . 4 

Wilderness,  Va 16 

Spotsylvania,  Va 9 

North  Anna,  Va 3 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Petersburg  Assault 5 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va i 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 

Deep    Bottom,  Va i 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Oct.  2,  1864 2 

Boydton  Road,  Va 3 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March    25 i 


Present,  also,  at  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Totopotomoy ;  Cold  Harbor ;  Strawberry  Plains ;  Sailor's  Creek ;  Farmville  ; 
Appomattox. 


NOTES. — Seven  companies  were  recruited  in  Bradford  County,  two  in  Susquehanna,  and  one  in  Wayne.  It 
left  Harrisburg,  August  30,  1862,  and  active  service  commenced  at  once.  It  was  assigned  to  Robinson's  (ist) 
Brigade,  Birney's  (ist)  Division,  Third  Corps,  in  which  it  fought  at  Fredericksburg,  where  it  was  engaged  mostly 
as  a  battery  support.  At  Chancellorsville  it  charged  the  advancing  lines  of  the  enemy,  holding  them  in  check 
until  nearly  surrounded,  when  it  retired  slowly  and  in  good  order;  its  losses  were  23  killed,  152  wounded,  and 
60  missing;  total,  235  out  of  419  in  action.  Its  ranks  were  so  reduced  by  death,  wounds  and  sickness,  that  only 
198  answered  to  the  morning  roll-call  as  it  stood  in  line,  ready  to  enter  the  batde  of  Gettysburg.  It  fought 
there  in  the  Peach  Orchard,  losing  25  killed,  103  wounded,  and  21  missing,  a  terrible  percentage;  Major  Israel 
P.  Spaulding  was  mortally  wounded  in  that  battle.  In  1864,  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-first,  with  its  division, 
was  transferred  to  the  Second  Corps,  General  Birney  retaining  command  of  the  division.  Though  small  in  num 
bers,  the  regiment  took  a  gallant  part  in  all  the  subsequent  battles  of  the  Second  Corps,  its  losses  being  severe 
in  proportion  to  its  strength.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Guy  H.  Watkins,  an  intrepid  and  skillful  officer,  was  killed 
while  leading  his  men  in  the  assault  at  Petersburg,  June  18,  1864. 


TmtEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FORTY- SECOND  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 

ROWI.KY'S  r>Ki«;\i>K    -  DOUBLEDAY'S  DIVISION -- FIRST  CORPS. 

(1)  Cou  ROBERT  P.  CUMMINS  (Killed).  (8)  COL.  ALFRED  B.  Mct'ALMONT;  BVT.  Buio.-GiN. 

(3)  COL.  HORATIO  N.  WARREN. 


CUMI-AME8. 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  or  WIU-MW. 

DIKD  or  DIMEAMK,  ACCIDENTM,  IN  I'UISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 

2 

• 

i 

I 
IO 

!9 

1  1 

'3 

i? 

10 

22 

J3 
15 
17 

3 
10 

20 
I  I 

'3 

18 

10 

22 

15 
15 

18 

• 
• 

* 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

8 

3 
9 

9 

8 

7 
9 
7 
6 

6 

•    • 

8 

3 
9 

9 
8 

7 
9 
7 
6 

6 

15 

86 

97 

88 

84 
92 

97 
94 
89 

IOI 

92 

B  

C  , 

D  . 

E  

F  . 

G  .              

H  . 

T 

K  

Totals 

7 

148 

'55 

• 

72 

72 

935 

155  killed  —  16.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  566  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  20. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 66 

Picket,  Va.,  Feb.  21,  1863 i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 49 

Catlett's  Station,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 12 

Spotsylvania,  Va 9 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

North  Anna,  Va 4 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va 3 

Boydton  Road,  Va 2 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 5 

Five  Forks,  Va 2 


Present,  also,  at  Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing ;  Chancellorsville  •  Mine  Run  •  Totopotomoy ;  Weldon  Railroad  ; 
Peeble's  Farm  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  It  took  the  field  in  September,  1862,  and  was  attached  soon  after  to  the  Second  Brigade,  Meade's 
Division,  Pennsylvania  Reserves,  First  Corps.  It  marched  with  them  to  Fredericksburg,  taking  part  in  their 
gallant  but  unsuccessful  battle  on  that  field;  it  went  into  action  550  strong,  losing  16  killed,  182  wounded,  and 
45  missing  ;  many  of  the  latter  are  missing  yet,  all  of  them  having  been  left  on  the  field,  dead  or  badly  wounded  ; 
Major  John  Bradley  was  mortally  wonnded  in  that  action.  The  Reserves  were  withdrawn  from  the  field  in  Feb 
ruary,  1863,  on  account  of  their  severe  losses,  whereupon  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-second  was  assigned  to 
Rowley's  (ist)  Brigade,  Doubleday's  (3d)  Division.  At  Gettysburg,  the  First  Corps  opened  the  battle  and  did 
some  of  the  best  fighting  on  that  famous  field.  The  One  Hundred  and  Forty-second  held  a  position  in  the  front 
line  and  on  the  left,  where  it  received  a  hot  fire  ;  its  loss  was  13  killed,  128  wounded,  and  70  missing ;  total,  211, 
nearly  all  of  whom  fell  in  the  first  day's  battle,  Colonel  Cummins  being  among  the  killed.  In  April,  1864, 
Colonel  McCalmont,  an  officer  of  superior  merit,  was  detailed  on  special  duty  ;  he  subsequently  became  Colonel 
of  the  Two  Hundred  and  Eighth,  and  was  placed  in  command  of  a  brigade.  He  was  succeeded  by  Major 
Warren,  who  led  the  regiment  in  all  the  subsequent  battles  of  the  Fifth  Corps,  to  which  it  was  transferred  in  April, 
1864.  On  joining  the  Fifth  Corps,  it  was  assigned  to  Stone's  (3d)  Brigade,  of  Wadsworth's  (4th)  Division,  a  division 
composed  entirely  of  First  Corps  veterans.  The  regiment  served  also  in  Chamberlain's  (ist)  Brigade  of  Griffin's 
(ist)  Division,  and  again  in  Crawford's  (3d)  Division,  Fifth  Corps. 


300 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE   HUNDRED   AND   FOETY- THIRD   PENNSYLVANIA   INFANTRY. 
STONE'S  BRIGADE  —  DOUBLEDAY'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


COLONEL  EDMUND  L.  DANA  ;  BVT.  BBIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIB 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

I 

• 

I 
I 
I 

• 

I 
I 

I 

• 

•    • 

13 
13 
14 
12 

22 

19 
12 

9 
II 

18 

I 
M 

J3 
J5 
13 

23 
J9 

J3 
10 

12 

18 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

•  • 

6 

24 

9 

10 

*5 

24 

20 
19 

18 

5 

I 
6 
24 

9 
10 

i5 

24 

20 

J9 
*9 

5 

16 

*43 
181 

J31 

'S2 

J57 
130 

J51 

M3 

141 

146 

Company  A  

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

8 

M3 

J5J 

2 

*5° 

152 

1,491 

151  killed=io.i  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed    and  wounded,  558  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  49. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Gettysburg,  Pa 42 

Wilderness,  Va 57 

Laurel   Hill,  Va.,  May  9 4 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  10 12 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  8-1 8 4 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

North  Anna,  Va 7 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 3 

Petersburg,  Va 12 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va.,  Feb.  5,  1865 9 


Present,  also,  at  Chancellorsville  ;  Totopotomoy ;  Bethesda  Church  ;  Boydton  Road. 


NOTES. — Recruited  principally  in  Luzerne  County,  in  October,  1862.  It  arrived  at  Washington  in  November, 
where  it  remained  on  light  duty  until  February,  1863  ;  it  was  then  ordered  to  the  front  and  assigned  to  Colonel 
Roy  Stone's  Brigade,  Doubleday's  Division,  First  Corps.  Although  present  at  Chancellorsville,  it  did  its  first  fight 
ing  at  Gettysburg.  There  it  encountered  hot  work  in  the  battle  of  the  first  day,  where,  out  of  465  present,  it  lost 
13  killed,  128  wounded,  and  70  missing;  many  of  the  latter,  as  afterward  ascertained,  were  killed.  When  the 
brigade  was  ordered  to  retire  the  color-sergeant  refused  to  leave  until  it  was  too  late,  and  fell  dead  while  defi 
antly  waving  his  colors  in  the  face  of  the  advancing  enemy ;  the  flag,  however,  was  not  lost,  but  was  carried 
safely  from  the  field.  In  September,  363  recruits  were  received,  which  brought  its  effective  strength  up  to  500 
muskets  or  more.  On  May  3d,  1864,11  started  on  the  Wilderness  campaign,  then  in  Wadsworth's  (4th)  Division 
(afterwards  Cutler's),  Fifth  Corps,  with  Colonel  Roy  Stone  still  in  command  of  the  brigade.  At  the  Wilderness, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  John  D.  Musser  was  killed,  and  the  regiment  lost  23  killed,  136  wounded,  and  61  captured  or 
missing;  two  days  later  it  was  engaged  at  Spotsylvania,  where  its  losses  aggregated  16  killed,  54  wounded,  and 
3  missing.  The  regiment  fought  its  last  battle  at  Hatcher's  Run  —  Dabney's  Mills  —  and  in  February,  1865, 
was  ordered  on  guard  duty  at  Hart's  Island,  in  New  York  harbor,  where  it  remained  until  June  12,  1865,  when 
it  was  mustered  out  While  in  the  Fifth  Corps  the  regiment  served,  also,  in  Griffin's  (ist)  Division,  and  in 
Crawford's  (y\)  Division,  and  the  brigade  was  commanded  successively  by  General  Edward  S.  Bragg,  General 
Joshua  L.  Chamberlain,  Colonel  J.  W.  Hoffman,  and  other  distinguished  officers. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  KEGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FORTY-FIFTH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
BROOKE'S  BRIGADE -- HANCOCK'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HIRAM  L.  BROWN  ;  BVT.  BRIO.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  DAVID  B.  McCREAKY  :  BVT.  BRIO.-GEN. 


COM  PAN  I  EH. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  Worxus. 

DIED  OP  DIHKASE,  A<X-IDENTS,  IN  Pmsox,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

2 

* 

. 

3 
3 

• 

2 
I 

3 
3 

•    • 

16 
1  1 

'3 
3° 

2^ 

18 

22 
21 

18 
1  1 

I 

18 

II 

'3 
33 
3° 
18 

24 

22 
21 
14 

• 
• 

1 
1 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

20 

23 
2O 

'7 

22 

3' 
34 
16 

'5 
16 

*    • 

2O 

24 
21 

!? 
22 

31 

35 
16 

'5 
16 

15 
181 

138 
140 

'51 

144 

"5 
'65 
140 

121 

146 

B  

c 

D  

E  

•F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

18 

187 

205 

3 

214 

217 

MS6 

205  killed  —  14.1  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  651  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  q8. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W 

Fredericksburg,  Va 91 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3 

Gettysburg,  Pa 27 

Auburn,  Va }   2 

Bristoe  Station,  Va. )   5 

Spotsylvania,  Va 40 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 14 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 9 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 3 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March   25,  1865 2 

Sutherland  Station,  Va 2 


Present,  also,  at  Antietam  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Wilderness ;  ?o  River ;  North  Anna ;  Strawberry  Plains ;  Ream's 
Station  ;  White  Oak  Road  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Six  companies  were  recruited  in  Erie  County  ;  the  others,  in  Western  Pennsylvania.  Colonel  Brown 
had  already  served  with  distinction  in  the  Eighty-third  Pennsylvania.  The  regiment  left  the  State  September  1 2th, 
arriving  five  days  later  on  the  field  at  Antietam.  While  at  Harper's  Ferry  it  was  assigned  to  Caldwell's  (ist) 
Brigade,  Hancock's  (ist)  Division,  Second  Corps.  At  Fredericksburg  it  took  eight  companies  into  action,  two 
companies  having  been  detailed  on  the  skirmish  line.  The  eight  companies  lost  34  killed,  152  wounded,  and  43 
missing;  a  total  of  229  out  of  505  in  action;  the  missing  ones  were  wounded  or  killed.  Nine  of  the  line 
officers  lost  their  lives  in  this  bloody  assault,  and  Colonel  Brown  received  a  serious  wound.  At  Chancellorsville, 
Major  John  W.  Patton  was  mortally  wounded,  and  1 12  of  the  men  were  captured  at  an  outpost,  having  been  left 
behind  by  the  retreating  army.  The  regiment  fought  at  Gettysburg  in  the  Fourth  Brigade  (Brooke's),  taking 
part  in  the  famous  contest  in  the  wheat  field,  where,  with  about  200  men  in  line,  its  casualties  amounted  to  10 
killed,  66  wounded,  and  8  missing.  During  the  winter  of  1863-4  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-fifth  occupied  a 
camp,  well-built,  which  combined  a  neat,  tasteful  appearance  with  substantial  warmth  and  comfort.  Fresh 
recruits  were  received  and  drilled,  and  it  took  the  field  in  May,  1864,  in  efficient  condition.  A  large  number  of 
the  men  were  captured  at  Petersburg  in  June,  1864,  which  with  previous  losses  left  but  few  in  line  at  the  subse 
quent  actions  in  which  the  Division  was  engaged.  Its  casualties  at  Spotsylvania  were  23  killed,  103  wounded, 
and  46  captured  or  missing. 


302 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE    HUNDRED   AND   FORTY-EIGHTH    PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
BROOKE'S  BRIGADE  —  BARLOW'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


COLONEL  JAMES  A.  BEAVER;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 

• 

7 

• 
• 
• 
• 
2 
I 
I 

•    • 

15 
14 
28 
29 
M 
I? 

J9 

24 

!9 

*9 

•    » 

16 
i4 

35 
29 

14 
i7 

*9 
26 

20 
20 

I 
I 

• 
• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

J9 

3° 
ii 

18 

25 
13 

10 

18 
19 

20 

I 

2O 

3° 
ii 

20 
25 

J3 
10 

18 
J9 

20 

14 
141 
I30 

133 
148 
122 
121 
117 
141 
132 

135 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

12 

198 

2IO 

4 

I83 

I87 

i»339 

210  killed  =  15.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  769;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  62. 


ATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 48 

Gettysburg,  Pa 31 

Wilderness,  Va i 

Po  River,  Va.,  May  10 37 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12 29 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  16 i 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 14 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 5 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 1 1 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 5 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 8 

Ream's   Station,  Va 6 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 2 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 7 

Farmville,  Va 2 


Prison  guard,  Salisbury,  N.  C i 

Present,  also,  at  Bristoe  Station  ;  Mine  Run  ;  North  Anna ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Sutherland  Station ;  Appo- 
mattox. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Harrisburg,  in  September,  1862,  seven  of  the  companies  having  been  recruited  in 
Centre  County.  At  the  request  of  the  line  officers,  James  A.  Beaver,  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Forty-fifth 
Pennsylvania,  was  appointed  Colonel.  After  three  months  of  service  in  Maryland,  it  joined  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac,  and  was  assigned  to  Caldwell's  (ist)  Brigade,  Hancock's  (ist)  Division,  Second  Corps;  it  remained  in 
this  division  (First)  during  its  entire  service.  Its  first  battle  occurred  at  Chancellorsville,  where  it  lost  31  killed, 
1 19  wounded,  and  14  missing,  Colonel  Beaver  being  among  the  severely  wounded.  General  Caldwell  com 
manded  the  division  at  Gettysburg,  and  Colonel  Cross  (Fifth  New  Hampshire),  the  brigade;  the  loss  of  the 
regiment  was  19  killed,  101  wounded,  and  5  missing.  It  went  into  winter  quarters  (1863-4)  near  Stevensburg, 
Va.,  receiving  in  the  meanwhile  283  conscripts  and  120  recruits,  a  needed  accession.  It  was  prominently 
engaged  at  Po  River  and  Spotsylvania,  where  it  lost  33  killed,  235  wounded,  and  33  missing;  total,  301, 
the  greatest  loss  of  any  infantry  regiment  at  Spotsylvania.  Colonel  Beaver,  while  in  command  of  a  brigade, 
was  severely  wounded  at  Petersburg,  June  16, 1864.  He  rejoined  his  regiment  just  as  it  was  entering  the  fight  at 
Ream's  Station,  where  he  was  again  wounded,  and  suffered  amputation  of  a  leg.  In  September,  1864,  the  War 
Department  ordered  that  one  regiment  in  each  division  be  armed  with  breech-loading  rifles  ;  the  One  Hundred 
and  Forty-eighth  was  selected  by  General  Hancock  as  the  deserving  one  in  its  division  to  be  thus  armed. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


303 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FORTY-NINTH  PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
STONE'S  BRIGADE  —  DOUBLED  AY'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ROY  STONE ;  BVT.  Buio.-G«u. 


(2)  COL.  WALTON  DWIGHT. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  IKWIN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  of  DISEASE,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  PKISON.  «tc. 

Total 
Knrollmetit. 

officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 
I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

I 

• 

•    • 

16 
20 

16 
18 

'3 
16 

ii 

*7 
20 

13 

•    • 

'7 
21 

16 

18 

13 
16 

ii 
18 

21 
13 

. 
« 
. 
. 
. 
. 
. 

. 
• 
. 

•    • 

IO 

16 

14 
16 

21 

1? 
24 

18 
16 

20 

•    • 

IO 

16 

14 
16 

21 

17 
24 

18 
16 

20 

'7 

"34 
146 
136 

125 

'35 
144 

1S1 
144 

'59 
163 

(  ^ornn.inv  A  • 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

4 

1  60 

164 

. 

172 

172 

i,454 

164  killed «—  1 1. 2  per  cent. 

Total   killed   and    wounded,   613  ;   died    in    Confederate    prisons  (previously   included),   60 ; 
included  with  the  killed,  22. 


missing  in  action 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 66 

Wilderness,  Va 42 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  8 10 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  9,  1864 i 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  10,  1864 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  1 1,  1864 i 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12,  1864 3 

North  Anna,  Va 9 

Present,  also,  at  Totopotomoy  ;  Hatcher's  Run. 


BATTLES.  K.AM.W 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 4 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 6 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 3 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  Dec.  8,  1864 i 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va i 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 2 


NOTES. — The  One  Hundred  and  Forty-ninth  and  its  companion  regiment,  the  One  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  of 
the  same  brigade,  were  also  known  as  "Bucktail "  regiments,  each  man  wearing  a  bucktail  in  his  cap  in  imitation 
of  the  famous  regiment  in  the  Pennsylvania  Reserves.  The  men  were  recruited  in  August,  1862,  from  the  forests 
and  mountain  districts  of  the  State,  and  proved  worthy  of  their  adopted  name.  Roy  Stone,  Major  of  the  original 
Bucktails,  and  an  officer  of  more  than  ordinary  ability,  was  appointed  Colonel.  He  was,  soon  after,  given  a 
brigade  of  Pennsylvania  troops  which  included  the  two  new  Bucktail  regiments.  The  brigade  was  only  slightly 
engaged  at  Chancellorsville,  but  at  Gettysburg  it  took  a  meritorious  part  in  the  battle  of  the  first  day.  It  was 
then  in  Doubleday's  (3d)  Division,  First  Corps  ;  its  casualties  on  that  field  were  66  killed  and  mortally  wounded, 
159  wounded,  and  in  captured  or  missing;  total,  336.  Colonel  Stone  being  in  command  of  the  brigade  at 
Gettysburg,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Walton  Dwight  led  the  regiment ;  both  fell  severely  wounded.  In  1864,  Stone's 
brigade  formed  a  part  of  Wadsworth's  Division,  Fifth  Corps.  In  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness  May  5,  1864,  the 
regiment  lost  ii  killed,  109  wounded,  and  95  captured  or  missing;  and  at  Spotsylvania,  12  killed,  84  wounded, 
and  3  missing  ;  many  of  the  missing  never  returned.  In  February,  1865,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Elmira, 
where  it  remained  on  duty  at  the  prison  camp  until  the  close  of  the  war. 


304 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND   FIFTIETH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
STONE'S  BRIGADE  —  DOUBLED  AY'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  LANGHORNE  WISTER;  BVT.  BRIO.  GEN 


(2)  COL.  HENRY  S.  HUIDEKOPER. 


(3)  COL.  GEORGE  W.  JONES. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

• 
• 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

.  . 
13 

5 

9 
ii 
ii 

13 
16 
16 

M 

•  * 

•    • 

13 

7 
9 

12 
II 

13 
I? 

16 
i4 

•  t 

• 
• 
I 

• 
* 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

8 
1  1 

14 
6 

9 
4 
ii 

12 
12 

7 

•    • 

8 

12 
14 

6 

9 
4 
ii 

12 
12 

7 

16 

95 
8? 

122 

94 

95 
88 

90 

JI3 
95 
"3 

B  . 

C  . 

D. 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H. 

T  , 

K. 

Totals  

4 

1  08 

112 

I 

94 

95 

i,  008 

112  killed  =  12.5  per  cent.* 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  431  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  38. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Gettysburg,  Pa 57 

Wilderness,  Va.,  May  5 14 

Wilderness,  Va.,  May  6 8 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May    8 5 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  10 6 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12 4 


North  Anna,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va 8 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va i 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va i 

Dabney's    Mills,  Va 5 


Present,  also,  at  Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing ;  Chancellorsville  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Cold  Harbor. 


NOTES. —  Organized  in  September,  1862,  as  one  of  the  regiments  for  Roy  Stone's  Bucktail  Brigade.  Lang- 
horne  Wister,  an  officer  in  the  old  Bucktails,  was  appointed  Colonel.  Upon  its  arrival  at  Washington  the  regi 
ment  was  ordered  on  guard  duty  in  and  about  the  city.  Company  K  was  stationed  at  the  Soldier's  Home,  Mr. 
Lincoln's  summer  residence,  where  it  remained  on  duty  as  a  body-guard  to  the  President  during  its  entire  term 
of  service,  the  One  Hundred  and  Fiftieth,  consequently,  taking  only  nine  companies  to  the  field ;  its  percentage 
of  killed  was  far  above  the  average,  although  the  number  killed  was  not  numerically  large.  At  Gettysburg  the 
regiment  took  417  officers  and  men  into  action,  losing  29  killed,  151  wounded,  and  84  missing;  total,  264. 
Both  Wister  and  Huidekoper  were  severely  wounded  in  that  battle,  the  latter  losing  an  arm  ;  the  regiment  was 
in  Stone's  Brigade  of  Doubleday's  Division,  and  fought  on  the  Chambersburg  Pike  in  the  first  day's  battle ;  it 
was  ably  handled  by  its  field  officers,  and  rendered  good  service.  Stone's  Brigade  was  transferred  in  1864  to  the 
Fifth  Corps,  and  placed  in  Wadsworth's  (4th)  Division.  In  June  it  was  transferred  to  Griffin's  (ist)  Division. 
Col.  Stone  was  disabled  in  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  and  was  succeeded  in  his  command  of  the  brigade  by 
General  Bragg  of  Wisconsin,  an  able  and  gallant  officer  of  the  famous  Iron  Brigade.  The  One  Hundred  and 
Fiftieth  fought  its  last  battle  on  February  5,  1865,  at  Dabney's  Mills.  It  was  then  ordered  to  Elmira,  in  company 
with  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-ninth,  where  it  performed  guard  duty  at  the  prison  camp  until  mustered  out. 

*Not  including  Company  K,  which  was  on  detached  duty  during  the  entire  service. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FIFTY-FIFTH   PENNSYLVANIA    INFANTRY. 

AYKES'S  BRIGADE -- GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION-    1  n  in  ('OKI'S. 


(l)CoL.  EDWAKU  J.  ALLEN. 


(8)  COL.  JOHN  II.  CAIN. 


(8)  COL.  ALFKEU  L.  PEAKSON;  BVT.  MAJOK-OEN. 


COMPANIES 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDH. 

DIED  of  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 
• 

2 

• 
• 

I 

• 
* 

2 

• 

•     • 

8 

'3 
1  1 

8 
16 

J3 

'5 

16 

25 

12 

•    • 

8 

13 

'3 

8 
16 
M 

15 
16 

27 

12 

• 
• 

• 
• 

l 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

7 
1  1 

9 
6 

12 
I  I 

»5 

'7 
6 

'7 

•    • 

7 
1  1 

9 
6 

J3 

1  1 

'5 

17 
6 

i? 

17 
'57 
<56 
MS 

137 
148 

158 
164 

142 

'55 
144 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I 

K 

Totals  

5 

137 

142 

I 

ii  i 

I  12 

i.5a3 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  519  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  lo. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Fredericksburg,    Va 21 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3 

Gettysburg,  Pa 7 

Wilderness,  Va 14 

Spotsylvania,  Va 18 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 2 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 26 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va 8 

Boydton  Road,  Va 4 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 9 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March    25,  1 865 3 

Quaker  Road,  Va 3 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 4 

Five  Forks,  Va 9 

Appomattox,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Antietam  ;  Shepherdstown  ;  Rappahannock  Station  :  Mine  Run  ;  Bethesda  Church  ;  Weldon 
Railroad. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  at  Pittsburg  and  vicinity  in  August,  1862,  in  response  to  the  President's  second  call  for 
troops.  It  arrived  at  Washington  in  September,  and  was  assigned  to  Allabach's  (2(1)  Brigade,  Humphreys's  (3d) 
Division,  Fifth  Corps.  It  was  engaged  in  Humphreys's  bloody  assault  on  Marye's  Heights,  where  it  lost  6  killed, 
58  wounded,  and  4  missing ;  the  other  regiments  of  the  brigade  suffered  an  unusually  severe  loss.  Upon  the 
muster-out  of  the  other  regiments  in  the  brigade  (nine  months  men),  which  occurred  soon  after  Chancellorsville, 
the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-fifth  was  placed  in  Weed's  (3d)  Brigade,  Ayres's  (2d)  Division.  General  Weed  was 
killed  at  Gettysburg,  on  Little  Round  Top,  while  seizing  that  position  with  his  brigade.  In  1864,  the  regiment 
was  in  Ayres's  (ist)  Brigade,  Griffin's  (ist)  Division.  It  was  known  as  the  Regular  Brigade,  as  the  Regulars 
were  at  that  time  massed  in  this  one  brigade.  The  regiment  took  a  prominent  part  in  all  the  battles  of  the 
Fifth  Corps  in  1864-5,  and  distinguished  itself  particularly  at  the  assault  on  Petersburg,  at  Peeble's  Farm,  and  at 
the  Quaker  Road.  Colonel  Pearson,  who  was  in  command  of  the  brigade  part  of  the  time,  was  twice  brevetted 
for  gallantry,  while  the  regiment  received  complimentary  notice  from  headquarters.  In  the  final  campaign  the 
One  Hundred  and  Fifty-fifth  was  in  Bartlett's  (3(1)  Brigade  of  the  same  division.  It  was  in  line  at  Appomattox, 
and  was  pressing  the  enemy  when  the  token  of  surrender  was  displayed. 
20 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND  EIGHTY-EIGHTH   PENNSYLVANIA  INFANTRY. 
BURNHAM'S  BRIGADE  —  BROOKS'S  DIVISION  —  EIGHTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  K.  BOWEN. 

(2)  COL.  JOHN  G.  GREGG. 


(3)  COL.  JAMES  C.  BRISCOE  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(4)  COL.  SAMUEL  I.  GIVEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS.  IN  PRISON,  <fcc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

I 

3 
i 

2 

I 
T 
I 

• 

•    • 

2O 
IO 
IO 

13 
13 

5 
5 

22 
IO 

6 

20 
I  I 

*3 

J3 

14 

7 
6 

23 
1  1 

6 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
t 

I 

* 
• 

• 

4 
6 

7 
7 
7 
6 

9 

8 

5 

7 

• 

4 
6 

7 
8 

7 
6 

9 
9 

5 
7 

J3 
126 

122 
112 

T34 

T33 
1  20 

I05 
117 

106 
"3 

B  . 

C  . 

D. 

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

114 

124 

2 

66 

68 

I,2OI 

124  killed  =  10.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  456. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Proctor's  Creek,  Va.,  May  n 2 

Proctor's  Creek,  Va. ,  May  13 i 

Fort   Darling,  Va.,  May  14 2 

Fort    Darling,  Va.,  May  15 i 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va.,  May  16 25 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  i 13 

Cold   Harbor,  Va.,  June  2 6 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  3 33 

Cold  Harbor  Trenches,  Va 3 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 3 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 2 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 1 6 

Fort  Harrison,  Va.,  Sept.  29 14 

Chaffin's    Farm,  Va.,  Sept.  30 3 


Present,  also,  at  Fair  Oaks  (1864)  ;  Fall  of  Richmond. 


NOTES. — The  One  Hundred  and  Eighty-eighth  was  organized  in  April,  1864,  from  the  surplus  members  of 
the  Third  Pennsylvania  Heavy  Artillery.  It  took  the  field  immediately  with  about  900  men,  a  large  proportion  of 
whom  were  veterans  who  had  served  in  other  regiments.  After  the  war  had  ended,  its  enrollment  was  increased 
by  an  accession  of  men  from  the  One  Hundred  and  Ninety-ninth  Pennsylvania,  which  had  been  mustered  out, 
and  its  recruits  turned  over  to  the  One  Hundred  and  Eighty-eighth.  The  losses  in  action  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Eighty-eighth  fell  entirely  on  its  original  members,  its  actual  percentage  of  killed  being  consequently  much 
larger  than  indicated  above.  The  regiment  left  Fort  Monroe,  where  it  was  organized, —  the  Third  Artillery 
being  there  on  garrison  duty, —  and  joined  the  Army  of  the  James  at  Yorktown  in  April,  1864,  just  prior  to  its 
departure  for  Bermuda  Hundred.  Fighting  commenced  immediately  on  its  arrival  there,  and  at  Drewry's 
Bluff,  a  battle  fought  in  a  dense  fog,  the  regiment  was  engaged  in  a  severe  contest.  Two  weeks  later,  the 
Eighteenth  Corps  was  moved  by  transports  to  White  House  Landing  on  the  York,  from  whence  it  marched  to 
Cold  Harbor,  where  it  participated  in  the  ill-advised  and  disastrous  assaults  at  that  place,  losing  19  killed,  144 
wounded,  and  8  missing ;  five  officers  were  among  the  killed.  At  Fort  Harrison  the  regiment,  then  in  Stan- 
nard's  Division,  took  part  in  that  gallant  and  successful  assault.  In  December,  the  Corps  having  been  discon 
tinued,  it  was  assigned  to  Roberts's  (3d)  Brigade,  Devens's  (3d)  Division,  Twenty-fourth  Corps.  It  was  mustered 
out  on  December  14,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


;u>7 


FIRST  DELAWARE  INFANTRY. 
CARROLL'S  BRIGADE --GIBBON'S  DIVISION — SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  W.  ANDREWS. 


(2)  COL.  THOMAS  A.  SMYTH  ;  BVT.  MAJ.-GEN.  (Klllod). 
(3)  COL.  DANIEL  WOODALL  ;  BVT.  BKIU.-GKN. 


COM  PA  MEM. 

KILLED  ANI>  DIED  OF  WOVNIM. 

DIED  or  DINEABE,  ACCIDKNTM,  IN  PIUHON,  &c. 

Total 
Knrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  anil  Staff  

2 

2 
2 
I 
I 

• 

I 
I 
I 
I 

• 

•    • 

20 

1? 
15 

18 
1  1 
16 

15 
1  1 

12 
I  I 

2 
22 

'9 
16 

*9 
1  1 

*7 
16 

12 

13 
II 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 
8 
1  1 

'3 
!3 

15 

*5 

12 

'3 
10 

8 

•    • 

9 

1  1 

13 
13 
16 
16 

12 

'3 
10 

8 

16 
249 

'74 
197 

196 
228 
214 
214 
206 
179 
189 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

12 

146 

'58 

3 

118 

121 

2,062 

Of  the  1,000  originally  enrolled,  142  were  killed  --  14.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  578  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  24. 


BATTLES.  K.  A  M.W. 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 8 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 

Deep  Bottom,  Va i 

Ream's  Station,  Va 2 

Boydton  Road,  Va 2 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va i 

H  igh  Bridge,  Va 5 


BATTLES.  K.  A  M.W. 

Antietam,  Md 56 

Fredericksburg,  Va 22 

Chancellorsville,  Va 9 

Gettysburg,  Pa 13 

Bristoe  Station,  Va i 

Mine   Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 20 

Spotsylvania,  Va 10 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Auburn  ;  Morton's  Ford  ;  Po  River ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Volunteered  originally  in  the  three  months  service  in  the  beginning  of  the  war,  and,  at  the  expira 
tion  of  that  term,  was  reorganized  as  a  three  years  regiment.  It  rei>nlisted  in  1864,  the  first  regiment  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  to  do  so.  Leaving  its  State,  October  20,  1861,  it  proceeded  by  steamer  to  Fort  Monroe, 
where  it  remained  encamped  until  May,  1862,  when  it  was  ordered  to  Norfolk  on  provost  duty,  and  thence,  after 
two  months,  to  Suffolk.  In  September  it  joined  McClellan's  army,  then  in  Maryland,  and  was  placed  in  Max 
Weber's  (3d)  Brigade,  French's  (3d)  Division,  Second  Corps.  The  regiment  was  engaged  at  Antietam,  where, 
in  its  first  battle,  it  acquitted  itself  with  honor;  its  casualties  on  that  bloody  field  amounted  to  31  killed,  182 
wounded,  and  17  missing;  a  total  of  230  out  of  650 engaged.  Colonel  Andrews  led  the  brigade  at  Fredericks- 
burg,  and  Major  Smyth,  the  regiment ;  its  loss  in  that  battle  was  10  killed,  74  wounded,  and  9  missing.  At  Get 
tysburg,  the  regiment  was  in  the  Second  Brigade ;  Colonel  Smyth  commanded  the  brigade,  and  General  Alex- 
Hays  the  division.  Smyth's  men  contributed  materially  to  the  repulse  of  Pickett's  charge  ;  they  were  in 
a  position  behind  a  low,  heavy  stone  wall,  but,  disdaining  its  shelter,  rose  to  their  feet  to  meet  the  charge, 
and  fired  with  coolness  and  accuracy ;  the  men  in  the  rear  rank  had  accumulated  a  supply  of  extra  rifles,  already 
loaded,  which  they  passed  to  the  front  rank  as  fast  as  they  could  be  fired.  The  loss  there  was  10  killed,  54 
wounded,  and  13  missing.  Smyth  was  promoted  Brigadier,  and  was  killed  at  Farmville,  in  the  last  battle  of  his 
Corps. 


308 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIEST   MARYLAND   INFANTRY. 


DENNISON'S  BRIGADE  —  ROBINSON'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  R.  KENLY  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN 

(2)  COL.  NATHAN  T.  DUSHANE  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  W.  WILSON  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  DAVID  L.  STANTON ;  BVT.  Buio.  GEN. 


* 

COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men, 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 
I 

I 

I 

• 
* 

I 
I 

• 
• 

•    • 

8 
8 

12 
!3 

8 

'5 
13 
M 
8 
1  1 

3 

9 
8 

13 

M 
8 

15 

H 

15 

8 

1  1 

. 

• 
. 
• 
. 
. 
. 
I 

•  . 

13 

12 

14 

13 

15 
15 
t5 
'7 
i5 
J9 

•    • 

13 

12 

14 

J3 
15 
15 
15 

i? 

16 

J9 

J3 

2I5 
209 

202 
J95 

*5° 
199 

'39 

184 

184 
195 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

8 

I  IO 

118 

I 

148 

149 

1,885 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  429  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  53. 
Enrollment  includes  transfers  from  Purnell  Legion,  but  none  from  disbanded  regiments  after  the  war  had  ended. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W. 


Front  Royal,  Va 1 8 

Wilderness,  Va 7 

Spotsylvania,  Va 7 

Harris  Farm,  Va.,  May  19,  1864 13 

Shady  Grove,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 7 


Petersburg,  Va 12 

Weldon   Railroad,  Va 17 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 6 

Dabney's    Mills,  Va 12 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 6 

Five  Forks,  Va i  o 


Picket  Line,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Maryland  Heights ;  Funkstown,  Md. ;  Haymarket,  Va. ;  North  Anna,  Va. ;  Bethesda 
Church,  Va. ;  Peeble's  Farm,  Va. ;  Boydton  Road,  Va. ;  Hicksford  Raid,  Va. ;  Appomattox,  Va. 

NOTES. — Mustered  into  the  United  States  service  in  May,  1861,  for  three  years.  It  was  stationed  at  various 
places  in  Maryland  during  the  ensuing  year,  doing  guard  duty  most  of  the  time  along  the  Upper  Potomac.  In 
March,  1862,  it  crossed  into  Virginia  with  Banks's  troops,  and  moved  up  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  The  regiment 
was  stationed  at  Front  Royal,  Va.,  where,  on  May  23,  1862,  it  was  surrounded  and  cut  off  by  Jackson's  rapid 
advance,  and  forced  to  surrender,  losing  14  killed,  43  wounded,  and  535  captured;  Colonel  Kenly  was  seriously 
wounded.  Their  gallant  opposition  retarded  Jackson's  advance,  giving  Banks  ample  time  to  withdraw  in  safety 
from  the  Valley.  The  regiment  was  paroled  in  September,  and  two  months  later  it  was  declared  exchanged.  In 
the  meantime  the  small  part  of  the  regiment  which  had  escaped  capture,  together  with  some  recruits,  preserved 
the  organization,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Maryland  Brigade  (First,  Fourth,  Sixth,  Seventh,  and  Eighth  Mary 
land).  In  March,  1863,  this  brigade  was  assigned  to  Kelly's  Division,  Eighth  Corps,  and  served  in  the  West 
Virginia  campaign.  Upon  Lee's  invasion,  the  brigade  retired  into  Maryland,  where,  on  July  10,  1863,  it  was 
assigned  to  the  First  Corps.  In  March,  1864,  it  was  transferred  to  the  Fifth  Corps.  The  regiment  reenlisted,  and 
on  its  return  from  its  veteran  furlough  the  battalion  of  veterans  arrived  at  the  Harris  Farm  just  in  time  to  enter 
that  action,  its  loss  there  amounting  to  6  killed,  29  wounded,  and  2  missing ;  a  heavy  percentage  of  loss  as  only 
a  small  number  were  engaged.  Colonel  Dushane  was  killed  at  the  Weldon  Road,  and  Colonel  Wilson  fell  at 
Dabney's  Mills. 


TllUKU   HUMMED   FlUllTINti    KwilMKNTS.  30U 

SIXTH  MARYLAND   INFANTRY. 
KKIFKK'S  BRIGADE- -RiCKErrs's  J)i VISION  -SIXTH  COUPS 


ll)    COL.  GKORGK  U.  HOWAKM.  (2)  COL.  JOIIX  \V.  1IOKX  ;  HVT.  HKIO.-OKK.  (8)  COL.  JOSKI'H  <'.  HIM,. 


Losses. 
Killed  and  mortally  wounded  

Officers 

s 

En.  Men. 

I-7f\ 

•7  -J 

73 

Totals  

34 

9 

22  1 

Patties. 

Winchester    Va.  (  1  863)  

Killed. 

IVoUHtit'tt. 

6 

*     Missing.  \ 
ifn 

Mine  Run  Va  

I  1 

"7 

4- 

II    > 

t  A 

Spotsylvania,  Va  

-4 

34 

Cold  Harbor,  Va  

20 

5 

*y 

•7  <y 

Fisher's  Hill  Va  

6* 

T  O 

Cedar  Creek  Va  

8 

A  ? 

Petersburg  Va  , 

4^ 

68 

Sailor's  Creek  Va  

T 

Totals  

T2 

?  Co 

">  i  t 

Present,    also,    at    Wapping    Heights  :     Bristoe    Station  ; 

1  * 

Brandy    Station  ; 

.soy 

Monocacy  ; 

•*  *4 
Hatcher's 

Tot.il. 
128 

74 
34 

236 


Total. 

52 
170 

6 

35 
42 
10 

86 

7 

12 
645 

Run  ; 
Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  Sixth  was  organized  in  August,  1862,  under  the  President's  second  call  for  troops,  six  of  the 
companies  coming  from  Baltimore.  Leaving  that  city  on  September  19,  1862,  it  proceeded  to  Williamsport,  on 
the  Upper  Potomac,  where  it  joined  the  Maryland  Brigade.  It  left  that  brigade  in  March,  1863,  and  became  a 
part  of  the  Third  Brigade,  Second  Division  (Milroy's),  Eighth  Corps.  This  division  retired  before  Lee's  advance 
to  Gettysburg,  but  not  without  some  hard  fighting  at  Winchester,  Va.,  in  which  the  Sixth  was  engaged  ;  it  then 
moved  into  Maryland,  where  it  was  subsequently  assigned  to  the  Third  Corps,  becoming  the  Third  Division. 

The  regiment  was  in  the  Third  Corps  at  Mine  Run,  in  which  affair  it  took  a  prominent  part,  being  then  in 
Keifer's  (2d)  Brigade,  Carr's  (3d)  Division,  Third  Corps.  The  principal  engagement  of  the  Mine  Run  campaign 
occurred  at  Locust  Grove,  a  fight  which  devolved  almost  wholly  on  Carr's  Division,  and  largely  on  the  Sixth 
Maryland.  In  March,  1864,  the  entire  division  was  transferred  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  the  regiment  becoming  a 
part  of  the  Second  Brigade  (Col.  B.  F.  Smith's).  Upon  its  transfer  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  the  division  was  placed 
under  the  command  of  General  Ricketts.  Colonel  Howard  resigned  May  5,  1863,  and  was  succeeded  by  Colonel 
Horn,  who  resigned  in  February,  1865. 

The  Sixth  fought  with  signal  gallantry  in  the  battles  of  the  Wilderness  and  Cold  Harbor,  its  losses  in  the 
former  action  being  unusually  severe.  On  July  6,  1864,  the  division  was  ordered  on  transports  at  City  Point,  Va., 
and  sailed  for  Baltimore  to  meet  Early's  invasion  of  Maryland.  Owing  to  delay  in  transportation,  the  regiment 
did  not  arrive  in  time  to  participate  in  the  battle  of  the  Monocacy,  but  in  time  to  cover  the  retreat  of  Ricketts's 
Division.  General  Ricketts  was  wounded  at  Cedar  Creek,  and  was  succeeded  by  General  Seymour.  The 
regiment  did  some  good  fighting  in  the  Valley,  and,  also,  in  the  final  battles  of  the  war.  It  was  mustered  ou| 
June  20,  1865. 


310 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTH  WEST  VIRGINIA  INFANTRY. 
KIMBALL'S  BRIGADE — FRENCH'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COLONEL  JAMES  EVANS. 


(2)  COLONEL  JOSEPH  SNIDER. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

• 

I 
I 

3 

• 
• 
• 
• 

i 

2 
I 

20 
22 
27 
26 
8 

3 

5 

10 

8 
4 

•     • 

21 

23 

3° 
26 

8 

3 

5 
1  1 

10 

5 

• 

3 

* 

i 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 

•    • 

35 
16 

J9 
i? 

12 
I? 

7 
4 
20 

7 

38 

16 

20 

17 
12 

!7 

7 
4 
20 

7 

16 
103 
106 
104 
103 
1  06 

IOI 

85 

85 
104 

95 

B  

c  

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

J33 

142 

4 

154 

158 

i,  008 

142  killed  =  14  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  522  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  20. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Romney,  W.  Va 2 

Harrison's  Landing,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 48 

Fredericksburg,  Va 6 

Chancellorsville,  Va 6 

Gettysburg,  Pa 13 

Mine  Run,  Va 5 

Morton's  Ford,  Va 2 

Wilderness,  Va 8 


K.  &  M.W. 

•••       5 

7 

.  .  .  2 


BATTLES. 

Po  River,  Va 

Spotsylvania,  Va 

North  Anna,  Va 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 15 

Petersburg,  Va 7 

Deep  Bottom,  Va i 

Ream's  Station,  Va 3 

Boydton  Road,  Va 10 


Present,  also,  at  Front  Royal ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek  ;  Farmville  ;   Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  At  Gettysburg,  the  Seventh  West  Virginia,  under  command  of  Colonel  Jonathan  Lockwood, 
charged  and  drove  back  the  Seventh  Virginia  (Confederate),  wounding  and  capturing  its  Colonel;  also,  a  Lieu 
tenant  Lockwood,  a  nephew  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Lockwood,  who  was  wounded.  Becoming  much  reduced  in 
numbers,  it  was  consolidated,  on  September  5,  1863,  into  four  companies,  the  enrollment  given  above  being  the 
number  enrolled  up  to  that  time  ;  three  new  companies  were  added  in  March,  1865.  As  an  acknowledgment  of 
the  superior  qualities  of  the  Battalion,  it  was  furnished,  in  1864,  with  Henry  rifles  —  sixteen  shooters.  The  Seventh 
was  organized  in  August,  1861,  serving  in  West  Virginia  and  the  Shenandoah  Valley  until  May,  1862,  when  it  was 
assigned  to  KimbalPs  Brigade,  which  joined  McClellan's  army  at  Harrison's  Landing,  just  after  the  battle  of 
Malvern  Hill.  At  Antietam,  the  regiment  lost  29  killed  and  1 16  wounded  ;  no  missing.  In  that  battle,  Colonel 
Snider  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Lockwood  had  their  horses  killed  under  them,  and  three  color  bearers  were 
killed.  Its  casualties  at  Gettysburg  were  5  killed,  41  wounded,  and  i  missing.  It  recnlisted  and  returned  to 
Wheeling  on  its  veteran  furlough  in  February,  1864,  taking  the  field  again  in  May,  1864,  in  Carroll's  (3d)  Bri 
gade,  Gibbon's  (2d)  Division,  Second  Corps.  Subsequently,  this  brigade  was  commanded  by  General  Thomas 
A.  Smyth,  and  the  division  by  General  William  Hays.  The  Seventh  was  mustered  out  July  i,  1865,  having 
served  with  credit  to  itself  and  honor  to  its  State. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


311 


FIFTH   OHIO  INFANTRY. 
CANDY'S  BRIGADE   -  GEARY'S  DIVISION — TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL  SAMUEL  H.  DUNNING. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  H.  PATRICK  (Killed) 


(8)  COL.  KOHKKT  KIKKUP. 


COMPANIES. 

KII  i  M>  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE.  ACCIDENT*,  IN  I'KINON.  Ac 

Total 
Enrollment. 

<  XHoora. 

M.  :. 

Total. 

Offlcen. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Start".  . 

3 

• 

i 
i 

• 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

I 

*5 

7 

1S 
20 

18 
M 

I  2 
12 

'3 

IO 

4 

15 

8 

16 

20 
2O 
14 

!3. 

12 

r3 
I  I 

i 

* 
* 
* 
• 

i 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

7 

3 
8 

6 

7 
7 
4 
5 
5 
3 

I 

7 

3 

8 

6 

8 

7 
4 
5 
5 
3 

16 
228 
181 
1  80 

'35 

'97 

'73 
196 

'52 

i°3 
190 

B  . 

C  . 

I). 

E  . 

F  

G  

H  

T 

K  

9 

137 

146 

2 

55 

57 

'•75' 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  537. 
Of  the  941  originally  enrolled,  129  were  killed,  or  13.7  per  cent. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Scouting  Party,  Va.,  Sept.  16,  1861 i 

Romney,  W.  Va 2 

Kernstown,  Va 23 

Port  Republic,  Va 13 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 31 

Antietam,  Md 1 6 

Dumfries,   Va 3 

Chancellorsville,  Va 15 

Gettysburg,  Pa 5 


K.&M.W 
. . .  i 
.  . .  i 


BATTLES. 

Culpeper  C.  H.,  Va 

Dalton,  Ga 

Resaca,  Ga 5 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 15 

Pine  Knob,  Ga i 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 4 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 4 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 5 

North  Edisto,  S.  C i 


Present,  also,  at  Lookout  Mountain.  Term.  :  Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga. ;  Gulp's  Farm,  Ga. ;  Siege  of  Savan 
nah  ;  Bentonville,  N   C  :  The  March  to  the  Sea ;  The  Carolinas. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  April,  1861,  for  the  three  months  service,  but  before  the  regiment  was  fully  organized 
and  equipped,  the  call  for  three-years  men  was  made,  whereupon  it  volunteered  for  three  years  and  was  mustered 
in  on  the  2ist  of  June,  It  served  in  West  Virginia  until  March,  1862,  when  it  moved  with  Shields's  Division  up  the 
Shenandoah  Valley,  and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Kernstown,  where  it  lost  18  killed  and  32  wounded  ;  also, 
at  Port  Republic,  where  it  lost  4  killed,  63  wounded,  and  197  captured  or  missing.  At  Cedar  Mountain,  it 
fought  in  Geary's  Brigade,  Augur's  Division,  with  a  loss  of  14  killed,  104  wounded,  and  4  missing,  out  of  275 
engaged.  At  Antietam  it  was  in  Tyndale's  (ist)  Brigade,  Greene's  (2d)  Division,  Twelfth  Corps;  loss,  11 
killed,  35  wounded,  and  2  missing.  At  Chancellorsville,  then  in  Candy's  Brigade,  it  lost  6  killed,  52  wounded, 
and  24  missing;  and  at  Gettysburg,  2  killed,  and  16  wounded.  In  September,  1863,  the  regiment  accompanied 
the  Twelfth  Corps  to  Tennessee,  where  it  reonforced  the  Army  at  Chattanooga,  and  fought  at  Lookout  Moun 
tain.  In  April,  1864,  the  Twelfth  Corps  was  combined  with  part  of  the  Eleventh  Corps  and  renumbered,  becom 
ing  the  Twentieth,  but  the  regiment  still  remained  in  Geary's  Division,  and  the  men  still  wore  the  white  stars  on 
their  caps.  The  Fifth  was  present  at  the  hard  fighting  of  the  Atlanta  Campaign,  during  which  Colonel  Patrick 
was  killed  at  the  battle  of  New  Hope  Church,  and  Major  Henry  E.  Symmes  fell  mortally  wounded  at  Kenesaw. 


312 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTH   OHIO   INFANTEY. 
CANDY'S  BRIGADE — GEARY'S  DIVISION  —  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ERASTUS  B.  TYLER ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.          (2)  COL.  WILLIAM  R.  CREIGHTON  (Killed).        (3)  COL.  SAMUEL  McCLELLAND. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE.  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PUISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

• 
• 

2 
I 
I 

I 

I 
I 

I 

21 

*3 

26 

15 

IO 

13 

J9 

i5 

i? 

24 

4 

21 
J3 

28 

16 
1  1 

14 
T9 

15 
18 

25 

I 

* 
* 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

*    • 

8 

7 

7 
1  1 

IO 

9 
9 

10 
10 

6 

I 

8 

7 

7 
ii 

IO 

9 

10 
IO 
IO 

6 

18 

*54 
117 

148 

158 

122 

133 
128 

J39 
114 

129 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  . 

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

J74 

184 

2 

87 

89 

^365 

184  killed  =  13.4  percent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  682  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  15. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Scouting  Party,  W.  Va.  (1861) i 

Cross  Lanes,  W.  Va  ,  August  26,  1861 13 

Kernstown,  Va 30 

Port  Republic,  Va 19 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 55 

Snicker's  Gap,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 8 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Dumfries,  Va i 

Chancellorsville,  Va 22 

Gettysburg,  Pa 2 

Ringgold,  Ga 25 

Resaca,  Ga i 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 6 


Present,  also,  at  Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn ;  Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga. 

NOTES. —  One  of  the  finest  regiments  in  the  service.  It  was  raised  in  Northern  Ohio,  with  rendezvous  at 
Cleveland,  and  was  composed  of  exceptionally  good  material.  Its  ranks  included  men  of  culture  and  good  social 
position, —  clergymen,  students,  teachers,  bankers,  farmers,  and  mechanics.  They  enlisted  promptly  at  the  first 
news  of  war,  the  regiment  organizing  in  April  for  the  three  months'  service,  but  entering  the  three  years'  service, 
almost  to  a  man,  when  the  second  call  for  troops  was  made.  It  left  the  State  June  26,  1861,  and  proceeded  to 
West  Virginia.  While  encamped  by  itself  at  Cross  Lanes,  W.  Va.,  it  was  attacked  by  a  large  force  under  General 
Floyd  ;  the  regiment  made  an  obstinate  defense,  but  was  driven  from  the  field  with  a  severe  loss,  many  of  the 
men  being  captured.  The  principal  losses  of  the  Seventh  were, —  at  Kernstown,  20  killed,  62  wounded,  and  10 
missing;  at  Port  Republic,  10  killed,  55  wounded,  and  10  missing;  at  Cedar  Mountain,  31  killed,  149  wounded, 
and  2  missing,  out  of  307  present;  at  Antietam,  5  killed,and  33  wounded;  at  Chancellorsville,  16  killed,  62 
wounded,  and  21  missing;  and  at  Ringgold,  Ga.,  16  killed,  and  58  wounded,  out  of  206  present.  At  Ring- 
gold,  Colonel  Creighton,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Orrin  J.  Crane,  Adjutant  Baxter,  and  two  Lieutenants  were  killed, 
while  the  remaining  officers,  with  one  exception,  were  all  wounded.  At  Kernstown,  the  Seventh  was  in  Shields's 
Division ;  General  Augur  commanded  the  division  at  Cedar  Mountain,  General  Greene  at  Antietam,  and  General 
Geary  in  its  subsequent  battles.  While  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  on  June  24,  1864,  the  Seventh  received  notice 
that  its  enlistment  had  expired,  and  was  ordered  home.  The  recruits  were  transferred  to  the  Fifth  Ohio. 


TIIKKK  HUNDRED  FICHTINU  REGIMENTS. 


KKJIFTH    OHIO    INKAXTRY. 


KIMBALL'S  BRIGADE --FRENCH'S  DIVISION --SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  Coi..  HIKAM  O.  DEPUY. 


(2)  COL.  SAMUEL  S.  CARROLL  ;  BKKI.-ORN. 


(3)  Coi..  FRANKLIN  SAWYKH  ;  BVT.  BRIO.-<;<CN. 


COM  PA  NIKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNIM. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKIHON,  &v. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

2 

• 

2 

• 

I 

• 

I 
I 
I 

i 
I  I 

13 
'5 

12 
12 
'4 

9 
'5 

10 
12 

I 
I  I 

15 
15 

M 

12 

»s 

9 
16 
1  1 

'3 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

» 

•    * 

7 
3 

5 

9 

8 

7 
1  1 

8 
10 

4 

•    • 

7 
3 
5 

9 
8 

8 
1  1 
8 
10 
4 

18 
103 
98 

100 

107 
1  08 

93 

100 

no 

92 
103 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

8 

I24 

132 

I 

72 

73 

1,032 

132  killed  — 12.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  496. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W. 


Worthington,  Va.,  Sept.  2,  1861 i 

Romney,  W.  Va.,  Sept.  24,  1861 i 

Wire  Bridge,  Va.,  Dec.  2 1 ,  1 86 1 i 

Kernstown,  Va 1 6 

Antietam,  Mel 43 

Fredericksburg,   Va 13 

Chancellorsville,  Va 2 


Gettysburg,  Pa 28 

Mine    Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 6 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  10-1 8,  1 864 14 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va 2 


Present,  also,  at  Front  Royal,  Va. ;  Bristoe  Station,  Va. ;  Po  River,  Va. ;  Totopotomoy,  Va. 


NOTES. —  The  Eighth,  under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Sawyer,  distinguished  itself  at  Gettysburg  by 
its  effective  service  at  an  important  point  on  the  line.  On  the  afternoon  of  the  second  day's  battle  it  drove  the 
Confederate  Sharpshooters  out  of  a  cut  on  the  Emmettsburg  Road,  at  a  point  in  front  of  Hays's  Division.  This 
advanced  point,  between  the  lines,  was  held  by  the  regiment  without  leaving  it  until  the  close  of  the  battle  on 
the  next  day ;  by  changing  front,  this  advanced  position  enabled  the  Eighth  to  strike  Pcttigrew's  Division  in  its 
flank,  as  it  fell  back  at  the  time  of  Pickett's  repulse,  the  regiment  capturing  three  stands  ot  colors  and  a  large 
number  of  prisoners.  In  seizing  this  point  on  the  Emmettsburg  Road,  and  in  defending  it  against  the  enemy's 
skirmish  line  during  these  two  days,  the  regiment  lost  18  killed,  83  wounded,  and  i  missing,  out  of  209  present 
for  duty.  The  Eighth  Ohio  organized  in  April,  1861,  as  a  three  months  regiment,  but  reenlisted  soon  after  for 
three  years.  It  served  in  West  Virginia  until  March,  1862,  when  it  moved  with  Shields's  Division  up  the  Shen- 
andoah,  fighting  at  the  battle  of  Kernstown,  where  it  lost  n  killed,  41  wounded,  and  i  missing.  In  July  it 
joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  at  Harrison's  Landing,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Kimball's  (ist)  Brigade, 
French's  (3d)  Division,  Second  Corps.  At  Antietam,  the  regiment  lost  32  killed,  and  129  wounded;  at  Fred 
ericksburg,  6  killed,  and  27  wounded.  While  on  the  Wilderness  campaign  the  Eighth  was  in  Carroll's  (3d) 
Brigade,  Gibbon's  (2d)  Division,  Second  Corps.  Ordered  home  June  25,  1864,  for  muster-out. 


314 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FOURTEENTH   OHIO   INFANTRY. 
CROXTON'S  BRIGADE  —  BRANNAN'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  B.  STEEDMAN :  MAJOR-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  GEORGE  PEABODY  ESTE;  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

2 

1 

• 

•    • 

14 
IO 

15 
14 
15 

18 

i5 

5 
ii 

24 

I 

14 
IO 

15 
14 

16 

18 

15 
7 

12 

24 

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

•    • 

16 
16 

21 

16 
31 

21 

19 
II 

15 

T9 

•    « 

16 
16 

21 

16 
31 

21 

J9 
I  I 

15 
20 

15 

J52 
140 

144 
127 

i37 
149 

J37 

122 

'55 
126 

B  

C  . 

D. 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

5 

141 

146 

I 

185 

186 

1,404 

146  killed  —  10.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  525  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  26. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M. W. 

Shiloh,  Tenn i 

Decatur,  Ala.,  April  7,  1862 i 

Chickamauga,  Ga 8 1 

Missionary    Ridge,  Tenn 8 

Ringgold,  Tenn i 

Resaca,  Ga 2 

Kingston,  Ga.,  May  18,  1864 i 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 8 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Chattahoochie,  Ga i 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga i 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  22,  1864 2 

Utoy  Creek,  Ga 3 

Jonesboro,    Ga 30 

Siege   of  Atlanta,  Ga 5 

Guerillas i 


Present,  also,  at  Mill  Springs,  Ky. ;  Chaplin  Hills,  Ky. ;  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn. ; 
Sherman's  March  ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — Recruited  at  Toledo,  in  April,  1861,  in  response  to  the  first  call  for  troops,  its  first  enlistment  being 
for  three  months.  It  served  its  three  months  in  West  Virginia,  during  which  it  fought  in  some  minor  engage 
ments.  Upon  its  return  to  Toledo  it  reassembled  after  a  short  furlough  and  volunteered  for  three  years,  with  but 
little  change  in  the  organization.  Leaving  Toledo,  August  24,  1861,  it  proceeded  to  Kentucky,  where  it  was 
assigned  to  Manson's  Brigade,  and  was  engaged  for  several  months  in  the  various  movements  against  the  Confed 
erate  forces.  In  March,  1862,  it  marched  with  Buell's  army  to  reenforce  Grant,  but  the  Fourteenth  did  not 
arrive  at  Shiloh  until  the  fighting  was  over.  After  participating  in  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  it  marched  with  the 
Army  of  the  Ohio  on  its  arduous  campaigns  in  Tennessee  and  Kentucky.  At  Perryville  it  was  in  Fry's  Brigade 
of  Schoepf  s  Division,  but  was  not  engaged,  after  which  the  brigade  went  into  winter  quarters  at  Gallatin,  Tenn. 
At  Chickamauga,  the  regiment  was  in  Croxton's  (2d)  Brigade,  Brannan's  (3d)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps,  los 
ing  35  killed,  167  wounded,  and  43  missing,  out  of  449  engaged.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign  the  regiment 
served  in  Este's  (3d)  Brigade,  Baird's  (3d)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps.  This  brigade  distinguished  itself,  par 
ticularly,  at  Jonesboro,  where  it  carried  the  enemy's  works  by  assault,  losing  one-third  of  its  number  within  a  few 
minutes.  Among  the  killed  were  several  men  of  the  Fourteenth  whose  term  of  service  had  expired,  but  who 
volunteered  to  go  into  this  action.  The  regiment  having  reenlisted,  remained  in  the  Fourteenth  Corps  until  the 
close  of  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


FIFTEENTH   OHIO   INFANTRY. 

\\ii.i. nil's  r,i;i(,\i»i:      WOOD'S  DIVISION-    FOURTH  Cows. 


MOSES  H.  UK-KEY. 


(2)  Coi..  WILLIAM   WALLACE. 


(3t  C<.i..  FHANKLIN  ASKEW  ;  BVT. 


CoMPANIKh. 

KM  i  h  ii  AMI  DIKD  or  Woi'M>8. 

DIKD  or  DIHKAHK,  Ac«-il>r.NTn,  IN  I'KIHON,  .to. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

oflirt-rs. 

M.    !. 

Total. 

I 
I  2 
22 

'5 

25 

«9 

1  8 

23 
24 
10 

10 

Offloure. 

M«>n. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

, 

4 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

8 

22 

'5 
24 
«9 
'7 
23 
24 

10 

9 

I 

• 
* 
* 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

I  2 

16 

9 

'7 
'4 
'3 

9 
16 

1  6 
'3 

I 
12 

16 

9 
•7 
M 
'3 

9 
16 

16 
'3 

20 

<58 
171 

,63 

«65 
'63 
.67 

'57 
171 

1  66 

'53 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I   

K  

Totals  

•* 

172 

'79 

1 

'35 

•3^> 

',654 

197  killed  —  10.8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  663  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  20. 


HATTLKH.  K.  JfcM.W. 

Kenesaw,  Ga.,  June  20 i 

Kenesaw,  Ga.,  June  21 13 

Kenesaw,  Ga.,  June  23 7 

Kenesaw,  Ga.,  June  27 3 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 2 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  22 2 

Lovejoy's  Station,  (Ja 2 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 2 

Nashville,  Tenn 


BATTLES  K.AM.W. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 1 6 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 36 

Liberty  Gap,  Tenn 1 1 

Chickamauga,  Ga 23 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 6 

Bux/.ard  Roost,  Ga 2 

Resaca,  Ga 4 

Pickett's  Mills,  Ga 39 

Pine  Mountain,  Ga 3 

Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Cassville,  Ga. ;   Franklin,  Tenn. 

NOTES. — Organized  in  May,  1861,  as  a  three  months  regiment,  serving  in  West  Virginia,  where  it  participated 
in  the  actions  of  Phillippi,  and  Carrick's  Ford.  Upon  the  expiration  of  its  three  months  term,  it  returned  to 
Columbus,  O.,  where  it  volunteered  for  three  years,  leaving  the  State  on  October  4th.  Proceeding  to  Kentucky,  it 
was  assigned,  soon  after,  to  McCook's  Division  of  Knell's  Army,  with  which  it  marched  to  the  battlefield  of 
Shiloh,  where  it  lost  7  killed,  66  wounded,  and  2  missing.  It  was  present  at  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  and  participated 
in  the  long  marches  in  the  summer  and  fall  of  1862,  its  next  battle  occurring  at  Stone's  River,  at  which  time  it 
was  in  Willich's  (ist)  Brigade,  Johnson's  (zd)  Division,  McCook's  Corps;  loss,  17  killed,  70  wounded,  and  128 
captured  or  missing.  After  this  battle  the  regiment  lay  at  Murfreesboro  until  June,  1863,  when  it  joined  in  the 
forward  movement  of  the  Army,  and  was  engaged  at  Liberty  Gap,  losing  there  8  killed,  and  24  wounded.  At 
Chickamauga,  it  lost  10  killed,  77  wounded,  and  33  missing.  About  350  of  the  men  reenlisted  in  January,  1864, 
and  received  a  veteran  furlough,  returning  with  a  large  number  of  recruits,  which  swelled  the  ranks  to  over  900 
effectives.  In  October,  1863,  the  regiment  was  assigned  to  Willich's  (ist)  Brigade,  Wood's  (31!)  Division,  Fourth 
Corps.  While  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  this  brigade  (Gibson's)  was  hotly  engaged  at  Pickctt's  Mills,  Ga.,  the 
regiment  losing  there  19  killed,  64  wounded,  and  19  missing,  many  of  the  latter  l>eing  killed  or  wounded. 
The  Fifteenth  took  part  in  the  Franklin-Nashville  campaign,  after  which  it  accompanied  the  Fourth  Corps  to 
Texas,  where  it  was  mustered  out  in  December,  1865. 


316 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-FIRST   OHIO   INFANTRY. 


NIEBLING'S  BRIGADE  —  JOHNSON'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JESSE  S.  NORTON. 


(2)  COL.  JAMES  M.  NIBBLING. 


(3)  COL.  ARNOLD  McMAHON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

• 

2 
2 

• 
• 
* 
• 

I 

* 

I 

23 

15 
12 

22 
10 

18 

12 
2O 
M 

T9 

2 

23 
*5 
14 

24 

10 

18 

12 
20 

15 
19 

• 

l 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

•    • 

20 
I  I 
20 

17 

26 

17 

39 

28 

16 

24 

•    • 

2O 
1  1 
21 

17 

26 

17 

39 

28 

J7 

24 

14 

*43 
137 

138 
140 

i37 
141 

J52 

I3I 
130 

'35 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

166 

I72 

2 

218 

220 

i,398 

172  killed  =  12.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  642  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  57. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Scarey  Creek,  W.  Va.,  July  17,  1861 9 

Pulaski,  Tenn.,  May  i,  1862 i 

Reynolds's  Station,  Tenn.,  Aug.  27,  1862 i 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 52 

Chickamauga,  Ga 48 

Buzzard's   Roost,  Ga 2 

Dallas,  Ga.,  May  31,  1864 6 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 4 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Vining's,  Ga.,  July  9,  1864 21 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 5 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 7 

10 


Jonesboro,    Ga 

Jacksonboro,  Ga 2 

Bentonville,  N.  C i 

Goldsboro,  N.  C.,  March  24,  1864 i 

Place  unknown 2 

Present,  also,  at  Dry  Mountain,  Ky. ;  Bowling  Green,  Ky. ;  Lavergne,  Tenn. ;  Dug  Gap,  Ga. ;  Mission 
Ridge,  Tenn. ;  Resaca,  Ga. ;  New  Hope  Church,  Ga. ;  Averasboro,  N.  C. 

NOTES — Organized  as  a  three  months  regiment,  which  reorganized  for  three  years.  While  in  the  three 
months  service  it  had  a  sharp  fight  at  Scarey  Creek,  W.  Va.  The  three  years  regiment  left  the  State  October  2, 
1 86 1,  and  moved  into  Kentucky,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Sill's  Brigade,  General  O.  M.  Mitchel's  Division.  It 
accompanied  Mitchel  on  his  march  to  Huntsville,  Ala.,  and  on  the  various  campaigns  which  culminated  in  the 
battle  of  Stone's  River,  December  31,  1862  ;  at  that  battle  it  was  in  Miller's  (3d)  Brigade,  Negley's  (2d)  Divi 
sion,  Fourteenth  Corps,  its  losses  aggregating  24  killed,  109  wounded,  and  26  missing.  The  regiment  remained 
at  Murfreesboro  from  January,  1863,  until  June,  when  it  moved  southward  with  the  Army,  it?  next  engagement 
occurring  at  Chickamauga,  where  it  lost  28  killed,  84  wounded,  and  131  captured  or  missing, —  Lieutenant-Colo 
nel  D.  M.  Stoughton,  the  regimental  commandant,  being  among  the  killed.  At  that  time  the  Twenty-first  was 
armed  with  Colt's  revolving  rifles,  and  inflicted  a  severe  loss  on  the  enemy,  the  men  expending  over  43,000 
rounds  of  ammunition  in  that  action.  The  regiment  reenlisted,  was  furloughed,  and  on  its  return  marched  with 
the  Army  on  the  Atlanta  Campaign,  it  being  then  in  Neibling's  (3d)  Brigade,  Johnson's  (ist)  Division,  Fourteenth 
Corps.  Its  hardest  fight,  during  that  campaign,  occurred  July  pth,  at  Vining's  Station,  where  the  regiment, 
under  command  of  Major  McMahon,  was  ordered  to  drive  in  the  enemy  from  his  outer  line  of  rifle-pits ;  it  was 
done  successfully,  but  with  a  loss  of  15  killed,  and  39  wounded.  The  regiment  accompanied  its  corps  on  the 
March  to  the  Sea,  and  through  the  Carolinas,  during  which  it  was  often  under  fire. 


THKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


317 


TWENTY-THIRD  OHIO  INFANTRY. 


HAYES'S  (R.  B.)  BRIGADE --DUVAL'S  DIVISION-    KH;HTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WM.  S.  UOSECRANS,  OT.  $.,  ».  *.;  RVT.  MAJOK-OEN.  U.  8.  A. 
(*)  COL.  ELIAKIM  P.  SCAMMON,  £H.  $.;  HIIIU.-OEN.  U.  S.  V. 


(3)  COL.  RUTIIEKPOltl)  B.  HA  YKS  ;  BVT.  MAJ.-GEN.  U.  8.  V. 

(4)  COL.  JAMES  M.  COMLY  ;  BVT.  BiucjMJEN.  U.  8  V. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Kiirollment. 

officer*. 

Men. 

Total. 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Stall  

• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 

I 

I 
13 

16 

21 

16 
'3 

12 

18 

»3 

18 

13 

I 

'3 
»7 

21 

»7 

'3 
M 
18 

13 

18 

H 

• 
• 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 
16 

'5 
14 

'3 
1  1 

9 
M 
ii 

I  2 
M 

I 
16 

'5 
'4 

'3 

1  1 

9 

15 
1  1 

12 

14 

16 

198 
182 
266 

235 

1  86 
184 
250 
252 
197 
264 

B   

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

5 

'54 

'59 

I 

I30 

13' 

2,230 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  567  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  39. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W 


Winchester,  Va.,  July  24,  1864 16 

Strasburg,  Va i 

Halltown,  Va 2 

Berryville,  Va 5 

Opequon,  Va i  o 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va 3 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 15 

Cabletown,  Va i 


Clark's    Hollow,  W.Va 6 

Parisburg,  W.  Va i 

South  Mountain,  Md 44 

Antietam,  Md 14 

In  action,  Nov.  3,  1862,  W.  Va i 

In   action,  Dec.  i  7,  1862,  W.  Va i 

Morris's  Mills,  W.  Va.,  July  31,  1863 2 

Cloyd's  Mountain,  W.  Va 35 

Lynchburg,  Va 2 

Present,  also,  at  Carnifex  Ferry,  W.  Va. ;  Princeton,  W.  Va. ;  Morgan's  Raid,  O. 

NOTES. — A  regiment  remarkable  for  the  famous  names  of  its  various  commanders,  while  others  with  brilliant 
National  reputations  also  appeared  on  its  rolls  in  subordinate  capacities.  It  was  mustered-in  for  three  years,  on 
the  i  ith  of  June,  1861,  at  Columbus,  O.,  leaving  the  State  in  July,  and  proceeding  to  West  Virginia,  where  for  a 
time  it  was  divided  —  the  right  wing,  under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Stanley  Matthews,  operating  against  the  guerrilla 
bands,  while  the  other  five  companies  were  stationed  at  Weston.  Having  reunited,  the  regiment  was  present  at 
the  battle  of  Carnifex  Ferry,  and  at  several  minor  affairs,  remaining  in  West  Virginia  until  September,  1862,  when 
the  Kanawha  Division  joined  McClellan's  Army  and  was  assigned  temporarily  to  the  Ninth  Corps.  Under  com 
mand  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  R.  B.  Hayes,  the  Twenty-third  opened  the  battle  of  South  Mountain,  where  its 
gallant  commander  was  severely- wounded,  the  loss  of  the  regiment  aggregating  32  killed,  95  wounded,  and  3 
missing.  Three  days  later,  at  Antietam,  it  lost  8  killed,  59  wounded,  and  2  missing ;  it  was  then  in  Scammon's 
Brigade.  Soon  after  the  battle  of  Antietam  the  Kanawha  Division  returned  to  West  Virginia,  making  its  winter- 
quarters  at  the  Falls  of  the  Great  Kanawha,  after  which  it  encamped  at  Charlestown,  W.Va.,  during  the  year  1863, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1864.  The  Twenty-third  fought  at  Cloyd's  Mountain,  and  then  served  during  the  summer  of 
1864  in  Crook's  Corps,  of  Hunter's  Army.  In  the  fall  of  1864  it  participated,  with  the  Kighth  Corps  (Crook's), 
in  all  of  Sheridan's  battles  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  after  which  it  returned  to  West  Virginia  where  it  remained 
until  July,  1865,  when  it  was  mustered  out. 


318 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-FIFTH   OHIO  INFANTRY. 
AMES'S  BRIGADE -- BARLOW'S  DIVISION -- ELEVENTH  CORPS. 

(1)  COL.  JAMES  A.  JONES.  (2)  COL.  W.  P.  RICHARDSON  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(3)  COL.  NATHANIEL  HAUGHTON  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

• 

2 

•  • 
M 

*3 

23 

8 

20 
10 
18 
10 
it 
24 

2 

15 
13 

23 

8 

20 
10 

!9 
II 
II 

26 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

8 

16 

15 

5 
8 

22 
8 
II 

13 

12 

2 

8 
16 

i5 

5 
8 

22 

8 

12 

14 
12 

18 
184 
1  86 

184 
187 
185 

J74 
178 
141 
177 
198 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

7 

*5' 

IS* 

3 

II9 

122 

1,812 

BATTLES. 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  562. 

K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Cheat  Mountain,  W.  Va.,  Sept.  12,  1861 2 

Grafton,  W.  Va.,  Dec.  i,  1861 '  i 

Camp  Allegheny,  W.  Va.,  Dec.  13,  1861 1 1 

Baldwin's  Creek,  W.  Va.,  Dec.  31,  1861 3 

McDowell,  Va.,  May  8,  1862 12 

Cross  Keys,  Va i  o 

Manassas,  Va 16 

Chancellorsville,  Va 30 


Scout,  Aug.  i ,  1 863 i 

Honey  Hill,  S.  C 35 

Deveaux  Neck,  S.  C 6 

Judson  Hill,  S.  C i 

Red   Hill,  S.  C i 

Combahee  Ferry,  S.  C 2 

Guerillas i 

Place  unknown i 


Gettysburg,  Pa 25 

Present,  also,  at  Green  Brier,  W.  Va. ;  Huntersville,  Va. ;  Monterey,  Va. ;  Freeman's  Ford,  Va. ;  Hagers- 
town,  Md. ;  Siege  of  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C. ;  Occupation  of  Charleston,  S.  C. ;  Swift  Creek,  S.  C. 

NOTES — Company  D  was  permanently  detached,  March  17,  1862,  as  the  Twelfth  Ohio  Light  Battery, 
leaving  a  vacancy  in  the  regiment  until  October,  1864,  when  a  newly  recruited  company  of  one-year  men  took  its 
place,  the  above  enrollment  of  Company  D  including  both  companies.  The  regiment  was  recruited  from  the 
State  at  large,  and  organized  at  Columbus  in  June,  1861.  In  July,  it  was  ordered  to  West  Virginia,  where  it 
remained  several  months  engaged  in  active  service,  during  which  it  took  a  prominent  part  in  Milroy's  fight  at 
Camp  Allegheny,  where  it  lost  6  killed,  54  wounded,  and  6  missing.  While  encamped  with  Milroy's  troops  at 
McDowell,  Va.,  it  participated,  May  8,  1862,  in  the  battle  with  Stonewall  Jackson's  command,  in  which  the  regi 
ment  lost  6  killed,  5 1  wounded,  and  i  missing.  At  Cross  Keys,  it  lost  5  killed,  40  wounded,  and  5  missing ;  at 
Manassas  —  then  in  Schenck's  Division  —  it  lost  8  killed,  55  wounded,  and  24  missing;  at  Chancellorsville  — 
Devens's  Division,  Eleventh  Corps  —  it  lost  14  killed,  107  wounded,  and  31  missing;  at  Gettysburg  —  in  Ames's 
Brigade,  Barlow's  Division,  Eleventh  Corps  —  it  lost  9  killed,  100  wounded,  and  75  missing.  In  August,  1863, 
this  division  of  the  Eleventh  Corps  was  detached,  and  ordered  to  Charleston  Harbor,  S.  C.  While  stationed  at 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C.,  it  joined  the  expedition  against  the  Charleston  &  Savannah  R.  R.,  which  resulted  in  the 
battle  of  Honey  Hill,  Nov.  30,  1864,  where  the  regiment  sustained  a  severe  loss.  Major  Carrington  E.  Randall 
was  mortally  wounded  in  this  action.  The  regiment  remained  in  South  Carolina  until  the  close  of  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


TWENTY-NINTH  OHIO  INFANTRY. 
CANDY'S  BRIGADE  —  GEARY'S  DIVISION— TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  LOUIS  P.  BUCKLEY. 


CD  COL.  WILLIAM  T.  FITCH. 


(3)  COL.  JONAS  SCHOONOVER. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DIMHAHE,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  I'KINON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

I 

• 
• 

I 
I 

t 

I 

• 

I 

• 

•    • 

8 
1  1 

12 
15 

8 

10 

18 

10 
12 
10 

I 

9 
1  1 

12 

16 

9 
10 

'9 
10 

'3 
IO 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 
M 

24 
IO 

18 

'5 
17 
16 

IO 
12 

M 

•    • 

M 

24 
1  1 

18 

15 
'7 
16 

10 
12 
14 

16 

*52 
»59 

148 

169 
148 

"52 

149 

"37 
MS 
«43 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

II4 

1  20 

I 

15° 

IS* 

1,518 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  406  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  10. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Kernstown,  Va.,  March  23,  1862 5 

Mt.  Jackson,  Va.,  May  3,  1862 2 

Port  Republic,  Va 23 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 13 

Chancellorsville,  Va 7 

Gettysburg,  Pa 10 

Dug  Gap,  Ga.* 33 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Dallas,  Ga.,  May  29, 1 864 3 

Pine  Knob,  Ga 12 

Kenesaw,    Ga 2 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 2 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 3 

Siege  of  Savannah,  Ga i 

Edisto  River,  S.  C i 

Averasboro,  N.  C i 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Jefferson  in  August,  1861,  moving  to  Camp  Chase,  Columbus,  O.,  on  December  25th  ; 
it  left  the  State  on  January  17,  1862,  having  been  o'rdered  to  West  Virginia.  While  there  it  served  under  General 
Lander,  and  then,  having  been  assigned  to  Shjelds's  Division,  participated  in  the  movement  up  the  Shenandoah 
Valley,  and  in  the  battle  of  Kernstown.  It  was,  also,  hotly  engaged  at  the  battle  of  Port  Republic,  June  9,  1862, 
where  it  lost  17  killed,  41  wounded,  and  114  captured  or  missing.  At  Cedar  Mountain,  it  was  in  Geary's  (ist) 
Brigade,  Augur's  (2d)  Division,  Banks's Corps  ;  loss,  6  killed,  50  wounded,  and  10  missing  ;  at  Chancellorsville  - 
then  in  Candy's  (ist)  Brigade,  Geary's  (2d)  Division,  Twelfth  Corps  —  it  lost  2  killed,  42  wounded,  and  28  miss 
ing  ;  at  Gettysburg,  7  killed,  and  31  wounded.  In  September,  1863,  it  accompanied  the  Twelfth  Corps  to  Ten 
nessee,  where  it  had  been  ordered  to  the  relief  of  Chattanooga.  The  regiment  was  present  at  the  battles  of 
Lookout  Mountain  and  Missionary  Ridge  ;  in  May,  1864,  it  served  under  Sherman  in  the  Atlanta  campaign. 
The  first  battle  of  that  campaign  occurred  at  Dug  Gap,  May  8,  1864,  the  Twenty-ninth  sustaining  the  heaviest 
loss  in  that  action  ;  its  casualties  at  Dug  Gap  were  26  killed,  67  wounded,  and  i  missing.  The  Corps  number 
had  been  changed,  in  April,  1864,  to  the  Twentieth,  with  General  Hooker  in  command.  The  regiment  marched 
to  the  sea  with  the  Twentieth  Corps,  and  was  engaged  at  the  Siege  of  Savannah,  where  Major  Myron  T.  Wright 
fell  mortally  wounded.  It  then  participated  in  the  final  campaign  in  the  Carolinas,  and  was  mustered  out  July 

13.  l865-  ^ 

*  Known  also  as  Rocky  Face  Ridge. 


320 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTIETH  OHIO  INFANTRY. 


EWING'S  BRIGADE —BLAIR'S  DIVISION — FIFTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COLONEL  HUGH  EWING  ;  BVT.  MAJ  -GEN. 


(2)  COLONEL  THEODOKE  JONES  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

2 
2 
2 

•  • 
12 

9 
J3 
M 
ii 

IO 
12 

13 

12 

*3 

I 

J3 
9 
13 

M 
ii 

10 

13 
15 
M 
IS 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

15 

9 
ii 

i? 
23 

12 
2O 

*3 
IO 

L9 

•    • 

15 

9 
ii 

i? 
23 

12 
20 

J3 
IO 

19 

J5 
116 

119 
107 
129 

IOI 

9° 
127 

94 
I05 

112 

(""omnanv  A  . 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K   

Totals  

9 

119 

128 

. 

149 

149 

1,115 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Laurel  Creek,  Va,  Sept.  23,  1861 i 

Little  Birch,  Va.,  Oct.  21,  1861 i 

South  Mountain,  Md 24 

Antietam,  Md 23 

Vicksburg  Assault,  May  22d 13 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss 5 

Jackson,  Miss i 

Mission  Ridge,  Tenn 1 1 

Resaca,  Ga 2 

Dallas,  Ga i 


128  killed  =  11.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded   473. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Kenesaw,  Ga 12 

Nickajack  Creek,  Ga i 

Battle  of  Atlanta,  Ga 4 

Ezra  Chapel,  Ga 9 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 7 

Jonesboro,  Ga 

Fort  McAllister,  Ga 


2 

2 

Bentonville,  N.C 5 

2 

2 


Guerillas 

Place  Unknown 

Present,  also,  at  Carnifex  Ferry,  W.  Va. ;  Savannah,  Ga. ;  The  Carolinas. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Columbus,  August  28,  1861,  and  ordered  immediately  to  West  Virginia,  where  it  re 
mained  for  one  year,  during  which  it  was  stationed  at  various  points  and  engaged  in  several  minor  affairs  with  the 
enemy.  In  August,  1862,  it  was  ordered  to  join  the  army  in  eastern  Virginia,  and,  passing  through  Washington, 
it  then  joined  Pope's  Army,  at  Warrenton  Junction.  The  regiment  was  in  reserve  at  Manassas,  sustaining  no  loss 
though  under  a  heavy  artillery  fire.  It  marched  with  General  McClellan's  Army  through  Maryland  ;  it  was  then 
in  Scammon's  Brigade,  of  Cox's  Kanawha  Division,  this  division  being  then  temporarily  attached  to  the  Ninth 
Corps.  The  regiment  lost,  at  South  Mountain,  17  killed,  and  53  wounded;  at  Antietam,  13  killed, 49  wounded, 
and  1 8  missing, — both  color-sergeants  being  among  the  killed.  The  regiment  was  hotly  engaged  in  both  these 
actions,  the  fighting  at  times  becoming  very  close  and  deadly,  bayonets  and  clubbed  muskets  being  freely  used. 
The  Kanawha  Division  returned  to  West  Virginia  soon  after  the  battle  of  Antietam,  and  in  December,  1862,  the 
regiment  moved  by  transports  down  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  Rivers  to  Helena,  Ark.,  where  it  was  assigned  to 
Ewing's  (3d)  Brigade,  Blair's  (2d)  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  was  present  at  the  siege  of 
Vicksburg.  In  the  assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  22,  1863,  the  regiment  lost  6  killed,  43  wounded,  and  2  missing. 
In  November,  1863,  the  division  —  General  Morgan  L.  Smith  commanding  —  moved  to  Chattanooga,  where  it 
fought  at  Missionary  Ridge.  In  1864,  the  Thirtieth  fought  in  the  Atlanta  campaign,  and  then  marched  with 
Sherman  to  the  Sea. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


THIRTY-THIRD  OHIO  INFANTRY. 


CARLJN'S  BRIGADE  —  JOHNSON'S  DIVISION  --  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOSHUA  N.  SILL,  OT.  *,;  RRIU.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  OSl'AH  K.  MOOKE. 


(8)  COL.  JOSEPH  IIIXsoN. 


COMPANIES. 

KlI.I.KD    AND    DlKD   OK   WorXlM. 

DIED  or  DIHEAHK,  ACCIDENTS.  IN  PKIMON,  At-. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

(  iftiwrs. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

I 
2 

• 

I 

• 

•    • 

'4 
1  1 

'4 

8 
18 

20 

»5 

9 

10 

ii 

I 

15 
I  I 

»5 
8 

'9 

22 
15 

9 
1  1 

1  1 

I 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

I 
2O 
21 

'7 

22 

18 

22 

17 
r3 
'7 
24 

2 

21 
21 

«7 

22 

18 

22 

r7 
'3 
17 

25 

'7 
141 

1  20 

'37 
118 

'33 

IS' 

128 

96 

I  IO 

'33 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

7 

130 

!37 

3 

192 

'95 

1,284 

137  killed  —  10.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  501  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  53. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Battle  Creek,  Term 2 

Chaplin  H  ills,  Ky 32 

Stone's  River,  Tenn •  •  •  • 2 

Chickamauga,  Ga 24 

Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn i 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 1 1 

Resaca,  Ga 29 

Kenesaw,  Ga 2 

Chattahoochie,  Ga i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 2 

Atlanta,  July  22,1 864 2 

Atlanta,  Aug.  1 3,  1 864 9 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 6 

Jonesboro,    Ga 3 

Averasboro,  N.  C i 

Bentonville,  N.  C 7 

Goldsboro,  N.  C i 

Place  unknown 2 


Present,  also,  at  Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn. ;  Cassville,  Ga. ;  New  Hope  Church,  Ga. ;  March  to  the  Sea. 

NOTES. — Organized  in  August,  1861,  at  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  and  commenced  active  service  in  Kentucky,  hav 
ing  been  assigned  to  General  Nelson's  command.  In  December,  1861,  while  at  Louisville,  it  was  placed  in  Sill's 
Brigade  of  General  O.  M.  Mitchel's  Division,  with  which  it  marched  to  Bacon  Creek,  Ky.,  where  it  went  into 
winter-quarters.  In  February  Mitchel  advanced  to  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  and  thence  to  Nashville  ;  during  the 
next  month. his  division  marched  through  Tennessee,  and  then  to  Huntsville,  Ala.,  the  summer  of  1862  being 
spent  in  the  vicinity  of  Huntsville  and  Bridgeport.  In  September,  upon  Bragg's  advance  into  Kentucky,  the 
army  fell  back  to  Louisville,  and  on  October  8,  1862,  the  regiment  was  engaged  at  the  battle  of  Chaplin  Hills, 
near  Perryville,  Ky.  It  was  then  in  Harris's  Brigade,  Rousseau's  Division,  McCook's  Corps;  loss,  21  killed,  78 
wounded  and  10  missing, —  out  of  about  400  engaged.  At  Stone's  River,  the  Thirty-third,  under  command  of 
Captain  Ellis,  fought  in  Scribner's  (ist)  Brigade,  Rousseau's  (ist)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps, —  same  brigade  and 
division  as  before  ;  loss,  2  killed,  21  wounded,  and  1 1  missing.  The  Army  lay  at  Murfreesboro  during  the  ensuing 
six  months,  and  then  started  on  its  advance  on  Chattanooga.  At  Chickamauga  —  General  Baird  commanding  the 
division  —  the  regiment  lost  14  killed,  63  wounded,  and  83  missing  or  captured,  out  of  343  engaged.  Major 
Ephraim  J.  Ellis  was  killed  in  this  action.  While  on  the  Atlanta  campaign, —  then  in  Carlin's  (ist)  Brigade, 
Johnson's  (ist)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps, —  the  regiment  had  a  hard  fight  at  Resaca,  in  which  it  suffered  the 

severest  loss  of  its  experience.     Having  reenlisted,  it  served  until  the  end  of  the  war. 
21 


322 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-FOURTH   OHIO   INFANTRY. 
JOHNSON'S  BRIGADE  —  DUVAL'S  DIVISION  —  EIGHTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ABRAHAM  S.  PIATT  ;  BRIG.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  T.  TOLAND  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  FREEMAN  E.  FRANKLIN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

2 

I 

2 

• 

I 

2 

• 

J3 
'3 

12 

)              ^ 
1             10 

I  I 
II 
12 
10 
I  I 

2 
!5 

X3 

!3 

J9 

10 

II 

12 

14 
IO 

II 

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
* 

!5 

14 
15 

12 
M 

14 
I  I 

II 
12 
12 

IS 

kJ 

H 

J5 

12 
*4 

14 
II 

II 
12 
12 

16 
165 
J74 
163 
161 
182 
181 

*53 

148 

149 

J43 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

10 

I  2O 

13° 

• 

130 

130 

!>635 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  481  ;  died  in 
BATTLES.  K.&MAV 

Kanawha   Gap,  W.  Va.,  Sept.  25,  1861 6 

Picket,  W.  Va.,  Nov.  4,  1861 i 

Buck    Ford,  W.  Va.,  Dec.  18,  1861 2 

Princeton,  W.  Va.,  May  1 6,  1862 9 

Fayetteville,  W.  Va.,  Sept.  10,  1862 22 

Wytheville,  W.  Va.,  July    18,1863 6 

Point  Pleasant,  W.  Va i 

Callahan  Station,  Va i 

Jeffersonville,  Va i 

Cloyd's  Mountain,  Va 7 

Cove  Mountain  Gap,  Va 2 

Buchanan,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at    Piedmont,   Va. ;  Lexington,  W. 
Salem,  Va. 


Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  31. 

BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Lynchburg,  Va 5 

Winchester,  Va.,  July  20,  1864 14 

Winchester,  Va.,  July  24,  1864 8 

Martinsburg,  Va 3 

Bolivar  Heights,  Va i 

Berryville,  Va i 

Opequon,   Va 17 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va 3 

Cedar   Creek,  Va 8 

Beverly,  W.  Va 6 

Guerillas 3 

Place  unknown 2 

Va. ;  Halltown,   Va. ;  Martinsburg,   Va. ;  Strasburg,   Va. ; 


NOTES. —  This  regiment  saw  an  unusual  amount  of  hard  service  on  campaigns  outside  the  beaten  track  of 
the  main  armies,  and  sustained  a  heavy  loss  in  action,  most  of  which  occurred  in  battles  seldom  mentioned  in 
the  history  of  the  war.  The  Thirty-fourth  was  organized  at  Camp  Lucas,  Clermont  County,  during  the  summer 
of  1 86 1,  leaving  the  State  on  the  I5th  of  September.  It  was  ordered  to  West  Virginia,  where  its  fighting  and 
marching  immediately  commenced,  the  guerrilla  warfare  in  that  section  requiring  a  constant  vigilance,  with 
frequent  counter  attacks.  The  absence  of  the  Kanawha  Division  in  September,  1862, —  then  with  McClellan  in 
Maryland  —  induced  the  Confederates,  under  General  Long,  to  attack  Fayetteville,  in  which  affair  six  companies 
of  the  regiment  lost  16  killed,  87  wounded,  and  112  captured.  The  garrison  fell  back,  abandoning  the  Kanawha 
Valley  to  the  enemy,  who  held  it  until  the  return  of  Cox's  Kanawha  Division  from  Antietam.  In  1863,  the  regi 
ment  served  as  mounted  infantry,  fighting  as  such  at  Wytheville,  where  Colonel  Toland  was  killed  ;  in  July,  1864, 
it  was  dismounted,  and,  serving  again  as  infantry,  fought  under  General  Crook  at  Winchester,  July  2Oth  and  24th, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  John  W.  Shaw  being  killed  in  the  latter  action.  On  the  26th  of  February,  1865,  the  organi 
zation  of  the  Thirty- fourth  was  discontinued,  and  the  men  were  transferred  to  the  Thirty-sixth  Ohio. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


THIRTY-SIXTH  OHIO  INFANTRY. 
R.  B.  HAYES'S  BRIGADE -- Duv  A  L'S  DIVISION  —  EIGHTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  CROOK,  SB.  p.,  B.  «.;  BVT.  MAJOR-GKN.  U.  S.  A.         (3)  COL.  EBENEZER  B.  ANDREWS. 

(2)  Coi..  MELVIN  CLARK  (Killed).  (4)  COL.  WILLIAM  G.  JONES.  OB.  ty.,  B.  *.  (Killed). 

(5)  COL.  HIRAM  F.  DUVAL    BVT.  BRIU.-GEN.  U.  S.  V. 


COM  PAN  I  EM. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOVNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PUIHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Stall  

2 

• 
• 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

'3 

12 

I  I 

22 

15 

'3 

7 
M 
6 

23 

2 

'3 

12 
II 
22' 

15 
13 

8 

14 
6 
24 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

12 

'7 
8 

15 
14 

22 
20 
20 
20 

'5 

•     • 

12 
17 

8 

15 

14 

22 
2O 
2O 
2O 

'5 

19 

'Si 

142 

!73 
131 

T34 

'58 
162 

173 
146 

'S1 

Company  A  

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

4 

136 

140 

• 

I63 

163 

i,S40 

K.  &M.W. 

Winchester,  Va.,  July  23-24,  1864 21 

Strasburg,   Va i 

Summit  Point,  Va i 

Berryville,  Va 7 

Opequon,  Va 8 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va i 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 8 

Cabletown,  Va.,  Nov.  19,  1864 3 

Guerillas i 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  518  ,  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  36. 
BATTLES.  K.&M.W.  BATTI  i  - 

Lewisburg,  Va.,  May   23,  1862 9 

South  Mountain,  Md 1 1 

Antietam,  Md ^ 

Murfreesboro,  Tenn i 

Chickamauga,  Ga 26 

Mission  Ridge,  Tenn •  •  •  • 24 

Cloyd's  Mountain,  Va 

Lexington,  W.  Va 2 

Lynchburg,  Va 2 

Cabletown,  Va.,  July  19,  1864 4 

Present,  also,  at   Manassas,  Va. ;  Frederick,    Md. ;  Hoover's   Gap,   Tenn. ;  Brown's   Ferry,    Tenn. ;  Mar- 
tinsburg,  W.  Va. ;  Halltown,  Va.  ;  Beverly,  W.  Va. 

NOTES— Organized  in  August,  1861,  at  Marietta,  and  ordered  on  duty  in  West  Virginia.  Arriving  there,  it 
was  stationed  at  Summerville,  where  it  made  its  winter  quarters  and  remained  until  May  12,1862;  it  then 
moved  to  Lewisburg,  Va.,  where  it  was  placed  in  Crook's  (3d)  Brigade,  Cox's  Division.  While  at  Lewisburg  the 
brigade  was  attacked  by  a  Confederate  force  under  General  Heth,  which  was  repulsed  and  driven  from  the  field, 
the  regiment  losing  in  this  affair,  5  killed,  41  wounded,  and  4  missing.  In  August,  1862,  Cox's  Kanawha  Division 
was  ordered  to  Eastern  Virginia,  the  Thirty-sixth  arriving  on  the  field  of  Manassas  during  the  action,  where  it  was 
stationed  in  the  reserve.  During  the  ensuing  Maryland  campaign  the  division  was  attached  to  the  Ninth  Coqjs, 
and  fought  under  Burnside  at  South  Mountain,  where  the  regiment  lost  7  killed,  and  18  wounded ;  at  Antietam  it 
lost  2  killed,  21  wounded,  and  2  missing,  Colonel  Clark  being  among  the  killed.  After  Antietam,  the  Kanawha 
Division  returned  to  West  Virginia,  the  regiment  encamping  during  the  next  three  months  at  Charlestown.  In 
January,  1863,  the  Thirty-sixth  joined  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  and  in  June,  1863,  moved  with  Crook's 
Brigade,  in  the  advance  on  Chattanooga.  At  Chickamauga,  it  was  in  Turchin's  (3d)  Brigade,  Reynolds's  (4th) 
Division,  Fourteenth  Corps;  loss,  12  killed,  —  including  Colonel  Jones  —  65  wounded,  and  14  missing.  At 
Missionary  Ridge, —  then  in  Baird's  (3d)  Division,  it  sustained  its  heaviest  loss, —  10  killed,  62  wounded,  and  3 
missing.  Reenlisting,  it  went  to  Ohio  on  a  veteran  furlough  in  March,  1864,  from  whence  it  was  ordered  to 
West  Virginia. 


324 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-EIGHTH   OHIO   INFANTRY. 
ESTE'S  BRIGADE  —  BAIRD'S  DIVISION  -  -  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EDWIN  D.  BRADLEY. 

(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  A.  CHOATE  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  EDWARD  H.  PHELPS  (Killed), 
(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  IRVING. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 

I 

1 
I 

• 

I 

I 

* 

I 

12 

IO 

1S 

13 

12 

2O 
IO 

!? 
II 

II 

3 

J3 

10 

16 

!3 

13 

21 
IO 

18 

12 
I  I 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

23 

3° 

18 

IS 

18 

3° 
16 

36 
16 

25 

•    * 

23 

3° 

18 

15 

18 

31 
*7 
36 
16 

25 

13 

*93 

J57 

184 

151 

156 
171 

158 
172 

J57 
186 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

8 

I32 

I4O 

2 

227 

229 

1,698 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  531. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Decatur,  Ala 2 

Stone's  River,  Tenn i 

Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn i 

Missionary   Ridge,  Tenn 16 

Resaca,  Ga 2 

Dallas,  Ga 2 

Ackworth,  Ga i 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 8 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Chattahoochie,  Ga 3 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 3 

Ezra  Chapel,  Ga i 

Utoy  Creek,  Ga 16 

Siege   of  Atlanta,  Ga 8 

Jonesboro,    Ga 72 

Nashville,  Tenn 2 

Place  unknown 2 


Present,  also,  at  Perryville ;  March  to  the  Sea ;  The  Carolinas. 


NOTES. — Organized,  September  i,  1861,  at  Defiance,  Ohio.  In  the  following  month  it  moved  into  Ken 
tucky,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Schoepf 's  Brigade,  of  Thomas's  Division,  with  which  command  it  marched  on 
the  Mill  Springs  campaign.  In  March,  1862,  it  moved  with  Thomas's  Division  to  Pittsburg  Landing,  arriving 
too  late  to  participate  in  the  battle,  but  in  time  for  the  subsequent  operations  connected  with  the  Siege  of 
Corinth.  During  the  summer  of  1862,  the  regiment  shared  in  the  campaigns  of  the  Army  of  the  Ohio,  joining 
in  September,  1862,  in  the  retrograde  movement  from  Chattanooga  to  Louisville.  At  Stone's  River  it  fought  in 
Walker's  Brigade,  Fry's  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps.  It  was  absent  from  Chickamauga,  having  been  detailed  to 
guard  a  wagon  train.  At  Missionary  Ridge,  it  fought  in  Baird's  (3d)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps,  losing  9  killed 
-including  Colonel  Phelps  —  and  37  wounded.  The  regiment  reenlisted  during  the  winter  of  1863-64,  and  went 
home  on  furlough.  A  large  number  of  recruits  were  received,  so  that  it  entered  the  Atlanta  campaign,  May, 
1864,  with  about  750  men;  it  was  then  in  Este's  (3d)  Brigade,  Baird's  (3d)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps.  At 
Utoy  Creek,  Aug.  5th,  three  companies,  numbering  120  men,  made  a  successful  charge  on  the  enemy's  skirmish 
line,  but  with  a  loss  of  9  killed,  and  42  wounded.  Este's  Brigade  distinguished  itself  at  Jonesboro  by  a  gallant 
and  successful  assault  which  cost  it  one-third  its  number,  the  Thirty-eighth  losing  42  killed  and  108  wounded, 
out  of  360  engaged.  Colonel  Choate  and  two  color  bearers  were  killed  in  this  battle. 


THREE  HUNDRED-  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


325 


FORTY-FIRST  OHIO  INFANTRY. 
HAZEN'S  BRIGADE  -  -  WOOD'S  DIVISION  -  -  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(I)COL.  WILLIAM  B.  HAZEN.  OT.  $.,».*.;  Bvr.  MAJ.-GEN.  U.S.A. 
(2)  Coi..  AQUILA  WILEY  ;  BVT.  BKIU.-OKN.  U.  S.  V. 


(3)  COL.  ROBERT  L.  KIMBKRLY;  BVT.  BKIO.-GBN.  U.S.  V. 

(4)  COL.  E.  S   IIOLLOWAY  ;  BVT.  BKKJ.-OEN.  U.  S.  V 


COMPANIES. 

Kn.i.Kii  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'UISON,  <fcc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

2 

2 

I 
2 

'9 
'3 
23 

'5 
16 

25 

15 

1  6 

15 

ii 

20 

'3 
25 

'5 
16 

25 
'7 
16 

16 
'3 

I 

* 
* 

14 

22 

17 
I  2 

6 

'9 
'5 

21 
13 

I 
22 

'7 

12 

6 
H 

15 

21 
13 

16 

'47 
141 

169 

109 
167 
'53 

1  68 

IO2 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

8 

168 

176 

I 

'53 

'54 

.,4*3 

176  killed  —  12.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  667. 

BATTLE*.  K.  &  M.W 

Shiloh,  Tenn 43 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 24 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Pickett's  Mills,  Ga 40 

Dallas,  Ga i 


Chickamauga,  Ga 19 

Brown's  Ferry,  Tenn 2 

Orchard  Knob,  Tenn 10 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 22 

Resaca,  Ga ; 3 

Adairsville,  Ga i 


Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga .2 

Chattahoochie,  Ga 2 

Utoy  Creek,  Ga i 

Atlanta,  Ga 2 

Nashville,  Tenn 4 


Present,  also,  at  Woodbury,  Tenn. ;  Liberty  Gap,  Tenn. ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga. ;  Cassville,  Ga. ;  Love- 
joy's  Station,  Ga. ;  Franklin,  Tenn. 

NOTES — Recruited  in  Cleveland,  in  August,  1861,  the  men  coming  mostly  from  that  immediate  vicinity.  In 
November,  the  regiment  moved  into  Kentucky,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Nelson's  Division,  Colonel  Hazen  com 
manding  the  brigade.  In  March,  1862,  the  division  moved  with  Buell  to  reenforce  Grant,  the  Army  of  the  Ohio 
arriving  just  in  time  to  save  the  field  of  Shiloh.  In  that  battle  the  regiment  lost  21  killed,  1 1 1  wounded,  and  10 
missing,  out  of  nine  companies,  371  officers  and  men,  officially  reported  as  engaged;  four  color  bearers  were 
shot  down,  two  of  them  killed.  The  regiment  followed  the  fortunes  of  Buell's  Army,  being  present,  though  not 
engaged,  at  Perryville,  Ky.  The  Forty-first  was  hotly  engaged  at  Stone's  River, —  then  in  Haven's  (2d)  Brigade, 
Palmer's  (2d)  Division,  Crittenden's  Corps  —  losing  14  killed,  104  wounded,  and  6  missing,  out  of  411  reported 
on  the  field.  After  resting  at  Murfreesboro  for  over  five  months,  the  Army  commenced  its  advance  on  Chatta 
nooga.  At  the  battle  of  Chickamauga,  the  Forty-first  lost  6  killed,  100  wounded,  and  9  missing.  The  Army 
was  reorganized  in  October,  1863,  whereupon  the  Forty-first  became  a  part  of  Hazen's  (2d)  Brigade,  Wood's 
(3d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Orchard  Knob  and  Missionary  Ridge;  loss,  18 
killed,  and  70  wounded.  While  on  the  Atlanta  campaign  the  division  had  a  severe  fight  at  Pickett's  Mills,  near 
Dallas,  Ga.,  on  May  27,  1864,  retiring  with  a  heavy  loss,  the  regiment  losing  26  killed,  70  wounded,  and  6  miss 
ing,  out  of  271  present.  Mustered  out  November  27,  1865,  while  on  duty  in  Texas. 


326 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN*  THE  CIVIL  WAK. 


FORTY-SIXTH   OHIO   INFANTRY. 
WALCUTT'S  BRIGADE  —  HARROW'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  WORTHINGTON,  fflSE.  P.         (2)  COL.  CHARLES  C.  WALCUTT  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.          (3)  COL.  EDWARD  N.  UPTON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

I 

• 

I 

2 

» 
• 

2 
2 

I 

13 

9 

I  2 
*4 
14 

13 

12 

14 
10 

*3 

I 
M 

9 

13 

16 

M 

'3 

M 
16 

IO 

M 

3 

• 

i 
i 

• 

i 

• 

i 

• 

•     • 

'5 
1  1 

18 

9 
16 

IO 

H 
i? 
r9 

20 

3 

i5 
ii 

J9 
9 
*7 

IO 

15 

17 
20 

20 

13 

109 

103 
104 
101 
I03 
IO2 
127 
IO4 
lOp 
136 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

124 

134 

7 

149 

156 

1,1  11 

134  killed  =  12  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  516. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Shiloh,  Tenn , 65 

Black  River,  Miss i 

Jackson,  Miss 2 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 9 

Guerrillas,  Tenn.,  Dec.  1 1,  1863 i 

Resaca,  Ga i 

Dallas,  Ga 2 

Noonday  Creek,  Ga 2 


BATTLES.                                                                        K.  &M.  W. 

Kenesaw  Assault,  Ga 16 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  22d 8 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 10 

Jonesboro,    Ga 6 

Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga .• .  3 

Cedar  Bluff,  Ga 2 

Sherman's  March i 


Bentonville,  N.  C 5 

Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth ;  Vicksburg ;  Knoxville ;  Griswoldville,  Ga. ;  Siege  of  Savannah ;  The 
Carolinas. 

NOTES. — Recruited  at  Worthington,  Ohio,  in  September,  1861.  It  left  Camp  Chase,  February  18,  1862,  and 
proceeded  to  Paducah,  Ky.,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Sherman's  Division.  In  March  it  embarked  for  Pittsburg 
Landing,  encamping  there  until  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  in  which  it  lost  37  killed,  185  wounded,  and  24  missing; 
total,  246.  After  taking  part  in  the  siege  of  Corinth  the  regiment  spent  the  ensuing  twelve  months  of  1862-63 
in  doing  guard  duty  along  the  Memphis  and  Charleston  Railroad,  and  on  provost  duty  in  Memphis  ;  in  the  spring 
of  1863,  if  served  a  while  as  mounted  infantry  on  scouting  expeditions.  On  June  i2th,  1863,  the  Forty-sixth 
moved  to  Vicksburg,  where  its  division  assisted  in  the  siege  operations  of  that  time,  the  regiment  being  then  in 
Hicks's  Brigade,  W.  S.  Smith's  Division,  Sixteenth  Corps.  In  October,  1863,  this  division  embarked  for  Mem 
phis  where  it  was  transferred  to  the  Fifteenth  Corps,  with  which  it  moved  soon  after  to  Chattanooga  where 
it  fought  at  Missionary  Ridge,  and  then  marched  to  the  relief  of  Knoxville,  the  latter  campaign  being  one  un 
paralleled  for  its  privations  and  hardships.  While  in  winter-quarters  at  Scottsboro,  Ala.,  the  regiment  was  armed 
with  Spencer  Repeating  Rifles,  which  proved  very  effective  in  the  ensuing  Atlanta  campaign.  In  that  campaign 
the  Forty-sixth  was  in  Walcutt's  (2d)  Brigade,  Harrow's  (4th)  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps.  Major  Henry  H. 
Giesy  was  killed  at  Dallas.  Having  reenlisted,  the  regiment  remained  in  service  throughout  the  war,  accompa 
nying  Sherman's  Army  as  it  "  went  marching  through  Georgia  "  and  across  the  Carolinas  to  Virginia. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


FORTY-NINTH   OHIO  INFANTRY. 
WILLICH'S  BRIGADE-    WOOD'S  I>I\ISK.N    -FOURTH  CORPS. 


(l)C'OL  WILLIAM  H.  GIBSON;  BVT.  BRIO.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  JOSEPH  R.  BARTLETT. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PHIMON.  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

4 
i 

2 

I 
I 
I 
2 

• 

I 

* 

•  • 

25 
17 

J7 

*7 

17 

18 
18 

22 
19 

18 

I 
29 

18 

19 
18 

18 

19 
20 

22 
20 

18 

• 
• 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

16 

14 
20 
20 

12 

22 
8 

'5 

13 

20 

•     • 

16 

M 
20 

20 
12 
22 

9 
'5 

»3 

2O 

'3 

136 
146 
136 
138 

'45 
162 

140 
149 

•36 
167 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G. 

H. 

r 

K  

Totals  

14 

1  88 

202 

I 

1  60 

161               1,468 

202  killed  —  13.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  754;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  17. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 10 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 35 

Liberty  Gap,  Tenn 7 

Chickamauga,  Ga 20 

Missionary   Ridge,  Tenn 13 

Morristown,  Tenn i 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 3 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Pickett's  Mills,  Ga 83 

Kenesaw,  Ga 4 

Atlanta,  Ga 4 

Jonesboro,   Ga 4 

Nashville,  Tenn 15 

Columbia,  Tenn i 


Skirmish,  Feb.  6,  1 865 2 

Present,  also,  at  Munfordville,  Ky.  ;  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Dog  Walk,  Ky. ;  Resaca,  Ga. ;  Cassville,  Ga. ; 
Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga. ;  Franklin,  Tenn. 

NOTES — The  Forty-ninth  sustained  the  greatest  loss  in  battle  of  any  Ohio  regiment.  It  was  organized  at 
Tiffin,  in  September,  1861,  and  proceeded  immediately  to  Louisville,  the  first  completely  organized  regiment  to 
arrive  in  Kentucky.  It  was  assigned  to  Johnson's  Brigade,  of  McCook's  Division.  It  went  into  winter-quarters 
at  Munfordville,  and  in  March,  1862,  moved  with  its  division  to  rei'-nforce  Grant,  at  Pittsburg  Landing,  where  it 
arrived  in  time  to  take  part  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh.  The  regiment  lost  in  that  action  6  killed,  and  34  wounded  ; 
Colonel  Gibson  was  in  command  of  the  brigade.  After  accompanying  BuelFs  Army  to  Corinth,  to  Alabama, 
then  back  through  Tennessee,  and  on  the  Perryville  campaign,  the  regiment  fought  next  at  Stone's  River,  it  being 
then  in  Willich's  (ist)  Brigade,  Johnson's  (2d)  Division,  McCook's  Corps;  its  loss  in  that  battle  was  20  killed, 
94  wounded,  and  108  captured  or  missing.  General  Willich  having  been  captured  in  the  early  part  of  this 
engagement,  Colonel  Gibson  again  led  the  brigade  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Levi  H.  Drake  was  killed  while  leading 
the  regiment  and  gallantly  cheering  on  his  men.  At  Chickamauga,  the  regiment  lost  10  killed,  59  wounded,  and 
30  missing.  Having  rei;nlisted,  the  Forty-ninth  served  in  the  Atlanta  campaign, —  in  Gibson's  (ist)  Brigade, 
Wood's  (3d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  the  bloody  battle  of  Pickett's  Mills, 
May  27,  1864,  sustaining  the  heaviest  loss  in  that  action,  its  casualties  amounting  to  52  killed,  147  wounded,  and 
4  missing ;  total,  203.  After  fighting  under  Thomas  at  Nashville,  the  Fourth  Corps  was  ordered  to  Texas,  where 
the  regiment  remained  until  December,  1865,  when  it  was  mustered  out. 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTY-FIFTH  OHIO  INFANTRY. 


SMITH'S  BRIGADE  —  STEINWEHR'S  DIVISION  —  ELEVENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  C.  LEE ;  BVT.  BBIO.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  CHARLES  B.  GAMBEE  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  EDWIN  II.  POWERS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

3 
i 

• 

•  • 

J3 
ii 

16 
14 
7 
13 
i5 

21 

M 

I  2 

2 

J3 

12 

16 
14 

7 

!3 

18 

22 

14 
I  2 

• 
• 

•  • 
1  1 

'3 
H 
9 

!7 
12 

I  I 
II 
M 

7 

•    • 

II 
*3 

14 

9 

!? 
12 

I  I 
I  I 
M 

7 

!3 

141 

'35 
146 

J43 
I3I 

MS 
124 

T39 
136 

J39 

f^nmnpinv  A  . 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  '.. 

K  

Totals  

7 

136 

M3 

• 

119 

119 

!,392 

143  killed  =  10.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  547. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Franklin,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va 23 

Chancellorsville,  Va 35 

Gettysburg,  Pa 1 1 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 4 

Buzzard's    Roost,  Ga 2 

Resaca,  Ga 31 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i  o 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 3 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 6 

Fayetteville,    N.C i 

Averasboro,  N.C 5 

Bentonville,  N.C 9 

Magnolia  Station,  S.  C i 


Dallas,  Ga i 

Present,  also,  at  McDowell ;  Cross   Keys  ;  Cedar  Mountain  ;  Cassville,  Ga. ;  Chattahoochie,  Ga. ;  Siege  of 
Savannah. 

NOTES. — Organized  in  the  fall  of  1861,  at  Norwalk,  Ohio,  leaving  the  State  January  25, 1862,  and  proceeding 
to  Grafton,  W.  Va.,  where  it  remained  until  April,  1862.  During  the  spring  of  1862  it  served  in  Schenck's 
Brigade,  and  was  present  with  that  command  at  Manassas, —  then  McLean's  (2d)  Brigade,  Schenck's  (ist)  Divi 
sion,  Sigel's  Corps;  the  casualties  in  the  regiment  at  that  battle  amounted  to  14  killed,  60  wounded,  and  21  miss 
ing.  The  Corps  remained  in  Virginia,  encamped  near  Centreville,  during  McClellan's  Antietam  campaign,  and 
then  went  into  winter-quarters  at  Stafford  Court  House.  On  the  2yth  of  April  it  broke  camp  for  Chancellors 
ville,  the  brigade  being  then  in  Devens's  (ist)  Division,  Eleventh  Corps;  the  loss  of  the  regiment  in  that  battle 
was  9  killed,  87  wounded,  and  57  missing, —  out  of  491  present.  At  Gettysburg  the  Fifty-fifth  was  in  Smith's 
(2d)  Brigade,  Steinwehr's  (2d)  Division,  Eleventh  Corps;  casualties,  6  killed,  31  wounded,  and  12  missing. 
In  September,  1863,  the  regiment  accompanied  its  Corps  to  Tennessee,  where  it  fought  at  Missionary  Ridge. 
In  April,  1864,  the  Eleventh  was  transferred  to  Hooker's  newly  organized  Twentieth  Corps,  a  corps  which  won 
honorable  distinction  in  the  Atlanta  campaign.  During  that  campaign  the  regiment — then  in  Butterfield's  (3d) 
Division  — participated  in  some  hard  fighting  at  Resaca,  where  it  lost  1 8  killed  — including  Colonel  Gambee  and 
Major  Robbins  —  72  wounded,  and  one  missing;  its  casualties  on  that  campaign  were  over  200,  or  fifty  per 
cent,  of  its  effective  strength.  After  marching  with  Sherman  to  the  sea,  it  was  hotly  engaged  in  more  hard  fight 
ing  at  Averasboro  and  Bentonville,  N.  C. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


329 


SIXTY-FIFTH   OHIO  INFANTRY. 
MARKER'S  BRIGADE --NEWTON'S  DIVISION --FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CHAKLES  G.  HARKER,  8K.  IP..B.«.;  BIUU.-GBN. 


(8)  COL.  ORLOW  SMITH;  HVT.  BRHJ.-GEN 


COMPANIES. 

Kill  1  1.   AND    I'll  1.   (IF   \ViM   MI-. 

DiKi)  or  I  M-I  \-i  .  ACCIIIENTH,  IN  I'IUHON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

<  Mtliwra. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

I 
I 

• 

I 
2 

• 

I 

• 

•     • 

12 

16 
9 

10 

8 

7 
1  1 

'3 

12 

16 

2 
12 

16 

10 

1  1 
8 
8 

'3 

'3 

'3 
16 

I 

• 

i 

• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

i 

• 

•    • 

'7 
10 

»9 

7 
10 

7 
'7 
'5 
'3 
M 

I 

'7 
1  1 

'9 

8 

1  1 

7 
18 

16 

13 
M 

I  2 
122 

I25 
II  I 

*25 

126 

121 
121 
I  2O 
121 
112 

B  

c 

I)  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

8 

114 

122 

6 

1  29 

'35 

1,216 

122  killed  —  10  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  448  ,  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  ly. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W 

Stone's  River,  Tenn  ........................  52 

Will's  Valley,  Ga.,  Sept.  7,  1  863  ..............        i 

Chickamauga,  Ga  ..........................  24 

Train-guard,  Tenn.,  Oct.  8,  1863  .............        i 

Missionary   Ridge,  Tenn  ....................        3 

Resaca,  Ga  ...............................        6 

Dallas,  Ga  ................................        2 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga  .....................        4 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Marietta,  Ga 4 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga i 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  22,  1 864 i 

Siege  of  Atlanta 2 

Spring  Hill,  Tenn 9 

Franklin,  Tenn 6 

Nashville,  Tenn 6 


Present,  also,  at  Shiloh  ;  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  Adairsville  ;  Jonesboro. 


V  •:  i  -.-- 1  >rgani/.i  •  ';  at  Mansfield,  in  '  ><  tober,  1861,  th<  re<  ruita  •  oming  from  the  State  al  large.  It  left  the 
State,  December  18,  proceeding  to  Kentucky,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Harker's  Hrigade  of  Wood's  Division. 
In  March,  1862,  Wood's  Division  accompanied  Buell's  Army  in  its  march  to  Shiloh,  but  arrived  on  the  field  too 
late  to  take  an  active  part  in  the  battle,  the  regiment  losing  only  two  men  wounded.  The  Sixty-fifth  was  under 
fire  at  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  after  which  it  marched  with  Buell  on  the  long  and  arduous  campaigns  of  the  sum 
mer  of  1862.  At  the  battle  of  Stone's  River,  it  fought  in  Harker's  (3(1)  Brigade,  Wood's  (ist)  Division,  Crit- 
tenden's  Corps  (Left  Wing),  its  casualties  in  that  action  aggregating  35  killed,  100  wounded,  and  38  missing,  out 
of  382  engaged.  After  a  five  months  rest  at  Murfreesboro  the  Army  moved,  June  7,  1863,  on  its  advance  on 
Chattanooga.  At  Chickamauga  the  regiment  lost  14  killed,  71  wounded,  and  18  missing,  Major  Samuel  C. 
Brown  being  among  the  killed.  In  October,  1863,  the  regiment  was  placed  in  Harker's  (3d)  Brigade,  Newton's 
(2d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  during  the  long  and  bloody  campaign  against  Atlanta. 
General  Harker  was  killed  while  leading  the  assault  on  Kenesaw  Mountain,  June  27,  1864.  After  the  fall  of 
Atlanta  the  Fourth  Corps  served  in  Tennessee,  on  the  campaign  against  Hood,  the  regiment  fighting  at  Spring 
Hill,  Franklin  and  Nashville,  although  but  few  men  were  then  remaining  in  its  ranks.  The  men  who  did  not 
reenlist  had  all  been  mustered  out  in  October,  1864,  prior  to  the  campaign  against  Hood. 


330 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTY- SEVENTH  OHIO  INFANTRY. 
HOWELL'S  BRIGADE  —  TERRY'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  OTTO  BURSTENBINDEK. 


(2)  COL.  ALVIN  C.  VOEIS ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEK. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 
I 
I 
I 

I 
I 

I 

2 

I 
I 

.  • 

13 
ii 

18 
10 

J3 
ii 

12 
12 

16 

15 

•    • 

M 
12 

J9 
II 

14 

12 

13 

14 

J7 
16 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

25 

19 

10 

ii 
M 
13 
*7 
14 

12 

14 

I 

25 

J9 
10 

1  1 
14 
13 
'7 
15 

12 
M 

14 
I78 
I70 
171 
182 

173 

171 

1  60 
182 

161 

164 

B  

C. 

D  

E  

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I  

K  . 

Totals  

I  I 

'31 

142 

I 

15° 

J51 

1,726 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  529. 
Enrollment  does  not  include  men  transferred  from  the  Sixty-second  Ohio  after  the  war  had  closed. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 

Winchester,  Va 15 


Harrison's  Landing,  Va 2 

Fort   Wagner,  S.  C.  (assault) 43 

Siege  of  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C 4 

Chester  Station,  Va 19 

Ware  Bottom  Church,  Va 17 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va i 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6 

Present,  also,  at  Strasburg  ;  Front  Royal ;  Franklin  ;  Blackwater. 


K.&M.W. 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 9 

Chamn's  Farm,  Va i 

New  Market  Road,  Va.,  Octr.  i,  1864 i 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  13,  1864 10 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 5 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 8 

Appomattox,  Va i 


NOTES. — Left  Columbus,  January  19,  1862,  proceeding  to  West  Virginia,  where  it  served  under  Lander.  In 
March,  under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Voris,  it  moved  with  Shields's  Division  up  the  Shenandoah  Valley 
to  Kernstown,  where  Shields  won  a  decided  victory  over  Stonewall  Jackson,  the  regiment  losing  in  that  battle  9 
killed  and  38  wounded.  Embarking  at  Alexandria,  June  29th,  it  proceeded  to  Harrison's  Landing,  on  the  James 
River,  to  reenforce  McClellan  ;  but  the  Government  having  ordered  that  the  route  by  the  James  must  be  aban 
doned,  McClellan  was  obliged  to  withdraw  his  army,  upon  which  the  Sixty-seventh  was  ordered  to  Suffolk,  Va. 
It  remained  there  a  few  months,  enjoying  the  needed  rest  and  perfecting  its  drill,  after  which  it  moved  to  Hilton 
Head,  S.  C.,  arriving  there  February  i,  1863.  It  participated  in  the  operations  about  Charleston  Harbor  in  the 
summer  of  1863,  and  took  part  in  the  disastrous  assault  on  Fort  Wagner,  losing  in  that  brief  action  19  killed,  82 
wounded,  and  25  missing.  The  regiment  went  home  in  February,  1864,  on  a  veteran  furlough,  and,  returning, 
joined  the  Army  of  the  James  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Howell's  (ist)  Brigade,  Terry's 
(ist)  Division,  Tenth  Corps.  At  Chester  Station,  May  10,  1864,  the  regiment  lost  12  killed,  64  wounded,  and  2 
missing  ;  from  that  time  on,  it  was  under  fire  almost  daily  for  several  months.  In  December,  1864,  the  Tenth 
Corps  was  merged  in  the  newly-formed  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  in  which  the  regiment  fought  at  the  victorious 
assault  on  Fort  Gregg;  though  but  a  remnant  of  its  former  self,  it  lost -in  that  bloody  affair  8  killed  and  55 
wounded. 


THKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMEHTS. 


331 


SEVENTY-THIRD   OHIO   INFANTRY. 
SMITH'S  BRIGADK    -VoN  STEINWKHR'S  DIVISION- -ELEVENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ORLANI)  SMITH;  BVT.  BRIO.-GBN. 

(8)  COL.  SAMUEL  11.  HURST;  BVT.  BBIQ.-GKM. 


(2)  C!oi..  HICHAHI)  LONG. 


COM  PA  MI  KM. 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  I'KIHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment, 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

* 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

•    • 

18 

'5 
23 

12 

13 

12 
2O 

14 
22 

18 

•     • 

•    • 

'9 
15 

23 
.      12 

H 

'3 
20 

M 

23 

18 

•    • 

I 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

8 

M 
16 

14 
20 

18 
T5 

12 
12 

1  8 

2 

I 

8 

H 
1  6 

H 

20 

18 

'5 

1  2 
I  2 
I  8 

2 

'5 
124 

142 
126 

"5 

109 

137 

121 
144 
107 
127 

•    •     • 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

4 

l67 

171 

I 

I4y 

'5° 

1,267 

171  killcd=  13.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded    681. 


BATTLES  K.&M.W 

Forage  Party,  W.  Va i 

Cross  Keys,  Va 5 

Manassas,  Va 40 

Gettysburg,  Pa 39 

Wauhatchie,  Tenn 1 6 

Resaca,  Ga 19 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 21 


BATTLES.  K.&MAV. 

Pine    Mountain,  Ga 2 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga '4 

Gulp's  Farm,  Ga 5 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 3 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 4 

Averasboro,  N.  C i 

Bentonville,  N.  C 1 1 

Present,  also,  at  Moorefield  ;  McDowell ;  Cedar  Mountain  ;  Chancellorsville  ;  Lookout  Mountain  ;  Mission 
ary  Ridge  ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  Cassville  ;  Savannah. 

NOTES. — The  Seventy-third  was  recruited  largely  in  Ross  county,  and  was  organized  at  Chillicothe, 
December  31,  1861.  It  left  Ohio  on  the  24th  of  January,  1862,  for  West  Virginia,  where  it  served  under  Lander, 
Milroy,  and  Fremont,  and  was  engaged  in  several  expeditions  and  minor  engagements.  It  fought  at  Manassas  - 
then  in  McLean's  (2d)  Brigade,  Schenck's  (ist)  Division,  Sigel's  Corps  —  losing  25  killed,  87  wounded,  and  36 
missing,  with  only  312  muskets  taken  into  action.  Soon  after  this  battle  the  regiment  was  placed  in  Barlow's 
(ist)  Brigade,  Steinwehr's  (2d)  Division,  Eleventh  Corps,  with  which  command  it  remained  encamped  in 
Virginia  during  the  ensuing  Maryland  and  Fredericksburg  campaigns,  and  during  the  winter  of  i862-'63- 
Barlow's  Brigade  was  only  slightly  engaged  at  Chancellorsville,  but  at  Gettysburg  the  brigade  (Smith's)  did  some 
hard  fighting,  the  regiment  losing  2 1  killed,  1 20  wounded,  and  4  missing,  out  of  about  300  present  in  action.  In 
September  the  Seventy-third  accompanied  its  corps  to  Tennessee,  where  it  was  engaged,  a  few  weeks  after,  in  the 
midnight  battle  of  Wauhatchie.  In  that  affair  the  Seventy-third  Ohio  and  Thirty-third  Massachusetts  carried  a 
strong  position  by  storm  —  a  gallant  action,  which  General  Grant  alluded  to  in  his  official  report  as  "  one  of  the 
most  daring  feats  of  arms  of  the  war."  While  on  the  Atlanta  Campaign  the  Seventy-third  was  inWoods's  (3d) 
Brigade,  Ward's  (tf)  Division,  Twentieth  Corps.  At  Resaca  it  lost  10  killed,  and  42  wounded  ;  at  New  Hope 
Church,  15  killed,  and  59  wounded  ;  and  at  Bentonville  (Cogswell's  Brigade),  5  killed,  and  25  wounded. 


332 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


EIGHTY-SECOND   OHIO   INFANTRY. 


KRZYZANOWSKI'S  BRIGADE  —  SCHURZ'S  DIVISION  —  ELEVENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  CANTWELL  (Killed).    (2)  COL.  JAMES  S.  ROBINSON  ;  BRIG. -GEN.    (3)  COL.  STEPHEN  J.  McGROARTY  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  op  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

>Ien. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

3 
i 

2 
I 
I 

* 

2 
2 

2 

•     • 

8 

i? 
1  1 

16 
10 
ii 

14 
*5 
7 
*3 

2 

8 

20 
12 

18 
1  1 

12 
M 
I? 

9 

J5 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

•  • 

14 
10 

19 

16 

J5 
9 
9 

9 
8 

9 

•    • 

M 
10 

19 

16 

15 
9 
9 

9 

8 

10 

*3 

157 
175 

'65 

157 

163 

208 

158 

171 

164 
190 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G. 

H. 

T  , 

K,  

Totals  

16 

122 

138 

I 

:i8 

119 

1,721 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  524;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  17. 
BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 


McDowell,  Va 14 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va 25 

Chancellorsville,  Va 15 

Gettysburg,  Pa 35 

Resaca,  Ga 2 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 19 


K.  &M.W. 

Pine  Knob,  Ga i 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 2 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 1 6 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 2 

Averasboro,  N.  C i 

Bentonville,  N.  C 4 

Goldsboro,  N.  C i 


Present,  also,  at  Cross  Keys  ;  Freeman's  Ford ;  Great  Run ;  Waterloo  Bridge ;  Groveton ;  Wauhatchie  ; 
Missionary  Ridge  ;  Culp's  Farm  ;  Sandersville  ;  Montieth  Swamp  ;  Siege  of  Savannah  ;  March  to  the  Sea ;  The 
Carolinas. 

NOTES. — The  Eighty-second  lost  the  most  officers  in  battle  of  any  Ohio  regiment.  It  was  recruited  at 
Kenton  in  the  fall  of  1861,  leaving  the  State  January  25,  1862,  and  proceeding  to  West  Virginia,  where  it  was 
assigned,  in  March,  to  Schenck's  Brigade.  It  was  engaged,  May  8th,  at  McDowell,  Va.,  with  a  loss  of  6  killed, 
50  wounded,  and  i  missing.  It  fought  at  Manassas  in  Milroy's  Independent  Brigade,  of  Sigel's  Corps,  losing  24 
killed,  99  wounded,  and  15  missing;  Colonel  Cantwell  was  killed  in  this  action,  falling  from  his  horse  while 
directing  the  movements  of  his  regiment  in  a  change  of  front  under  fire.  The  regiment  having  been  assigned 
soon  after  to  the  Eleventh  Corps,  remained  encamped  in  Virginia  during  the  next  eight  months,  making  its  win 
ter-quarters  near  Stafford.  At  Chancellorsville,  it  fought  in  Krzyzanowski's  (2d)  Brigade,  Schurz's  (3d)  Division, 
Eleventh  Corps,  losing  8  killed, —  including  four  officers, —  48  wounded,  and  25  missing.  It  lost  at  Gettysburg,  1 7 
killed, —  including  six  officers, —  85  wounded,  and  79  missing,  out  of  312  present  in  action.  The  regiment  accom 
panied  the  Eleventh  Corps  to  Tennessee,  where  it  participated  in  the  Chattanooga  campaign, —  then  in  Tyndale's 
Brigade, —  and  in  the  hardships  of  the  subsequent  march  ta  the  relief  of  Knoxville.  In  April,  1864,  it  was 
transferred  to  Robinson's  (3d)  Brigade,  Williams's  (ist)  Division,  Twentieth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought 
through  the  Atlanta  campaign  and  in  the  Carolinas.  It  encountered  hard  fighting  in  the  former,  at  New  Hope 
Church,  and  at  Peach  Tree  Creek.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta  it  marched  with  Sherman  to  the  sea,  and  through 
the  Carolinas. 


TmtKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


333 


NINETY-EIGHTH   OHIO   INFANTRY. 
MITCHELL'S  BRIGADE    -  DA  vis's  DIVISION --FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEOItliE  WBB8TEB (Killed).          (2)  COL.  t'HKlSTIAN  L.  POOKMAN.        (3)  Ooi..  JOHN  S.   1'KAHCK;  BVT. 


Con  PA  NIKS. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOI-NOH. 

DIKII  or  PIXEAHE,  Arc-iUENTs,  IN  PIIIHON,  Ac. 

ToUil 
Enrollment. 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 
I 

» 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 
2 
I 

•     * 

IO 

16 

13 
8 

I  2 

8 

9 
1  1 

'3 
IO 

3 
1  1 

16 

'4 
8 

13 

8 

9 

12 

15 

I  I 

1 

• 
* 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

23 
I  I 

18 

5 
1  1 

i? 

12 

9 

5 
M 

2 

23 

i  i 

18 

5 
1  1 

18 

I  2 

9 

5 
13 

18 
109 
109 

'45 

IOI 

I05 
142 

9° 
117 

98 
118 

B  

c 

I)  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

10 

I  IO 

• 

I  2O 

2 

I25 

127 

i,i52 

BATTLES.                                                                   K.  &  M  \V 

Vining  Station,  Ga i 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  (la i 

Utoy  Creek,  Ga 2 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga i 

Jonesboro,  Ga 1 1 

Bentonville,  N.  C 1 1 


120  killed  —  10.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  426  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),    u. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.NV 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky.  (Perryville) 66 

Chickamauga,  Ga 13 

Graysville,  Ga.,  Nov.  26,  1863 3 

Resaca,  Ga i 

Dallas,  Ga 2 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i 

Assault  on  Kenesaw,  June  27,1 864 7 

Present,  also,  at  Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn. ;  Buzzard  Roost,  Ga. ;  Rome,  Ga. ;  New  Hope  Church,  Ga. ;  Sher 
man's  March  ;  Savannah  ;  The  Carolinas. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Steubenville,  O.,  August  20,  1862.  It  left  the  State  immediately,  and  moved  into 
Kentucky,  where  it  was  assigned  soon  after  to  the  Thirty-fourth  Brigade,  Tenth  Division,  McCook's  Corps, 
Army  of  the  Ohio,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Chaplin  Hills,  October  S,  1862.  Colonel  Webster,  who 
was  in  command  of  the  brigade,  was  killed  in  this  battle.  General  Terrill,  who  commanded  the  other 
brigade  in  this  division,  and  General  Jackson,  the  division  commander,  were  also  killed,  while  the  regiment 
lost  in  this,  its  baptism  of  fire,  35  killed,  162  wounded,  and  32  missing;  a  total  of  229,  out  of  822  present 
for  duty  that  day.  The  Ninety-eighth  moved  into  Tennessee  and  was  stationed  successively  at  Franklin, 
Shelbyville,  and  Wartrace  during  the  spring  and  summer  of  1863,  after  which  it  joined  in  Rosecrans's 
advance  to  Chickamauga,  having  been  assigned  to  Steedman's  Division  of  Gordon  Granger's  Reserve  Corps.  Its 
casualty  list  at  Chickamauga  showed  9  killed,  41  wounded,  and  13  missing,  out  of  201  present  for  action.  Upon 
the  reorganization  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  October,  1863,  the  regiment  was  placed  in  the  Second 
Brigade,  Second  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps,  in  which  it  served  until  mustered  out.  This  brigade  fought  under 
General  John  Beatty  at  Missionary  Ridge,  but  in  its  subsequent  campaigns  it  was  commanded  by  General  John  G. 
Mitchell.  The  Ninety-eighth  was  not  actively  engaged  at  Missionary  Ridge,  but  in  the  pursuit  on  the  following 
day  it  fought  in  an  affair  at  Graysville,  Ga.  The  regiment  encamped  during  the  winter  of  1863-64  at  Rossville, 
Ga.,  and  in  May  moved  with  Sherman's  Army  in  its  victorious  advance  on  Atlanta,  participating  in  all  the  battles 
of  the  Fourteenth  Corps  during  that  memorable  campaign.  Major  James  M.  Shane  was  killed  in  the  assault  on 
Kenesaw  Mountain. 


334 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ONE  HUNDRED    AND    TWENTY-SIXTH   OHIO   INFANTEY. 
SMITH'S  BRIGADE — RICKETTS'S  DIVISION -- SIXTH  CORPS. 


COLONEL  BENJAMIN  F.  SMITH,  OS.  $.,  E.  a.;  BVT.  BKIO.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 
I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

2 
I 

1  1 

*5 
1  1 

1  1 
J7 

13 

15 

22 

1  6 

12 

I 
12 

16 

12 
I  I 

18 

13 

Z7 
23 
16 

13 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

•     • 

14 

8 
18 

i5 
16 

i7 
16 

J5 
1  1 

12 

•    * 

14 

8 
18 

J5 
16 

i7 
16 

16 
ii 

J3 

25 

121 
I  2O 
T22 
122 

138 
129 

123 
126 
III 
117 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

I 

Totals  

9 

143 

'S2 

2 

142 

144 

1,2*54 

155  killed  =  12. i  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed    and  wounded,  541  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  48. 


BATTLES.                                                                    K.&M.  W. 

Opequon,  Va 1 8 

Fisher's    Hilt,  Va.  Sept.  21-22,  1864 9 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 6 

Fort  Welch,  March  25,  1865 3 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va ' 2 

Place  unknown i 


BATTLES.  K.  <fcM.  W. 

Martinsburg,  Va 2 

Mine   Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 56 

Spotsylvania,  Va 31 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 3 

Monocacy,  Md 17 

Smithfield,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Brandy  Station,  Va. 

NOTES. —  Mustered  in  September  4,  1862,  and  ordered  to  Western  Virginia,  where  it  remained  during  the 
next  eight  months,  stationed  most  of  that  time  at  Martinsburg,  engaged  in  guard  duty  along  the  railroad,  its  work 
varied  occasionally  by  scouting  expeditions  into  the  enemy's  country  for  the  suppression  of  guerrilla  bands.  It 
was  then  in  B.  F.  Smith's  Brigade,  Second  Division,  Eighth  Corps.  Upon  Lee's  advance,  in  June,  1863,  the  reg 
iment,  with  other  troops,  was  attacked  at  Martinsburg,  and  after  a  sharp  fight  was  forced  to  fall  back  to  Harper's 
Ferry,  where  it  joined  that  garrison --French's  Division.  This  division  was  shortly  afterwards  attached  to  the 
Third  Corps,  becoming  its  Third  (Carr's)  Division.  Upon  the  discontinuance  of  the  Third  Corps,  in  April,  1864, 
this  division  was  transferred  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  in  which  it  served  until  the  end  of  the  war.  While  in  the  Sixth 
Corps  the  division  was  commanded  by  General  Ricketts,  who  was  wounded  at  Cedar  Creek,  and  succeeded  by 
General  Seymour.  At  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness  the  regiment  faced  a  terrible  fire,  which  more  than  decimated 
its  ranks,  its  casualties  there  amounting  to  22  killed,  125  wounded,  and  62  missing.  At  Spotsylvania  it  lost  21 
killed,  56  wounded,  and  i  missing.  In  July,  1864,  the  division  —  Ricketts's — was  ordered  to  Maryland  to  meet 
Early's  invasion,  after  which  it  fought  under  Sheridan  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  While  on  the  latter  campaign, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Aaron  W.  Elbright,  commanding  the  regiment,  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  the  Opequon,  in 
which  action  the  regiment  lost  12  killed,  40  wounded,  and  2  missing.  At  Fisher's  Hill  it  lost  6  killed,  25 
wounded,  and  i  missing, —  the  heaviest  loss  sustained  by  any  regiment  in  that  battle ;  and  at  Cedar  Creek,  4 
killed,  15  wounded,  and  6  missing.  The  Corps  returned  to  Petersburg  in  December,  1864,  where  it  shared 
in  the  final  struggles  and  triumphs  of  the  war.  It  was  mustered  out  June  25,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


THIRD  KENTUCKY  INFANTRY. 
HARKER'S  BRIGADE  —  SHERIDAN'S  DIVISION — FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)COL.  THOMAS  E.  IMAMLET/rE;  BKIO.-GBM. 
(8)  COL.  WILLIAM  T.  SCOTT. 


(3)  Coi..  SAMUEL  McKEK  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  II.  SI'ENCEK. 


IIKNKY  C.  IUNI.AI';  BVT.  BRIO.-CIBN. 


CoMPAMKft. 

KM.I.KII  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKIHON,  &i: 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officer*. 

•Men. 

Total. 

(  Hticers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 

• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

I 

t 
• 

•    • 

17 

'5 
6 

5 
6 

6 

9 
'5 
9 
15 

2 

18 

'5 

7 

5 
6 

7 

9 
16 

9 
»S 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

i 
>7 
'7 

22 

25 

'9 

2  I 
2O 

23 
'7 
i? 

I 

17 
'7 

22 

25 

J9 

21 
2O 

23 

I? 

'7 

17 

l°5 
103 

97 

93 
92 

ii  i 
98 
1  08 
1  06 

105 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

6 

103 

109 

• 

199 

199 

!.°35 

log  killed  —  10.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  449  :  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  17. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Richmond,  Ky 2 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 25 

Chickamauga,  Ga 30 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 12 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 5 

Resaca,  Ga 4 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 4 

Mud  Creek,  Ga.,  June  18,  1864 5 

Kenesaw,  Ga.  (assault) 1 8 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga i 

Atlanta,  Ga 3 


Present,  also,  at  Waynesboro,  Tenn. ;  Shiloh,  Miss. ;  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Munfordville,  Ky. ;  Perryville,  Ky. ; 
Marcy's  Creek,  Ga. ;  Adairsville,  Ga. ;  Jonesboro,  Ga. 


NOTES. —  Organized  at  Camp  Dick  Robinson,  Ky.,  and  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  on  October 
8,  1 86 1.  During  its  first  six  months  of  active  service,  it  was  stationed  at  various  places  in  Kentucky,  having  been 
assigned  to  Hascall's  Brigade,  of  Wood's  Division.  It  embarked  for  Nashville  on  the  i8th  of  March,  1862, 
marching  thence  with  Buell's  Army  to  the  battle-field  of  Shiloh,  where  it  arrived  at  the  close  of  the  fighting. 
After  participating  in  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  it  marched  with  Buell  through  Northern  Alabama,  Tennessee  and 
Kentucky  to  Louisville;  thence  on  the  Perryville  campaign,  and  then  to  Nashville,  where  it  arrived  in  December, 
1862.  At  the  battle  of  Stone's  River  —  still  in  Wood's  Division  —  it  was  actively  engaged,  with  a  loss  of  14 
killed,  85  wounded,  and  34  missing,  Colonel  McKee  being  among  the  killed.  Remaining  at  Murfrcesboro,  Tenn., 
until  June,  1863,  it  moved  southward  with  the  army,  and  fought  at  Chickamauga,  it  being  then  in  Marker's  (3d) 
Brigade,  Wood's  (ist)  Division,  Crittenden's  Corps;  its  loss  in  that  battle  was  13  killed,  78  wounded,  and  22 
missing.  In  October,  1863,  the  regiment  was  placed  in  Marker's  (3d)  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (2d)  Division, 
Fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Missionary  Ridge ;  loss,  4  killed,  and  54  wounded.  This  division 
was  commanded  by  General  Newton  during  the  Atlanta  campaign  ;  the  brigade  remained  under  command  of 
General  Marker,  who  was  killed  while  leading  the  assault  on  Kenesaw.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  the  regiment 
moved  to  Nashville,  where  it  was  mustered  out  in  October,  1864,  its  term  of  service  having  expired. 


336 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTH  KENTUCKY  INFANTRY. 


HAZEN'S  BRIGADE  —  WOOD'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  LOVELL  H.  ROUSSEAU ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  U.  S.  A. 

(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  W.  BERRY. 


(2)  COL.  HARVEY  M   BUCKLEY. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 

Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

I 

I 

• 

2 

• 

2 
I 

•    • 

9 
M 

i7 
16 

12 

12 
21 

1  I 

'9 

18 

I 

9 
M 
i? 
i? 

J3 

12 

23 
I  I 

21 

19 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

• 

• 
• 
• 

•    * 

17 

12 

M 

H 
ii 
18 
ii 

i4 

18 

14 

•    • 

17 
12 

15 

15 
II 

18 
1  1 

M 

18 

M 

15 

97 

101 

103 

91 

IO2 

95 
I05 

IOO 
IOI 

no 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

8 

149 

157 

2 

M3 

MS 

I,O2O 

157  killed  —  15.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  581  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  27. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W 

Shiloh,  Tenn 1 6 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 32 

Liberty  Gap,  Tenn 3 

Chickamauga,  Ga 32 

Brown's  Ferry,  Tenn i 

Orchard  Knob,  Tenn 2 

Missionary   Ridge,  Tenn 20 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga i 

Picket  Line i 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W 

Dalton,  Ga i 

Blain's  Cross  Roads,  Tenn i 

Resaca,  Ga i  o 

Dallas,  Ga 23 

Kenesaw,   Ga 5 

Chattahoochie,  Ga 2 

Atlanta,  Ga 3 

Guerillas i 


Place  unknown 3 

Present,  also,  at  Bowling  Green,  Ky. ;  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Adairsville,  Ga. ;  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga. ; 
Jonesboro,  Ga. ;  Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Camp  Joe  Holt,  Indiana,  September  9,  1861,  and  crossing  into  Kentucky,  soon  after, 
it  commenced  its  active  service  in  Rousseau's  Brigade,  McCook's  Division.  In  March,  1862,  it  marched  with 
Buell's  Army  to  re-enforce  Grant,  arriving  on  the  field  of  Shiloh  in  time  to  take  part  in  the  battle  and  change  a 
defeat  into  a  victory.  The  Fifth  was  actively  engaged  there,  losing  7  killed  and  56  wounded.  After  participat 
ing  next  in  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  it  moved  with  Buell's  troops  on  their  long  and  arduous  campaigns,  the  next  battle 
of  the  regiment  occurring  at  Stone's  River,  Tenn.,  on  December  31,  1862.  It  was  then  in  Baldwin's  (3d) 
Brigade,  Johnson's  (ad)  Division,  McCook's  Corps;  its  loss  in  that  engagement  was  19  killed,  80  wounded, 
and  26  missing,  out  of  320  engaged,  a  part  of  the  regiment  being  on  detached  service.  The  Fifth  suffered 
its  severest  loss  at  Chickamauga,  its  casualties  on  that  field  amounting  to  14  killed,  79  wounded,  and  32  missing, 
out  of  a  small  number  engaged  ;  Major 'Charles  L.  Thomassen  was  killed  in  this  battle.  In  October,  1863,  the 
regiment  became  a  part  of  Hazen's  (2d)  Brigade,  Wood's  (3d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it 
fought  at  Missionary  Ridge  and  through  the  Atlanta  campaign  of  1864.  Though  small  in  numbers,  it  made  a 
brilliant  fight  at  Orchard  Knob  and  Missionary  Ridge,  its  percentage  of  loss  being  again  very  large  ;  in  fact,  the 
total  percentage  of  loss  in  action  of  the  Fifth  Kentucky,  as  based  on  its  total  enrollment,  was  exceeded  by  but 
few  regiments  in  the  entire  army.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  September  14,  1864. 


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337 


SIXTH   KENTUCKY  INFANTRY. 
HAZEN'S  BRIGADE --T.  J.  WOOD'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WALTER  C.  WHITAKER  ;  BVT.  MAJ.-GEN.        (2)  COL.  GEORGE  T.  SHACKLEFORI).         (3)  COL.  RICHARD  C.  DAWKINS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AXIJ  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDEXTH,  Ix  I'UIHON,  &<:. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Fielil  and  Staff.  . 

I 
2 

I 
2 

• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

•    • 

14 

6 

8 

T  I 
I  I 

6 

'5 
1  1 

T3 

IO 

I 
16 

7 

IO 

1  1 

12 

6 
16 
1  1 

14 
1  1 

2 

* 

I 

I 
I 

•    • 

4 
1  1 

1  1 
14 

7 

IO 
'3 

1  1 

IO 

5 

2 

4 

I  2 
I  I 

14 

7 
1  1 

14 
1  1 

10 

5 

'3 

97 
109 

9i 

93 
89 

89 

97 
93 
86 
103 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

I05 

"5 

5 

96 

101 

960 

115  killed  —  ii. 9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  433  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  14. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Shiloh,  Term 23 

Readyville,  Term i 

Sinking  Spring,  Ky i 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 23 

Woodbury,  Tenn i 

Chickamauga,  Ga 28 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 4 

Guerrillas 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 2 

Resaca,  Ga 9 

Adairsville,  Ga i 

Dallas,  Ga 4 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 9 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga i 

Atlanta,  Ga 4 

Place  unknown 2 


Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Hoover's  Gap  ;  Jonesboro. 

NOTES. — Mustered  into  the  United  States  service  on  December  24,  1861,  at  Camp  Sigel,  Jefferson  county, 
Kentucky.  It  was  assigned  immediately  to  the  Department  of  the  Cumberland,  and  its  active  service  com 
menced.  It  was  placed  in  Hazen's  Brigade  of  Nelson's  Division,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Shiloh,  losing 
10  killed,  and  93  wounded,  out  of  about  450  in  action.  In  that  battle  the  regiment,  under  command  of  Colo 
nel  Whitaker,  made  a  gallant  fight ;  it  captured  there  three  pieces  of  artillery,  the  Colonel  cutting  down  one  of 
the  cannoniers  with  a  bowie-knife,  just  taken  from  a  captured  man.  After  sharing  in  the  siege  operations  about 
Corinth,  the  regiment  participated  in  the  long,  wearisome  marches  of  Buell's  Army  in  the  summer  and  fall  of 
1862,  and  after  marching  through  Northern  Alabama,  Tennessee,  and  Kentucky,  was  engaged  at  the  battle  of 
Stone's  River.  It  was  then  in  Palmer's  Division,  its  loss  in  that  battle  amounting  to  13  killed,  90  wounded,  and  10 
missing,  Lieutenant-Colonel  George  T.  Colton  being  among  the  killed.  The  regiment  encountered  its  hardest 
fighting  and  severest  loss  at  Chickamauga,  where,  out  of  a  small  number  present,  it  lost  i  2  killed,  95  wounded, 
and  ii  missing.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign  the  Sixth  was  in  Hazen's  (2d)  Brigade,  T.  J.  Wood's  (3d)  Divi 
sion,  Fourth  Corps,  and  was  prominently  engaged  in  all  the  battles  of  that  command.  It  was  mustered  out  on 
November  2,  1864,  its  term  of  service  having  expired.  The  recruits  and  reenlisted  men  with  unexpired  terms, 
remaining  in  the  field,  were  transferred  to  the  Fourth  Kentucky  Mounted  Infantry. 
22 


338 


.REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTEENTH   KENTUCKY   INFANTRY. 
CARLIN'S  BRIGADE  —  JOHNSON'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CURRAN  POPE,  WSL.  p.  (Killed), 


(2)  COL.  JAMES  B.  FORMAN  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  MARION  C.  TAYLOR 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 
I 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

•     • 

T3 

JO 
12 

T3 

12 
2O 

J5 
1  1 

12 
IO 

4 

M 
IO 

14 

13 

12 

21 

15 
I  I 

13 

IO 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

8 

i? 

15 

•3 

8 

J3 

IO 

9 

9 
1  1 

•    * 

8 

i? 

16 

13 

8 

13 

IO 

9 

9 
r  i 

13 
1  IO 

89 
98 

91 
95 
91 
95 
85 
91 
94 

(Company  A  

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

128 

137 

I 

TI3 

114 

952 

137  killed=i4.3  per  cent. 
Total    killed    and    wounded,    516;    died    in    Confederate    prisons  (previously   included),    10. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Chaplin  Hills,  Ky 82 

Stone's  River,  Term 14 

In  Action,  May  16,  1863 i 

Tullahoma,  Tenn i 

Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn i 

Chickamauga,  Ga , ,  . .  .  14 


Resaca,  Ga 6 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 3 

Kenesavv  Mountain,  Ga 5 

Atlanta,  Ga 6 

Shepherdsville,  Ky.  (Guerrillas) i 

Lebanon  Junction,  Ky.  (Guerrillas) 3 


Present,  also,  at  Missionary  Ridge ;  Buzzard  Roost ;  Peach  Tree  Creek ;  Jonesboro. 

NOTES. — Mustered-in  December  14,  1861,  and  ordered  immediately  to  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  where 
it  was  assigned  to  General  O.  M.  Mitchel's  Division.  In  the  summer  of  1862,  Mitchel's  troops  marched  through 
Kentucky  and  Tennessee  to  Huntsville,  Ala. ;  thence,  with  Buell's  Army,  on  the  campaign  incidental  to  the 
pursuit  of  Bragg,  marching  north,  across  Tennessee  and  Kentucky,  to  Louisville  ;  and  thence  to  Perryville,  Ky., 
where  the  battle  of  Chaplin  Hills  was  fought.  The  regiment  was  then  in  Lytle's  Brigade,  Rousseau's  Division, 
McCook's  Corps,  and  sustained  a  fearful  loss  in  that  battle,  its  casualties  amounting  to  66  killed,  and  130  wounded  ; 
no  missing.  The  three  field-officers,  Colonel  Pope,  Lieutenant-Colonel  George  P.  Jouett,  and  Major  William. P. 
Campbell,  were  killed  in  this  battle ;  two  of  the  line-officers  also  lost  their  lives  there.  The  Fifteenth  carried 
itself  through  this  bloody  action  with  a  cool  gallantry  and  steadiness  of  movement  which  elicited  strong  words  of 
praise  in  the  official  reports  of  that  action. 

At  Stone's  River,  the  regiment  lost  10  killed,  32  wounded,  and  18  missing;  Forman,  the  "Brave  Boy 
Colonel,"  being  among  the  killed.  At  Chickamauga,  then  in  Beatty's  (ist)  Brigade,  Negley's  (2d)  Division, 
Fourteenth  Corps,  the  regiment  lost  5  killed,  42  wounded,  and  15  missing.  In  October,  1863,  it  was  placed  in 
Carlin's  (ist)  Brigade,  Palmer's  (ist)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Missionary 
Ridge.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign,  this  division  was  known  as  Johnson's  Division.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta, 
the  regiment  was  assigned  to  garrison  duty.  Mustered  out  January  14,  1865. 


TIIK-KK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


SEVENTEENTH   KENTUCKY   INFANTRY. 
BEATTY'S  BRIGADE  —  T.  J.  WOOD'S  DIVISION— FOURTH  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  JAMES  M.  SHACKI.KFOUI). 


COL.  ALEXANDER  M.  STOfT;  HVT.  Hitin.-GEN. 


(2)Coi..  JOHN  II.  McIIKNKY.Jn. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  Worxiw. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUMON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 

• 
• 

i 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

•     • 

M 
II 

9 
18 

12 

9 
17 

M 

12 
12 

•    • 

1  6 
1  1 

9 

19 
M 

9 
18 

14 

12 

13 

i 

• 
• 

i 

• 
• 

i 

2 

• 
• 
• 

1 

9 

5 

12 

22 
21 

14 
21 

M 
2O 

J3 

2 

9 
5 
13 

22 

27 
'5 
23 
14 

20 
13 

15 
119 

III 

133 

184 

'85 
102 

179 
160 
124 
161 

B   

c  

D  

E  

F   

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

7 

128 

'35 

5 

158 

I63 

1.473 

K.&M.W. 

Dallas,  Ga 13 

Kencsaw,    Ga 7 

Atlanta,  (la 10 

Jonesboro,  Ga i 

Lovejoy's   Station,  (la i 

Place  unknown 4 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  498  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  13. 
RATTLES.  K.&M.W.  BATTLES. 

Fort  Donelson,  Term* 32 

Shiloh,  Tenn* 38 

Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss i 

Chickamauga,  Ga , 24 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn i 

Cassville,  Ga 3 

Present,  also,  at  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  Resaca ;  Marietta. 

NOTES. — Organized  in  December,  1861,  at  Calhoun,  Ky.,  under  Colonel  McHenry,  and  mustered  into  the 
United  States  service  on  the  4th  day  of  January,  1862.  Taking  the  field  immediately,  it  was  assigned  to  Cruft's 
Brigade  of  Lew  Wallace's  Division,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  the  battle  of  Fort  Donelson  ;  loss,  4  killed  and 
34  wounded.  At  Shiloh,  under  command  of  Colonel  McHenry  (then  in  Lauman's  Brigade  of  Hurlbut's  Divi 
sion),  it  lost  18  killed,  69  wounded,  and  i  missing,  out  of  250  engaged,  as  officially  reported.  In  April,  1862, 
the  Twenty-fifth  Kentucky,  having  become  much  reduced  in  numbers  by  loss  in  battle  and  disease,  was  discon 
tinued  as  an  organization,  and  the  men  were  transferred  to  the  Seventeenth  Regiment.  Soon  after  this  consoli 
dation,  Colonel  Shackleford  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Benjamin  II.  Bristow  of  the  Twenty-fifth  were  mustered  out. 
The  Twenty-fifth,  which  was  in  the  same  brigade,  had  borne  a  creditable  part  in  the  battles  of  Fort  Donelson 
and  Shiloh,  losing  at  Fort  Donelson,  15  killed,  61  wounded,  and  12  missing;  and  at  Shiloh,  7  killed  and  27 
wounded.  The  rolls  of  the  Twenty-fifth  having  been  turned  over  with  the  men,  its  losses  are  included  in  the 
total  loss  of  the  Seventeenth. 

At  Chickamauga,  under  command  of  Colonel  Stout,  the  regiment  fought  in  Beatty's  Brigade,  Van  Cleve's 
Division,  Crittenden's  Corps;  its  loss  in  that  battle  was  6  killed,  105  wounded,  and  15  missing.  Upon  the 
reorganization  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  October,  1863,  the  regiment  was  placed  in  Beatty's  (3d)  Brig 
ade,  Wood's  (jd)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  it  served  throughout  the  Atlanta  campaign.  It  was  mustered 
out  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  in  January,  1865,  the  recmits  and  rei'nlisted  men  having  been  transferred  to  the  Twenty- 
first  Kentucky  Infantry.  Colonel  McHenry  was  succeeded  in  December,  1862,  by  Colonel  Stout,  who  com 
manded  the  regiment  until  its  final  muster-out. 

*  The  loss  at  Fort  Donelsoii  and  Shiloh  Includes  that  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Kentucky  Volunteers. 


340 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTH   INDIANA   INFANTRY. 


HAZEN'S  BRIGADE  —  T.  J.  WOOD'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  T.  CRITTENDEN  ;  BEIG.-GEN. 

(2)  COL.  PHILEMON  P.  BALDWIN  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  IIAGERMAN  TRIPP. 

(4)  COL.  CALVIN  D.  CAMPBELL. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

T 

• 

1 

I 
2 

• 

I 
I 
I 

• 

I 

•     • 

T9 

15 

ii 

9 
10 

1  1 
1  1 
10 

8 

12 

I 
19 

16 

12 
I  I 
10 
12 
12 
I  I 

8 
*3 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

1  2 

17 
!4 

J9 

T  2 

14 
12 
II 

16 

12 

I 
12 

I? 

14 
19 
!3 
14 
12 

12 

16 

12 

21 
109 
128 
III 

105 

98 

107 

I05 

IO2 

106 
99 

B  

c  

D. 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

9 

116 

I25 

2 

140 

142 

1,091 

125  killed  =  11.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  461  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  25. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 1 1 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 23 

Chickamauga,  Ga 28 

Brown's  Ferry,  Tenn » 2 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 22 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 2 

Resaca,  Ga 8 

Pickett's  Mills,  Ga 21 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 5 

Atlanta,  Ga 2 


Tunnel  Hill,  Ga i 

Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth ;  Liberty  Gap ;  Adairsville ;  Peach  Tree  Creek ;  Jonesboro ;  Lovejoy's 
Station. 

NOTES. —  Originally  a  three  months  regiment,  but  reorganized  for  the  three  years  service  on  September  20, 
1 86 1.  It  moved  into  Kentucky  on  the  same  day,  being  the  first  body  of  troops  to  enter  that  State  from  the 
North.  Having  been  assigned  to  Rousseau's  Brigade  of  McCook's  Division,  it  remained  in  Kentucky  until 
March,  1862,  when  it  marched  to  Pittsburg  Landing,  Tenn.,  arriving  there  in  time  to  participate  in  the  second 
day's  battle  at  Shiloh,  where  it  rendered  effective  service.  Its  loss  in  this,  its  first  battle,  was  4  killed,  36  wounded, 
and  2  missing.  The  regiment  fought  next  at  Stone's  River, —  then  in  Johnson's  (ist)  Division  of  McCook's 
Corps,  Colonel  Baldwin  commanding  the  brigade,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Tripp  the  regiment ;  its  casualties  on 
that  field  were  17  killed,  50  wounded,  and  37  missing.  The  regiment  remained  at  Murfreesboro  until  June, 
1863,  when  it  marched  with  Rosecrans  on  his  advance  to  Chattanooga  and  successful  occupation  of  that  place. 
Colonel  Baldwin  was  killed  at  Chickamauga  while  in  command  of  the  brigade,  the  regiment  losing  there  13 
killed,  1 1 6  wounded,  and  31  missing.  Upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  in  October, 
1863,  it  became  a  part  of  Hazen's  (2d)  Brigade,  Wood's  (3d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  took 
part  in  the  storming  of  Missionary  Ridge,  where  it  sustained  a  heavy  loss  (76)  in  proportion  to  the  small  number 
engaged.  The  Sixth  was  engaged  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Fourth  Corps  during  the  Atlanta  campaign,  its  hardest 
fighting  occurring  at  Pickett's  Mills,  where  it  again  suffered  a  severe  percentage  of  loss.  After  the  Atlanta  cam 
paign  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  on  September  22,  1864,  and  the  recruits  were  transferred  to  the  Sixty- 
eighth  Regiment. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


341 


NINTH  INDIANA  INFANTRY. 

<i  KnSK's    Ui;ii;\m:     -PALMER'S   DIVISION  —  FOURTH   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ROBERT  II.  MILROY  ;  MAJOK-GKN. 
(*)  COL.  GIDEON  C.  MOODY.  B  «. 


(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  II.  BLAKE. 
U)  COL.  ISAAC  C.  SUMAN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OK  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  I'KISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Stall  

I 

I 
I 

• 
• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

4 
i 

I 
12 
10 

16 

IO 

14 

8 

'5 
'5 

7 

12 

2 

*3 

I  I 

16 
10 

'5 
9 

15 
16 

1  1 
'3 

2 

* 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
1  8 

I  2 
21 
26 

!9 
31 

34 

M 

IS 

29 

3 

18 

12 
21 

26 

'9 
31 
34 

M 

15 
29 

21 
I76 
172 
I76 
1  80 
177 
I76 
I79 
I79 
162 

168 

Company  A  

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I 

K  

Totals  

1  1 

I2O 

131 

2 

220 

222 

1,766 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  467  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  14. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.&M.XV. 


Green  Brier,  W.  Va 3 

Buffalo  Mountain,  W.  Va 12 

Shiloh,  Tenn 32 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 20 

Chickamauga,  Ga 21 

Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn 2 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 4 

Buzzard's   Roost,  Ga i 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 2 


Resaca,  Ga 3 

Dallas,  Ga 4 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 13 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 6 

Before  Atlanta,  Ga 3 

Jonesboro,   Ga i 

Lovejoy's   Station,  Ga i 

Columbia,  Tenn , 2 

Nashville,  Tenn i 


Present,  also,  at  The  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Perryville  ;  Franklin. 


NOTES. — The  Ninth  went  out  at  first  in  the  three  months  service,  but  upon  its  return  re-organized  under  a 
three  years  enlistment.  Leaving  Indiana  in  September,  1861,  it  proceeded  to  West  Virginia,  where  it  remained 
on  duty  until  February,  1862,  fighting  in  the  meanwhile  at  the  battles  of  Green  Brier  and  Camp  Allegheny;  in 
the  latter  engagement  there  was  some  sharp  fighting  in  which  the  Ninth  lost  8  killed,  and  13  wounded.  In  Feb 
ruary,  1862,  it  was  ordered  to  join  Buell's  Army,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Hazen's  Brigade  of  Nelson's  Division, 
with  which  it  marched  to  Shiloh  ;  its  losses  in  that  battle  were  17  killed  and  153  wounded.  The  year  1862  was 
one  of  arduous  campaigns  and  long  marches,  ending,  with  the  year,  in  Rosecrans's  hard- fought  battle  of  Stone's 
River.  The  regiment  was  then  in  Palmer's  (2d)  Division,  of  Crittenden's  Corps,  its  casualties  on  that  field 
amounting  to  n  killed,  87  wounded,  and  n  missing.  At  Chickamauga,  it  lost  13  killed,  91  wounded,  and  22 
missing.  In  October,  1863,  the  regiment  was  assigned  to  Grose's  (3d)Brigade,  Palmer's (ist)  Division,  Fourth 
Corps.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign  this  division  was  commanded  by  General  Stanley,  and  by  General  Kimball 
in  the  Franklin-Nashville  campaign.  The  regiment  reenlisted  in  December,  1863,  and  thus  preserved  its  organi 
zation  during  the  war.  After  the  victory  over  Hood,  at  Nashville,  December  15,  1864,  it  marched  into  East 
Tennessee  ;  from  there  it  moved  to  Texas,  where  it  remained  with  the  Army  of  Occupation  until  September, 
1865,  when  it  was  mustered  out  and  returned  home. 


34:2 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FOUETEENTH  INDIANA  INFANTKY. 
KIMBALL'S  BRIGADE  —  FRENCH'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  NATHAN  KIMBALL ;  BVT.  MA  JOB-GEN. 
(2;  COL.  WILLIAM  HARROW  ;  BBIG.-GEN. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  COONS  (Killed), 

(4)  COL.  ELIJAH  H.  CAVINS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
3 

• 

I 
I 

2 
I 

I 
I 

I 
1  1 

13 

2O 

J7 
13 

9 
ii 

16 
13 

*5 

2 
M 

13 
21 

18 

15 
IO 

II 

17 
13 

16 

t 
* 
* 
• 

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

s 

8 
6 
1  1 

4 

5 

5 
8 

IO 

9 

I 

5 
8 

6 
1  1 

4 

5 

5 
8 

IO 

9 

18 
in 
103 
117 
126 

100 

116 
104 
117 
118 
104 

B  

c  

D  . 

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

II 

J39 

*5° 

• 

72 

72 

i,i34 

150  killed  =  13.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  592. 

BATTLES. 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 
Mine  Run,  Va.  . .  . 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Cheat   Mountain,  W.  Va 4 

Green  Brier,  W.  Va 4 

Kernstown,  Va 12 

Harrison's  Landing,  Va i 

Antietam,  Md 49 

Fredericksburg,   Va 14 

Chancellorsville,  Va 13 

Gettysburg,  Pa i  o 

Present,  also,  at  Rich  Mountain  ;  Front  Royal ;  Turkey  Bend  ;    North  Anna. 


K.  &  M.W. 
i 

i 

Morton's  Ford,  Va 4 

Wilderness,  Va 13 

Spotsylvania,  Va 17 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 5 


NOTES. — Mustered  in,  June  7,  1861, —  the  first  in  Indiana  to  muster  in  for  three  years.  It  was  ordered  into 
West  Virginia,  where  it  served  until  the  spring  of  1862,  when  it  moved  with  Shields's  Division  up  the  Shenan- 
doah  Valley,  and  fought  at  Kernstown,  losing  there  4  killed,  and  50  wounded.  In  July  it  joined  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  at  Harrison's  Landing,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Kimball's  (ist)  Brigade,  French's  (3d)  Division, 
Second  Corps.  This  brigade  did  good  service  at  Antietam,  earning  there  its  title  of  "The  Gibraltar  Brigade." 
The  Fourteenth  went  into  that  action  with  320  men;  its  casualties  were  31  killed  and  150  wounded;  no  missing. 
The  Gibraltar  Brigade  opened  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg  on  the  morning  of  December  I3th,  leading  the 
attack  on  Marye's  Heights,  in  which  the  regiment  lost  5  killed,  65  wounded,  and  5  missing.  At  Chancellorsville, 
the  losses  were  7  killed,  50  wounded,  and  7  missing;  at  Gettysburg,  6  killed  and  25  wounded.  In  the  latter 
engagement  it  was  in  Carroll's  Brigade,  which  distinguished  itself  by  its  promptness  and  efficiency  in  rescuing 
Ricketts's  Battery  from  the  charge  of  the  "Louisiana  Tigers  "  on  Cemetery  Hill.  During  the  Wilderness  cam- 
paign,Carroll's  Brigade  served  in  Gibbon's  (2d)  Division,  winning  additional  laurels  by  its  gallant  action.  Colonel 
Coons  was  killed  at  Spotsylvania,  while  "sitting  calmly  on  his  horse  in  the  trenches,  and  firing  barrel  after  barrel 
of  his  revolver  at  the  Confederates,  who  were  swarming  up  on  the  other  side  of  the  breastworks."*  The  Four 
teenth  fought  its  last  battle  at  Cold  Harbor,  after  which  it  was  ordered  home  for  muster-out. 

*  History  Second  Corps,  by  General  Francis  A.  Walker. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


NINETEENTH  INDIANA  INFANTRY. 
IRON  BRIGADE  -   WADSWORTH'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


(!)  COL.  SOLOMON  MEREDITH;  BVT.  MAJOH-OEN.    (>')  COL.  SAMl'EL  J.  WILLIAMS  (Kilh-d).    (3)  COL.  JOHN  M.  LINDLEY;  BVT.  BUNI.-<JEN 


Con  PAN  i  KB. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOI-NDS. 

DIED  OK  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'HIMIN,  &<•. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

• 

i 

• 
• 
• 
• 

: 

• 

i 

•     • 

18 

24 
20 

20 

21 

16 
'4 

'21 
21 

'9 

3 
l8 

25 
2O 

20 
21 

16 

14 
21 

21 
20 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

9 
9 

M 
1  1 

16 

9 

1  1 

1  1 

12 

'3 

1 

9 
9 

'5 
1  1 

1  6 

9 

i  i 

i  i 

I  2 

'3 

'7 
128 

"5 
'37 
118 
124 
1  06 

"5 

103 

'37 
146 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  

H. 

I  

K  

Totals  

5 

194 

199 

I 

116 

117 

1,246 

199  killed  —  15.9  per  cent. 

Total  of  killed  and   wounded,   712;  total  of    captured  and  missing,  126;  died  in   Confederate  orisons  (previously 
included),  16. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Lewinsville,  Va.,  Sept.  1 1,  1861 i 

9 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 21 

Spotsylvania,  Va 

North  Anna,  Va 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 

Petersburg,  Va 

White  River,  Ark.  (Gunboat  Service) 


Manassas,  Va 62 

South  Mountain,  Md 13 

Antietam,  Md 28 

Fredericksburg,  Va i 

Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 41 

Present,  also,  at  Chancellorsville  ;   Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Weldon  Railroad. 

NOTES.— Organized  in  Indianapolis,  July  29,  1861,  arriving  at  Washington  on  the  5th  of  August.  After  some 
service  in  the  field  it  \vent  into  winter-quarters  at  Fort  Craig,  on  Arlington  Heights,  Va.,  remaining  there  until 
March,  1862,  when  it  joined  in  the  general  advance  of  the  Army.  It  then  formed  part  of  Gibbon's  (4th) 
Brigade,  Hatch's  (ist)  Division,  McDowell's  Corps,  a  brigade  which  afterwards  became  famous  as  the  "Iron 
Brigade  of  the  West."  Its  first  battle  was  at  Manassas,  in  which  the  Nineteeeth  lost  47  killed,  168  wounded,  and 
44  missing,  a  total  of  259  out  of  423  engaged.  Major  Isaac  M.  May  was  killed  in  that  battle.  At  South  Moun 
tain  the  casualties  were  9  killed,  37  wounded,  and  7  missing;  at  Antietam,  13  killed,  and  59  wounded;  at 
Gettysburg,  27  killed,  133  wounded,  and  50  missing ;  and  in  Grant's  campaign  —  from  May  5  to  July  30,  1864- 
it  lost  36  killed,  174  wounded,  and  1 6  missing.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Alois  O.  Bachman  was  killed  at  Antietam, 
and  Colonel  Williams  fell  at  the  Wilderness.  The  regiment  took  about  200  men  into  action  at  Antietam,  and  28; 
at  Gettysburg,  the  percentage  of  loss  in  each  action  being  unusually  heavy  The  First  Corps  was  broken  up  in 
March,  1864,  and  its  regiments  transferred  to  the  Fifth  ;  Wadsworth's  Division  thus  became  the  Fourth  Division 
of  the  Fifth  Corps;  the  Iron  Brigade  (ist  Brig.),  General  Cutler  commanding,  remained  in  the  division.  While 
in  the  Fifth  Corps,  the  regiment  saw  some  hard  fighting  at  the  Wilderness,  and,  also,  at  the  assault  on  Petersburg, 
June  1 8th.  The  enlistment  of  the  Nineteenth  expired  in  August,  1864,  when  the  few  remaining  members  of  the 
original  regiment  went  home. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTIETH   INDIANA   INFANTRY. 
WARD'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  L.  BROWN  (Killed). 
(3)  COL.  JOHN  WHEELER  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  C.  TAYLOR. 

(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  ORR. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &e. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 
I 

I 
2 

• 

I 
I 

2 

2 
2 

1 

n 
17 

17 
17 

18 
19 

22 

19 

17 

22 

4 

18 
18 

*9 

17 

J9 
20 

24 

J9 

19 

24 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
IO 
I 
I 

o 

9 
i 

2 

8 
ii 

9 

I 
IO 
1  1 
1  1 
IO 

9 
II 

12 

18 
1  1 

9 

16 
118 

'37 
I25 

W 

126 

1  20 
165 
1  80 

T52 
'33 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K. 

Totals  . 

15 

186 

2OI 

• 

TI3 

Ir3 

1,403 

201  killed  =  14.3  percent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  771  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  25. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Wilderness,  Va 33 

Spotsylvania,  Va 1 8 

North  Anna,  Va 4 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 3 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va  .  . . 22 

Deep  Bottom,  Va ....  i 

Boydton  Road,  Va 3 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 2 

Farmville,  Va 3 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Skirmish,  Va.,  June  19,  1862 i 

Oak  Grove,  Va 23 

Glendale,  Va i  o 

Manassas,  Va 9 

Chantilly,  Va i 

Fredericksburg,  Va 7 

Chancellorsville,  Va 8 

Gettysburg,  Pa 45 

Kelly's  Ford,  Va 2 

Mine  Run,  Va 2 

Picket  Line,  Va.  (1862) 3 

Present,  also,  at  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Poplar  Spring  Church  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Leaving  the  State,  August  2,  1861,  it  proceeded  to  Cockeysville,  Md.,  where  it  guarded  the  railroad 
for  several  weeks.  It  sailed  for  Hatteras  Inlet,  N.  C.,  September  24th,  and  thence  in  November  to  Fort  Monroe, 
where  it  passed  the  winter.  While  encamped  at  Newport  News,  it  participated  in  the  fight  between  the  Mer- 
rimac  and  the  Congress ;  the  regiment  having  been  deployed  on  the  beach  under  the  fire  of  the  Confederate 
vessels,  prevented  the  enemy  from  taking  possession  of  the  Congress.  It  went  to  Norfolk  in  May,  and  in  the 
following  month  joined  McClellan's  Army — then  on  the  Chickahominy,  where  it  was  placed  in  Robinson's  (ist) 
Brigade,  Kearny's  (3d)  Division,  Third  Corps.  In  the  affair  of  June  25,  1862,  at  Oak  Grove,  or  "The  Orchards," 
the  Twentieth  received  the  principal  attack  and  sustained  the  heaviest  loss,  its  casualties  amounting  to  n 
killed,  82  wounded,  and  32  missing.  At  Manassas,  the  losses  were  4  killed,  35  wounded  and  6  missing,  Colonel 
Brown  being  among  the  killed.  After  this  battle  the  Corps,  having  become  greatly  reduced  by  its  losses,  was 
withdrawn  from  active  service  to  enable  it  to  rest,  and  the  wounded  or  missing  to  return ;  hence  it  was  not  pre 
sent  at  Antietam.  At  Gettysburg  —  Ward's  Brigade,  Birney's  Division — its  losses  amounted  to  32  killed,  in 
cluding  Colonel  Wheeler,  114  wounded,  and  10  missing.  In  1864,  the  division  was  transferred  to  the  Second 
Corps,  the  Twentieth  fighting  under  Hancock  from  that  time  on.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Meikel  was  killed  at 
Petersburg. 


TuitEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


345 


TWENTY-SECOND  INDIANA  INFANTRY. 

's    I'.KK.MM:    -DAVIS'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTEKNTH 


(1)  COL.  JKFF.  f.  DAVIS,  B.  «.;  BVT.  MAJOU-UEN.,  U  S.  A. 

(2)  COL.  MICHAEL  GOODINU. 


(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  M.  WILES. 

(4)  COL.  THOMAS  fHKA 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDKNTH.  IN  I'IUSON.  &o. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

MOIL 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  anil  Stafi  

3 

• 
• 

i 
3 

• 

2 
I 
I 

3 

•    • 

I  2 

'3 
1  1 

10 

16 

20 

15 

15 

13 
14 

3 

I  2 

>3 

I  1 

1  1 

'9 
20 

'7 
16 

M 

'7 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

18 

23 
1  1 

22 

33 

10 

15 

18 
'9 

21 

•    • 

18 

23 
1  1 

22 

33 

10 

15 

18 

'9 
21 

16 
1  86 
200 
189 
1  88 
226 
182 
185 
191 

'93 
230 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals. 

M 

'39 

'53 

* 

190 

190 

1,986 

BATTLES. 

Glasgow,    Mo 2 

Pea  Ridge,  Ark 14 

Chaplin   Hills,  Ky 57 

Stone's  River,  Tenn i  i 

Chattanooga,   Tenn i 

Missionary   Ridge,  Tenn 6 

Rome,  Ga 13 

Dallas,  Ga 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  565 
K.  &M.\V.  BATTLES. 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 


K.  AM.  W. 

15 


Marietta,  Ga  ..............................  a 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga  .....................  6 

Atlanta,  Ga  ...............................  6 

Jonesboro,    Ga  ............................  9 

Sherman's  March  ..........................  i 

Averasboro,  N.  C  ..........................  2 

Bentonville,  N.  C  .......................... 


Present,   also,  at  Siege   of  Corinth  ;    Lancaster;    Nolensville ;    Liberty   Gap;  Tunnel   Hill;  Rocky    Face 
Ridge  ;  Resaca  ;  S:ivannah  ;  The  Carolinas. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Madison,  Ind.,  on  the  i5th  of  July,  1861,  leaving  the  State  in  the  following  month. 
Joining  Fremont's  army  at  St.  Louis,  it  marched  to  the  relief  of  Lexington.  While  on  the  way  to  that  place  the 
Union  troops  fired  into  each  other  by  mistake,  in  which  affair  Major  Gordon  Tanner,  of  the  Twenty-second,  was 
mortally  wounded.  Colonel  Davis  being  promoted  Brigadier,  the  regiment  was  attached  to  his  division  with 
which  it  marched,  in  January,  1862,  on  Curtis's  expedition  against  Price,  and  thence  to  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge ; 
its  casualties  in  that  engagement  were  9  killed,  and  33  wounded,  including  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  A.  Hen- 
dricks,  who  fell,  mortally  wounded.  The  regiment  then  joined  the  army  at  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  after  which  it 
was  stationed  in  Northern  Mississippi  until  August,  1862,  when  it  marched  with  Buell  on  the  Kentucky  cam 
paign.  /\t  the  battle  of  Chaplin  Hills,  Ky.,  October  8,  1862,  the  regiment  was  in  Mitchell's  (R.  B.)  Division  ; 
Colonel  Gooding  commanded  the  brigade,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Keith  the  regiment.  Keith  fell  dead,  at  the 
head  of  his  men,  while  waving  his  sword  and  cheering  on  the  line.  The  casualties  in  the  regiment  were  49  killed, 
87  wounded,  and  33  missing,  out  of  303  engaged.  Six  of  the  officers  lost  their  lives  in  that  battle.  The  loss  at 
Stone's  River  was  7  killed,  39  wounded,  and  18  missing.  The  Twenty-second  was  then  in  Post's  (ist)  Brigade, 
Davis  s  (ist)  Division,  McCook's  Corps.  The  regiment  was  detailed  as  rear-guard  at  Chickamauga,  and  so  was 
absent  at  that  battle  ;  but  it  participated,  two  months  later,  in  the  storming  of  Missionary  Ridge, — then  in  Sheri 
dan's  (2d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps.  It  served  next  in  Davis's  (2d)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-SEVENTH   INDIANA  INFANTRY. 


KUGER'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLIAMS'S  DIVISION  —  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


COLONEL  SILAS  COLGROVE  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

• 

3 

• 

i 
i 

• 
2 

• 

2 

• 

I 

•     • 

16 

10 

17 

19 

16 

14 

15 
M 
19 
19 

•     • 

19 

10 

18 
20 
16 
16 

IS 

16 

19 

20 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

13 

10 

13 

16 

13 

ii 

18 

i3 

13 

10 

I 

J3 
10 

13 

18 

13 

1  1 

18 

13 

13 
10 

14 
107 

in 

IO2 
I  2O 

118 
103 

JI3 

107 

104 

IO2 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T  . 

K  

Totals  

10 

J59 

169 

2 

I31 

133 

I,IOI 

169  killed  =  15. 3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  616  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  12. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Winchester,  Va 5 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 21 

Antietam,  Md 41 

Chancellorsville,  Va 32 

Gettysburg,  Pa 40 

Gunboat  service i 


Resaca,  Ga 13 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 8 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 3 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 4 

On  Picket i 


Present,  also,  at  Front  Royal,  Va. ;  Cassville,  Ga.,  Dallas,  Ga. ;  Lost  Mountain,  Ga. ;  Kenesaw,  Ga. 


NOTES. — Silas  Colgrove  was  the  typical  "  old-fashioned  Colonel  "  of  the  American  Army.  At  times,  brave 
and  courageous  to  a  fault ;  at  others,  careful  and  judicious  to  an  admirable  degree.  He  was  always  kind 
and  cheerful  to  his  men,  winning  not  only  their  admiration  and  respect,  but  their  love  and  confidence.  His 
stanch,  soldierly  virtues  were  largely  reflected  in  his  men,  making  the  Twenty-seventh  a  reliable  and  hard  fight 
ing  regiment.  That  it  faced  unflinchingly  the  musketry  of  many  fields  is  clearly  indicated  in  its  extraordinary 
percentage  of  loss.  It  left  the  State  September  15,  1861,  and  soon  after  its  arrival  at  Washington  was  assigned 
to  Banks's  command.  It  wintered  near  Frederick,  Md.,  and  in  the  spring  participated  in  Banks's  Shenandoah 
campaign.  After  that,  its  history  is  identical  with  that  of  the  Twelfth  Corps  and  Williams's  Division. 

Its  casualties  in  battle  were  severe,  especially  in  proportion  to  its  numbers.  It  lost  at  Cedar  Mountain  15  killed, 
29  wounded,  and  6  missing;  at  Antietam,  18  killed,  191  wounded,  no  missing;  at  Chancellorsville,  20  killed,  126 
wounded,  and  4  missing;  at  Gettysburg,  23  killed,  86  wounded,  and  i  missing  At  Resaca,  Ga.,  the  regiment 
captured  the  colors  and  the  Colonel  of  the  Thirty-eighth  Alabama,  together  with  a  large  number  of  prisoners, 
Colgrove  handling  his  men  well  in  this  fight,  the  loss  not  exceeding  68  killed  and  wounded,  while  it  inflicted  five 
times  that  on  the  enemy.  In  1864  the  designation  of  the  Corps  was  changed  to  the  Twentieth,  although  the 
old  badges  and  division  commanders  were  retained.  The  regiment  served  in  the  Twentieth  Corps  in  the  Atlanta 
campaign,  after  which,  its  term  having  expired,  it  was  mustered  out. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


347 


THIRTIETH   INDIANA  INFANTRY. 


GROSE'S  BRIGADE -- STANLEY'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  SIGN  8.  BASS  (Killed). 


(!i)  OOL.  JOSEl'Ii  B.  DODGE. 


(3)  COL.  HENKY  W  LAWTON. 


C'OM  PA  NIKS 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS 

DIED  OP  DISEAHB,  ACCIUKNTH,  IN  I'UISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total 

Field  and  Staff  

1 
I 

• 
• 
I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

•     • 

13 

'4 

'3 

I  2 
I  I 

M 

'3 

21 
II 
I  I 

.   I 
14 
14 

'3 

13 
1  1 

M 

!3 
22 
I  I 
I  I 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
.^ 
29 

27 

36 
22 

26 

36 
2O 
26 
21 

2 

3° 
29 

27 

36 

22 
26 

36 
20 

26 
21 

19 

103 

116 
132 
127 
82 

IOI 

129 

i°3 

I03 
1  1  1 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

4 

'33 

137 

i 

274 

275 

1,126 

137  killed  —  12. i  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded.  511  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  43. 


BATTLM.  K.  &  M.W 

Shiloh,  Tenn 26 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 46 

Chickamauga,  Ga 22 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 3 

Resaca,  Ga - 5 

Dallas,  Ga 6 


HATTLES.  •  K.&M.W. 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 16 

Atlanta,  Ga 6 

Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga i 

Franklin,  Tenn i 

Nashville,  Tenn 3 

Place  unknown 2 


Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Liberty  Gap  ;  Adairsville  ;   Peach  Tree  Creek  ;  Spring  Hill. 

NOTES. — Organized  and  mustered  in  at  Fort  Wayne  on  the  24th  of  September,  1861  Proceeding  to  Ken 
tucky  it  reported  to  General  Rousseau,  and,  having  been  assigned  to  McCook's  Brigade,  moved  with  Knell's 
Army  to  Bowling  Green,  Ky. ;  thence,  in  March,  1862,  to  Nashville,  and  thence,  in  April,  to  the  battle  field  of 
Shiloh,  where  Buell  arrived  in  time  to  fight  the  battle  of  the  second  day  and  save  Grant's  Army.  The  Colonel 
fell,  mortally  wounded,  in  this  engagement,  while  the  total  casualties  in  the  regiment  amounted  to  12  killed,  115 
wounded,  and  2  missing.  The  Thirtieth  was  then  in  Kirk's  Brigade  of  A.  D.  McCook's  Division.  After 
the  Siege  of  Corinth  it  marched  with  Buell  through  Northern  Alabama  and  Tennessee  into  Kentucky,  and 
thence  to  Nashville.  At  Stone's  River  it  fought  in  Johnson's  (2d)  Division,  McCook's  Corps,  losing  in  that 
battle,  31  killed,  1 10  wounded,  and  72  missing.  The  regiment  was  small  in  numbers  at  Chickamauga,  yet  it  lost 
there,  10  killed,  55  wounded,  and  61  missing.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign  it  was  in  Grose's  (3d)  Brigade, 
Stanley's  (ist)  Division,  Fourth  Corps.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta  it  marched  northward  with  the  Fourth  Corps, 
and  was  engaged  at  the  battles  of  Franklin  and  Nashville.  In  that  campaign  the  division  was  commanded  by 
General  Kimball,  Stanley  having  been  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Coqis.  In  1864,  while  at  Atlanta,  the 
regiment  was  mustered  out,  its  three  years  of  enlistment  having  expired.  The  recruits  and  rei:nlisted  men 
remaining  in  the  field  were  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  seven  companies,  which  remained  with  the  Fourth 
Corps  during  the  rest  of  the  war. 


348 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-FIRST   INDIANA   INFANTRY. 


CRUFT'S  BRIGADE  —  STANLEY'S  DIVISION — FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CHARLES  CRUFT ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  OSBORN. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  T.  SMITH. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 

• 

1 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 

•     • 

'3 
15 
13 
M 
18 

7 
8 

7 
8 

12 

2 
13 

16 

J3 

H 
18 
8 
8 

7 
9 

12 

* 

I 

• 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 
21 

25 
27 

28 

27 
22 

24 

31 

26 

21 

I 

22 

25 
29 

28 

28 

22 
24 

31 

27 

21 

16 

MS 

152 
166 

132 
161 
166 

147 
152 

166 
159 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T  . 

K"  . 

Totals  

5 

"5 

I2O 

5 

253 

258 

1,562 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  432. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


Fort  Donelson,  Tenn 15 

Shiloh,  Tenn 31 

Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss i 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 1 1 

Chickamauga,  Ga 12 

R  ocky  Face   Ridge,  Ga 4 

Resaca,  Ga i 


BATTLES. 

Pine    Mountain,  Ga 
Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga. 

Chattahoochie,  Ga 

Marietta,  Ga 

Jonesboro,    Ga 

Atlanta  campaign 

Nashville,  Tenn 


K.  &M.W. 


i 
i 

4 

5 
18 


Present,  also,  Fort  Henry  ;  Perryville  ;  Hoover's  Gap  ;  Smyrna  Station  ;  Lovejoy's  Station  ;  Franklin. 


NOTES. — Organized  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  September  20,  1861.  It  proceeded  soon  after  to  Kentucky, 
encamping  at  Calhoun,  on  the  Green  River,  where  it  remained  until  February  n,  1862,  when  it  moved  with 
General  Grant's  forces  to  Fort  Donelson.  It  participated  in  the  assault  on  that  stronghold,  losing  9  killed,  52 
wounded,  and  i  missing ;  the  regiment  was  commanded  in  this  action  by  Major  Frederick  Arn,  Colonel  Craft 
being  in  command  of  the  brigade,  which  was  then  in  Lew  Wallace's  Division.  At  Shiloh,  the  regiment  was  in 
Lauman's  Brigade  of  Hurlbut's  Division;  loss,  21  killed — including  Major  Arn, —  114  wounded,  and  3  missing. 
After  marching  with  BuelFs  Army  on  the  long  and  arduous  campaigns  of  1862,  the  regiment  went  into  action 
next  at  Stone's  River,  it  being  then  in  General  Craft's  (ist)  Brigade,  Palmer's  (2d)  Division,  Crittenden's  Corps, 
and  was  commanded  in  that  action  by  Colonel  Osborn  ;  loss,  5  killed,  45  wounded,  and  37  missing.  After  this 
battle,  the  Thirty-first  remained  quietly  encamped  near  Murfreesboro  until  the  forward  movement  of  the  army 
in  June,  1863. 

At  Chickamauga  the  regiment  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Smith;  loss,  5  killed,  61  wounded,  and 
17  missing.  In  October,  1863,  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  was  reorganized,  the  regiment  becoming  part  of 
Craft's  (ist)  Brigade,  Palmer's  (ist)  Division,  Fourth  Corps.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign  of  1864,  this  divi 
sion  was  known  as  Stanley's  Division.  After  the  evacuation  of  Atlanta,  the  Thirty-first  accompanied  the  Fourth 
Corps  in  its  pursuit  of  Hood,  fighting  at  Nashville  with  a  loss  of  10  killed  and  33  wounded.  After  the  war 
closed  the  corps  moved  to  Texas,  where  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  December  8,  1865. 


THRKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


849 


THIRTY-SECOND  INDIANA  INFANTRY.— "  FIRST  GERMAN  REGT." 
WILLICH'S  BRIOADK— T.  J.  WOOD'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  AUGUST  WILLICH  ;  BVT.  MAJ.-GKN.         (2)  COL.  HENRY  VON  TREBKA.       (3)  COL.  FRANCIS  ERDRLMKVER. 


COMPANIKS. 

KII.I.RD  AND  DIEU  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  op  DIHKAHK,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKIHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

(  >ffieers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 
2 

I 

• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

•     • 

'7 

'5 

19 
18 

16 

16 

'9 
M 

'5 

15 

I 

J7 

16 

21 
19 

16 

i? 

19 
'5 
'5 
15 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

14 

M 

I  2 

14 
10 

5 
6 

6 

10 

5 

I 
'4 

'4 

I  2 

14 

10 

5 
6 

6 

10 

5 

'9 
'49 
1  20 

i'7 
in 

144 

"5 
1  08 

121 

H7 
132 

B   

r 

D  . 

E  

F 

G 

H  

I 

K  

Totals  

7 

164 

171 

I 

96 

97 

1,283 

171  killed  —  13.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  612  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  n. 


BATTLES  K.&M.W. 

Hewlett's  Station,  Ky 14 

Shiloh,  Tcnn 20 

Siege   of  Corinth 2 

Dog  Walk,  Ky.,  Oct.  9,  1862 i 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 25 

Liberty  Gap,  Tenn 15 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Chickamauga,  Ga 34 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 17 

Resaca,  Ga 4 

Pickett's  Mills,  Ga 22 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 12 

Atlanta,  Ga 4 


Salt  River  Bridge,  Ky i 

Present,  also,  at  Rocky   Face   Ridge;  Cassville ;  Dallas;    Peach  Tree  Creek;    Paid    Springs;    Lovejoy's 
Station. 

NOTES. — A  German  regiment,  organized  through  the  exertions  of  Colonel  Willich,  an  officer  who  had  seen 
sqrvice  in  the  German  army,  and  who,  also,  achieved  a  brilliant  success  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  The  regi 
ment  left  Indiana  in  September,  proceeding  to  Kentucky  where  it  served  for  several  months.  While  on  duty  at 
Rowlett's  Station,  Ky.>  guarding  a  railroad  bridge,  it  was  attacked  on  December  17,  1861,  by  a  superior  force 
under  General  Hindman,  but  succeeded  in  repulsing  the  attack.  The  gallantry  of  the  regiment  in  this  affair 
elicited  a  special  order  from  General  Buell,  acknowledging  the  service  performed.  The  loss  of  the  Thirty- 
second  in  that  fight  was  n  killed,  22  wounded,  and  5  missing,  out  of  418  engaged.  In  February,  1862,  it 
moved  to  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  and  thence  to  Nashville,  where  it  remained  a  short  time,  after  which  it  marched 
to  Shiloh,  then  in  Rousseau's  Division.  Its  loss  at  Shiloh  was  10  killed  and  86  wounded.  At  Stone's  River,  - 
then  in  Johnson's  Division — it  lost  12  killed,  40  wounded,  and  115  missing  or  captured;  at  Liberty  Gap,  7 
killed,  and  19  wounded;  at  Chickamauga,  2 1  killed,  81  wounded,  and  20  missing.  Upon  the  reorganization  of 
the  Fourth  Corps,  in  October,  1863,  it  was  assigned  to  Willich's  (ist)  Brigade,  Wood's  (3d)  Division,  Fourth 
Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Missionary  Ridge, —  where  Major  Jacob  Glass  was  killed, —  and,  also,  in 
the  Atlanta  campaign.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  the  regiment  was  ordered  home  for  muster-out ;  the  recruits 
and  reenlisted  men  remaining  in  the  field  weie  formed  into  a  residuary  battalion  of  four  companies,  which  garri 
soned  Chattanooga  until  June,  1865. 


350 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-EIGHTH  INDIANA  INFANTRY. 
0.  F.  MOORE'S  BRIGADE  —  CARLIN'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTEENTH   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  BENJAMIN  F.  SCRIBNER  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN.  (2)  COL.  DAVID  F.  GRIFFIN  (Died);  BVT.  BKIG.-GEN. 

(3)  COL.  DAVID  H.  PATTON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 
2 
I 
I 
2 

• 
* 
• 
• 

1 

I 

I 

22 

J9 
ii 

X7 

9 

8 

ii 

12 

18 
T9 

2 

24 
2O 
12 

J9 

9 

8 

ii 

12 

19 

2O 

• 
• 
• 

i 

• 

I 

39 

25 
26 

24 

23 
19 

20 
M 

32 
31 

I 

39 

25 
26 

24 
23 
X9 

21 

H 
32 

31 

I? 

I67 

168 
171 
168 

156 
136 
128 

15° 
1  68 

1  68 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H. 

T   , 

K  

Totals  . 

9 

147 

156 

i 

254 

255 

i,597 

156  killed  =  9.y  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  579;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  25. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W 

Chaplin   Hills,  Ky 42 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 26 

Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn .  2 

Chickamauga,  Ga 22 

Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn i 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 2 

Graysville,  Ga i 

Buzzard  Roost,  Ga 4 

Resaca,  Ga 2 

Present,  also,  at  Rogersville,  Tenn. ;  Utoy  Creek,  Ga. ;  Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga. ;  Averasboro,  N.  C. 


K.  &  M.  W. 
...  2 

7 

...  2 


BATTLES. 

Dallas,  Ga 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 

Chattahoochie  River,  Ga , 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 5 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 8 

Jonesboro,    Ga 1 8 

Bentonville,  N.  C n 

Picket  Line,  Aug.  1 1,  1864 i 


NOTES. —  Organized  at  New  Albany,  Ind.,  September  18,  1861,  proceeding  immediately  to  Kentucky,  where 
it  encamped  near  Murfreesboro  during  the  following  fall  and  winter.  In  February,  1862,  it  marched  with  BuelFs 
Army  in  its  advance  on  Bowling  Green  and  Nashville.  The  summer  of  1862  was  spent  in  Tennessee,  in  the 
vicinity  of  Shelbyville,  and  also  near  Chattanooga,  returning  to  Kentucky  in  October,  where  the  campaign  cul 
minated  on  the  8th,  in  the  battle  of  Chaplin  Hills.  The  regiment  was  then  in  Rousseau's  Division,  which  sus 
tained  the  main  force  of  the  attack  in  that  battle,  the  regiment  losing  27  killed  and  125  wounded;  five  of  the 
color-guard  were  killed,  and  the  color-sergeant  was  severely  wounded.  At  Stone's  River,  the  regiment  was  in 
Scribner's  (ist)  Brigade,  Rousseau's  (ist)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps,  its  casualties  in  that  battle  amounting  to 
14  killed,  94  wounded,  and  4  missing.  General  Baird  commanded  the  division  at  Chickamauga,  where  the 
Thirty-eighth  lost  13  killed,  57  wounded,  and  39  missing.  It  reenlisted,  and  served  in  1864  in  the  Atlanta  cam 
paign, —  then  in  Carlin's  (ist)  Brigade,  Johnson's  (ist)  Division.  It  distinguished  itself  at  the  battle  of  Jones 
boro,  in  which  the  color-bearer  was  killed  while  planting  his  flag  inside  the  enemy's  intrenchments.  Its  casualties 
on  the  Atlanta  campaign  amounted  to  103,  killed,  wounded  and  missing.  In  November,  1864,  the  corps  marched 
with  Sherman  through  Georgia  to  the  sea,  and  then  in  March,  1865,  through  the  Carolinas.  At  Bentonville,  the 
last  battle  of  the  Fourteenth  Corps,  the  division  (Carlin's)  was  prominently  engaged,  the  regiment  suffering  a 
severe  loss. 


THKKE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


THIRTY-NINTH  INDIANA-    'EIGHTH  CAVALRY." 
WILLICH'S  BRKJADK    -  JOHNSON'S  DIVISION  -  -  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  J.  HARRISON  ;  BVT.  BKUI.-GKN. 


(2)  COL.  F1KLDER  A.  JONES. 


COXPAMKN. 


KM. 1. 1. 


i MID  or  \\ 


Field  and  Staff 


A. 
B, 
C, 
D. 
E, 
F. 
G. 
H, 
I  . 
K. 
L, 
M 


Totals. 


I\  1  I.I.I.  1  1 

Officers. 

jhnu    i  M  r.  i>    vm     » 

Men. 

*  <  •  i     >  1  i^. 

Total 

J'IKIJ  ur  l/UBAVB,   AWlU*nT9| 

Officers. 

Men. 

• 

•     • 

*    • 

• 

*  • 

• 

'3 

13 

• 

20 

2 

I  2 

M 

• 

27 

• 

IO 

IO 

• 

'9 

2 

'4 

16 

• 

16 

1 

12                            13 

• 

23 

I 

M                            15 

• 

18 

• 

II                             II 

• 

33 

• 

12 

12 

• 

19 

. 

19 

'9 

» 

22 

1 

8 

9 

i 

2  3 

I 

6 

7 

• 

'7 

I 

8 

9 

• 

'5 

9 

'39 

148 

I 

252 

Iv  PIIISON,  Ac- 


20 

27 

'9 
16 

23 
18 

33 
'9 

22 
24 

'7 
15 


253 


Total 
Enrollment. 


16 
192 

•75 
1 66 

'57 
161 
189 
176 

'54 
162 

'74 
114 
117 


''953 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  \V. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 12 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 48 

Manchester,  Tenn i 

Shelbyville  Road,  Tenn i 

Middleton,  Tenn.,  June  30,  1863 i 

Winchester,  Tenn.,  Sept.  14,  1863 i 

Chickamauga,  Ga 14 

Fairburn,  Ga.,  Aug.  19,  1864 2 

Flint  River,  Ga.,  Aug.  31,  1864 i 

Jonesboro,  Ga 2 

Atlanta  Campaign 5 

Guerrillas 3 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Campbellton,  Ga.,  Sept.  10,  1864 7 

Pulaski,  Tenn.,  Sept.  27,  1864 

Waynesboro,  Ga.,  Nov.  28,  1864 6 

Louisville,  Ga.,  Dec.  i ,  1 864 2 

Sherman's  March,  Ga 3 

Rockingham,  N.  C.,  March  7,  1865 2 

Fayetteville,  N.  C.,  March  9,  1865 i 

Averasboro,  N.  C.,  March  16,  1865 17 

Mount  Olive,  N.  C.,  March  19,  1865 i 

Owensburg,  N.  C.,  April  6,  1865 2 

The  Carolinas 3 

Place  unknown 5 


Present,  also,  at  Liberty  Gap  ;  Chattanooga  ;  Lovejoy's  Station  ;  Reynolds's  Farm  ;  Milledgeville  ;  Savannah  ; 
Aiken  ;  Bentonville  ;  Raleigh  ;  Morrisville. 

This  regiment  was  organized  as  infantry,  and  it  served  as  such  at  Shiloh  and  Stone's  River  ;  but,  in  April, 
1863,  the  men  were  mounted,  after  which  it  served  as  mounted  infantry  until  October,  1863,  when  it  was  officially 
designated  the  Eighth  Indiana  Cavalry,  and  two  new  companies —  L  and  M  —  were  added.  It  was  organi/.ed  at 
Indianapolis,  August  29,  1861,  and  was  immediately  ordered  into  Kentucky,  where  it  was  subsequently  assigned 
to  Buell's  Army,  with  which  it  marched  to  Shiloh.  Under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Jones  it  fought  with 
honorable  distinction  at  Stone's  River,  sustaining  there  a  loss  of  30  killed,  1 19  wounded,  and  231  captured  or  miss 
ing.  The  regiment  reenlisted  in  February,  1864,  and  in  April  returned  to  Indiana  on  its  veteran  furlough.  It 
rejoined  Sherman's  Army  July  27th,  in  time  to  take  an  active  part  in  the  cavalry  operations  and  raids  around  Atlanta. 
It  then  accompanied  Sherman  on  his  March  to  the  Sea,  having  been  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade  of  Kilpatrick's 
Cavalry  Division,  in  which  it  remained  during  Sherman's  northward  march  through  the  Carolinas.  Under  Colonel 
Jones  it  distinguished  itself  at  Averasboro,  where  it  lost  14  killed  and  59  wounded,  the  heaviest  loss  of  any 
regiment,  cavalry  or  infantry,  in  that  battle. 


352 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FORTIETH  INDIANA  INFANTRY. 
WAGNER'S  BRIGADE  —  SHERIDAN'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  0.  WILSON. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  W.  BLAKE. 


(3)  COL.  HENRY  LEAMING. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  

• 

I 
I 

• 
• 

r 
i 

i 

t 
* 
• 

21 

19 

12 

14 
II 

17 

J5 

12 
IO 

12 

•     • 

22 
20 
12 

M 

I  2 

18 
16 

12 
IO 
12 

2 

• 
• 
I 
I 

• 
* 
• 
• 
• 

I 

2 
14 

16 
24 

27 

23 

25 
24 

18 
ii 

22 

4 
14 

16 

25 
28 

23 

25 
24 

18 
ii 

23 

19 

140 

I36 
149 

159 

T39 
164 

!52 
146 

137 
132 

B  . 

c  

D. 

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

5 

143 

148 

5 

2O6 

21  I 

!>473 

148  killed=io  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded    551 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Shiloh,  Term.,  April  15,  1862 i 

Perryville,  Ky i 

Stone's  River,  Tenn i  o 

Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn 2 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 39 

Resaca,  Ga 4 

Adairsville,  Ga i 

Dallas,  Ga 9 

Present,  also,  at  Corinth  ;  Jonesboro  ;  Lovejoy's  Station. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Pine  Mountain,  Ga . . . . 7 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 4 

Assault  on  Kenesaw 37 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 8 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 4 

Franklin,  Tenn 17 

Nashville,  Tenn 4 


NOTES. —  Organized  at  Lafayette,  Ind.,  in  December,  1861,  and  ordered  immediately  into  Kentucky,  where 
it  went  into  a  Camp  of  Instruction  near  Bardstown.  In  February,  1862,  it  moved  with  BuelPs  Army  on  its 
various  campaigns  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  having  been  assigned  to  Wagner's  Brigade  of  Wood's  Division, 
in  which  it  was  present  at  Shiloh,  but  not  under  fire.  Wood's  (6th)  Division  participated  in  the  campaigns  of 
the  Army  of  the  Ohio  in  1862,  the  occupation  of  Tennessee,  and  the  retreat  into  Kentucky.  The  regiment  was 
engaged  at  Stone's  River,  where  it  lost  4  killed,  68  wounded,  and  13  missing.  The  brigade  was  absent  at  Chick- 
amauga,  it  having  been  detailed,  just  at  that  time,  on  duty  at  Chattanooga,  and  left  behind  as  the  army  passed 
through.  Upon  the  re-organization  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  October  20,  1863,  the  regiment  was  assigned 
to  Wagner's  (2d)  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (zd)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Missionary 
Ridge,  where  it  sustained  a  loss  of  20  killed  and  138  wounded ;  total,  158.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign,  Gen 
eral  Newton  commanded  the  division,  and  in  the  unsuccessful  assault  on  Kenesaw  Mountain  the  regiment  met 
with  another  severe  loss,  the  percentage  of  casualties  being  very  large.  At  the  battle  of  Franklin.  General  Wag 
ner  commanded  the  division,  and  Colonel  John  Q.  Lane  the  brigade.  After  the  battle  at  Nashville  the  regiment 
remained  in  winter-quarters  near  that  city  until  the  spring  of  1865,  when,  the  war  having  closed,  it  was  ordered 
to  New  Orleans.  From  there  it  went  with  the  Fourth  Corps  to  Texas,  where  it  joined  Sheridan's  Army  of  Occu 
pation,  remaining  there  until  December  21,  1865,  when  it  was  mustered  out. 


TIIRKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


353 


EIGHTH  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
STEVENSON'S  BRIGADE  -  I  ,OGAN'S  DIVISION  -  -  SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  RICHARD  OGLESBY  :  MAJOU-GKN. 
(2)Cou  FKANK  L.  KHOADK. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  P  POST. 

(4)  COL.  JOSIAII  A.  SHEETS:  BVT.  Bnio.-G»». 


('OXPANIE8. 

KlI.I.Kl)  AND  DlKI)  OF  \Vot:NDS. 

DIKH  or  DIHKASE,  AC-CIDKNTS,  Is  PKIHON.  &<•. 

Totul 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

I 
I 

• 
• 
• 

2 

• 
• 

2 

I 
21 

'5 
16 

'4 
'5 

M 

10 

16 
17 

2  I 

I 
22 
16 

16 
'4 

'5 
16 

IO 

16 

*7 

23 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

I 

12 

16 
18 

13 

12 
2O 

14 
20 

10 

J9 

I 
I  2 

16 
18 

'3 

12 
2O 

'4 

20 
IO 

'9 

16 
184 
190 

'93 
199 

198 
,  J6 
187 
1  86 

•93 
'97 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

1  60 

166 

• 

'55 

'55 

1,929 

Of  the  original  enrollment  enlisted  in  i86r,  there  were  148  killed. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  551. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.\V. 

Charleston,  Mo i 

Fort  Donelson,  Term 8 1 

Shiloh,  Tenn 32 

Raymond,  Miss i  > 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss 5 

Milliken's  Bend,  La i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Siege  of  Vicksburg i  o 

Jackson,  Miss 6 

Spanish  Fort,  Ala i 

Fort  Blakely,  Ala 15 

Memphis,  Tenn i 

Steamer  "  Moderator  "  ( 1 863) i 


Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Port  Gibson  ;  Brownsville  ;  Meridian. 

NOTES. — Mustered  in  April  25,  1861,  for  three  months,  after  which  it  reorganized  and  mustered  in  for 
three  years.  Leaving  Cairo  in  October,  it  served  in  Missouri  until  February,  1862,  when  it  moved  with  Grant  up 
the  Tennessee  River  to  Fort  Henry,  and  thence  to  Fort  Donelson,  where  it  was  actively  engaged  in  the  assault, 
being  then  in  Oglesby's  (ist)  Brigade,  McClernand's  Division;  loss,  54  killed  and  188  wounded, — a  total  of 
242,  out  of  613  officers  and  men  engaged.  At  Shiloh,  under  command  of  Captain  Robert  H.  Sturgess,  it 
lost  30  killed,  91  wounded,  and  3  missing,  out  of  474  engaged.  After  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  May,  1862, 
the  Eighth  shared  in  Grant's  Tennessee  and  Mississippi  campaigns,  prior  to  the  investment  of  Vicksburg. 
During  the  Vicksburg  campaign  it  was  in  Stevenson's  (3d)  Brigade,  Logan's  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps.  At 
the  battle  of  Raymond  it  lost  8  killed  and  19  wounded;  at  Champion's  Hill,  2  killed,  7  wounded,  and  3  missing; 
and  in  the  assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  22,  4  killed  and  19  wounded.  The  regiment  remained  in  Mississippi  dur 
ing  1864,  rei'-nlisting  in  the  meantime,  and  going  home  on  its  veteran  furlough.  On  January  i,  1865,  it  left 
Memphis  for  New  Orleans,  proceeding  thence,  in  March,  to  Mobile,  where  it  was  prominently  engaged  in  the 
siege  of  that  place.  In  the  successful  assault  on  Fort  Blakely,  April  9,  1865,  it  lost  ro  killed  and  54 
wounded  ;  its  colors  were  the  first  on  the  enemy's  works,  the  color-sergeant  falling  dead  in  the  charge.  In 
June,  1864,  the  recruits  left  in  the  field  by  the  Seventeenth  Illinois,  upon  its  return  home,  were  transferred  to 
the  Eighth.  The  regiment  remained  on  duty  in  Louisiana  and  Texas  until  the  spring  of  1866,  and  was  finally 
mustered  out  at  Baton  Rouge,  May  4,  1866. 
23 


354: 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


NINTH  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
MERSY'S  BRIGADE  —  DODGE'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ELEAZER  A.  PAINE, 


jj. ;  BRIG.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  AUGUST  MERSY  ;  BVT.BRIG.-GEX. 


(3)  COL.  SAMUEL  T.  HUGHES. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

• 
• 
2 

I 

* 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

I 
13 

34 

21 
I? 

18 

21 
22 

18 

23 

23 

I 

13 

36 

22 

17 

18 

22 
22 

18 

23 

24 

I 

• 
• 

I 
I? 

18 

22 
2O 
21 
20 
24 

J9 
18 

20 

2 
J7 

18 

22 
20 
21 
2O 

24 
*9 

18 
20 

16 
129 

J39 
159 

I31 

132 

167 
166 

158 
143 
'53 

B  

c  

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H. 

T  . 

K  

Totals  

5 

211 

216 

I 

2OO 

20  r 

i,493 

216  killed=i4.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  792  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  41 


BATTLES.                                                                           K.  &  M. W. 

Fort  Donelson,  Term 55 

Shiloh,  Tenn 103 

Corinth,  Miss 29 

Lundy's  Lane,  Ala i 

3 

i 


K.&M.W 


BATTLES. 

Wyatt,    Miss i 

Snake  Creek  Gap,  Ga i 

Resaca,  Ga 4 

Dallas,  Ga i 

Rome,  Ga i 

Nancy's  Creek,  Ga i 

Atlanta,  Ga 2 

Milledgeville,  Ga *  •  .  3 

Orangeburg,  S.  C i 

Place  unknown i 


Meed  Creek,  Miss 

Jackson,   Tenn 

Grenada,  Miss i 

Bear  Creek,  Tenn i 

Salem,    Miss 5 

Montezuma,  Tenn i 

Present,  also,  at  Saratoga,  Tenn. ;    Cherokee  ;   Florence  ;  Athens ;  Moulton ;  Flint  River. 

NOTES. — The  Ninth  lost  the  most  men,  killed  in  action,  of  any  Illinois  regiment..  After  serving  in  the  three 
months  service,  the  regiment  enlisted  for  three  years,  leaving  Cairo  September  5,  1861.  It  proceeded  to 
Paducah,  Ky.,  where  it  was  stationed  until  February,  1862,  when  it  moved  with  Grant's  Army  to  Fort  Donelson. 
It  was  then  in  McArthur's  Brigade  of  C.  F.  Smith's  Division;  its  loss  at  Fort  Donelson  was  36  killed,  165 
wounded,  and  9  missing,  total,  210.  At  Shiloh,  the  Ninth  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  regiment  in  that 
battle  ;  it  fought  there  in  W.  H.  Wallace's  Division,  encountering*  a  severe  fire,  but  holding  its  ground  until 
ordered  to  retire,  which  it  did  in  good  order.  The  persistence  with  which  it  withstood  the  attack  at  Shiloh 
occasioned  its  unusual  loss,  its  casualties  amounting  to  61  killed,  300  wounded,  and  5  missing ;  a  total  of  366  out 
of  5  78  "  present  for  duty," —  and  the  greatest  loss  in  killed  and  wounded  sustained  by  any  infantry  regiment  dur 
ing  the  war.  At  the  battle  of  Corinth,  Oct.  4,  1862,  it  lost  n  killed,  82  wounded,  and  55  missing,  out  of  359 
present  in  action,  as  officially  reported  by  Colonel  Mersy  ;  many  of  the  missing  were  killed.  The  regiment 
was  then  in  Oglesby's  (2d)  Brigade,  Davies's  (2d)  Division,  Army  of  West  Tennessee.  In  March,  1863,  the 
regiment  was  changed  to  mounted  infantry,  and  served  as  such  with  the  Sixteenth  Corps  in  1863.  In  1864,  it 
was  engaged  on  the  Atlanta  campaign.  It  was  mustered  out  August  20,  1864,  and  the  recruits  remaining  in  the 
field  were  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  seven  companies.  This  battalion  was  attached  to  the  Seventeenth 
Corps,  with  which  it  marched  on  Sherman's  famous  campaign  through  Georgia  and  the  Carolinas. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FKSIITINO  REGIMENTS. 


865 


ELEVENTH   ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
RANSOM'S  BRIGADE  -  -  McAimiuK's  DIVISION --SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WM.  H.  L.  WALLACE  ;  BKIU.-GEN.  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  THOMAS  K.  HANSOM  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  (Diet!). 


(3)  COL.  OAKKETT  KEVINS  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  JAMES  II.  COATS  ;  BVT.  Bmo.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  Dm>  OK  WOUNDS. 

DIEI>  or  DISEASE.  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'KIHOS,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

2 
I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

•    • 

20 

6 

*9 
18 

21 

'7 

'9 
20 

15 
24 

I 
21 

8 
20 
18 

21 

'7 
20 

20 

'5 
25 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

i 
20 
24 

21 

33 

25 
35 
33 
24 
35 
33 

I 
20 

24 
21 

33 
25 
35 
33 
24 
36 
33 

18 
192 
172 

»74 
198 
208 
20  1 

2OI 

1  88 

!?3 

217 

B   

c 

D  

E  

F   

G  . 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

7 

179 

186 

I 

284 

285 

1,942 

Original  enrollment,  801  ;  killed,   151  ;  percentage,  18.8. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  543  ;  missing  or  captured    126  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  23. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Fort  Donelson,  Tenn 102 

Shiloh,  Tenn 24 

Vicksburg  Assault,  May  22 1 1 

Siege  of  Vicksburg 1 6 

Liverpool  Heights,  Miss 3 

Yazoo  City,  Miss 14 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Jackson,  Miss.,  July  7,  1864  /   2 

Clinton,   Miss.,  July  7,  1864  )   5 

Fort  Blakely,  Ala 2 

Macon,  Ga.  (prisoner) i 

Guerrillas i 

Place  unknown 4 


Black  River  Bridge,  Miss i 

Present,  also,  at  Fort  Henry,  Tenn. ;  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Trenton,  Tenn. ;  Benton,  Miss. ;  Spanish  Fort,  Ala. 

NOTES. — Mustered  in  originally  as  a  three  months  regiment.  It  was  remustered  at  Bird's  Point,  Mo.,  for 
three  years,  on  July  13,  1861,  one-third  of  the  men  remaining  in  the  service.  The  regiment  performed  garri 
son  duty  in  Missouri  until  February,  1862,  when  it  embarked  on  the  campaign  against  Forts  Henry  and  Donel 
son.  In  the  storming  of  Fort  Donelson  it  lost  70  killed,  181  wounded,  and  88  missing  ;  a  total  of  339  out  of 
about  500  engaged  ;  many  of  the  missing  were  killed  or  wounded.  The  regiment  was  then  in  VV.  H.  Wallace's 
Brigade  of  McClernand's  Division.  At  Shiloh,  it  fought  in  Marsh's  (2d)  Brigade  of  the  same  division,  taking 
239  officers  and  men  into  action,  and  losing  17  killed,  69  wounded,  and  17  missing;  total,  103.  During  the 
Vicksburg  campaign  it  was  in  Ransom's  (2d)  Brigade,  McArthur's  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps.  In  the  assault 
on  Vicksburg,  May  22,  1863,  it  lost  3  killed,  30  wounded,  and  9  missing;  Colonel  Kevins  was  among  the  killed. 
At  Liverpool  Heights,  February  5,  1864,  it  lost  4  killed  and  9  wounded  ;  at  Yazoo  City,  March  5th,  9  killed,  24 
wounded,  and  12  missing.  In  July,  1864,  it  marched  with  General  Slocum's  Expedition  against  Jackson,  Miss. 
On  July  29,  1864,  it  moved  to  Morganzia,  La.,  and  in  March,  1865,  it  was  engaged  in  the  siege  operations  about 
Mobile,  and  in  the  fighting  at  Fort  Blakely.  In  April,  1863,  the  One  Hundred  and  Ninth  Illinois  was  discon 
tinued,  and  the  men,. numbering  589  (on  the  rolls),  were  transferred  to  the  ranks  of  the  Eleventh.  The  Eleventh 
was  mustered  out  July  14,  1865,  and  the  men  with  unexpircd  terms  of  enlistment  were  transferred  to  the  Eigjith 
and  Forty-sixth  Regiments,  Illinois  Infantry. 


356 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWELFTH   ILLINOIS   INFANTRY. 


MERSY'S  BRIGADE  —  DODGE'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  McARTIIUR  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  (2)  COL.  AUGUSTUS  L.  CHETLAIN  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 

(3)  COL.  HENRY  VAN  SELLAR. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  op  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total.  » 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

I 
I 

• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

I 

•    * 

15 
24 

15 

1  1 

12 

16 

22 
6 

7 
>5 

15 

25 

16 
1  1 

12 

16 

23 

7 
8 

J5 

I 
I 

• 

I 

•  • 
10 

14 
'5 

7 
10 

1  1 

J3 
10 

10 

9 

•     • 

10 

14 

16 

7 
10 

12 

T3 

IO 
10 
IO 

18 

114 

105 

123 
IO2 
148 
149 
123 
IOI 
121 
I03 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

5 

J43 

148 

3 

109 

112 

1,207 

148  killed  —  12.2  per  cent 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  536. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fort  Donelson,  Tenn 28 

Shiloh,  Tenn 31 

Corinth,  Miss 27 

Lay's  Ferry,  Ga 3 

Rome  Cross  Roads,  Ga 3 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i 

Nickajack  Creek,  Ga 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  J  uly  22 1 6 

Ezra  Chapel,  Ga 4 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 1 1 

Jonesboro,    Ga i 

Allatoona  Pass,  Ga 17 

Sherman's  March i 

Place  unknown 3 


Present,  also,  at  Fort  Henry,  Tenn.  ;  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Lost  Mountain,  Ga.  ;  Ogeechee,  Ga. ;  Savan 
nah,  Ga. ;  Salkahatchie,  S.  C. ;    Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Cairo,  111.,  and  mustered  in  August  i,  1861,  proceeding  in  the  next  month  to  Padu- 
cah,  Ky.,  where  it  remained  until  February,  1861,  during  which  time  it  was  engaged  on  occasional  expeditions  ; 
also  in  the  demonstration  against  Columbus,  and  in  a  reconnoissance  toward  Fort  Donelson.  On  the  5th  of 
February  it  embarked  for  Fort  Henry,  marching  thence  to  Fort  Donelson,  where  it  was  engaged  in  the  storming 
of  the  works;  it  lost  in  this,  its  first  battle,  19  killed,  62  wounded,  and  8  missing,  out  ot  612  effective  men.  It 
was  then  in  General  C.  F.  Smith's  Division,  Colonel  McArthur  commanding  the  brigade,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Chetlain  the  regiment.  At  Shiloh,  it  lost  22  killed,  76  wounded,  and  3  missing,  out  of  329  engaged;  at  Corinth, 
15  killed,  79  wounded,  and  15  missing,  out  of  six  companies  engaged,  numbering  12  officers  and  262  men.  At 
the  latter  action  it  fought  in  Oglesby's  (2d)  Brigade,  Davies's  (2d)  Division,  Army  of  West  Tennessee.  The  regi 
ment  remained  at  Corinth  during  the  eight  months  subsequent  to  that  battle ;  then,  on  June  6,  1863,  it  moved  to 
Pocohontas,  Tenn.,  where  it  guarded  the  railroad  for  a  few  months.  In  January,  335  of  the  men  reenlisted,  and 
went  home  on  the  customary  veteran  furlough  granted  in  such  cases.  The  Twelfth  started  on  the  Atlanta  cam 
paign,  May  9,  1864,  having  been  assigned  to  Mersy's  (2d)  Brigade,  Sweeny's  (2d)  Division,  Sixteenth  Corps. 
After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  this  division  was  transferred  to  the  Fifteenth  Corps  as  its  Fourth  Division.  General 
Corse  commanded  the  division  at  the  defense  of  Allatoona ;  General  Rice  commanded  it  during  the  March  to 
the  Sea  and  in  the  Carolinas. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


TWENTIETH   ILLINOIS   INFANTRY. 
J.  E.  SMITH'S  BRIGADE  -   LOGAN'S  DIVISION  —  SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  C  C.  MARSH. 


(8)  COL  DANIEL  BRADLEY. 


(3)  C.M..  IIKNHY  KlN(i. 


1    .'VIM  Sit  - 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  <>r  WOUNDS. 

I'n  i.  ..i    HIM  \M  .  ArcniKNTH,  IN  PIUMJN,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

(  Xfieors. 

Men 

Total. 

3 
IO 

12 

'5 

'5 

«S 

1  1 

1  1 

*5 
20 

I  2 

Officers. 

• 

• 
• 

• 
• 

• 
• 

I 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

• 

i 

i 

• 

i 

i 

•    • 

10 

I  2 

14 
14 

15 
I  I 

I  I 
M 

'9 
12 

I 
'7 

22 
14 
15 
25 

!3 
22 

18 

21 

23 

I 

'7 

22 
'4 

'5 
25 
'3 

22 

18 

21 

24 

16 
93 

I  10 

93 

IO2 

'4 

05 

1  1 
32 

IO 

1  06 

B  

c 

I)  

E  

p  

(;  

H  

I   

K  

Totals  

7 

132 

'39 

I 

191 

I92 

1,092 

139  killed  —  12.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  503. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.\V. 

Fort  Donelson,  Term 30 

Shiloh,  Term 39 

Britten's  I,ane,  Term 6 

Columbus,  Ky i 

Edwards's  Station,  Miss i 

Raymond,  Miss 29 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss 5 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.\V 

Siege    of  Vicksburg 6 

Hillsboro,    Miss.,  Feb.  15,  1864 i 

Kenesaw,  Ga 2 

Battle  of  Atlanta i  o 

Siege  of  Atlanta 6 

The  Carolmas 2 

Fayetteville,  N.  C i 


Present,  also,  at  Frederickton,  Mo. ;  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Jackson.  Miss. ;  Big  Black,  Miss. ;  Pocotaligo, 
S.  C. ;  Sherman's  March  ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. —  Organized  May  14,  i86i,at  Joliet,  and  mustered  in  June  i3th.  It  left  camp  the  next  week  for 
Alton,  from  whence  it  moved,  July  6th,  to  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo.,  remaining  there  or  in  its  vicinity  seven  months, 
during  which  it  was  engaged  on  several  minor  expeditions,  and  in  some  fighting.  On  February  2,  1862. —  then 
in  W.  H.  Wallace's  Brigade,  McClernand's  Division, —  it  embarked  for  Fort  Donelson,  where  it  sustained  a  loss 
of  18  killed,  108  wounded,  and  6  missing;  total,  132;  Lieutenant-Colonel  William  Erwin,  an  officer  who  had 
seen  service  in  the  Mexican  war,  was  killed  in  this  action,  a  round  shot  striking  him  in  the  breast ;  every  man  on 
the  color-guard  was  either  killed  or  wounded.  At  Shiloh  the  brigade  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Marsh,  the 
loss  of  the  regiment  amounting  to  22  killed,  107  wounded,  and  7  missing;  total,  136.  During  the  Vicksburg 
campaign  in  1863,  the  Twentieth  served  in  General  John  E.  Smith's  Brigade,  lagan's  Division,  Seventeenth 
Corps.  At  the  battle  of  Raymond,  the  regiment  lost  17  killed  —  including  Lieutenant-Colonel  Evans  Richards, 
-68  wounded,  and  i  missing;  at  Champion's  Hill,  2  killed,  15  wounded,  and  8  missing.  It  was  stationed  at 
Vicksburg,  or  in  its  vicinity,  from  July,  1863,  to  February,  1864,  when  it  marched  on  the  Meridian  campaign. 
Returning  from  its  veteran  furlough,  it  joined  Sherman's  Army,  June  8,  1864,  while  on  the  advance  to  Atlanta, 
the  regiment  being  assigned  to  Force's  (ist)  Brigade,  I.eggett's  (3<1)  Division, Seventeenth  Corps.  The  Twen 
tieth  accompanied  the  army  on  its  march  through  Georgia  to  the  Sea,  and  on  the  campaign  through  the  Carolinas, 
the  brigade  being  then  under  command  of  General  Charles  Ewing. 


358 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-FIRST  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
CRUFT'S  BRIGADE  —  STANLEY'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ULYSSES  S.  GRANT,  TO.  $.,&. 

(2)  COL.  JOHN  W.  ALEXANDER  (Killed). 


GENERAL,  U.  S.  A. 


(3)  COL.  JAMES  E.  GALLOWAY. 

(4)  COL.  WILLIAM  H.  JAMISON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

I 

• 

I 
I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

I 

14 
1  1 

8 
ii 
ii 

J5 
10 

16 

18 

9 

2 

15 
1  1 

9 

12 
II 

15 
I  I 

16 
18 

10 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

•     • 

IO 
14 

8 
24 

IO 

17 
18 

20 

7 

12 

I 
IO 

J5 

8 

24 

10 

17 

18 

20 

7 

12 

18 
146 
146 
132 
142 

139 

146 

140 

157 

138 
148 

B  . 

c  

D. 

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

124 

130 

2 

I4O 

142 

i,452 

Original  enrollment,  923  ;  killed,  113  ;  percentage,  12.2 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  374;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  53. 


BATTLES. 

Kenesaw,  Ga  . . 
Atlanta,  Ga .  . . . 
Franklin,  Tenn. 
Nashville,  Tenn. 


K.  &M.W. 
. .        i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 78 

Chickamauga,  Ga 45 

Gay's  Gap,  Tenn i 

luka,  Miss.,  August  21,1862 i 

Chattahoochie,  Ga i 

Present,  also,  at  Fredericktown ;  Siege  of  Corinth ;  Chaplin  Hills ;  Knob  Gap ;  Liberty  Gap ;  Peach  Tree 
Creek ;  Jonesboro  ;  Lovejoy's  Station. 

NOTES. —  A  peculiar  interest  attaches  itself  to  the  Twenty-first,  because  it  was  Grant's  old  regiment.  The 
men  in  that  command  little  thought  that  the  stranger  assigned  to  them  as  their  colonel  was  destined  to  become 
the  grandest  figure  in  the  war.  The  recruits  rendezvoused  at  Mattoon,  where  they  were  mustered  into  the  State 
service,  May  15, 1861,  by  "  Captain  "  Grant,  and  on  the  24th  of  June,  the  regiment  was  mustered  into  the  United 
States  service  by  Captain  Pitcher,  U.  S.  A.,  with  U.  S.  Grant  as  colonel.  Grant  continued  in  command  of  his 
regiment  until  the  7th  of  August,  when  he  was  promoted,  and  entered  on  the  career  which  was  to  culminate  in 
grandeur  at  Appomattox.  The  regiment  served  in  Missouri  until  May,  1862,  and  then  it  joined  Buell's  Army.  It 
was  engaged  at  the  battle  of  Perryville,  Ky.,  but  with  only  a  slight  loss  in  wounded.  At  Stone's  River,  it  par 
ticipated  in  the  hardest  of  the  fighting,  losing  in  that  battle,  and  in  the  preliminary  skirmish  at  Knob  Gab,  5  7 
killed,  187  wounded  and  59  missing;  total  303.  The  regiment  was  then  in  Carlin's  (2d)  Brigade,  Davis's  (ist) 
Division,  McCook's  Corps,  and  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  regiment  on  that  field.  Four  color-bearers 
were  shot  down,  but  the  colors  were  carried  safely  through  the  fight.  At  Chickamauga  it  lost  22  killed,  70 
wounded,  and  146  captured  or  missing  ;  Colonel  Alexander,  an  officer  of  rare  merit,  was  killed  there.  After  this 
battle  the  Twenty-first  was  assigned  to  Cruft's  (ist)  Brigade,  Stanley's  (ist)  Division,  Fourth  Corps.  The  regiment 
reenlisted  in  March,  1864,  upon  which  it  returned  to  Illinois  on  a  veteran  furlough.  It  rejoined  the  Army  while 
at  the  front,  near  Kenesaw  Mountain,  the  men  who  did  not  reenlist  having  been  attached  during  the  meanwhile  to 
the  One  Hundred  and  First  Ohio.  After  participating  in  the  Atlanta  and  Nashville  campaigns  of  1864,  it  ac 
companied  its  corps  to  Texas,  where  it  was  mustered  out  in  December,  1865. 


TIIKKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


TWENTY-SECOND  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
HARKER'S  BRIGADE  —  SHERIDAN'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  Corn's. 


COLONEL  ITEXRY  DOUOIIEHTY 


(8)  COLONEL  FKANCIS  SWANWICK. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OK  DINEAME,  ACCIUENTH,  IN  1'uisoN,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

I  I 
12 
12 

'3 

'9 

'7 

12 
12 
I  I 

25 

I 
I 
2 

2 

4 
9 

7 

2 
2 
I  2 

25 

I 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

9 
8 

8 

'3 
10 

IO 

6 
r7 

10 
IO 

I 
10 

8 

8 

13 

10 
IO 

6 

'7 

IO 
IO 

16 
109 
103 

I05 
118 

13* 
103 

98 
1  26 

94 
1  20 

Company  \  

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H. 

I  

K. 

Totals  

2 

MS 

'47 

2 

IOI 

i«3 

1,123 

147  killed  —  13.0  per  cent. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  424  ;  total  of  missing  and  captured,  124  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  in 
cluded),  16. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Missionary  Ridge,  Term 8 

Resaca,  Ga 4 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 3 

Place  unknown 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Charleston,  Mo.  (5  Cos.) 3 

Belmont,  Mo.  (7  Cos.) 37 

Farmington,  Miss 5 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 43 

Chickamauga,  Ga 42 

Present,  also,  at  the  Siege  of  Corinth ;  Mew   Madrid;  Island  No.   10;  Tiptonville ;  Rocky  Face   Ridge; 
Adairsville. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Belleville,  May  1 1,  1861  ;  mustered  in  June  25th,  and  left  the  Stale  July  1 1,  proceed 
ing  to  Bird's  Point,  Mo.  On  the  i9th  of  August  following,  five  companies  made  a  successful  night  attack  on  the 
enemy  at  Charleston,  Mo.,  capturing  many  prisoners  and  horses.  It  was  actively  engaged  at  the  battle  of 
Belmont,  Mo.,  Nov.  7,  1861,  losing  there  23  killed,  74  wounded,  and  37  missing,  out  of  seven  companies 
engaged, —  three  companies  having  been  left  to  guard  the  transports.  After  participating  in  the  Siege  of  Corinth, 
the  regiment  performed  guard  duty  along  the  Memphis  &  Charleston  Railroad,  until  September,  1862,  when  it 
fell  back  to  Nashville.  At  the  battle  of  Stone's  River  it  lost  21  killed,  116  wounded,  and  56  missing,  out  of  312 
present  in  that  action  ;  the  regiment  was  then  in  Roberts's  (3d)  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (3d)  Division,  McCook's 
Corps.  At  Chickamauga  it  lost  23  killed,  76  wounded,  and  31  missing,  out  of  less  than  300  engaged.  Upon  the 
re-organization  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  October,  1863,  the  Twenty-second  was  placed  in  Harker's  (31!) 
Brigade,  Sheridan's  (2nd)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  and  with  that  division  was  engaged  in  the  storming  of  Mis 
sionary  Ridge.  After  that  battle  the  remnant  of  the  regiment  marched  to  the  relief  of  Knoxville,and  then  passed 
the  winter  of  1863-4  in  the  mountains  of  East  Tennessee.  In  May,  1864,  it  marched  with  Sheridan  on  the  Atlanta 
campaign,  the  little  regiment  sharing  in  all  the  fighting  of  the  Fourth  Corps  until  June  loth,  when  it  received  the 
welcome  order  to  return  home  for  muster-out,  its  term  having  expired.  The  re<:nlisted  men  and  recruits  with 
unexpired  terms  were  transferred  to  the  Forty-second  Illinois  Infantry.  Colonel  Dougherty  lost  a  leg  at  Belmont, 
after  which  the  regiment  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Swanwick  in  its  various  battles. 


3GO 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTIETH  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
DENNIS'S  BRIGADE  —  LOGAN'S  DIVISION  —  SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  PHILIP  B.  POUKE. 


(2)  COL.  ELIAS  S.  DENNIS  :  BVT.  MAJOB-GEN. 


(3)  COL  WARREN  SHEDD  •  BVT  BRIG  -GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 
I 
I 

2 

• 

2 
I 

• 
* 

I 

•  • 
14 

7 

1  2 

8 
18 

10 
10 

13 
9 

M 

I 
IS 

8 
J3 

10 

18 

12 
II 

J3 
9 
15 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

21 

19 

22 

28 

23 
17 

I? 

26 

24 
21 

2 
21 

J9 

22 
28 

23 
17 

17 

26 

24 
21 

15 

1  88 
164 

i?3 

158 
1  80 

142 
170 
161 

H7 

171 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

"5 

I25 

2 

218 

2  2O 

1,669 

Total  of  killed    and  wounded,  461  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  23. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Belmont,  Mo 15 

Fort  Donelson,  Term 29 

Britton's  Lane,  Tenn 3 

Jackson,  Tenn i 

Jackson,  Miss i 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss 15 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Big  Shanty,  Ga 2 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga , 7 

Battle  of  Atlanta .  - 33 

Ezra  Chapel,  Ga 2 

Siege  of  Atlanta , , . .  10 

Guerillas,  S.  C.,  Feb   28,  1865  .    .  . , , i 

Sherman's  March i 


Vicksburg,  Miss 5 

Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Raymond,  Miss. ;  Bogachitta  Creek,  Miss. ;  Meridian  March,  Miss. ; 
Siege  of  Savannah,  Ga. ;  Pocotaligo,  S.  C. ;  Columbia,  S.  C. ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Camp  Butler,  August  28,  1861,  moving  from  there  three  days  later  to  Cairo,  where 
it  was  assigned  to  McClernand's  Brigade.  It  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Belmont,  November  7,  1861,  where 
it  sustained  a  loss  of  9  killed,  27  wounded,  and  8  missing;  Major  Thomas  McClurken  was  killed  in  that 
action.  In  February,  1862,  the  regiment  sailed  up  the  Tennessee  River  with  Grant's  Army  to  Fort  Henry; 
after  the  reduction  of  that  stronghold  by  the  Navy,  the  regiment,  under  Colonel  Dennis,  marched  to  Fort  Donel 
son,  where  it  took  part  in  the  storming  of  the  works.  It  was  then  in  Oglesby's  (ist)  Brigade,  McClernand's 
Division,  and  lost  19  killed,  69  wounded,  and  6  missing.  The  Thirteenth  was  present  at  the  Siege  of  Corinth, 
after  which  it  remained  in  Northern  Mississippi  until  the  opening  of  the  Vicksburg  campaign  in  the  spring  of 
1863,  during  which  time  it  was  engaged  in  active  service,  reconnoissances,  and  frequent  encounters  with  the 
enemy.  In  1863,  it  served  in  Leggett's  (2d)  Brigade,  Logan's  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps.  It  fought  under 
Logan  at  Champion's  Hill,  where  it  lost  9  killed,  and  49  wounded.  Reenlisting  in  January,  1864,  it  went  home 
on  the  usual  furlough,  in  March,  and  on  its  return  joined  Sherman's  Army  on  June  roth,  at  Ackworth,  Ga.  While 
in  Leggett's  (3d)  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps,  it  was  hotly  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Atlanta,  July  22,  1864,  in 
in  which  it  suffered  a  severe  loss.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  it  marched  with  Sherman  to  the  Sea,  and  thence  on 
the  campaign  through  the  Carolinas  in  the  spring  of  1865.  It  was  then  in  Ewing's  (ist)  Brigade,  Leggett's  (3d) 
Division,  Seventeenth  Corps. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


301 


THIRTY-FIRST  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
JOHN  E.  SMITH'S  BRIGADE-   LOGAN'S  DIVISION --SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(i)  COL.  JOHN  A.  LOGAN  .  MAJOK-GKN. 

W)  COL.  LYNIMWK  OZBl'RN  ;  UVT.  BKIG  GEN.. 


(3)  COL.  EDWIN  S.  MtCOOK ;  UVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 

(4)  COL.  ROBERT  N.  I'EARSON;  BVT.  BKKJ.-GEN. 


COMPANIES 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOI-NUB. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'KISON.  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  anil  Stall  . 

2 

I 
I 

• 

:> 

• 

i 
i 

•    • 

22 
M 

16 

18 
16 
16 

'7 
»5 

J7 

*5 

2 
23 

15 

16 

21 
16 

16 

17 

16 

17 
16 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

i 
i 

* 

•    • 

32 
3° 
33 
38 

24 
24 
39 
27 
26 
20 

I 
32 
3° 

33 

38 
24 

25 
40 

27 
26 
20 

16 

183 
'79 

'73 

185 

178 

174 
182 

i95 

,78 

1  66 

B  

c 

D  . 

E  

F  

G 

H  

I 

K  

Totals  . 

9 

166 

'75 

3 

293 

296 

1,809 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  630  ;  died  of  disease  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  19. 
BATTLES.  K.&M.\V.  BATTLES.  K.  JfcM.W. 


Belmont,   Mo 1 8 

Fort  Donelson,  Tenn 58 

Burnt  Bridge,  Tenn i 

Grand  Junction,  Tenn i 

Thompson's    Hill,  Miss i 

Raymond,  Miss 2 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss 8 

Vicksburg  Assault,  May  22,  1863 5 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss 13 

Jackson,  Tenn i 


Trenton,  Tenn i 

Canton,    Miss i 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  (la 5 

Battle  of  Atlanta,  Ga 49 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 3 

Lovejoy's   Station,  Ga 3 

March  to  the  Sea i 

Wateree  River,  S.  C i 

Bentonville,  N .  C i 

Place  unknown 


Present,  also,  at  Fort  Henry,  Tenn. ;  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Tuscumbia  Rivei  ;  Jackson,  Miss. ;  Meridian  Raid  ; 
Big  Shanty,  Ga. ;  Jonesboro,  Ga. ;  Siege  of  Savannah ;  Salkahatchie,  S.  C  ;  Columbia,  S.  C. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Cairo,  September  18,  1861.  In  November  it  fought  at  Belmont,  where  it  lost  10 
killed,  70  wounded,  and  4  missing.  In  February,  1862,  it  moved  up  the  Tennessee  River,  and  was  present  at 
the  bombardment  of  Fort  Henry  ;  thence  it  marched  over  the  hills  to  Fort  Donelson,  where  it  went  into  position 
in  front  of  the  enemy's  works,  amid  winter's  snow  and  storm.  It  was  engaged  in  the  assault,  during  which  the 
regiment  evinced  a  remarkable  steadiness  under  fire,  changing  front  to  rear  on  tenth  company  in  the  face  of 
severe  musketry,  over  uneven  ground  and  in  tangled  brush.  Colonel  Logan,  who  still  commanded  the  Thirty- 
first,  was  seriously  wounded  in  this  action,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  H.  White  was  killed  ;  the  total  loss  was 
31  killed,  117  wounded,  and  28  missing.  During  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  the  Thirty-first  served  in  J.  E. 
Smith's  Brigade,  Ix>gan's  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps ;  it  lost  at  Raymond,  i  killed  and  6  wounded  ;  at  Cham 
pion's  Hill,  5  killed  and  18  wounded;  and  on  May  22d,  in  the  grand  assault  on  Vicksburg,  3  killed  and  21 
wounded,  including  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  D.  Rees,  who  was  mortally  wounded  by  a  hand-grenade  while 
mounting  the  parapet.  It  also  sustained  severe  losses  in  the  trenches  during  the  siege,  several  being  killed  in 
the  fight  over  the  crater  at  the  Mine  Explosion  at  Fort  Hill,  May  25th.  The  regiment  encountered  its  hardest 
fighting  and  greatest  percentage  of  loss  on  July  22,  1864,  at  the  battle  of  Atlanta;  it  was  then  in  Leggett's  (3d) 
Division,  Seventeenth  Corps. 


362 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-FOURTH   ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
MITCHELL'S  BRIGADE  —  DAVIS'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EDWARD  N.  KIRK  ;  BBIG.-GEN.  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  ALEXANDER  P.  DYSART. 


(3)  COL.  PETER  EGE. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

• 

I 
2 

• 
• 

I 
I 

3 

2 

• 

•     • 

12 
I.I 
I  I 
20 

9 

12 
II 
21 
II 
I  I 

I 

12 
12 

13 

20 

9 

13 

12 
24 

13 

I  I 

2 

• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 

I 
13 

T3 
ii 

12 

14 
I  I 

M 
IO 

10 
IO 

3 
13 

J3 
ii 

12 

14 
II 

14 
10 
10 
10 

17 

182 

168 

156 

168 

!53 

148 

132 
1  60 

133 
137 

B  

c  . 

D  

E  . 

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

I  I 

129 

140 

2 

119 

121 

i,554 

BATTLES. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 

Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 36 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  508. 
K.&M.  \\ 

35 

2 


Liberty  Gap,  Tenn 6 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga i 

Resaca,  Ga i  o 

Rome,  Ga i 

Dallas,  Ga 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Lost  Mountain,  Ga 2 

Assault  on  Kenesaw,  Ga 12 

Atlanta,  Ga 5 

Jonesboro,  Ga 7 

Averasboro,  N.  C 6 

Bentonville,  N.  C 14 

Haywood,  N.  C i 


Present,  also,  at  Triune,  Tenn. ;  Graysville,  Ga. ;  Sherman's  March  to  the  Sea. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Springfield  September  7,  1861,  and  ordered  to  Kentucky  in  October,  where  it 
remained  until  February  14,  1862.  It  was  then  in  Kirk's  Brigade  of  Rousseau's  Division.  It  fought  at  Shiloh 
-then  in  McCook's  Division  of  Buell's  Army  —  losing  15  killed  and  112  wounded;  Major  Charles  H.  Levan- 
way  was  killed  in  this  action.  The  Thirty-fourth  was  present  at  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  after  which  it  marched 
with  the  army  through  Northern  Alabama,  Tennessee  and  Kentucky  to  Louisville,  arriving  there  September  27, 
1862.  It  then  moved  on  the  Perryville  campaign,  after  which  it  encamped  at  Nashville.  At  the  battle  of  Stone's 
River  it  was  in  Kirk's  (2d)  Brigade,  Johnson's  (2d)  Division,  McCook's  Corps,  its  casualties  amounting  to  21 
killed,  100  wounded,  and  74  missing,  out  of  354  engaged  ;  General  Kirk,  formerly  Colonel  of  the  Thirty-fourth, 
was  killed  there.  At  Liberty  Gap,  Tenn.,  the  regiment  lost  3  killed  and  24  wounded.  In  September,  1863,  it 
was  ordered  to  Carpenter's  Ferry,  on  the  Tennessee  River,  to  guard  a  pontoon  bridge,  upon  which  duty  it  was 
engaged  at  the  time  of  the  battle  of  Chickamauga.  In  November,  1863,  it  was  assigned  to  Davis's  (2d)  Divi 
sion,  Fourteenth  Corps,  in  which  it  served  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  and  it  was  hotly  engaged  at  Resaca ; 
also  in  the  assault  on  Kenesaw,  losing  in  that  affair  5  killed  and  40  wounded.  Having  reonlisted  for  the  war  it 
was  present  on  the  march  through  Georgia,  and  at  the  fighting  in  the  Carolinas  ;  it  lost  at  Averasboro,  3  killed 
and  5  wounded  ;  and  at  Bentonville  —  then  in  Morgan's  Division  —  8  killed  and  22  wounded.  After  marching 
in  the  Grand  Review  at  Washington,  May  24,  1865,  the  regiment  moved  to  Louisville  where  it  was  mustered  out, 
July  12,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


363 


THIRTY-SIXTH  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
STEEDMAN'S  BRIGADE  —  SHERIDAN'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  NICHOLAS  GREUSEL. 


(2)  COL. SILAS  MILLER  (Killed).         (3)  COL.  BENJAMIN  F.  CAMPBELL. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PHISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men.                   Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

• 
• 

I 
I 
I 
I 

• 

3 

• 

i 

•    • 

23 
13 

25 
22 

20 
21 

16 

19 

7 

27 

3 
23 

'3 
26 

23 

21 
22 
16 
22 

7 
28 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 

•    • 

IO 

8 
24 
14 
8 

'5 
1  1 

9 
16 

12 

•     • 

I  I 

8 
24 
14 

8 

'5 
1  1 

9 
16 

I  2 

i  J 

'55 

122 

MS 
144 

I30 
141 
142 
124 
126 
I29 

B  

c  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  .  

K  

Totals  

1  1 

*93 

204 

I 

127 

128 

M76 

204  killed  —  14.8  per  cent. 
Total    killed    and    wounded,    739;    died    in    Confederate    prisons  (previously   included),    12. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Dallas,  Ga 6 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 13 

Atlanta,  Ga 7 

Franklin,  Tenn 17 

Nashville,  Tenn 6 

Skirmishes  and  Picket  Duty 3 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Pea  Ridge,  Ark 10 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky 23 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 65 

Chickamauga,  Ga 35 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 7 

Resaca,  Ga 7 

Adairsville,  Ga 5 

[ 

Present,  also,  at  Corinth  ;  Hoover's  Gap ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  New  Hope  Church  ;  Peach  Tree  Creek  ; 
Jonesboro  ;  Lovejoy's  Station  ;  Spring  Hill. 

NOTES. — Mustered  in,  September  23,  1861,  proceeding  immediately  to  Rolla,  Mo.,  where  it  encamped  until 
January  14,  1862.  It  then  moved  into  Arkansas  with  Osterhaus's  Brigade  and  fought  at  Pea  Ridge,  losing  in 
that,  its  first  action,  4  killed,  37  wouncfed  and  27  missing.  It  then  moved  with  Asboth's  Division  to  Corinth, 
after  which  it  encamped  during  the  summer  at  Rienzi,  Miss.  In  the  fall  it  marched  to  Louisville,  where  it  was 
assigned  to  Sheridan's  Division  in  which  it  fought  at  Chaplin  Hills,  losing  9  killed,  64  wounded,  and  4  missing. 
At  Stone's  River,  it  was  in  Sill's  (ist)  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (3d)  Division,  McCook's  Corps  ;  General  Sill  was  killed 
in  this  battle,  whereupon  Colonel  Greusel  took  the  command  of  the  brigade.  The  regiment  lost  at  Stone's  River, 
46  killed,  151  wounded,  and  15  missing  ;  total,  212.  At  Chickamauga  the  brigade  was  commanded  by  General 
Lytle,  the  regiment  losing  in  that  action,  20  killed,  101  wounded,  and  20  missing.  In  October,  1863,  the  Thirty- 
sixth  was  placed  in  Steedman's  (ist)  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (2d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  command  it 
fought  at  Missionary  Ridge.  It  served  in  the  Fourth  Corps  during  the  remaining  two  years  of  its  service.  Gen 
eral  Newton  commanded  this  division  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  during  which  Colonel  Miller  was  killed  at 
Kenesaw  Mountain.  The  brigade,  under  command  of  Colonel  Emerson  Opdycke  (i25th  Ohio),  achieved  a 
brilliant  success  at  the  battle  of  Franklin,  where  it  captured  ten  flags  and  rendered  efficient  aid  at  a  critical  period 
of  the  fight ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Porter  C.  Olson  was  killed  in  this  action.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  in 
Texas,  in  October,  1865. 


364 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-NINTH  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY  - -"  YATES  PHALANX." 
HOWELL'S  BRIGADE  —  TERRY'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  THOMAS  O.  OSBURN  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  ORRIN  L.  MANN;  BVT.  Biuo.-GEN. 


COMPANIES 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  

I 

• 
• 

2 
I 

• 

2 
I 

2 
2 
I 

•    • 

I  I 
12 

8 
18 
18 
20 

12 

8 

J3 
9 

I 

I  ] 
12 
10 

J9 
18 

22 

J3 

10 

15 

10 

2 

• 
• 

• 

I 

*5 
II 

14 
13 

9 
14 

25 
7 

12 

9 

I 

I? 

II 

14 

*3 
9 
M 

25 
7 

12 

9 

16 
161 

J52 
143 

150 
138 
147 
I7S 

134 
'57 
158 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

12 

129 

141 

2 

130 

132 

^53! 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  522  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  30. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Morris  Island,  S.  C 3 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C 3 

Fort  Moultrie,  S.  C 2 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va 19 

Ware  Bottom  Church,  Va 7 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va 8 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  7 2 

Darbytown  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  13 20 

Fair  Oaks,  Va.,  Oct.  27 3 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 15 

Fort  Gregg,  Va 21 

Appomattox,  Va .  2 


Deep  Bottom,  Va 36 

Present,  also,  at  Bath,  W.  Va. ;  Cacapon  Bridge,  W.  Va. ;  Alpine  Station,  W.  Va. ;  Kernstown,  Va. ;  Black- 
water,  Va. 

NOTES. — Left  the  State  October  13,  1861,  and  during  the  next  eight  months  was  stationed  in  West  Virginia, 
guarding  railroad  most  of  the  time.  It  served  next  with  Shields's  Division  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  and  was 
present  at  the  battle  of  Kernstown,  March  23,  1862,  but  was  not  actively  engaged.  It  was  ordered  to  the  Penin 
sula  in  June,  arriving  there  just  after  the  battle  of  Malvern  Hill,  and  wasassigned  to  Peck's  Division,  Fourth  Corps. 
Upon  the  withdrawal  from  the  Peninsula  the  Thirty-ninth  was  ordered  to  Suffolk,  where  it  remained  for  a  few 
months.  The  year  1863  was  passed  at  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.,  and  in  Charleston  Harbor,  where  it  was  engaged  in 
the  siege  operations  on  Morris  Island  and  at  Fort  Wagner.  Having  reenlisted  it  went  home  on  its  veteran  fur 
lough,  returning  in  March,  1864,  with  about  750  men.  It  was  assigned  to  Howell's  (ist)  Brigade,  Terry's  (ist) 
Division,  Tenth  Corps,  in  which  it  fought  during  the  ensuing  campaign  against  Richmond.  In  the  fighting  at 
Drewry's  Bluff  and  at  Bermuda  Hundred  the  regiment  lost  14  killed,  no  wounded,  and  49  missing  ;  total,  173. 
The  regiment  encountered  more  hard  fighting  at  Deep  Bottom,  August  16,  1864,  where  it  captured  an  earth-work, 
losing  in  the  affair  20  killed,  76  wounded,  and  7  missing.  In  December,  1864,  it  was  transferred  to  Osborn's 
(ist)  Brigade,  Foster's  (ist)  Division,  Twenty-fourth  Corps.  In  the  victorious  assault-  on  Fort  Gregg,  at  the 
Fall  of  Petersburg,  the  gallantry  of  the  regiment  was  specially  acknowledged  by  General  Gibbon,  the  corps  com 
mander.  In  that  desperate  fight  it  lost  16  killed  and  45  wounded,  out  of  only  150  present  in  action  — a  part  of 
the  regiment  having  been  absent  on  picket  duty;  of  the  nine  men  in  the  color-guard,  seven  were  shot  down  in 
this  assault.  The  Thirty-ninth  was  mustered  out  at  Norfolk,  Va.,  in  December,  1865. 


Tiim.i:   HrNDKKD   FK.HTIM;   RKUIMKNTS. 


FORTIETH  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
WALCUTT'S  BKKIADK  — C.  R.  WOODS'S  DIVISION  --  FIFTKKXTH  COUPS. 


COLONEL  STKPHKX  (J.  HICKS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIRD  or  Worsns. 

DIED  or  DISKAHK,  ACCIDKNTH,  IN  PHIHON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

(  )ff  leers 

Men 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 

• 

1 

• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

2 

'3 
1  1 

9 

1  1 

1  1 
1  1 

12 

12 

'4 
13 

3 
»3 

I  2 

9 

12 
I  I 
12 
12 
12 

'5 
'4 

• 
t 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
2 

' 

•    • 

'4 
12 

'3 
1  1 

IO 

1  1 

14 

10 

9 
'3 

•     • 

14 

12 

'4 
I  I 
10 

1  1 

14 

1  1 
.    1  1 

'3 

M 
1  08 
123 
100 

93 

I  IO 

91 
1  06 

84 

IO2 

86 

B  

c  

D  

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

T  , 

K. 

Totals  

6 

II9 

I25 

4 

..- 

I  2  I 

1,017 

125  killed  —  12.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  438. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


Shiloh,  Tenn 71 

Siege  of  Vicksburg 2 

Jackson,  Miss.,  July  16,  1863 2 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 13 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 2 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 1 1 

Ezra  Church,  Ga ••••....  7 


HATTLER. 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Jonesboro,  Ga 

Ship's  Gap,  Ga 

Griswoldville,  Ga 
Congaree  River,  S.  C 
Bentonville,  N.  C 


K.&M.W. 

9 

...  i 
...  i 

4 

.  . .  i 
.  .  .  i 


Present,  also,  at  The  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Siege  of  Savannah. 


NOTES. — Mustered  in  at  Springfield  August  10,  1861.  On  the  i3th  it  moved  to  Jefferson  Barracks,  Mo., 
and  thence  to  Paducah,  Ky.,  where  it  encamped  during  the  winter.  In  March,  1862,  the  regiment  embarked 
for  Pittsburg  Landing,  where,  three  weeks  later,  it  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh.  The  Fortieth  was  then  in 
Sherman's  Division;  its  loss  at  Shiloh  was  47  killed,  1 60  wounded,  and  9  missing;  total,  216.  The  regiment 
received  the  compliments  of  General  Sherman  for  its  gallantry  in  this  battle,  particularly  for  the  steadiness  with 
which  it  remained  inline  when  requested  by  him  to  do  so,  although  its  cartridge  boxes  had  been  emptied  and  the 
enemy  were  in  its  immediate  front.  The  remainder  of  the  year  1862,  and  all  of  1863,  was  passed  in  the  vicinity 
of  Corinth,  Vicksburg  and  Memphis;  during  the  Vicksburg  campaign  it  served  in  Hicks's(2d)  Brigade,  W.  S. 
Smith's  (ist)  Division,  Sixteenth  Corps.  This  division  was  transferred  in  September,  1863,  to  the  Fifteenth 
Corps,  becoming  the  Fourth  Division,  General  Hugh  Ewing,  under  whose  command  it  fought  at  Missionary 
Ridge.  Only  five  companies  of  the  Fortieth  were  engaged  in  that  battle, —  Companies  A,  C,  E,  I  and  G  ;  the 
other  five  had  been  temporarily  detached,  and  were  serving  as  mounted  infantry ;  the  five  companies  engaged, 
numbering  130  men,  lost  6  killed,  42  wounded,  and  i  missing.  The  regiment  accompanied  the  Fifteenth  Corps 
un  the  Atlanta  campaign,  leading  one  of  the  assaulting  columns  at  Kenesaw,  where  Lieutenant-Colonel  Rigdon 
S.  Barnhill  was  killed.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta  the  Fortieth  was  transferred  to  the  First  Division,  General 
Charles  R.  Woods  commanding,  with  which  it  marched  to  the  Sea  and  through  the  Carolinas. 


366 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FOETY-SECOND  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
BARKER'S  BRIGADE  —  NEWTON'S  DIVISION— FOURTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  A.  WEBB,  WSS..  p.,  E.  &.  (Died). 

(2)  COL.  GEORGE  W.  ROBERTS  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  NATHAN  H.  WALWORTH. 

(4)  COL.  EDGAR  D.  SWAIN, 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

5 

* 
2 
I 

I 

2 
I 
I 

• 

I 

15 

16 
16 

J9 
18 

i7 

12 

15 
24 
'5 

6 
IS 

18 
J7 
19 
19 
19 

13 

16 

24 
IS 

I 

• 

I 
I 

I 

• 
• 

• 

1 

17 

19 

22 

23 
15 

19 

22 

21 

25 

18 

I 

J7 

20 

23 

24 
15 

J9 

22 
21 

2S 

J9 

18 

J51 

156 
160 
162 

147 

168 

184 
153 
154 
164 

B  

C  . 

D.  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K, 

Total  o 

13 

168 

181 

5 

2OI 

206 

1,622 

181  killed  =  11.1  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  654  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  33. 


BATTLES. 

Farmington,  Miss.,  May  9,  1862. 
Columbia,  Tenn.,  Sept.  9,  1862  , 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 

Chickamauga,  Ga < 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 

Resaca,  Ga 


K.  &M.W. 

4 
I 

••      35 

..      47 

12 
I 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W- 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 10 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 

Siege  of  Atlanta 

Jonesboro,    Ga 

Lovejoy's   Station,  Ga 

Spring    Hill,  Tenn 23 

Franklin,  Tenn 13 

Nashville,  Tenn 5 

Place  unknown 4 


Adairsville,  Ga 2 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 4 

Pine   Mountain,  Ga 2 

Present,  also,  at  Island  No.  10  ;  New  Madrid;  Siege  of  Corinth;  Hoover's  Gap;  Dandridge. 

NOTES.  —  Organized  at  Chicago,  July  22,  1861,  and  left  the  State,  September  2ist,  proceeding  to  St.  Louis. 
It  served  in  Missouri  until  April,  1862,  when  it  was  ordered  to  Corinth.  During  the  siege  of  that  place  it  was 
engaged  in  the  affair  at  Farmington,  losing  2  killed,  1 2  wounded,  and  3  missing.  After  marching  through  Miss 
issippi,  Northern  Alabama,  and  Tennessee,  its  next  battle  occurred  at  Stone's  River.  It  was  then  in  Roberts's 
Illinois  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (3d)  Division,  McCook's  Corps;  loss,  19  killed,  96  wounded, and  46  missing;  Colonel 
Roberts,  who  was  in  command  of  the  brigade,  was  among  the  killed.  At  Chickamauga,  Major  James  Leighton 
was  killed,  the  loss  of  the  Forty-second  in  that  battle  amounting  to  28  killed,  128  wounded,  and  28  prisoners.* 
In  October,  1863,  it  was  placed  in  Harker's  (3d)  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (2d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which 
command  it  fought  at  Missionary  Ridge  ;  loss,  5  killed  and  40  wounded.  The  division  was  commanded  by  Gen 
eral  John  Newton  during  the  Atlanta  campaign,  and  by  General  Wagner  during  the  Tennessee  campaign  against 
Hood.  Major  D.  W.  Norton  was  killed  near  New  Hope  Church,  Ga.,  June  3,  1864.  The  regiment  lost  at  Spring 
Hill  and  Franklin,  24  killed,  95  wounded,  and  30  missing;  at  Nashville,  2  killed  and  12  wounded.  Having 
reenlisted,  it  served  throughout  the  war,  and  at  its  close  accompanied  the  Fourth  Corps  to  Texas  where  it  was 
stationed  in  1865,  as  an  Army  of  Occupation. 

•War  Department  Records  make  it  15  killed,  123  wounded,  and  5  missing. 


TIIKKE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  BEGIMENTS. 


367 


FORTY-FOURTH   ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
KIMBALL'S  BRIGADE  —  NEWTON'S  DIVISION  -  -  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(l)CoL.  CHAKLKS  KNOBELSDOKF. 


(2)  COL  WALLACE  W.  BARRETT  ;  RVT. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  ASH  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  op  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTH,  IN  PIUSON,  &c. 

z^zz^rr^ 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

1 
2 

• 
• 
• 

2 
I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•    * 

2O 
10 
10 

'3 
1  1 

'3 
16 

10 

15 
1  1 

I 
22 
10 
IO 

'3 
'3 
M 

16 

IO 

15 

1  1 

• 
• 

I 

•    • 

I  I 
IO 
12 

23 

"4 

I? 

20 

24 
16 

9 

•     * 

I  I 
10 
12 

23 
M 

I/ 
2O 

24 

16 

IO 

'3 
127 

'3° 
136 
'45 

'35 
142 

130 

I25 
124 

i37 

B  

r 

D  . 

E 

F 

G 

H  

I 

K  

Totals  

6 

129 

135 

I 

156 

'57 

i,344 

135  killed  =  10      per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  486  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included).  24. 


BATTLES  K.&M.W. 

Pea  Ridge,  Ark 2 

Guerrillas,  April  1 8,  1862 i 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky 2 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 53 

Chickamauga,  Ga 14 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 7 

Resaca,  Ga ' 


BATTLES.  K.&M.\V 

Adairsville,  Ga 9 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 3 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 16 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 5 

Jonesboro,  Ga 3 

Franklin,  Tenn i  o 

Nashville,  Tenn 5 


Present,  also,  at  Hoover's  Gap ;  Dandridge  ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  Dallas ;  Peach  Tree  Creek  ;  Lovejoy's 
Station  ;  Spring  Hill. 

NOTES. —  Mustered  in  at  Chicago  September  13,  1861,  proceeding  the  next  day  to  Missouri,  where  it  was 
engaged  on  active  duty  for  several  months  ;  it  was  then  in  Sigel's  Division.  It  was  engaged  at  the  battle  of  Pea 
Ridge,  its  first  experience  under  fire,  sustaining  a  slight  loss  only, —  i  killed  and  2  wounded.  In  May,  1862,  it 
marched  with  other  reinforcements  for  the  besieging  army  at  Corinth,  after  which  it  remained  in  Mississippi  a 
few  months,  proceeding  thence,  in  September,  to  Covington,  Ky.,  and  then  to  Ixniisville.  There  it  was  assigned 
to  Laiboldt's  Brigade  of  Sheridan's  Division,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  Chaplin  Hills ;  loss,  i  killed  and  1 1 
wounded.  It  fought  next  at  Stone's  River,  where  it  lost  29  killed,  109  wounded,  and  17  missing;  total,  155. 
At  Chickamauga,  it  lost  6  killed,  60  wounded,  and  34  missing;  total,  100. 

Upon  the  consolidation  of  McCook's  and  Crittenden's  Corps  into  the  newly  formed  Fourth  Corps,  the 
regiment  became  a  part  of  Steedman's  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (2d)  Division.  At  the  battle  of  Missionary  Ridge, 
Sheridan  gave  it  credit  for  being  among  the  first  to  plant  its  colors  on  the  enemy's  works.  Over  three-fourths  of 
the  men  having  reenlisted,  the  organization  of  the  regiment  was  preserved  throughout  the  war.  The  division 
under  Newton  participated  in  the  hard  fighting  of  the  Atlanta  campaign,  and  under  Wagner,  fought  with 
Hood's  Army  at  Franklin.  After  the  victory  at  Nashville,  the  regiment  moved  to  Huntsville,  Ala.,  on  January 
5,  1865  ;  thence  in  April,  to  East  Tennessee,  and  from  there  it  went  with  the  Fourth  Corps  to  Texas,  where  it 
was  mustered  out  in  September,  1865. 


368 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FOBTY-EIGHTH  ILLINOIS  INFANTKY. 
OLIVER'S  BRIGADE  —  HAZEN'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ISIIAM  N.  HAYNIE  ;  BRIG.-GEN. 
(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  W.  SANFORD. 


(5)  COL.  THOMAS  L.  WEEMS. 


(3)  COL.  LIICIEN  GREATHOUSE  (Killed). 
(4)  COL.  ASHLEY  T.  GALBRAITH. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

>Ien, 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

• 
2 

• 

I 

2 

• 
• 

I 
I 

I 

9 

9 
IO 

7 

10 
10 

16 

18 

15 

8 

4 

9 
ii 

10 

8 

12 
IO 

16 

J9 
16 

8 

I 

• 

2 

I 

• 

I 

I 

I 

• 
* 
• 

•  • 

26 

25 
25 

15 
28 

25 
25 

25 
29 

28 

I 
26 

27 
26 

15 

29 

25 
26 

25 
29 

28 

21 
'6S 
157 

IS1 

*5° 

IS1 

161 

*57 
213 

193 

161 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

IT3 

123 

6 

25  i 

257 

i,  680 

Total  ot  killed  and  wounded    431. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fort  Donelson,  Tenn 12 

Shiloh,  Tenn 32 

Germantown,  Tenn 2 

Siege    of  Vicksburg i 

Jackson,  Miss 4 

Resaca,  Ga i 

Dallas-New  Hope  Church,  Ga 10 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 3 

Decatur,  Ga i 


,  BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Battle  of  Atlanta 18 

Ezra   Chapel,  Ga 14 

Jonesboro,   Ga 5 

Lovejoy's   Station,  Ga i 

Siege  of  Atlanta 9 

Fort  McAllister,  Ga 8 

Duck   Creek,  S.  C i 

Columbia,  S.  C i 


Present,  also,  at  Fort  Henry,  Tenn. ;  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn. ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Springfield,  111.,  in  September,  1861.  It  was  stationed  at  Cairo  until  February,  1862, 
when  it  embarked  on  the  expedition  against  Forts  Henry  and  Donelson,  having  been  assigned  to  W.  H.  Wallace's 
Brigade  of  McClernand's  Division.  In  the  action  at  Fort  Donelson,  it  lost  8  killed,  31  wounded,  and  3  missing; 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas  H.  Smith  was  among  the  killed.  At  Shiloh,  it  lost  1 8  killed,  1 1 2  wounded,  and  3 
missing.  The  regiment  was  engaged  in  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  after  which,  in  June,  1 862,  it  was  ordered  to  Bethel, 
Tenn.,  on  garrison  duty,  where  it  remained  until  1863.  While  on  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  it  served  in  W.  S. 
Smith's  Division,  Sixteenth  Corps.  It  was  engaged  in  the  Siege  of  Jackson;  also,  in  the  action  on  July  i6th,  in 
which  Major  Wm.  J.  Stephenson  was  mortally  wounded.  Having  been  transferred  to  the  Fifteenth  Corps,  it 
marched  to  the  relief  of  Chattanooga,  where  it  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Missionary  Ridge.  It  then  marched  on 
the  winter  campaign  in  East  Tennessee  for  the  relief  of  Knoxville,  a  campaign  memorable  for  its  hardships, 
privation,  and  suffering.  The  Forty-eighth  fought  in  the  Fifteenth  Corps  during  the  Atlanta  campaign,  being  hotly 
engaged  in  the  battle  of  July  22,  1864,  in  which  Colonel  Greathouse  was  killed.  The  regiment  reenlisted,  and 
hence  it  continued  with  the  corps  on  its  March  through  Georgia,  and  in  the  fighting  in  the  Carolinas.  It  was 
then  in  Oliver's  (3<1)  Brigade,  Hazen's  (2d)  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps.  After  participating  in  the  Grand  Review 

in  Washington  at  the  close  of  the  war,  the   regiment  was  ordered  to  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  where  it  was  mustered  out 
August  15,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


FIFTY-FIFTH  ILLINOIS    INFANTRY. 
THOS.  K.  SMITH'S  BRIGADE  —  BLAIR'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  DAVID  STUART;  BRIO. -GEN. 


(2)  Coi..  OSCAR  MALMBORO. 


(3)  COL.  CHARLES  A.  AXDRB88. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ArcmKNTs,  Is  PIUSON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 
I 
I 

• 

2 

2 

• 

I 

• 

12 

24 
22 

8 
10 

'4 
10 

15 
20 

J3 

•    • 

M 

25 

23 

8 

12 

16 

IO 

16 

20 

'3 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

* 

I 

• 
• 

I 

I  I 

'5 

14 

16 

IO 

'7 

'5 
1  1 

5 

12 

I 
II 

'5 
'4 
16 

10 

18 
15 

12 

5 

I  2 

13 
1  06 

103 
114 

104 

95 
107 

92 
90 
119 

"3 

B  

c, 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

148 

157 

2 

I27 

129 

1,056 

157  killed  —  14.8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  448. 
BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W.  BATTI.K*. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 86 

Russell's  House,  Tenn 2 

Chickasaw  Bayou,  Miss 3 

Arkansas  Post,  Ark i 

Vicksburg,  Miss.,  May  19,  1863 7 

Vicksburg,  Miss.,  May  22,  1863 7 

Vicksburg  Trenches,  Miss 2 

Jackson,  Miss.  (On  Picket,  July  14,  1863) i 

Black  River,  Miss.  (On  Picket,  August  14,  1863)  i 


K.  &  M.  w. 

Kenesaw,  Ga.,  June  19,1 864 i 

Kenesaw,  Ga.,  June  27,  1 864 1 6 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  22,  1864 6 

Ezra  Chapel,  Ga 6 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  August  3,  1864 4 

Jonesboro,   Ga 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 4 

Bentonville,  N.  C i 

Forage  Train,  N.  C.,  March  27,  1865 i 


Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Shelby  Depot,  Tenn. ;  Champion's  Hill ;  Missionary  Ridge  ;  Lovejoy's 
Station  ;  March  to  the  Sea ;  Fort  McAllister ;  Savannah  ;  Columbia ;  The  Carolinas. 

NOTES. — Mustered  in  October  31,  1861,  at  Chicago,  proceeding,  December  9th,  to  St.  Louis,  where  it 
remained  a  month,  and  then  moved  to  Paducah,  Ky.  On  March  8,  1862,  the  regiment  embarked  for  Pittsburg 
Landing,  where  it  was  encamped  when  the  Confederates  made  their  attack  at  Shiloh,  April  6th  ;  it  was  then  in 
Sherman's  (5th)  Division,  Army  of  the  Tennessee.  Its  casualties  in  that  battle  amounted  to  51  killed,  197 
wounded,  and  27  missing  ;  total,  275  — out  of  512  men  in  line.  Lt.-Col,  Malmborg  commanded  the  regiment  at 
Shiloh,  Colonel  Stuart  being  in  command  of  the  brigade.  During  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  1863,  it  was  in  Light- 
burn's  (2d)  Brigade,  Blair's  (2d)  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps;  in  the  Atlanta  campaign,  1864,  this  division  was 
commanded  by  General  Morgan  L.  Smith  ;  and,  in  the  March  to  the  Sea,  by  General  Hazen.  The  regiment  lost 
at  Chickasaw  Bayou,  2  killed  and  4  wounded;  at  Vicksburg,  First  Assault,  4  killed  and  2 2  wounded;  at  the 
Second  Assault,  5  killed  and  13  wounded;  and,  at  the  assault  on  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga,  14  killed  and  33 
wounded,  Captain  Augustine,  who  was  in  command,  being  among  the  killed.  The  total  loss  of  the  regiment  on 
the  Atlanta  campaign  was  36  killed,  and  86  wounded  ;  about  half  its  number.  There  were  91  pairs  of  brothers 
in  the  regiment ;  of  these  men,  43  were  killed  in  battle,  and  15  died  of  disease.  The  Fifty-fifth  followed  closely 
the  fortunes  of  General  Sherman, —  from  Benton  Barracks,  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  in  charge,  to  the  Grand 
Review  at  the  close  of  the  war.  Its  dead  lie  buried  in  nine  different  States ;  and  it  traveled,  on  foot  and  by 

transports,  11,965  miles,  of  which  3,240  were  done  on  foot. 
24 


370 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTY-THIRD  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
KIMBALL'S  BRIGADE — NEWTON'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


COLONEL  JAMES  P.  JAQUESS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 

• 
• 
* 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

1  1 
12 
II 

9 

7 
ii 

1  1 

M 
ii 

12 

4 
II 
12 
II 

9 
7 

12 
II 

14 
I  I 

12 

• 
• 

• 
* 
• 
• 
* 
• 

•    • 

13 

2O 

19 

23 

16 

i5 
16 

12 

13 
20 

•     • 

13 

20 

19 

23 

16 

i5 
16 

12 

13 

20 

J5 

105 
109 

1  06 

100 

86 

IOO 

92 
92 

89 

IOO 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H. 

I  

K. 

Totals  

5 

lOp 

114 

• 

I67 

I67 

994 

114  killed  =  11.4  per  cent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  422  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  20. 


K.&M.W 
.  . .          I 

,  .  .  2 


BATTLES. 

In  Action,  July  4,  1864 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 

Atlanta,  Ga i 

Franklin,  Tenn 15 

Nashville,  Tenn 3 

Guerrillas i 

Place  unknown i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky 9 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 24 

Chickamauga,  Ga 35 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 6 

Resaca,  Ga 7 

Adairsville,  Ga i 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 8 

Present,  also,  at  Liberty  Gap  ;  Pine  Mountain  ;  Lost  Mountain  ;  New  Hope  Church  ;  Dallas  ;  Marietta ; 
Jonesboro ;  Lovejoy's  Station  ;  Spring  Hill ;  Pulaski. 

NOTES. —  Mustered  in  at  Camp  Butler,  near  Springfield,  111.,  August  21,  1862,  and  ordered  immediately  on 
active  duty  in  Kentucky.  It  assisted  in  covering  the  retreat  after  the  battle  of  Richmond,  Ky.,  and  participated 
in  other  movements  along  the  line  between  Louisville  and  Cincinnati.  It  was  assigned  to  Sheridan's  Division,  and 
fought  under  that  distinguished  general  until  he  was  ordered  to  the  East  in  the  spring  of  1864.  Colonel  Ber 
nard  Laiboldt,  of  the  Second  Missouri,  commanded  the  brigade.  The  Seventy-third  was  engaged  at  the  battle 
of  Chaplin  Hills  (Perry ville),  where  it  lost  2  killed  and  33  wounded.  At  Stone's  River  it  lost  16  killed,  64 
wounded,  and  8  missing;  and  at  Chickamauga,  13  killed,  57  wounded,  and  22  missing.  Major  William  E. 
Smith  lost  his  life  in  the  latter  action.  The  regiment  fought  at  Missionary  Ridge,  losing  there  3  killed  and  24 
wounded,  after  which  it  marched  with  its  corps  —  the  Fourth  —  to  the  relief  of  Knoxville,  a  campaign  noted  for 
its  unparalleled  hardships  and  privations.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign  the  regiment  served  in  Kimball's  (ist) 
Brigade,  Newton's  (2d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  participating  in  all  the  battles  of  that  command.  After  the  fall 
of  Atlanta  it  marched  northward  with  the  corps  in  pursuit  of  Hood,  righting  in  the  bloody  engagement  at 
Franklin.  In  that  battle  the  division  was  under  the  command  of  General  Wagner.  The  brigade,  under  com 
mand  of  Colonel  Emerson  Opdycke  (One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fifth  Ohio),  played  an  important  part  in  that 
battle,  its  gallantry  aiding  materially  in  saving  the  day.  The  Seventy-third  fought  its  last  battle  at  Nashville, 
where  it  joined  in  the  successful  bayonet  charge  of  the  second  day's  fight.  The  regiment  then  joined  in  the  pur 
suit  of  Hood's  Army,  and  proceeding  to  Huntsville,  Ala.,  went  into  winter  quarters  there.  In  April,  1865,  it 
moved  to  East  Tennessee,  and  thence  to  Nashville,  where  it  was  mustered  out  June  12,  1865. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


371 


EIGHTY-SECOND  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
TYNDALE'S  BRIGADE -- WILLIAMS'S  DIVISION --TWENTIETH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  FlU-:i>KKir  IIECHER. 


(2)  COL.  EDWAHD  S.  SALOMON:  BVT.  BRio.-G«H. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WorsDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IUSON,  Ac. 

Total 
Krirollment. 

(  Hfieers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

( 

I 

I 

• 

I 

• 

•    • 

10 

12 

8 

'5 
9 
9 

9 

8 

8 

10 

•    • 

10 

'3 
8 

'5 

9 
10 

10 
8 

9 

10 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

5 
4 
3 
7 
5 
4 
4 

12 
I  I 

5 

•    * 

5 
4 
3 
7 
5 
4 
4 

12 
I  I 

5 

18 

94 
86 

94 
99 
94 
96 

8? 
86 

97 
I05 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

4 

98 

102 

• 

60 

60 

956 

102  killed  =  10.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  377  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  13 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 47 

Gettysburg,  Pa 12 

Wauhatchie,  Tenn i 

Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn i 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 14 

Pine  Mountain,  Ga 5 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i 


K.&M.W. 


BATTLES. 

Nose's  Creek,  Ga i 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga i  o 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 4 

Averasboro,  N.  C 3 

Bentonville,  N.  C i 

Sherman's  March i 

Place  unknown i 

Present,  also,  at  Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn. ;  Resaca,  Ga. ;  Cassville,  Ga. ;  Goldsboro,  N.  C. ;  Siege  of  Savannah. 

NOTES. —  A  German  regiment,  with  the  exception  of  one  company  which  was  composed  of  Scandinavians. 
One  company,  the  Concordia  Guards  (C),  was  composed  of  Jews,  the  Jewish  citizens  of  Chicago  subscribing 
£10,000  for  the  assistance  of  that  company.  The  Eighty -second  was  organized  at  Camp  Butler,  and  left  the 
State,  November  3,  1862,  under  orders  to  join  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  the  only  Illinois  regiment  of  infantry  in 
that  Army  *  Soon  after  its  arrival  in  Virginia,  it  was  assigned  to  Schimmelfennig's  (ist)  Brigade,  Schurz's  (3d) 
Division,  Eleventh  Corps,  and  went  into  winter  quarters  near  Stafford  Court  House.  It  was  under  fire,  for  the 
first  time,  at  Chancellorsville,  where  Schurz's  Division  made  a  gallant  attempt  to  retrieve  the  disaster  that  befell 
the  corps.  The  regiment  lost,  in  that  battle,  29  killed,  88  wounded,  and  38  missing.  At  Gettysburg,  under 
command  of  Colonel  Salomon,  it  lost  4  killed,  19  wounded,  and  89  missing  or  captured.  In  September,  1863, 
the  corps  was  transferred  to  Tennessee,  where  it  was  engaged  in  the  battles  about  Chattanooga,  after  which  it 
marched  to  the  relief  of  Knoxville.  The  Eleventh  Corps  was  transferred,  in  April,  1864,  to  the  newly-organized 
Twentieth,  General  Hooker  commanding,  the  Eighty-Second  being  assigned  to  Robinson's  (31!)  Brigade, 
Williams's  (ist)  Division  —  the  famous  "Red  Star  Division  "  of  the  Twelfth  Corps,  whose  badge  was  still  re 
tained  by  the  Twentieth.  At  the  battle  of  New  Hope  Church,  the  regiment  lost  1 1  killed,  and  69  wounded,  out 
of  245  engaged.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  the  Eighty-second  accompanied  its  corps  on  the  March  through 
Georgia,  after  which  it  fought  under  Slocum  in  the  Carolinas. 


*  The  Thirty-ninth  Illinois  was  in  the  Army  of  the  James. 


372 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


EIGHTY-FOURTH    ILLINOIS   INFANTRY. 


GROSE'S  BRIGADE  —  STANLEY'S  DIVISION — FOURTH  CORPS. 


COLONEL  LOUIS  II.  WATERS ;  BVT.  BIUG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIIISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
2 

• 
• 

2 

• 

•    • 

IO 
I? 

8 

10 

9 

IO 

i? 
13 

15 
1  1 

IO 
I? 

8 

12 

9 

10 

17 
15 

T5 
1  1 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

•     • 

J3 
1  1 

16 

22 

16 

ii 

13 
IS 
IS 

12 

•     • 

J3 
ii 

16 

22 

16 
ii 

13 

i5 
16 

12 

T5 
90 

IOO 

97 
95 

IOO 

93 
92 

107 

99 
99 

B  •  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T  . 

K  

Totals  

4 

I2O 

124 

I 

144 

HS 

987 

124  killed  =  12. 5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  446. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 67 

Chickamauga,  Ga 28 

Chattanooga,    Tenn i 


Dalton,  Ga 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga . 
Dallas,  Ga 

New  Hope   Church,  Ga. 
Pine    Mountain,  Ga 


BATTLES. 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 

Before  Atlanta,  Ga 

Jonesboro,  Ga 

Lovejoy's   Station,  Ga 

Skirmish,  Oct.  1864 

Nashville,  Tenn 

Andersonville  ("Dead  Line."). 
Place  unknown 


K.  &  M.W. 


Present,  also,  at  Chaplin  Hills  :  Lookout  Mountain ;  Missionary  Ridge  •  Buzzard  Roost  •  Resaca  ;  Smyrna ; 
Franklin. 

NOTES.  —  Mustered  in  at  Quincy,  111.,  on  the  ist  of  September,  1862,  and  was  ordered  into  Kentucky  on 
the  23d,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Grose's  (loth)  Brigade,  W.  S.  Smith's  (4th)  Division,  Army  of  the  Cumber 
land.  At  Stone's  River  it  fought  in  Grose's  (3d)  Brigade.  Palmer's  (2nd)  Division,  Crittenden's  Corps  (Left 
Wing), —  its  casualties  amounting  to  35  killed,  i  24  wounded,  and  8  missing;  total  167  out  of  357  engaged,  as 
officially  reported  by  Colonel  Waters.  Although  this  was  its  first  experience  under  fire,  the  regiment  received 
gratifying  mention  in  the  official  reports,  and  was  commended  for  steadiness  and  veteran-like  movements  while 
under  a  terrible  fire.  At  Chickamauga  it  lost  13  killed,  83  wounded,  and  9  missing.  While  on  the  Atlanta 
campaign  it  served  in  Grose's  (3d)  Brigade,  Stanley's  (ist)  Division,  Fourth  Corps. 

After  the  capture  of  Atlanta  the  corps  moved  north  through  Tennessee,  where  it  confronted  the  army  of 
the  Confederate  General  Hood.  The  Eighty-fourth  was  present  at  the  battles  of  Franklin  and  Nashville,  but 
its  loss  in  these  engagements  was  slight.  While  on  the  latter  campaign,  the  division  (First  Division,  Fourth 
Corps)  was  commanded  by  General  Kimball.  The  regiment  lost  but  few  men  taken  prisoners ;  its  missing  ones 
were,  nearly  all,  men  who  were  killed.  It  was  under  fire  for  the  last  time  at  the  battle  of  Nashville,  December 
1 6,  1864.  After  Hood's  retreat  the  Fourth  Corps  was  ordered  to  Huntsville,  Ala.,  and  thence,  after  a  short 
stay,  to  East  Tennessee.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  June  8,  1865,  and  the  men  whose  terms  would  not 
expire  until  after  October  i,  1865,  were  transferred  to  the  Twenty-first  Illinois  Infantry. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


373 


EIGHTY-NINTH   ILLINOIS   INFANTRY.-    'RAILROAD  REGIMENT." 
WILLICH'S  BRIGADE  —  WOOD'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS. 


(DCoL.  JOHN  CIIKISTOI'HKH,  B. 


(2)  COL.  CHAHLKS  T.  HOTCHKISS;  HVT.  Hitiu.-CiEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIEIJ  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  FKIHON,  &<r. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

16 
136 
140 
123 
140 
148 
126 
128 

US 
119 

127 

(  >ftiffT8. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  anil  Staff  

I 

3 

I 
I 

-» 

. 

2 
I 

• 

I 

•  • 
I  2 

9 
14 

7 

14 

8 

22 

13 
I  I 

I  I 

I 

'5 

IO 

J5 
9 
M 
8 

24 
'4 
i  r 

I  2 

1 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

.  • 
20 

25 

21 
24 
15 

15 

>7 
'5 

9 
1  1 

I 
20 

25 
21 

24 
15 

'5 

17 
15 

9 
1  1 

Company  A  

B  

c  

D  

E  , 

K  

G  . 

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

12 

121 

'33 

I 

172 

173 

1,318 

133  killed  —  10.0  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  467  '   died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  66. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Stone's  River,  Term 20 

In  Action,  Jan.  28,  1 863 i 

Liberty  Gap,  Term 5 

Chickamauga,  Ga 28 

Missionary  Ridge,  Term 8 

In  Action,  Dec.  2,  1863 i 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga 2 


1UTTI.E.S.  K.&M.W. 

Resaca,  Ga i 

Pickett's  Mills,  Ga 37 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 1 1 

Chattahoochie,  Ga 2 

Atlanta,  Ga 8 

Ixjvejoy's  Station,  Ga 2 

Nashville,  Tenn 7 

Present,  also,  at  ( "hapliu  Hills  ;  Adaiibville  ;  I  )allas  ;  Peach  Tree  Creek  ;  Jonesboro  ;  Spring  Hill ;  Franklin. 

NOTES. —  Organixed  at  Chicago  in  August,  1862,  by  the  railroad  companies  in  the  State  of  Illinois.  Captain 
John  Christopher,  Sixteenth  United  States  Infantry,  was  selected  for  the  colonelcy,  but  as  he  never  reported  for 
duty  the  command  devolved  upon  Lieutenant-Colonel  Hotchkiss,  who  was  promoted  after  a  few  months  to  the 
vacant  position.  The  regiment  was  ordered  into  Kentucky,  September  4th,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Cruft's  Divi 
sion  of  General  Nelson's  Army  of  Kentucky.  At  Stone's  River,  its  first  battle,  it  fought  in  Willich's  (ist) 
Brigade,  Johnson's  (2d)  Division,  McCook's  Corps;  loss,  10  killed,  46  wounded,  and  94  captured  or  missing;  at 
Liberty  Gap,  it  lost  3  killed  and  10  wounded;  at  Chickamauga,  14  killed,  88  wounded,  and  30  missing.  In  the 
latter  engagement,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Duncan  J.  Hall,  who  was  then  in  command  of  the  Eighty-ninth,  and  four 
line  officers  were  killed.  Upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  October,  1863,  Willich's 
Brigade  was  placed  in  Wood's  (3(1)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  in  which  it  fought  at  Missionary  Ridge,  the  regiment 
losing  in  that  battle,  4  killed,  and  30  wounded.  While  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  this  brigade  took  the  lead  in 
the  bloody  assault  at  Pickett's  Mills,  May  27th,  in  which  the  regiment  sustained  a  loss  of  24  killed,  102  wounded, 
and  28  missing;  total,  154.  Upon  the  evacuation  of  Atlanta,  Sherman  and  the  main  army  marched  un 
molested  through  Georgia,  while  the  Fourth  and  Twenty-third  Corps  were  engaged  in  a  bloody  campaign  with 
Hood  in  Middle  Tennessee.  The  Eighty-ninth  participated  in  this  fighting,  its  loss  at  Nashville  being  quite 
heavy  in  proportion  to  the  small  number  engaged;  its  casualties  in  that  action  were  4  killed  and  16  wounded. 
The  regiment  was  mustered  out  at  Nashville,  June  10,  1865,  and  the  recruits  with  unexpired  terms  (202  in 
number)  were  left  in  the  field  and  transferred  to  the  Fiftv-ninth  Illinois  Infantry. 


374 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


NINETY- THIED  ILLINOIS  INFANTEY. 
BOOMER'S  BRIGADE  —  QUINBY'S  DIVISION  —  SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HOLDEN  PUTNAM  (Killed). 


(2)  COL.  NICHOLAS  C.  BUSWELL. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

• 

I 

• 
» 

I 
I 

*    • 

14 
2O 

13 
M 
17 
15 
17 

12 

9 
16 

I 

M 
2O 

J3 
M 

i? 
16 

J7 

12 
IO 

I? 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

16 
16 

19 

H 

IO 

8 
16 

*7 

12 

M 

•    • 

16 
16 

r9 

14 

IO 

9 
16 

i? 

12 

H 

13 

95 

i°5 
96 

I05 
94 
103 

IOO 
IOO 

101 

99 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

4 

147 

iS1 

I 

142 

J43 

I,  Oil 

151  killed=i4.9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed    and  wounded,  416  :  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  25. 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Allatoona  Pass,  Ga 34 

Ogeechee  Canal,  Ga i 

The  Carolinas 2 

Guerillas,  March  25,  1865 i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Jackson,  Miss 3 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss 70 

Vicksburg,  Miss.,  May  22,  1863 10 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss 3 

Missionary  Ridge,  Term 27 

Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Jackson,  Miss. ;  Dalton,  Ga. ;  Siege  of  Savannah,  Ga.  ;  Congaree  River,  S.  C. ; 
Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Chicago  in  September,  1862.  It  was  ordered  to  Memphis,  November  gth,  in  which 
vicinity  it  remained  until  the  opening  of  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  in  April,  1863.  In  the  meantime  it  was 
engaged  or  Grant's  March  through  Northern  Mississippi,  and  on  the  Yazoo  Expedition.  During  the  Vicksburg 
campaign,  the  regiment  served  in  Boomer's  (3d)  Brigade,  Quinby's  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps. 

Its  first  encounter  with  the  enemy  occurred  at  the  battle  of  Jackson,  May  i4th,  in  which  it  lost  i  killed  and 
6  wounded.  Two  days  later  it  fought  at  Champion's  Hill,  a  hard  fought  field,  where  its  casualties  amounted  to 
38  killed,  113  wounded,  and  n  missing;  total,  162.  In  the  assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  22d,  it  lost  4  killed  and 
5 1  wounded  ;  Colonel  Boomer,  the  brigade  commander,  lost  his  life  in  this  action.  After  the  surrender  of  Vicks 
burg,  and  the  evacuation  of  Jackson,  the  division  moved  to  Memphis,  where  it  was  transferred  to  the  Fifteenth 
Corps ;  thence,  to  Chattanooga,  where  it  was  engaged  in  the  storming  of  Missionary  Ridge.  Colonel  Putnam 
fell  in  this  battle,  the  loss  of  the  regiment  being  20  killed,  42  wounded,  and  27  missing. 

During  the  Atlanta  campaign,  the  division  (General  John  E.  Smith's)  guarded  the  line  01  communication, 
the  regiment  being  stationed  at  Allatoona  Pass,  where  it  was  engaged  in  the  memorable  defense  of  that  place, 
under  General  Corse  ;  loss,  21  killed,  52  wounded,  and  10  missing.  The  regiment  was  commanded  in  this  action 
by  Major  James  M.  Fisher,  and  numbered  290  men.  It  was  during  this  fighting  that  General  Sherman  signalled 
the  historic  message  to  "  Hold  the  Fort."  The  Ninety-third  afterwards  accompanied  the  Fifteenth  Corps  on  the 
March  to  the  Sea,  and  through  the  Carolinas.  The  brigade  was  commanded  at  Missionary  Ridge  by  General 
Matthias ;  at  Allatoona,  by  Colonel  Tourtelotte  (4th  Minnesota)  ;  and  on  the  March  to  the  Sea  by  Colonel 
McCown, —  then  the  First  Brigade,  Third  Division  (Gen.  J.  L.  Smith's),  Fifteenth  Corps. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


375 


ONE  HUNDRED  AND   FOURTH  ILLINOIS  INFANTRY. 
O.  F.  MOORE'S  BRIGADE  —  CARLIN 's  DIVISION  —  FOURTEENTH  ('OKI'S. 


(1)  COLONEL  ABSALOM  B.  MOORE. 


(2)CoLONKL  DOUGLASS  HAI'EMAN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENT*,  IN  PIUSON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

I 
I 

* 

2 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

•  * 

ii 

18 

»5 

14 
16 
10 
8 
6 
6 
6 

•    • 

1  1 

'9 
16 

14 
18 

10 

8 

7 
6 

7 

I 

* 
• 
• 

1 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

7 

7 
8 

6 

9 

5 
8 

10 
10 
6 

I 

7 

7 
8 

7 
9 

5 
8 

10 
10 
6 

'3 
96 

I  12 
98 
114 
IOI 

88 
96 

IOO 

81 

IOO 

B  . 

c  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

6 

no 

116 

2 

76 

78 

999 

116  killed  —  n.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  405. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.  \V 

Hartsville,  Term 46 

Hoover's  Gap,  Term i 

Elk  River,  Term i 

Chickamauga,  Ga 1 6 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 7 

Resaca,  Ga 4 

Dallas,  Ga i 


K.  AM.  \V. 


BATTLES. 

Chattahoochie  River,  Ga 2 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 22 

Utoy  Creek,  Ga 6 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 3 

Jonesboro,    Ga 2 

Winnsboro,  S.  C i 

Bentonville,  N.  C i 


Kenesaw,   Ga 3 

Present,  also,  at  Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn. ;  Tunnel  Hill,  Ga. ;  New  Hope  Church,  Ga. ;  Savannah,  Ga. ; 
The  Carolinas. 

NOTES. —  Recruited  in  La  Salle  County,  and  organized  at  Ottawa,  111.,  in  August,  1862.  The  regiment  pro 
ceeded  immediately  to  Louisville,  Ky  ,  where  it  was  uniformed  and  armed,  after  which  it  was  assigned  to  Dumont's 
Division  of  Buell's  Army.  After  participating  in  the  Kentucky  campaign  of  that  fall,  it  was  stationed  at  Harts 
ville,  Tenn.,  where  it  was  attacked,  Decembei  6,  1862,  by  a  Confederate  brigade  under  General  Morgan.  At  that 
time  the  garrison  at  Hartsville  consisted  of  three  regiments,  two  companies  of  cavalry,  and  a  section  of  light 
artillery.  After  a  sharp  fight  in  the  fields  outside  the  town,  the  garrison  was  surrounded  and  compelled  to 
surrender;  the  losses  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fourth  amounted  to  25  killed,  131  wounded,  and  568  captured. 
The  men  were  immediately  released  on  parole,  and  the  regiment  went  to  Camp  Douglass,  Chicago,  to  await 
notice  of  exchange,  which  was  icceived  in  the  spring  of  1863.  Rejoining  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  the 
regiment  was  assigned  to  Beatty's  (ist)  Brigade,  Negley's  (2d)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps.  It  was  engaged  at 
Hoover's  Gap,  with  a  slight  loss,  and  then  at  Chickamauga,  where  it  lost  2  killed,  46  wounded,  and  16  missing. 
In  October,  the  One  Hundred  and  Fourth  was  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps,  in 
which  it  remained  without  further  change  ;  this  division  was  commanded  by  Johnson,  and  then  by  Carlin.  The 
regiment  lost  at  Peach  Tree  Creek,  16  killed,  29  wounded,  and  5  missing;  and  at  Utoy  Creek,  5  killed  and  18 
wounded.  It  accompanied  Carlin's  Division  on  the  March  through  Geoigia,  and  then  fought  under  Carlin  in  the 
Carolinas. 


376 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  'WAR. 


FIRST  MICHIGAN   CAVALKY. 
CUSTER'S  BRIGADE  —  KILPATRICK'S  DIVISION --CAVALRY  CORPS,  A.  P. 


(I)COL.  THORNTON  F.  BRODHEAD  ;  BVT.  BBIG.-GEN.  (Killed). 

(3)  COL.  PETER  STAGG  :  BVT.  BRIG. -GEN. 


(2)  COL  CHARLES  H  TOWN, 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

I 
I 

3 

• 
• 

3 
i 

i 
i 

i 

2 
2O 

15 
TO 

5 

12 
IO 

7 

IS 
1  1 

i7 
16 

10 

4 

2  I 
16 

J3 

5 

1  2 

J3 
8 

*5 

1  2 

18 
16 

T  I 

• 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

2 

• 
• 

I 

I 
20 

25 
24 

9 

18 

i? 

i3 
20 

25 
18 

28 
26 

I 
22 

25 
25 

9 

18 

*7 
J3 

22 
25 

18 
29 
26 

26 
198 
219 

222 

166 

201 
228 
2OI 
205 

I83 
I97 

239 
2OI 

f^omnanv  A  . 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I   

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

M 

*5° 

164 

6 

244 

250 

2,486 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  584  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included).  56, 


BATTLES.  K  &  M.W. 

Charlestown,  Va.    March  7    1862.  I 

Middletown   Va.    March  24,  1862. .  I 

Salem,  Va.,  April  I.  1862 I 

Piedmont,  Va.,  April  17,  1862.  .    .  2 

Winchester,  Va.,  May  24,  1862..  . .  10 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va.,  Aug.  9,  1862  4 

Manassas,  Va.,  Aug    30,  1862   ...  15 

Brentsville.  Va.    Jan.  9,  1863  .....  3 

Fort  Scott,  Va.,  Jan.  12,  1863.      .  .  I 

Gettysburg,  Pa.,  July  3,  1863. 14 

Monterey    Md.    July  4,  1863 4 

Hagerstown,  Md,,  July  6,  1863. . . .  2 


BATTLES.  K  &M.W. 

Falling  Waters    Md     July  14,  1863.  2 

Rapidan    Va.    Sept.  14,  1863 I 

Robertson's  River.  Sept.  23,  1863.  .  I 

Brandy  Station,  Oct.  n,  1863 i 

Centreville    Va.    Nov.  6,  1863.  . . . .  i 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va.    May  6,  1864.  .  8 

Beaver  Dam,  Va.,  May  9,  1864.  ...  2 

Yellow  Tavern,  Va.,  May  n,  1864.  14 

Milford  Station    May  20,  1864 i 

Hawcs's  Shop,  Va.,  May  28.  1864. .  6 

Old  Church,  Va.,  May  30,  1864 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  i-6,  1864..  5 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Trevilian  Sta:n,  Va.,  June  12,  1864  17 

Winchester,  Va.,  Aug.  ii    1864...  2 

Front  Royal,  Va.,  Aug.  16,  1864   ..  4 

Shepherdstown.  Va     Aug    25    1864  2 

Smithfield,  Va.    Aug    29,  1864. ...  2 

Opequon    Va.    Sept.  19,  1864 n 

Cedar  Creek,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1864. ...  7 

Picket,  Va.,  Dec    14,  1864 i 

Dinwiddie,  Va.,  March  30,  1865.    .  3 

Five  Forks,  Va.,  April  i    1865 8 

Willow  Springs,  D.  T  ,  Aug.  12,1865  2 

Place  unknown. ... 3 


NOTES. — This  regiment,  with  one  exception,  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  in  action  of  any  cavalry  regiment  in 
the  war.  It  was  organized  at  Detroit  in  August,  1861,  and  left  the  State  on  September  29,  with  1,144  officers  and 
men.  It  went  into  winter  quarters  at  Frederick,  Md.,  but  in  February,  1862,  moved  into  Virginia,  joining  Banks's 
troops  in  their  advance  up  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  While  there  it  was  attached  to  Williams's  Division,  and  took 
a  large  share  of  the  cavalry  fighting  in  that  campaign.  Colonel  Brodhead  fell,  mortally  wounded,  at  Manassas 
while  leading  a  charge ;  the  loss  of  the  regiment  in  that  battle  was  8  killed,  13  wounded,  and  97  captured,— 
many  of  the  latter  being  wounded  ;  it  was  then  in  Buford's  Cavalry  Brigade.  In  1863  the  regiment  was  assigned 
to  Custer's  Brigade  of  Michigan  Cavalry.  At  Gettysburg  the  regiment  lost  10  killed,  43  wounded,  and  20  miss 
ing  out  of  300  engaged,  the  loss  occurring  in  a  charge  against  a  superior  force;  a  charge  which  Custer  pro 
nounced  unequalled  for  brilliancy  and  gallantry  in  "the  annals  of  warfare."  In  the  spring  campaign  of  1864, 
the  losses  from  May  4th  to  June  3oth  were  40  killed,  138  wounded,  and  65  missing;  total,  243.  The  list  of 
battles  given  above  are  those  only  in  which  men  were  killed,  but  the  regiment  participated  in  many  others  in 
which  it  lost  men  wounded  or  captured. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


377 


FIFTH   MICHIGAN  CAVALRY. 
CUSTER'S  BRIGADE  —  KILPATKICK'S  DIVISION  -  -  CAVALRY  CORPS,  A.  P. 


(l)CoL  JOSEPH  T.  COPELAXD;  BRIU.-GEN. 
(2)  COL.  FHKKMAN  NOKVELL. 


(8)  COL.  RUSSELL  A.  ALGEH;  BVT.  MAJOK-GEN. 
(4)  COL.  SMITH  11.  HASTINGS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  A  <  . 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 
I 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

*7 
8 

'3 
1  1 

1  1 

7 
6 

i5 

10 

1  1 

7 
'9 

I 

18 

9 
M 
1  1 
1  1 
8 
6 

15 
1  1 

1  1 

7 
'9 

• 
• 
i 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

•  • 

1  1 

'7 
14 
16 

29 

26 
29 

15 
18 

'3 
15 
'9 

•    • 

I  I 

18 

14 
16 
29 
26 
29 
16 
18 

14 
IS 

19 

23 
124 

i  26 

J33 

124 

i37 
128 

144 

'35 

US 
130 

1  29 
128 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

6 

'35 

141 

3 

222 

225 

1.576 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  502;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  76. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Hanover    Pa.,  June    30,1863 I 

Gettysburg,  Pa.,  July  3,  1863 15 

Cashtown,  Md.,  July  5,  1863 i 

Boonsboro,  Md.,  July  8,  1863 3 

Hagerstown,  Md,,  July  12,  1863...  I 

Newby's  Cross  Roads,  July  24,1863.  i 

Port  Con  way,  Va.,  Sept.  I.  1863. .  .  i 

Raccoon  Ford,  Va.,  Sept.  16,  1863.  i 

James  City,  Va.,  Oct.  10,  1863 2 

Brandy  Station.  Va.,  Oct.  12,  1863.  6 

Buckland's  Mills,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1863  5 

Gainesville,    Va.,  Oct.  30,  1863 i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Morton's  Ford,  Va..  Nov.  27,  1863.  2 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va..  May  6.  1864.  .  5 

Yellow  Tavern,  Va.,  May  n,  1864.  5 

Hawes's  Shop,  Va.,  May  28,  1864..  15 

Cold  Harbor,  Va..  June  i,  1864. ...  2 

Trevilian  Sta'n.   Va.,  June  n,  1864  21 

Front  Royal,  Va.,  Aug.  16,  1864. . .  i 

Berryville,  Va.,  Aug.  19,  1864 15 

Shepherdstown,  Va. ,  Aug.  26,  1864  4 

Smithfield,  Va.,  Aug.  29,  1864 4 

Summit,  Va.,  Sept.  5,  1864 i 

Opequon,  Va.,  Sept.  19,  1864 10 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Luray,  Va.,  Sept.  24,  1864 i 

Woodstock,  Va.,  Oct.  8,1864 i 

Cedar  Creek,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1864. ...  4 

Newtown,  Va.,  Nov.  12,  1864    3 

Guerrillas,  Va.,  Nov.   8,  1864 i 

Guerrillas,  Va.,  Dec.    2,  1864 -J 

Salem,  Va.,  Oct.  23,  1864 i 

Five  Forks,  Va.,  April  r,  1865 i 

Pursuit  of  Lee,  April  4,  1865 2 

On  Picket,  Va i 

Place  unknown  i 


NOTES. —  Organized  at  Detroit  in  Aug.  1862,  leaving  the  State  on  December  4th  with  1,144  officers  and  men. 
Proceeding  directly  to  Washington  it  joined  the  Michigan  Brigade,  then  being  formed,  composed  of  the  Fifth, 
Sixth  and  Seventh  Michigan  Cavalry,  to  which  the  First  Michigan  Cavalry  was  subsequently  added.  General 
Custer  assumed  command  of  the  brigade  while  on  its  march  to  Gettysburg,  where  it  had  its  first  opportunity  to 
distinguish  itself  under  fire.  The  brigade  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  at  Gettysburg  of  any  cavalry  brigade  in  that 
battle.  The  Fifth  was  commanded  there  by  Colonel  Alger,  who  had  served  previously  as  a  Major  in  the  Second 
Michigan  Cavalry,  from  which  he  was  promoted  to  the  Lieutenant-Colonelcy  of  the  Sixth,  and  thence  to  the 
Colonelcy  of  the  Fifth  ;  he  was  one  of  the  ablest  cavalry  officers  in  the  Army.  The  loss  of  the  Fifth  at  Gettys 
burg  was  8  killed,  30  wounded,  and  18  missing ;  Major  Noah  H.  Ferry  was  killed  there.  At  Hawes's  Shop,  out 
of  15  i  engaged,  55  were  killed  or  wounded.  The  regiment  met  its  heaviest  loss  ia  the  cavalry  affair  at  Trevilian 
Station,  where  in  addition  to  the  killed  and  wounded  136  were  taken  prisoners, —  the  regiment  having  charged 
too  far  through  an  opening  in  the  enemy's  line,  and  being  cut  off  from  the  brigade  it  was  obliged  to  cut  its 
way  out. 


378 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTH   MICHIGAN   CAVALEY. 
CUSTER'S  BRIGADE  —  KILPATRICK'S  DIVISION  —  CAVALRY  CORPS. 


(1)  COL   GEORGE  GRAY. 


(2)  COL.  JAMES  II.  KIDD  ;  BVT.  BBIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

2 

• 

•     • 

8 

13 
18 

I? 

ii 

1  1 

9 

8 

M 

8 

5 
6 

I 

8 

14 
18 
18 

12 
II 
10 

8 

M 

8 

7 
6 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
* 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

21 
IS 

T9 

20 
26 
21 

31 
16 

27 

i? 
i? 

21 

21 
IS 

'9 

20 
26 
21 

31 
16 

27 

J7 
J7 

21 

2O 
140 
121 
140 

M7 
T34 

J33 

148 

121 

128 

'37 
132 

123 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

T  , 

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

7 

128 

135 

• 

251 

25J 

1,624 

Seneca,  Md.    June  n,  1863 5 

Hanover,  Pa.,  June  30,  1863 2 

Hunterstown.  Pa.,  July  2,  1863.  ...  2 

Gettysburg,  Pa.,  Julys,  1863 i 

Williamsport,  Md.,  July  6,  1863.    .  i 

Boonsboro,  Md.,  July  8,  1863 3 

Falling  Waters,  Md.,  July  14,  1863.  28 

Newby's  Cross  Roads,  July  24,1863.  3 

Summerville  Ford,  Va.,  Sept.  i6,'63  6 

Brandy  Station,  Oct.  12,  1863 3 

Charlestown    W.  Va.,  Oct.  18,  1863.  i 


K.  &  M.W. 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va.,  Sept.  22,  1864...  i 

Woodstock,  Va.,  Oct.  9,  1864 i 

Cedar  Creek,  Va.,  Oct.  19,  1864 5 

Winchester,  Va.,  Nov.  18,  1864. . .  2 

Five  Forks,  Va.,  April  i    1865 i 

Beaver  Mills,  Va.,  April  4,  1865.. .,  2 

High  Bridge,  Va.,  April  16,  1865..  2 

Guerrillas,  Va 3 

Indian  Territory.  Aug.  31,  1865...  2 

Place  unknown 2 


Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  496  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  98. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W.  BATTLES. 

Smithfield,  Va.,  Feb.  5,  1864 2 

Todd's  Tavern,  Va.,  May  6,  1864. .  5 
Yellow  Tavern,  Va.,  May  n,  1864.  3 
Meadow  Bridge,  Va.,  May  12,  1864  2 
Hawes's  Shop,  Va.,  May  28,  1864..  18 
Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  i,  1864....  2 
Trevilian  Sta'n,  Va.,  June  n,  1864  18 
Winchester,  Va.,  Aug.  n,  1864....  i 
Front  Royal,  Va.,  Aug.  16,  ^864.  .  .  2 
Shepherdstown,  Va.,  Aug.  25,  1864  i 
Opequon,  Va.,  Sept.  19,  1864 5 

NOTES. —  One  of  the  most  remarkable  and  gallant  cavalry  charges  of  the  war  was  made  by  a  squadron  of  the 
Sixth  Michigan  Cavalry  at  Falling  "Waters,  Md.,  on  July  14,  1863.  In  the  retreat  from  Gettysburg,  a  Confederate 
division  made  a  stand  at  Falling  Waters  on  the  Potomac,  to  cover  the  crossing  of  troops,  and  intrenched  their 
position.  This  position  was  attacked  by  four  companies  of  the  Sixth  —  Companies  D,  C,  B,  and  F  —  led  by 
Major  Peter  A.  Weber,  who  with  two  other  officers  was  killed  in  the  affair.  The  outer  line  of  works  was  carried, 
and  the  men  leaped  their  horses  over  the  inner  line,  but  were  obliged  to  retreat  with  a  heavy  loss.  At  Hawes's 
Shop,  Custer's  Brigade  fought  dismounted,  the  Sixth  Regiment  losing  16  killed  and  19  wounded  out  of  140 
engaged.  In  Sheridan's  cavalry  campaign  in  1864  —  from  May  4th  to  June  3Oth  —  the  Sixth  lost  29  killed,  60 
wounded,  and  64  missing  ;  many  of  the  latter  were  killed  or  wounded.  After  the  close  of  the  war  the  brigade 
was  ordered  to  the  far  West  where  it  was  engaged  in  fighting  Indians. 

The  Sixth  was  organized  at  Grand  Rapids  under  the  second  call  for  volunteers,  and  was  mustered  into  the 
service  of  the  United  States,  October  13,  1862.  It  left  Grand  Rapids,  1,229  strong,  on  the  loth  of  December, 
1862,  and  proceeded  to  Washington  where  it  was  assigned  to  the  Michigan  Cavalry  Brigade.  This  brigade  was 
commanded  by  General  Copeland,  who  was  succeeded  in  June,  1863,  by  General  Custer.  The  brigade  was 
mustered  out  on  November  24,  1865,  the  recruits  having  been  previously  transferred  to  the  First  Michigan 
Veteran  Cavalry,  which  was  not  mustered  out  until  March  10,  1866. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


879 


FIRST  MICHIGAN  SHARPSHOOTERS. 
CHRIST'S  BRIGADE  -  -  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION -- NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CHARLES  V.  DxLANI)  ;  BVT.  BRIO. -GEN. 


(2)  Coi.  ASAHEL  W.  NICHOLS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  FKIHON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 

• 
• 

• 

I 
I 

* 
• 

I 

•    • 

15 
18 

1  1 

12 
IO 
10 
10 

'3 

!3 

19 

2 

16 
18 
1  1 

12 
10 
I  I 
II 

'3 

*3 

20 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
* 
• 
• 

2 

»5 

'3 

J9 

15 

14 

M 
18 

2  1 

15 

ii) 

2 

15 
'3 
19 
15 
M 
14 
18 
21 

15 

'9 

'5 
1  08 

1  1  1 

109 

"3 
102 

102 
I  12 

'°3 
104 

122 

(Company  A  ••• 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  . 

6 

'31 

'37 

• 

'65 

165 

I,IO1 

. 

137  killed  —  12.4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  491  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  51 


BATTLES.  K  &M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 9 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  9    ) 4 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12) 48 

North  Anna,  Va 4 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 2 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va 36 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 17 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va i 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 2 

Petersburg,  (March  29,  1 865 ) 2 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 4 

Place  unknown 2 


Mine  Explosion,  Va 6 

Present,  also,  at  Pierceville,  Ind. ;  Totopotomoy ;  Bethesda  Church;  Pegram  Farm;  Hatrhi-r's  Run;    Fort 
Stedman. 

NOTES. — Recruiting  for  this  regiment  began  in  the  fall  of  1862,  and  on  July  7,  1863,  six  companies  were 
mustered  in.  These  six  companies  were  immediately  ordered  to  Indiana,  where  they  took  an  active  part  in 
checking  the  advance  of  Morgan's  Raid,  after  which  they  returned  to  the  rendezvous  at  Deaiborn,  Mich.,  where 
the  remaining  four  companies  were  soon  afterwards  recruited.  It  was  ordered  to  Chicago  in  August,  and  placed 
on  guard  over  the  Confederate  prisoners  at  Camp  Douglass.  It  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  in  March, 
1864,  at  Annapolis,  Aid.,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Christ's  (2d)  Brigade,  Willcox's  (sd)  Division.  The  regi 
ment  encountered  hard  fighting  at  Spotsylvania,  its  losses  in  the  action  of  Alay  i2th  amounting  to  34  killed,  1 17 
wounded,  and  3  missing,  Major  John  Piper  being  among  the  killed.  Another  bloody  contest  occurred  at  the 
assault  on  Petersburg,  June  1 7th,  where,  under  command  of  Alajor  Levant  C.  Rhines,  the  regiment  took  a 
prominent  and  meritorious  part;  its  loss  in  that  action  was  75  killed  and  wounded,  besides  81  missing,  many  of 
whom  were  killed  or  disabled  ;  Major  Rhines  was  killed  in  this  action.  The  regiment  was  then  transferred  to 
the  First  Division,  in  which  it  afterwards  remained.  Upon  the  fall  of  Petersburg,  the  regiment  —  then  in  Ely's 
Brigade  —  was  the  first  to  enter  the  city,  its  flag  appearing  on  the  Court  House,  April  3,  1865,  at  4.28  A.  M.  A 
few  minutes  later,  the  colors  of  the  Second  Michigan,  of  the  same  brigade,  were  unfurled  from  the  Custom 
House. 

One  company  in  this  regiment  was  composed  of  Indians,  who  distinguished   themselves  in  action  by  theii 
coolness  and  efficient  markmanship. 


380 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIKST   MICHIGAN   INFANTRY. 
MARTIND ALE'S  BRIGADE  —  MORELL'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  C.  ROBINSON,  &.  S.-  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  U.  S.  A. 

(2)  COL.  HORACE  S.  ROBERTS  (Killed). 

(3)  COL.  FRANKLIN  W.  WHITTLESEY. 


(4)  COL.  IRA  C.  ABBOTT ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN.  U.  S.  V. 

(5)  COL.  WILLIAM  A.  THROOP ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN.  U.  S.  V. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 
I 

2 

3 

2 
I 

2 

• 

2 

• 

!9 
!3 

18 

!3 

16 
20 

17 
15 

!9 

22 

•     • 

I 
20 

14 

18 

J5 
J9 

22 

18 

!? 

!9 

24 

•     • 

• 

1 

• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

14 

16 
T7 

*7 

]9 
M 

12 
12 

M 
12 

2 

M 

16 

18 

!7 
!9 

14 

12 
12 

14 
12 

2 

*7 
123 

126 

*34 
J57 

*37 
116 

138 
129 
128 
124 

*    •  • 

Comnariv  A  . 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G  

H  . 

I    

K  . 

Band  

Totals  

15 

I72 

I87 

I 

149 

*5° 

T>329 

187  killed  ==  14.0  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  648  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  32. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Wilderness,  Va 12 

Spotsylvania,  Va 8 


North  Anna,  Va 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 

Peebles's  Farm,  Va 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 5 

Five  Forks,  Va i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Mechanicsville,  Va 2 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 40 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 1 1 

Gainesville,  Va.  j i 

Manassas,  Va.     )    54 

Shepherdstown,  Va i 

Fredericksburg,  Va 18 

Chancellorsville,  Va 6 

Gettysburg,  Pa 10 

Present,  also,  at  Peach  Orchard;  Savage  Station ;  White  Oak  Swamp;  Antietam ;  Rappahannock ;  Mine 
Run  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  White  Oak  Road  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES.  —  Originally  a  three  months'  regiment  which  organized  in  April,  1861,  and  fought  at  First  Bull  Run. 
Upon  its  return  it  reorganized  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  under  a  three  years'  enlistment,  and,  leaving  the  State  on 
September  16,  returned  to  the  seat  of  war  in  Virginia.  During  the  winter  of  i86i-'62  it  was  encamped  at 
Annapolis  Junction,  Md.,  engaged  in  guarding  the  railroad.  In  March,  1862,  it  moved  to  Fort  Monroe,  and 
thence  up  the  Peninsula  with  Morell's  (ist)  Division,  Fifth  Corps.  At  Gaines's  Mill  the  regiment,  under 
command  of  Colonel  Roberts,  did  some  hard  fighting,  losing  27  killed,  81  wounded,  and  43  missing.  Still 
harder  fighting,  with  heavier  losses,  was  encountered  at  Manassas,  where  its  casualties  amounted  to  33  killed, 
114  wounded,  and  31  missing;  total,  178  out  of  20  officers  and  220  men  engaged.  In  this  battle  the  colonel, 
four  captains,  and  three  lieutenants  were  killed,  and  eight  line  officers  were  wounded.  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Abbott  led  the  regiment  at  Fredericksburg,  its  losses  there  aggregating  8  killed,  and  40  wounded.  In  that  battle 
the  brigade  was  commanded  by  General  Barnes,  and  the  division  by  General  Griffin.  In  May,  1864,  the 
regiment  entered  on  Grant's  campaign  with  only  i  76  muskets.  It  was  then  in  the  Third  Brigade  (General  Joseph 
J.  Bartlett's),  with  General  Griffin  still  in  command  of  the  division.  The  loss  of  the  regiment  in  the  battles  of 
the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania  was  8  killed,  66  wounded,  and  12  missing.  In  February,  1864,  a  part  of  the 
regiment,  2 1 3  in  number,  reiinlisted ;  these,  with  the  recruits,  preserved  the  organization  throughout  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  KEGIMENTS. 


381 


SECOND  MICHIGAN  INFANTRY. 
HARTRANFT'S  BRIGADE- -AY  ILLCOX'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ISRAEL  B.  RICHARDSON.  VOL.  P.;MAJOR-Gw«.,  U.  S.  V.  (Killed).      (2)  COL.  ORLANDO  M.  POK.  TO.  p.,  B.  «.;  BVT.  BRIO-GKN.  U.S.  A. 

(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  Hl'MI'IIIlEY  ;  BVT.  Biuo.-GxN.,  U.  S.  V. 


C'OM  PA  N  I  KM. 

KILLED  AND  DIKO  or  WOVNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'HISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment 

officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men.                    Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

I 

I 
I 

I 
2 
I 
I 

• 

1 

2 
18 
29 

'5 

17 

24 
17 

22 
31 

'9 

20 

4 

18 

3° 
16 
18 

25 
19 
23 
32 
J9 

21 

I 
I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

I 

7 

5 

2 

2 

I 

18 
18 

12 
12 

'5 

2 

18 

15 

12 
12 

12 

18 

18 

I  2 
12 
I  6 

»9 

'65 
1  86 

J5° 
182 

169 
171 
171 

173 

15° 

189 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  .  

K  

Totals  

I  I 

214 

225 

4 

143 

'47 

',7^5 

225  killed  —  13.0  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  806;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  38. 


BATTLE*.  K.&M.W 

Wilderness,  Va 13 

Spotsylvania,  Va 4 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June,  i  7-18,  1864 65 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 1 1 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Ya 14 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 2 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va 3 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Fort  Stedman,  Va 5 

On  Picket,  Va.,  July  i,  1864  ;  July  27,  1864. ...  2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

On  Picket,  Munson's  Hill,  Va.,  1861 2 

Yorktown,  Va i 

Williamsburg,  Va 21 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 14 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va 3 

Manassas,  Va i 

Chantilly,  Va i 

Fredericksburg,  Va i 

Jackson,  Miss 15 

Campbell's  Station,  Tenn 6 

Knoxville,  Tenn 28 

On  Picket,  Tenn.,  Nov.  25,  1863 i 

Present,  also,  at  Blackburn's  Ford;  First  Bull  Run;  Siege  of  Vicksburg ;  Blue  Springs,  Tenn. ;  Lenoir, 
Tenn.  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Cold  Harbor  ;  Ream's  Station  ;  Fall  of  Petersburg. 

NOTES. — Organized  April  25,  1861,  and  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  on  May  25th.  It  was 
assigned  to  Berry's  (3d)  Brigade,  Kearny's  (3d)  Division,  Third  Corps ;  and  at  Williamsburg,  according  to 
General  Kearny,  it  maintained  the  key-point  of  the  position  ;  loss,  1 7  killed,  38  wounded,  and  5  missing.  Colo 
nel  Poe,  in  his  official  report  of  that  battle,  mentions  the  fact  that  one  of  his  men  "  was  found  dead  beside  a 
dead  foe,  each  transfixed  with  the  other's  bayonet."  In  November,  1862,  the  regiment  was  transferred  to 
Poe's  (ist)  Brigade,  Burns's  (ist)  Division,  Ninth  Corps.  In  February,  1863,  the  Ninth  Corps  moved  to  New 
port  News,  Va.,  and  thence,  in  March,  to  Kentucky;  it  remained  there  until  June,  when  it  joined  Grant's 
Army  at  Vicksburg.  The  regiment  distinguished  itself  in  a  gallant  affair  on  the  skirmish  line  at  Jackson,  Miss., 
July  ii,  1863,  in  which  it  lost  9  killed,  40  wounded,  and  10  missing;  it  was  then  in  Leasure's  (3d)  Brigade, 
Welsh's  (ist)  Division.  During  the  Siege  of  Knoxville,  on  November  24,  1863,  the  regiment,  with  a  gal 
lantry  unsurpassed,  made  a  sortie  with  150  men  in  which  Major  Byington,  Adjutant  Noble,  two  line  officers 
and  the  color-bearer  were  killed ;  84  were  killed  or  wounded,  six  sergeants  losing  a  leg  each.  In  the  assault 
on  Petersburg.  June  17-1 8th,  it  lost  21  killed,  170  wounded,  and  13  missing;  total,  204. 


382 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRD   MICHIGAN   INFANTRY. 
BERRY'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  DANIEL  McCONNELL. 

(2)  COL.  STEPHEN  G.  CHAMPLIN  •  BRIG.-GEN. 


(3)  COL.  BYRON  R.  PIERCE;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 

(4)  COL.  MOSES  B.  HOUGHTON  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  <fec. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 
I 

•  • 

T5 
M 
13 

12 
12 
20 

J9 
I? 
13 

r9 

•     • 

17 

M 

13 

12 

12 

20 
2O 

J7 

13 

20 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
* 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

5 
10 

9 

10 

8 

3 
7 
7 
'7 
13 

•    • 

6 

10 

9 

10 

8 

3 

8 

7 
i? 
13 

18 
104 

Ir3 
116 

124 

ISS 

i34 

101 

117 

I31 

I25 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

4 

154 

158 

2 

89 

91 

1,238 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W 

William  sburg,Va i 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 46 

Oak  Grove,  Va i 

Glendale,   Va i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va . , i 

Manassas,  Va 40 

Chantilly,  Va i 

Fredericksburg,   Va 2 


158  killed  =  127  per  cent 
551  .   died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  17. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 1 1 

Gettysburg,  Pa i  o 

Mine   Run,  Va 5 

Wilderness,  Va 30 

Spotsylvania,  Va 7 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Blackburn's  Ford ;  First  Bull  Run 
Heights  ;  Auburn  ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Po  River. 


Yorktown ;  Savage  Station  ;  Peach  Orchard  ;  Wapping 


NOTES. —  Organized  at  Grand  Rapids,  May  15,  1861,  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  June  loth,  and 
left  the  State  June  13,  1861,  with  1,040  officers  and  men.  It  marched  to  the  field  of  First  Bull  Run,  and  was 
present  at  the  affair  at  Blackburn's  Ford.  The  regiment  encamped  during  the  winter  of  1861-2,  near  Alexandria, 
and  in  March,  under  command  of  Colonel  Champlin,  sailed  for  the  Peninsula,  where  it  joined  Berry's  (3d)  Brigade, 
Kearny's  (3d)  Division,  Third  Corps.  It  was  hotly  engaged  at  Fair  Oaks,  losing  30  killed,  1 24  wounded,  and  1 5  missing ; 
total,  169,  Colonel  Chaplin  being  seriously  wounded.  The  First  Division  of  the  Third  Corps  having  been  used  in 
forming  the  Fifth  Corps,  Kearny's  (30!)  Division  was  re-numbered  as  the  First.  The  Third  Brigade,  under 
Colonel  Poe  of  the  Second  Michigan,  was  engaged  at  Manassas,  the  casualties  in  the  regiment  amounting  to  23 
killed,  100  wounded,  and  16  missing.  At  Chancellorsville,  it  lost  7  killed,  46  wounded,  and  20  missing;  and 
at  Gettysburg  —  then  in  DeTrobriand's  Brigade  —  it  lost  7  killed,  3 1  wounded,  and  7  missing.  In  December, 

1863,  207  of  the  regiment  reenlisted,  and  were  furloughed  for  thirty  days.     Upon  the    transfer  of  the  Third  to 
the  Second  Corps,  the  regiment  was  placed  in  General  Alex.  Hays's  (2d)  Brigade,  Birney's  (3d)  Division,  Second 
Corps,  in  which  command  it  fought  at  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania ;  its  casualties  in  these  battles  amounted 
to  23  killed,  100  wounded,  and  25  missing;  a  total  of  148  out  of  361   present  for  duty  on  May  3d.     In  June, 

1864,  \vhile  in  the  trenches  at  Cold  Harbor  the  men  were  ordered  home  for  muster-out. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


888 


FOURTH   MICHIGAN  INFANTRY. 
SWEITZER'S  BRIGADE  —  GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION-   FIFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  DWIQIIT  A.  WOODBUKY  (Killed).  (3)  COL.  IIAKKISON  II.  JEFFORDS  (Killed). 

(8) COL.  JONATHAN  W  CHILDS.  (4)  COL.  (JEOKUE  W.  LOMIiAKD  (Killed). 

(5)  COL.  JAIKVS  W.  HALL ;  BVT.  BKIU.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS, 

N    PlU.SON,  &C. 

Total 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 

I 
2 
2 
I 

• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

•     • 

25 
'7 
14 
2O 

'5 
18 

*9 
18 

T9 

12 

3 
26 

19 
16 

21 
'5 

'9 
20 

18 
20 

12 

• 

. 
I 

•    • 

9 

9 

i? 

6 

6 
16 

9 
14 

I  2 

9 

•     • 

9 
9 

'7 

6 
6 
16 

9 
14 

I  2 
10 

19 
'34 
U2 
134 
116 

'37 

138 
127 

'34 
128 
126 

B  

c 

D  

E 

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

12 

*77 

189 

I 

107 

1  08 

i,325 

189  killed  —  14.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  632  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  35. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Gettysburg,  Pa 40 

Wilderness,  Va 12 

Spotsylvania,  Va i  o 

North  Anna,   Va 2 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 6 

Petersburg,  Va 4 

Picket,  Va.,  Aug.  30,  1862 i 

In  Belle  Isle  Prison,  Va.  (killed) i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Hall's  Hill,  Va i 

Yorktown,  Va 2 

Newbridge,  Va 3 

Mechanicsville,  Va 4 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 23 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 54 

Turkey  Creek,  Va i 

Shepherdstown  Ford,  Va i 

Fredericksburg,   Va 14 

Chancellorsville,  Va 8 

Present,  also,  at  Hanover  C.  H. ;  Manassas  ;  Antietam  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Rappahannock  Station. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Adrian,  Mich.,  May  16,  1861,  taking  its  departure  from  the  State  on  the  25th  of 
June.  Proceeding  to  Virginia  it  joined  in  the  advance  to  First  Bull  Run,  but  was  not  engaged  there.  The  fol 
lowing  winter  was  spent  in  camp  at  Miner's  Hill,  Va.,  moving  in  the  early  spring  to  the  Peninsula  with  the  main 
army,  where  it  was  assigned  to  the  Second  Brigade  (Griffin's),  First  Division  (Morell's),  Fifth  Corps,  in  which  it 
remained,  with  occasional  change  of  commanders,  during  its  entire  service.  It  encountered  its  first  hard  fighting 
at  Gaines's  Mill,  where  it  lost  15  killed,  41  wounded,  and  32  missing ;  at  Malvern  Hill,  four  days  later,  its  casual 
ties  were  41  killed,  100  wounded,  and  23  missing, —  Colonel  Woodbury  being  among  the  killed.  At  Gettysburg 
the  division  was  commanded  by  General  Barnes,  and  the  brigade  by  Colonel  Sweitzer  ;  the  division  fought  there 
in  the  desperate  contest  in  the  wheatfield,  the  regiment  losing  25  killed,  64  wounded,  and  76  missing.  The  fighting 
at  Gettysburg  was  close  ;  a  Confederate  officer  who  seized  the  flag  of  the  Fourth  was  shot  by  Colonel  Jeffords, 
who,  in  turn,  was  bayoneted  by  a  soldier  and  fell  clinging  to  his  colors  ;  the  soldier  who  ran  him  through  went  down, 
killed  by  a  bullet  from  Major  Hall's  revolver.  Colonel  Lombard,  who  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  regiment, 
lost  his  life  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness.  At  the  Wilderness  and  Spotsylvania  the  casualties  amounted  to  10 
killed,  62  wounded,  and  8  missing;  total,  80.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  on  June  20,  1864,  its  term  of 
service  having  expired. 


384 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTH   MICHIGAN   INFANTRY. 
DETROBRIAND'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  D.  TERRY:  BRIG.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  SAMUEL  E.  BEACH. 


(3)  COL.  JOHN  PULFORD  ;  BVT.  BRIG.  GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIHSON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

4 
I 

3 

2 
I 

I 
I 

• 

2 

• 

I 

I 

27 

16 

35 

J7 
28 

28 
18 

22 
27 
28 

5 
28 

r9 

37 
18 

29 
29 

18 
24 
27 
29 

• 
• 
• 

3 

• 

a 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

17 
21 

21 
20 

J5 
19 

22 
23 

J9 
ii 

•     • 

17 
21 

24 
2O 

J5 
J9 

22 

23 
19 
II 

19 

170 

196 
I99 
198 
182 
162 
189 
192 
I85 
I9I 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

16 

247 

263 

3 

188 

I9I 

1,883 

263  killed  =  13.9  per  cent, 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded   I  018  •  captured  and   missing,  173  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included)   68. 

BATTLES.  K.  &M.W.  BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 


1 1 


Spotsylvania,  Va 

North  Anna,  Va ,  .  3 

Totopotomoy,  Va 2 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 31 

Strawberry   Plains,  Va i 

Boydton  Road,  Va 18 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 2 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 2 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 3 


Pohick  Church,  Va.,  Jan.  9,  1862 i 

Williamsburg,  Va 44 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 43 

Glendale,  Va 7 

Malvern  Hill,  Va i 

Manassas,  Va i 

Fredericksburg,   Va 20 

Chancellorsville,  Va 1 1 

Gettysburg,  Pa 30 

Mine   Run,  Va 4 

Wilderness,  Va 27 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown ;  Chantilly ;  Wapping  Heights ;  Auburn ;  Kelly's  Ford ;  Deep  Bottom ;  Farm- 
ville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — The  Fifth  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  in  battle  of  any  Michigan  regiment.  Its  first  experience  in 
battle  was  at  Williamsburg,  where  the  three  Michigan  regiments  in  Berry's  Brigade  won  merited  honors,  the  loss 
of  the  Fifth  in  that  battle  amounting  to  29  killed,  and  115  wounded.  It  was  also  hotly  engaged  at  Fair  Oaks, 
where  it  lost  31  killed,  105  wounded,  and  19  missing,  out  of  less  than  330  engaged.  The  regiment  entered  the 
Seven  Days  Battle  with  only  216  men,  of  whom  59  were  killed,  or  wounded.  Major  John  D.  Fairbanks,  com 
manding  the  regiment,  was  killed  at  Glendale.  At  Fredericksburg  the  commanding  officer,  Lieutenant-Colonel 
John  Gilluly,  was  killed  while  leading  a  charge,  the  casualties  in  the  regiment  aggregating  10  killed,  and  73 
wounded.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edward  T.  Sherlock  succeeded  to  the  command,  and  was  killed  in  the  next 
battle  —  at  Chancellorsville.  At  Gettysburg — in  Birney's  Division  —  it  lost  19  killed,  86  wounded,  and  4  miss 
ing.  It  marched  with  the  Second  Corps  on  the  campaign  of  May,  1864,  numbering  365  men,  as  officially 
reported;  its  casualties  a  few  days  later  at  the  Wilderness,  were  16  killed,  79  wounded,  and  2  missing;  total, 
97.  Of  the  small  number  remaining,  58  fell  the  next  week  at  Spotsylvania.  In  June,  1864,  the  regiment 
received  325  men  from  the  Third  Michigan,  which,  with  subsequent  accessions,  enabled  it  to  preserve  its  organ 
ization  until  the  end  of  the  war. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


SEVENTH   MICHIGAN  INFANTRY. 
HALL'S  BRIGADE  -  -  GIBBON'S  DIVISION   -  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  IRA  A.  GROSVEXOR. 

(2)  COL.  HENRY  BAXTER  ;  BVT.  MAJOB-GEN. 


(8)  COL.  NORMAN  J.  HALL ;  £Zl.  $).,  B.  «. 
(4)  COL.  GEORGE  W.  LAl'OINT. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  W  or  son. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRIHON,  Ac. 

Total 
Knrollinent. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

2 

• 

I 
2 

•     • 

'9 
23 

22 
*9 

18 

18 

19 

16 

20 
23 

I 
2O 
24 

23 
2O 

19 

18 

21 

16 

21 

25 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

2 
12 

18 

22 

16 

21 

18 
18 
16 

»9 

24 

2 
12 

'9 

22 

*7 
21 

18 

'9 
16 

19 

24 

18 
no 

I3I 

132 

'34 
116 
117 
142 
129 
132 
*54 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

I  I 

197 

208 

3 

1  86 

189 

1,3'S 

208  killed  —  15.8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  729;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  42. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 22 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va 23 

Antietam,    Md 59 

Fredericksburg,   Va 1 1 

Fredericksburg,  Va.  (1863) i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 27 

Mine   Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 14 

Spotsylvania,  Va 12 

North  Anna,  Va i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Totopotomoy,  Va 9 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 6 

Siege   of  Petersburg,  Va •  •  •  • 7 

Strawberry    Plains,  Va i 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 4 

Ream's   Station,  Va 3 

Boydton  Road,  Va 2 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 2 

Farmville,  Va 2 

Salisbury  Prison,  N.  C i 


Present,  also,  at   Yorktown ;  West    Point;  Peach  Orchard;    Savage    Station;    Glendale;    Malvern    Hill; 
Chancellorsville  ;  Bristoe  Station  ;  Sailor's   Creek  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  There  was  not  a  more  gallant  deed  performed  during  the  war  than  that  of  the  Seventh  Michigan 
when  it  led  the  forlorn  hope  across  the  river  at  Fredericksburg,  December  1 1,  1862.  The  Engineers  had  tried 
for  hours  to  lay  a  pontoon  bridge  under  the  fire  of  the  sharpshooters  who  were  safely  posted  in  the  buildings 
which  lined  the  opposite  bank.  The  pontoniers  laid  their  bridge  two-thirds  across,  but  abandoned  it,  many  of  the 
men  having  been  shot  down  while  at  work.  A  heavy  artillery  fire  having  failed  to  dislodge  the  enemy,  a  call  was 
made  for  volunteers  to  cross  in  boats  and  drive  away  the  enemy's  riflemen.  In  response,  the  men  of  the  Seventh 
seized  some  empty  pontoons,  pushed  them  into  the  water,  and  springing  into  them  rowed  rapidly  across,  some 
of  the  Engineers  assisting  at  the  oars.  Leaping  ashore,  the  Seventh  drove  the  enemy  from  the  rifle-pits  and 
houses.  The  Nineteenth  and  Twentieth  Massachusetts  regiments  followed  quickly  in  other  boats  and  the  posi 
tion  was  held.  The  move  was  made  so  boldly  and  rapidly  that  the  gallant  regiment  sustained  but  small  loss ; 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Baxter,  who  led  the  regiment,  was  wounded  while  crossing  in  one  of  the  boats.  At  Antietam, 
-  in  Sedgwick's  Division  —  the  regiment  lost  39  killed,  178  wounded,  and  4  missing;  total,  221.  It  took  14 
officers  and  151  men  into  the  fight  at  Gettysburg,  losing  21  killed,  and  44  wounded  ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  AmosE. 
Steele,  Jr.,  who  was  in  command  in  that  battle,  was  killed. 
25 


380 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


EIGHTH   MICHIGAN   INFANTRY. 
HARTRANFT'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  M.  FENTON. 


(2)  Coi,.  PRANK  GRAVES  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  RALPH  ELY ;  BVT.  BRIG. -GEN 


(-OMPANIE8. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

4 
I 

• 

I 

2 

% 

I 

I 
I 

• 

I 

24 

J9 

22 
25 

18 

T9 
3° 
16 
20 
18 

5 
25 
19 

23 

27 

18 

20 

3« 

17 

21 

18 

• 

2 
I 

•     • 

20 

31 

21 
!? 
31 

18 

!7 

J7 

21 

3° 

•     * 

2O 

31 
23 
T7 

31 
18 

1  8 
J7 

21 

3° 

21 
214 
174 
190 
I  60 

181 
166 
187 
T54 

*57 
166 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

]  I 

212 

223 

3 

223 

226 

1,770 

223  killed  =  12.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  783  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  26. 


BATTLES.  K  &M.W. 

Coosaw  River,  S.  C 2 

Port  Royal  Ferry,  S.  C 3 

Wilmington  Island,  Ga 13 

James  Island,  S.  C 6 1 

Manassas,  Va 8 

Chantilly,  Va 12 

South  Mountain,  Md i 

Antietam,  Md 5 

Blue  Springs,  Tenn i 

Campbell's  Station,  Tenn 2 

Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn 2 

On  Picket,  Dec.  9,  1864  ;  Feb.  1 8,  1865 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Wilderness,  Va 26 

Spotsylvania,  Va 17 

Shady  Grove,  Va 2 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 14 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 2 

Petersburg,  Va.,  (assault,  1864) 13 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 4 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 15 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 8 

Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va 3 

Fall  of  Petersburg 5 

Place  unknown . 2 


Present,  also,  at  Fred'ksburg;  Vicksburg;  Jackson;  Lenoir  Station;  N.Anna;  Hatcher's  Run;  Ft.  Stedman. 

NOTES. — Rightly  named  "The  Wandering  Regiment."  It  arrived  at  Washington,  915  strong,  on  the  30th 
of  September,  1861.  It  encamped  on  Meridian  Hill  for  five  weeks,  and  then  went  to  Annapolis,  where  it 
embarked  with  Sherman's  Expedition  for  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.  In  the  assault  on  the  earthworks  at  Secession- 
ville  (James  Island),  June  16,  1862,  the  regiment  signally  distinguished  itself.  The  brigade  —  in  Stevens's 
Division  —  was  commanded  in  that  action  by  Colonel  Fenton,  and  the  regiment  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Graves. 
Supported  by  the  Seventy-ninth  New  York  (Highlanders),  the  Eighth  gained  the  parapet  of  the  works  by  a 
daring  and  dashing  charge,  but  was  obliged  to  relinquish  its  foothold  with  a  loss  of  48  killed,  120  wounded,  and 
9  missing,  out  of  25  officers  and  509  enlisted  men  engaged.  In  July,  1862,  it  moved  to  Fort  Monroe,  where 
it  joined  the  Ninth  Corps,  in  which  it  fought  at  Manassas  and  in  all  the  subsequent  battles  of  the  Corps; 
the  casualties  at  Manassas,  including  Chantilly,  were  10  killed,  56  wounded,  and  12  missing.  The  regiment 
accompanied  the  Ninth  Corps  —  Leasure's  Brigade,  AVelsh's  Division  —  in  its  occupation  of  Kentucky,  the 
Siege  of  Vicksburg,  the  East  Tenenssee  campaign,  and  returned  with  it  to  Virginia  in  the  spring  of  1864.  At 
the  Wilderness  it  lost  n  killed,  80  wounded,  and  14  missing.  Colonel  Graves  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness; 
Major  W.  E.  Lewis,  at  Bethesda  Church ;  and  Major  Horatio  Belcher,  at  the  Weldon  Railroad. 


TIIUKE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


387 


SIXTEENTH  MICHIGAN  INFANTRY. 
VINCENT'S  BRIGADE -- GRIFFIN'S  DIVISION      FIFTH  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  T.  H.  STOCKTON, 


I.  i1  (2)  COL.  NORVAL  E.  WELCH  (Killed). 

(3)  COL.  BKN  JAM  IN  F.  I'ARTRIIHJE  ;  BVT.  BIUO.-GEN. 


G'OMPAMKM 

KILLED  AND  DIKH  or  WOUNDS. 

DlEll  or    1  >l-l    \-r.  ACCIDENTS,   IN  I'ltlMON,  Jte. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 

2 
2 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

2 
I 

• 
• 

•     • 

34 
16 

J9 
29 

'9 

16 

22 

25 
29 

12 

8 
6 

2 

35 
18 

21 

3° 
19 
i? 

22 

25 

31 

'3 

8 

6 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•     • 

13 

10 

'9 

*3 

8 

19 

14 
1  1 

9 
10 

10 

7 

•    • 

13 
10 

19 

13 

8 

19 

14 
1  1 

9 

10 
10 

7 

18 
176 

174 
1  88 
187 
1  86 
148 

'75 
'54 
194 

'39 
104 

86 

B  

C  . 

1)  . 

1    . 

F  . 

G  

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

1  2 

235 

24? 

• 

*43 

•43 

1,929 

247  killed=i2.8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  870  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  15. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va 14 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Totopotomoy,  Va 4 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 3 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 22 

Weldon    Railroad,  Va 5 

Peebles's  Farm,  Va 18 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 9 

Gravelly  Run,  Va 3 

Five  Forks,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Hanover  Court  House,  Va i 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 78 

Glendale,  Va i 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 10 

Manassas,  Va 25 

Fredericksburg,  Va 1 1 

Chancellorsville,  Va i 

Middleburg,  Va i 

Gettysburg,  Pa 29 

Wilderness,  Va 7 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Mechanicsville  ;  White  Oak  Swamp  ;  Antietam  ;  Rappahannock  Station  ;  Mine 
Run  ;  Cold  Harbor  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  White  Oak  Road  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  Organized  originally  as  "  Stockton's  Independent  Regiment,"  under  authority  from  the  Secretary 
of  War,  but  it  was  soon  included  in  the  State  service.  It  left  the  State  on  September  16,  i  ^64,  with  ten  companies, 
-  761  officers  and  men  ;  two  companies  of  sharpshooters  joined  it  later,  making  twelve  companies,  one  joining 
in  1862,  the  other  in  1864.  The  regiment  went  into  winter  quarters  at  Hall's  Hill,  Va.,  and  in  March,  1862, 
moved  to  the  Peninsula.  It  was  assigned  to  the  Third  Brigade,  First  Division,  Fifth  Corps,  in  which  it  remained 
throughout  the  war ;  at  that  time  the  brigade  was  commanded  by  General  Butterfield,  and  the  division  by  General 
Morell.  The  regiment  suffered  a  severe  loss  at  Gaines's  Mill,  its  casualties  amounting  to  47  killed,  114  wounded, 
and  53  missing ;  many  of  the  latter  were  killed  or  wounded.  Under  command  of  Captain  Elliott  it  was  hotly 
engaged  at  Manassas,  where  it  lost  16  killed,  64  wounded,  and  16  missing,  out  of  290  engaged.  Colonel  Welch 
was  in  command  at  Gettysburg,  where  it  took  part  in  the  historic  contest  of  Vincent's  Brigade  for  the  possession 
of  Little  Round  Top,  losing  in  that  battle  23  killed,  34  wounded,  and  3  missing.  Major  Robert  T.  Elliott  was 
killed  at  the  Totopotomoy,  and  Colonel  Welch  in  the  assault  at  Peebles's  Farm.  Welch  was  killed  on  the  parapet 
of  a  redoubt,  which  he  was  the  first  to  scale. 


388 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTEENTH   MICHIGAN  INFANTRY. 
HARTRANFT'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WM.  H.  WITHINGTON  ;  BVT.  BRIO. -GEN.        (2)  COL.  CONSTANT  LUCE.         (3)  COL.  FREDERICK  W.  SWIFT  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men, 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

I 

• 
• 

I 

I 
I 
I 

•  • 

ii 
13 

10 

17 
17 

II 
20 
8 
ii 

10 

I 

12 

13 

II 

I? 

I? 
12 

20 

9 
12 

II 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

12 
21 

7 
J3 

17 

8 

25 

22 

17 

12 

•     • 

12 
21 

7 

J3 

17 

8 

25 

22 

17 
12 

18 
108 
117 

91 

IO2 
136 
I03 
132 

"5 

117 

98 

B  . 

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals. 

7 

128 

135 

• 

J54 

154 

i,i37 

135  killed  =  ii. 8  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  442  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  51. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &  M.W. 


South  Mountain,  Md 43 

Antietam,  Md 26 

Jackson,  Miss i 

Campbell's  Station,  Tenn 16 

Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn 5 


Wilderness,  Va 9 

Spotsylvania,  Va 30 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va  .  .  - 3 

Fort  Stedman,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Fredericksburg  ;  Siege  of  Vicksburg ;  Jackson  ;  Blue  Springs  ;  Loudon  ;  Strawberry  Plains 
(Tenn.) ;  Ny  River  ;  North  Anna  ;  Bethesda  Church  ;  Poplar  Spring  Church ;  Hatcher's  Run. 

NOTES. —  The  Seventeenth,  or  "Stonewall  Regiment,"  left  Detroit,  982  strong,  on  the  27th  of  August,  1862. 
On  its  arrival  at  Washington  it  was  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade  (Colonel  Christ's),  First  Division  (Willcox's), 
Ninth  Corps,  and  ordered  immediately  into  Maryland  where  it  joined  McClellan's  army,  then  on  its  way  to  meet 
Lee.  Within  three  weeks  after  leaving  the  State  it  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  South  Mountain,  where  its  gal 
lantry  and  effective  services  were  acknowledged  by  the  division-general  and  also  by  General  McClellan  ;  its  loss 
in  that  action  was  26  killed  and  106  wounded;  no  missing.  General  Willcox  says  in  his  official  report  of  this 
battle,  that  the  Seventeenth  "performed  a  feat  that  may  vie  with  any  recorded  in  the  annals  of  the  war."  It 
fought  again,  three  days  later,  at  Antietam,  losing  there  18  killed  and  89  wounded.  The  Ninth  Corps  was 
ordered  to  Kentucky  in  March,  1863,  and  thence  to  Vicksburg,  and  then  to  East  Tennessee.  The  Seventeenth 
was  engaged  in  a  sharp  fight  at  Campbell's  Station,  Tenn., —  November  16,  1863, —  in  which  it  lost  7  killed,  51 
wounded,  and  15  missing.  It  was  in  Knoxville  during  its  besiegement  by  Longstreet,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Lorin  L. 
Comstock  being  killed  in  the  fighting  which  occurred  there.  The  Knoxville  campaign  was  unequalled  during  the 
war  for  the  privation  and  hardships  undergone  by  the  troops.  Returning  to  Virginia  with  the  Corps,  the  regi 
ment  participated  in  the  bloody  fighting  of  Grant's  campaigns.  At  the  Wilderness  it  lost  5  killed  and  37 
wounded  ;  and  on  May  12,  1864,  in  a  charge  on  the  enemy's  works  at  Spotsylvania,  it  lost  23  killed,  73  wounded 
and  93  captured  or  missing,  out  of  226  engaged.  The  regiment  was  detailed  soon  after  to  serve  as  engineers, 
on  which  duty  it  remained  during  the  rest  of  its  service  It  was  mustered  out  at  Washington,  June  3,  1865. 


TIIKEK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


TWENTIETH  MICHIGAN  INFANTRY. 
CHRIST'S  BRIGADE  -  -  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION  —  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ADOLI'HUS  W.WILLIAMS;  BVT. 


(2)  COL.  CLAUDIUS  B.  (WANT. 


(3)  COL.  CLEMENT  A.  LOUN8BKRRT. 


Con  PA  M 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  Worxus. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUBON,  Ac. 

Total 

Enrollment. 

(  Xficers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  ind  St'ifT.  . 

3 

2 

• 

I 

3 
i 

• 
• 

2 
I 

• 

I 

8 
8 

9 
16 

»5 

13 

12 

8 
9 

12 

4 

JO 

8 

10 

'9 
16 

J3 

12 
10 
10 
12 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

16 

16 

25 
M 
M 
20 

'5 

21 

!7 
'7 

I 

16 
16 
26 

M 
M 

21 

15 
21 

I? 
I? 

15 
IOI 

104 
114 
123 
121 
109 
IOI 
103 
IOI 
122 

B  . 

c  

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

T  , 

K  

Totals  . 

13 

I  I  I 

\2\ 

3 

J75 

I7S 

1,114 

124  killed  —  ii. i  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  406  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  28. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

John  Morgan's  Raid,  Ky 7 

Blue  Springs,  Tenn i 

Campbell's  Station,  Tenn 7 

Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn 7 

Wilderness,  Va 2 

Spotsylvania,  Va 43 

North  Anna,  Va 2 


BATTLES.                                                                         K.  &  M.  \V. 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 1 1 

Cold  Harbor,  Va i 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va.  ( 1 864) 17 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 1 1 

Peeble's   Farm,  Va 6 

Fort  Stedman,  Va i 


Present,  also,  at  Fredericksburg,  Va. ;  Vicksburg,  Miss. ;  Jackson,  Miss. ;  Lenoir  Station,  Tenn. ;  Strawberry 
Plains,  Tenn. ;  Ny  River,  Va. ;  Weldon  Railroad,  Va.  ;  Hatcher's  Run,  Va. ;  Fall  of  Petersburg. 

NOTES, —  Recruited  in  the  Third  Congressional  District.  It  left  Jackson,  September  i,  1862,  and  after  a 
short  stay  at  Alexandria,  Va.,  joined  McClellan's  Army  at  Sharpsburg,  Md.,  a  few  days  after  the  battle  of  Antietam. 
It  was  placed  in  the  Ninth  Corps,  with  which  it  marched  to  Fredericksburg,  where  it  was  under  fire,  with  a  slitjht 
loss  in  wounded  men.  It  was  then  in  the  First  Brigade  (Poe's),  First  Division  (Burns's).  The  regiment  accom 
panied  the  Ninth  Corps  to  Kentucky,  and  on  May  loth,  1863,  had  a  brisk  fight  at  Horse  Shoe  Bend,  Ky.,  on  the 
Cumberland  River,  where  it  was  attacked  by  General  John  Morgan,  who  was  then  making  his  famous  raid.  The 
regiment  lost  5  killed,  19  wounded,  and  5  missing.  Its  gallant  defence,  after  being  summoned  to  surrender  by  a 
vastly  superior  force,  made  this  fight  a  notable  one  among  the  minor  actions  of  the  war.  After  participating  in  the 
Vicksburg  campaign,  and  then  in  the  fighting  in  East  Tennessee,  during  which  Lieutenant-Colonel  W.  H.  Smith, 
its  commanding  officer,  was  killed  in  the  affair  at  Campbell's  Station,  it  returned  to  Virginia  where  it  took 
a  prominent  part  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Ninth  Corps  in  1864-5.  It  entered  the  Wilderness  campaign  in  the 
Second  Brigade,  Third  Division  (Willcox's,  afterwards  the  Firsi  Division),  and  at  Spotsylvania,  May  i2th,  was  en 
gaged  in  the  hardest  fighting  of  its  whole  experience.  It  lost  that  day,  17  killed,  108  wounded,  and  19  missing; 
total,  144.  On  June  18,  1864,  it  participated  in  the  assault  of  the  Ninth  Corps  at  Petersburg,  losing  half  its  men, 
Major  George  C.  Barnes  falling  mortally  wounded.  After  this  battle  the  regiment  numbered  only  106  muskets. 


390 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-FOURTH  MICHIGAN  INFANTRY. 
IRON  BRIGADE — WADSWORTH'S  DIVISION — FIRST  CORPS. 


COLONEL  HENRY  A.  MORROW  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 
• 

2 

I 
2 

• 

2 
I 

• 

3 

•     • 

*3 

*9 

15 
18 

12 

I? 

26 

16 
19 

22 

I 
13 

19 
17 
19 
M 

17 

28 

17 
19 
25 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

10 

8 
16 

15 

12 
12 
8 

*3 

16 

25 

I 

IO 

9 
16 

15 

12 
13 

8 

14 
16 

2S 

15 
154 
162 
170 
164 
154 

173 
146 

J55 
173 

1  88 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  . 

G. 

H  

I  

K. 

Totals  

12 

177 

189 

3 

136 

i39 

i;654 

189  killed  ==  11.4  per  cent. 
Total  killed  and  wounded,  589  ;  missing  and  captured,  153  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  30. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 3 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault) 9 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 5 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 4 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va i 

Picket,  Dec.  6,  1864 i 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va 5 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Fredericksburg,  Va 9 

Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing,  Va 4 

Gettysburg,  Pa 94 

Wilderness,  Va 25 

Spotsylvania,  Va 24 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Totopotomoy,  Va i 

Bethesda  Church,  Va i 

Present,  also,  at  Chancellorsville  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Hicksford. 

NOTES. —  The  largest  number  of  casualties  in  any  regiment  at  Gettysburg  occurred  in  the  Twenty- fourth 
Michigan.  It  was  then  in  the  Iron  Brigade,  Wadsworth's  (ist)  Division,  First  Corps,  and  fought  in  the  battle  of 
the  first  day,  while  in  position  in  McPherson's  woods  near  Willoughby  Run.  It  was  obliged  to  fall  back  from  this 
line,  but  did  not  yield  the  'ground  until  three-fourths  of  its  number  had  been  struck  down.  Entering  the  engage 
ment  with  28  officers  and  468  men,  it  lost  69  killed,  247  wounded,  and  47  missing;  total,  363.*  Fully  one-half 
of  the  missing  ones  were  killed  or  wounded,  Eight  officers  were  killed,  and  fourteen  wounded  ;  four  color- bearers 
were  killed,  and  three  wounded ;  Colonel  Morrow  was  wounded  and  captured. 

Upon  the  discontinuance  of  the  First  Corps,  in  March,  1864,  Wadsworth's  Division  was  transferred  to  the 
Fifth  Corps,  becoming  the  Fourth  Division,  with  the  brigade  under  command  of  General  Cutler.  At  the  Wilder 
ness,  the  regiment  captured  the  colors  of  the  Forty-Eighth  Virginia ;  Colonel  Morrow  was  severely  wounded,  and 
the  casualties  amounted  to  14  killed,  48  wounded,  and  42  missing  or  captured.  Under  command  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Albert  M.  Edwards,  it  was  under  fire  at  Spotsylvania  in  the  various  engagements  near  that  place,  sustain 
ing  a  loss  of  20  killed,  39  wounded,  and  i  missing.  The  regiment  became  so  reduced  by  its  losses  that  it  mus 
tered  only  120  men  for  the  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  18,  1864.  It  was  withdrawn  from  the  field  in  February, 
1865,  and  ordered  to  Springfield,  111.,  where  it  was  assigned  to  duty  at  the  draft  rendezvous.  The  regiment  was 
mustered  into  the  United  States  service  August  15,  1862,  having  been  recruited  within  thirty  days.  It  was  mus 
tered  out,  at  Detroit,  June  30,  1865. 

'Colonel  Morrow  in  his  report,  states  the  loss  at  79  killed,  237  wounded,  and  "  about "  83  missing.  The  nominal  list  handed  in  by  Captain 
-bdwards  after  the  battle  shows  363  casualties,  but  divided  differently  from  the  above. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


TWENTY-SEVENTH  MICHIGAN  INFANTRY; 
HARTRANFT'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION  -  -  NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  DORUS  M.  FOX. 

(2)  COL.  WILLIAM  B.  WRIGHT. 


(3)  Cor..  BYRON  M.  CUTCIIEON  ;  BVT.  BIUO.-GKN. 

(4)  COL.  CHARLES  WAITE  ;  BVT.  Bmo.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'UISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  StafT  

I 
I 

I 
2 

3 

i 

i 

•    * 

19 
21 

2O 
20 

16 
16 

12 
17 

26 

i 
2O 

14 
21 

18 

22 
20 

'9 

16 

12 

18 

'7 

27 

* 

2 
I 

• 
• 

22 

22 
26 
20 
21 
21 
10 
10 

12 

13 
24 

22 
26 
2O 
22 
21 
10 
IO 

13 
12 

1  6 

"5 

128 

119 

'45 

116 

r35 

114 
"5 

101 
101 

Company  A  

B  

c  . 

D  

K  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

L  

M  

Totals  

10 

2I5 

225 

3 

204 

M7 

1,485 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va 21 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 19 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 1,0 

Peeble's  Farm,  Va 2 

Picket,  Va.,  December  13,  1864 i 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va 3 


225  killed  —  15.1  per  cent. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  805  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  36. 
BATTLES.  K.&M.W.  BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Jackson,  Miss 3  Cold  Harbor,  Va 6 

Blue  Springs,  Tenn i  Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 38 

Campbell's  Station,  Tenn 4 

Fort  Sanders,  Tenn 3 

Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn 4 

Wilderness,  Va 20 

Spotsylvania,  Va 60 

North  Anna,  Va „ 5 

Bethesda  Church,  Va.,  June  3,  1864 25 

Present,  also,  at  Jamestown,  Ky.  ;  Vicksburg,  Miss. ;  Loudon,  Tenn. ;  Ny  River,  Va. ;  Hatcher's  Run,  Va. ; 
Fort  Stedman,  Va. 

NOTES. —  Left  the  State,  April  12,  1863,  with  eight  companies  only.  It  was  ordered  to  Kentucky,  where  it 
was  stationed  at  various  points  until  June,  when  it  was  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division  (Welsh's), 
Ninth  Corps,  with  which  it  moved  to  Vicksburg  and  took  part  in  the  siege.  Companies  I  and  K  joined 
the  regiment  in  March,  1864,  and  in  the  next  month,  after  arriving  in  Virginia,  two  independent  companies  of 
sharpshooters  were  also  attached,  being  designated  as  L  and  M.  During  the  Wilderness  campaign  it  was  in 
Hartranft's  ( ist)  Brigade,  Willcox's  (3d)  Division,  but  was  subsequently  placed  in  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division, 
with  Willcox  still  in  command.  The  regiment  took  864  men  into  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  losing  78  in  killed 
and  wounded,  Major  Samuel  Moody  being  among  the  killed.  Under  command  of  Colonel  Fox,  the  regiment 
was  engaged  in  several  closely  contested  actions  at  Spotsylvania,  the  casualties  amounting  in  the  one  which 
occurred  May  i2th,  to  27  killed,  148  wounded,  and  9  missing.  The  entire  loss  of  the  regiment  in  May,  1864, 
was  47  killed,  220  wounded,  and  16  missing  —  a  total  of  283.  At  Bethesda  Church  it  lost  17  killed  and  57 
wounded;  at  the  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  i7th  and  i8th,  it  lost  17  killed,  106  wounded,  and  5  missing;  in 
the  Petersburg  trenches,  during  July,  1864  —  including  the  Mine  Explosion  —  it  lost  15  killed,  78  wounded,  and 
23  missing. 


392 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIRST  WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
STARKWEATHER'S  BRIGADE  —  BAIRD'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOHN  C.  STARKWEATHER  ;  BRIG.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  GEORGE  B.  BINGHAM. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men, 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

I 
I 

I 

I 
I 

I 

• 

•  • 

'3 
8 

18 

13 

17 
i? 

21 
II 

M 
19 

•    • 

*3 

8 

19 

M 
18 

17 

22 
12 

15 

T9 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 

T7 

17 

12 

9 

10 
10 

18 

22 

16 
1  1 

I 

17 

17 

12 

9 

IO 
IO 

18 

22 

16 

I  I 

*5 
142 

118 
132 

I25 
»59 

IO2 
148 
142 

MS 
'58 

Company  A  ........... 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

6 

15* 

157 

I 

142 

143 

1,386 

157  killed  =  11.3  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  428  ;  missing  or  captured,  108  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  32. 


BATTLES.  .  K.  &  M.W. 

Nashville,  Tenn.,  March  9,  1862 2 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky 77 

Jefferson,  Tenn 2 

Stone's  River,  Tenn i 

Dug   Gap,  Ga.,  Sept.  11,1863 T 

Chickamauga,  Ga 44 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga i 

Resaca,  Ga i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Dallas,  Ga i  o 

Kenesaw,  Ga 6 

Chattahoochie,  Ga i 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga i 

Siege   of  Atlanta,  Ga 5 

Jonesboro,   Ga 3 

Place  unknown 2 


Present,  also,  at  Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn. ;  Jones's  Ford,  Tenn. ;  Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn. ;  Dalton,  Ga. 

NOTES. — Originally  a  three  months  regiment  which,  upon  its  return,  reorganized  on  a  three  years  enlistment. 
It  left  the  State  October  28,  1861,  proceeding  to  Kentucky,  where  it  joined  Negley's  Brigade.  It  wintered  at 
Munfordville,  Ky.,  remaining  there  until  February  14,  1862,  when  it  marched  to  Nashville.  While  encamped 
near  there  its  picket  line  was  attacked,  March  8th,  in  which  affair  one  of  the  regiment  was  killed.  The  regiment 
made  several  long  marches  back  and  forth  through  Tennessee  during  the  summer  of  1862,  and  then,  returning 
to  Kentucky,  participated  in  the  battle  of  Chaplin  Hills,  October  8,  1862.  It  was  then  in  Starkweather's 
Brigade,  Rousseau's  Division,  McCook's  Corps,  and  its  loss  amounted  to  58  killed,  132  wounded,  and  14  missing  ; 
total,  204,  out  of  407  engaged.  The  regiment  was  present  at  Stone's  River,  but  having  been  posted  in  the 
reserve,  sustained  but  slight  loss.  At  Chickamauga  it  was  in  the  Second  Brigade,  First  Division  (Baird's), 
Fourteenth  Corps,  sustaining  a  loss  of  27  killed,  84  wounded,  and  77  missing  or  captured  ;  among  the  killed  were 
five  line  officers.  It  went  into  winter-quarters  at  Chattanooga,  and  in  May,  1864,  joined  Sherman's  advance  on 
Atlanta ;  the  division  was  then  under  command  of  General  R.  W.  Johnson.  Although  reduced  in  numbers,  it 
participated  in  all  the  battles  of  the  First  Division,  and  was  present  at  the  fall  of  Atlanta.  It  was  mustered  out 
October  13,  1864,  the  recruits  and  reenlisted  men,  368  in  number,  having  been  transferred  to  the  Twenty-first 
Wisconsin. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


SECOND  WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
IRON  BRIGADE  —  WADSWORTH'S  DIVISION-    I  II;M  Corn's. 


(1)  COL.  S.  P.  COON. 

(2)  Cou.  KDGAR  O'CONNOR,  OT.  |J.  (Killed). 


(3)  COL.  LUCIUS  FAIKCHILD.  B.*. 

(4)  COL.  JOHN  MANSFIELD. 


COMPANIKM. 

KII.I.KII  AND  DIKU  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE.  ACCIDENTS,  IN  Pnisos,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officer*. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

2 
I 

* 
• 

• 

2 
2 

I 

I 
2O 
1? 

3° 

'5 
24 

22 
29 
26 

15 
29 

3 
2O 

'9 
3l 
'5 
24 

22 
29 
28 

17 
3° 

. 
. 
. 
• 
. 
. 
• 
• 
« 
. 
. 

I 

7 
7 

7 
8 

7 

5 
16 

9 
4 
6 

I 

7 

7 

7 
8 

7 

5 
16 

9 
4 
6 

i? 

121 
124 

'32 

116 

US 
107 

'35 

122 
1OI 

1J3 

1}  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

228 

238 

. 

77 

77 

1,203 

238  killed  —  19.7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  753  ;  of  missing  and  captured,  132  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  17. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Blackburn's  Ford,   Va i 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 25 

Catlett's  Station,  Va i 

Gainesville,  Va 86 

Manassas,  Va i 

South  Mountain,  Md 10 

Antietam,  Md 30 

Fredericksburg,  Va 2 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Wilderness,  Va 17 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  10 4 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  21 i 

North  Anna,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va 2 

Hatcher's  Run,  Va 2 

Gunboat  detail 7 

Artillery  detail 2 


Gettysburg,  Pa 46 

Present,  also,  at  Cedar  Mountain  ;  Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing  ;  Chancellorsville  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Bcthesda  Church  ; 
Cold  Harbor ;  Weldon  Railroad. 

NOTES. — This  regiment  sustained  the  greatest  percentage  of  loss  of  any  in  the  entire  Union  Army.  It  was  a 
fine  regiment  and  well  officered.  Leaving  the  State  June  20,  1861,  it  went  to  Virginia,  where  it  was  brigaded  under 
command  of  Colonel  William  T.  Sherman,  with  which  command  it  marched  to  First  Bull  Run  ;  its  casualties  in 
that  battle  were  24  killed,  65  wounded,  and  23  missing.  In  August,  1861,  it  was  assigned  to  the  command 
which  afterwards  became  so  famous  as  "The  Iron  Brigade  of  the  West."  This  brigade,  under  General  Gibbon, 
encountered  hard  fighting  at  Manassas  (1862),  in  which  the  regiment  lost  53  killed,  213  wounded,  and  32  miss 
ing, —  a  total  of  298.  Nearly  all  these  casualties  occurred  at  Gainesville,  where  the  opposing  lines  faced  each 
other  at  a  distance  of  75  paces;  Colonel  O'Connor  was  killed  there.  The  loss  at  Antietam  was  19  killed  and  67 
wounded  ;  at  Gettysburg,  26  killed,  155  wounded,  and  52  missing  ;  Colonel  Fairchild  lost  an  arm  at  Gettysburg, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  George  H.  Stevens  was  killed,  and  the  casualties  in  the  regiment  amounted  to  77  percent, 
of  those  present.  The  Second  fought  at  the  Wilderness  and  at  Spotsylvania,  after  which  it  was  detailed  as  a 
provost-guard,  having  become  reduced  to  less  than  100  men  present  for  duty,  with  both  field  officers  wounded 
and  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy.  On  June  n,  1864,  it  was  ordered  home  for  muster-out,  the  recruits  and  ree'n- 
listed  men  having  been  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  two  companies,  A  and  B,  which  were  transferred  in 
November  to  the  Sixth  Wisconsin. 


394 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRD  WISCONSIN   INFANTRY. 
RUGER'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLIAMS'S  DIVISION  —  TWELFTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CHARLES  S.  HAMILTON,  TO.  ^.;  MAJOR-GEN.  (2)  COL.  THOMAS  H.  RUGER,  OTL 

(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  HAWLEY,  BVT.  BRIG.  -GEN. 


..  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


COMPANIES 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  MrouNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

3 
I 

• 

• 
• 

I 
I 

• 

2 
I 

!9 

14 
15 

14 

J4 

12 

M 
12 

21 

23 

3 
20 

M 
J5 
14 
M 
J3 
'5 

12 

23 
24 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•  • 
1  1 

9 
ii 

1  1 

8 
10 

13 

12 

J3 
J5 

1  1 
IO 
I  I 

12 

8 

IO 

*3 

12 
*3 

J5 

T9 

183 
209 

198 
I97 

I85 
I9I 
I97 

174 
2O2 
184 

B  . 

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  . 

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

9 

158 

I67 

2 

IT3 

"5 

!>939 

Of  the  979  originally  enrolled,  124  were  killed.  =  12.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  648  :  missing  and  captured,  122. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Resaca,  Ga 1 1 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 28 

Dallas,  Ga.,  June  6,  1 864 i 

Lost  Mountain,  Ga 

Kenesaw,   Ga 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga <• 

Siege  of  Savannah,  Ga 

Argyle  Island,  Ga 

Averasboro,  N.  C 


i 

2 

2 

5 
i 

i 

7 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W 

Bolivar  Heights,  Va 6 

Buckton  Station,  Va 2 

Winchester,  Va 5 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va 26 

Antietam,  Md 41 

Fairfax  Station,  Va i 

Chancellorsville,  Va 22 

Beverly  Ford,  Va 2 

Gettysburg,  Pa 2 

Guerillas,  Tenn i 

Present,  also,  at  Newtovvn,  Va  ;  Cassville,  Ga. ;  Sherman's  March ;  Robertsville,  Ga. ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. ;  The 
Carolinas. 

NOTES.  --  The  above  enrollment  includes  586  conscripts  and  substitutes,  very  few  of  whom  joined  the  regi 
ment.  The  Third  Wisconsin  left  the  State  on  July  12,  1861,  proceeding  to  Maryland,  where  for  several  months, 
it  remained  on  duty  in  Frederick  and  along,  or  near,  the  Upper  Potomac.  While  there,  a  forage  party  of  three 
companies  had  a  sharp  fight  with  Ashby  at  Harper's  Ferry,  in  which  they  held  their  ground  against  a  superior 
force,  but  with  a  loss  of  6  killed,  and  8  wounded.  In  February,  1862,  it  moved  with  Banks's  Corps  up  the  Shen- 
andoah  Valley,  having  been  assigned  to  Williams's  Division  in  which  it  remained  without  further  transfer  during 
the  war.  General  George  H.  Gordon  .commanded  the  brigade.  At  Cedar  Mountain,  the  regiment  lost  17  killed, 
66  wounded,  and  25  missing  ;  at  Antietam,  27  killed  and  173  wounded,  out  of  340  engaged  ;  at  Chancellorsville, 
1 8  killed,  74  wounded,  and  9  missing.  Lieut. -Col.  Louis  H.  Crane  was  killed  at  Cedar  Mountain,  and  Lieut. - 
Col.  John  W.  Scott  at  Chancellorsville.  The  Corps  was  transferred,  in  September  1863,  to  Tennessee,  and  in  1864, 
under  the  designation  of  the  Twentieth,  was  engaged  in  the  advance  on  Atlanta.  The  regiment  was  hotly 
engaged  May  25,  1864,  at  New  Hope  Church,  Ga.,  where  it  lost  i  5  killed,  and  96  wounded.  During  the  Atlanta 
campaign  it  was  constantly  under  arms  and,  almost  daily,  under  fire  ;  its  losses  from  Resaca  to  Atlanta,  amounted 
to  23"  killed,  162  wounded,  and  i  missing.  Having  reenlisted,  it  preserved  its  organization  until  the  close  of 
the  war,  and  marched  with  Sherman  to  the  Sea. 


THKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  UEGIMENTS. 


FIFTH.  WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
RUSSELL'S  BRIGADE  —  WRIGHT'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  AMASA  COBB  ;  BYT.  BKIO.-GBN. 


(2)  Coi..  THOMAS  8.  ALLEN  ;  BVT. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIKD  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUSON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
1 

• 

1 

2 

• 

2 

3 

• 

2 
2 

I 
17 

13 
I  I 

I  I 

IS 
1  1 

15 
10 

20 

'3 
'3 

3 

18 

»3 

I  2 
'3 

16 
ii 

'7 

13 

20 

'5 
15 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

•    • 

I  2 

* 

9 
1  1 

10 
10 

9 

1  1 

10 
1  1 
8 

1 
1  2 

7 

9 
1  1 

10 

10 

9 
n 

10 

12 

8 

19 
124 

117 

116 

*35 

»34 
129 

136 

122 
149 
I32 

•     •    • 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I 

K  . 

Totals  

15 

•    • 

T5° 
3° 

165 
30 

2 

• 

1  08 
24 

I  IO 

24 

MI3 

660 

Seven  New  Companies  .  . 
Totals  

'5 

1  80 

i95 

2 

132 

'34 

',973 

Prior  to  the  re-organization    October.  1864,    165  were  killed—  12.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  749;  missing  and  captured,  106. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Picket,  Lee's   Mills,  Va i 

Williamsburg,  Va 17 

Golding's  Farm,  Va i 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va i 

First  Fredericksburg,  Va i 

Second  Fredericksburg,  Va 49 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va 15 

Gunboat  Service  (detailed) i 


BATTLES.  K   it  M.  W. 

Wilderness,  Va 20 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  i  o 31 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  12 8 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 5 

Opequon,  Va 5 

Petersburg,  Va.,  March    25,  1865 2 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va. 15 

Sailor's  Creek,  Va 23 


Present,  also,  at  Yorktown  ;  Savage  Station;  Glendale.;  Malvern  Hill;  Antietam  ;  Gettysburg;  Fairfield  ; 
Funkstown  ;  Mine  Run  ;  Fort  Stevens  ;  Charlestown  ,  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Arriving  at  Washington,  July  26,  1861,  it  encamped  on  Meridian  Hill,  proceeding  thence  in  Sep 
tember  to  Virginia,  where  it  was  attached  to  Hancock's  Brigade.  It  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  "  superb  " 
action  of  Hancock's  Brigade  at  Williamsburg,  its  casualties  amounting  to  8  killed,  70  wounded,  and  i  missing. 
In  February,  1863,  the  famous  Light  Division  of  the  Sixth  Corps,  composed  of  picked  regiments,  was  organized, 
General  Calvin  E.  Pratt  in  command  ;  the  Fifth  was  one  of  the  regiments  thus  selected.  In  the  successful 
storming  of  Marye's  Heights,  May  3,  1863,  the  regiment  took  a  leading  part  in  the  assault  made  by  the  Light 
Division,  earning  a  reputation  for  dash  and  bravery,  and  sustaining  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  regiment  engaged  in 
the  assault;  its  casualties  in  that  action  were  35  killed,  122  wounded,  and  36  missing;  total,  193.  In  the  bril 
liant  affair  at  Rappahannock  Station,  the  regiment  joined  the  Sixth  Maine  in  its  celebrated  charge  on  the  enemy's 
intrenchments,  sharing  the  honors  of  the  victory.  Major  Horace  W.  Wheeler  fell,  mortally  wounded,  in  this 
charge,  the  loss  in  the  regiment  amounting  to  10  killed  and  49  wounded.  The  Fifth  was  ordered  home  for  mus 
ter-out  July  12,  1864  ;  the  men  with  unexpired  terms  were  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  three  companies,  to 
which  seven  new  companies  were  added  in  October. 


396 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTH   WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
IRON  BRIGADE  —  WADSWORTH'S  DIVISION  —  FIRST  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  LYSANDER  CUTLER  ;  BVT.  BRIG-GEN. 
(3)  COL.  EDWARD  S.  BRAGG  ;  BRIG.-GEN. 


(3)  COL.  RUFUS  R.  DAWES  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(4)  COL.  JOHN  A.  KELLOGG. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  <fcc. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 
I 
2 
I 
I 
2 

3 

2 

• 
• 

2 

•     • 

28 

25 
M 
28 

15 

J7 
23 
19 

37 

22 

2 
29 
27 

15 
29 

17 

2O 

25 

T9 

37 
24 

I 

• 

• 
• 
• 

• 
• 

•    • 

T3 
9 

I  2 

6 
14 
9 

J3 
ii 

IS 

10 

I 

T3 
9 

12 

6 
M 
9 

J3 
ii 

J5 
10 

18 

J93 
191 

179 
208 
'85 

'51 
202 

220 
196 
197 

Company  A  •  •  •  •  

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

16 

228 

244 

I 

112 

I:[3 

1,940 

BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Gainesville,  Va.,  August  28,  1862 14 

Manassas,  Va.,  August  30,  1 862 1 1 

South  Mountain,  Md 1 6 

Antietam,  Md 40 

Fitz  Hugh's  Crossing,  Va 5 

Gettysburg,  Pa 4 : 

Wilderness,,  Va..  May  5-6,  1864 15 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  8th 3 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  loth 12 

Spotsylvania,  Va..  May  1 2th , .        3 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  i3th 6 


244  killed  =  12.5  per  cent. 

Of  the  1,058  men  originally  enrolled.  179  were  killed  =  16  9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed   and  wounded,  867;  missing  and  captured,  112  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  20. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

North  Anna,  Va 3 

Bethesda  Church,  Va 2 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  18 10 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va 5 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va 12 

Dabney's  Mills,  Va.,  Feb.  6,  1865 24 

Gravelly  Run,  Va 9 

Five  Forks,  Va 7 

Picket  Line,  Va.,  Aug.  31,  1862 i 

Prison  guard,  Salisbury,  N.  C i 

Detail,  Artillery  Service 4 

Present,  also,  at  Cedar  Mountain  ;  Rappahannock  ;  Groveton  ;  Fredericksburg  ;  Chancellorsville  ;  Haymarket ; 
Mine  Run  ;  Totopotomoy  ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  regiment  left  Wisconsin  July  28,  1861,  proceeding  to  Washington,  where  it  was  assigned  to 
the  brigade  which  was  destined  to  fill  such  a  glorious  place  in  the  annals  of  the  war.  The  Sixth  had  the  advan 
tage  of  a  year's  drill  and  discipline  before  it  was  called  upon  to  face  the  enemy  in  a  general  engagement,  its  first 
battle  occurring  at  Manassas  —  August  28th  and  3Oth  —  where  it  lost  1 7  killed,  91  wounded,  and  1 1  missing.  The 
regiment  lost  at  South  Mountain,  1 1  killed,  79  wounded,  and  2  missing ;  and  at  Antietam,  three  days  after, 
26  killed,  and  126  wounded.  Under  command  of  Colonel  Dawes,  it  won  merited  distinction  at  Gettysburg  in  the 
battle  of  the  first  day ;  all  histories  of  that  field  mention  the  manoeuvre  —  and  the  part  taken  in  it  by  the  Sixth  — 
by  which  a  part  of  a  Confederate  brigade  was  captured  in  the  railroad  cut.  The  casualties  at  Gettysburg  were  30 
killed,  116  wounded,  and  22  missing.  Upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Army  in  March,  1864,  Wadsworth's 
Division  was  transferred  to  the  Fifth  Corps,  and  with  it  the  Iron  Brigade  under  General  Cutler.  The  regiment 
lost  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  8  killed,  40  wounded,  and  15  missing ;  at  Spotsylvania,  10  killed,  68  wounded, 
and  5  missing;  at  Hatcher's  Run  (Dabney's  Mills),  13  killed,  81  wounded,  and  7  missing;  at  Gravelly  Run,  5 
killed,  34  wounded,  and  32  missing.  Major  Phillio  W.  Plummer  was  killed  at  the  Wilderness. 


TlIKEE    llUMWKl)    FlUUTlXG    Kl-Xil.MKM  S. 


397 


SEVENTH  WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
IRON  BRIGADE  --  WADSWORTH'S  DIVISION  — FIRST  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JOSEPH  VAN  DOR. 

(8)  COL  WILLIAM  W    ROBINSON. 


(3)  COL.  MARK  FINNICUM. 

(•I)  COL.  HOLLON  RICHARDSON. 


COX  PA  Ml  EH 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  op  DIKKASE.  ACCIDENTS,  IN  Pitisos,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 
I 

2 

I 

• 
• 

I 
I 

1 

•    • 

41 
22 

23 
22 

34 

31 

28 

23 

19 
28 

I 
42 

23 

25 
22 

35 
31 
29 
24 
20 

29 

• 
* 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•               • 

• 

•    • 

5 
5 
7 

2 
21 

3 

2 
2 
2 

'4 

•    • 

'5 
'5 
i? 

I  2 
21 

'3 
1  2 

12 
12 

'4 

20 
171 

'56 
162 

'Si 
165 
J74 

^53 

i'.- 

163 
M7 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

IO 

271 

281 

• 

'43 

'43 

1,630 

281   killed  —  17  2  per  cent. 
Total    killed    and    wounded.    1,016;    died    in    Confederate    prisons  (previously    included),    34. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Gainesville,  Va.,  Aug   28,  1862 42 

Manassas,  Va.,  Aug.  30    1 862 7 

South  Mountain,  Mil 22 

Antietam,  Mil 15 

Fredericksburg,    Va i 

Fit/  Hugh's  Crossing,  Va 3 

Gettysburg,  Pa 37 

Wilderness,  Va 55 

Guerrillas,  May  i.  1862 i 

Gunboat  Service i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May    9,  1864 4 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  10.  1864 20 

Spotsylvania,  Va.,  May  1 2,  1 864 1 1 

North  Anna,  Va 8 

Bethesda  Church,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.,  June  1 8,  1 864 17 

Petersburg  Trenches i  o 

Hatcher's   Run,  Va.,  Feb.  6,  1 865 6 

Gravelly  Run,  Va 14 

Five  Forks,  Va 6 


Present,  also,  at  Cedar  Mountain  ;  Catlett's  Station;  Rappahannock  ;  Chancellorsville  ;  Haymarket ;  Mine 
Run  ;  Totopotomoy ;  Cold  Harbor ;  Weldon  Railroad  ;  Boydton  Road  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  Seventh  Wisconsin  was  one  of  the  three  regiments  which  lost  the  most  men  killed  in  battle 
of  any  regiments  in  the  Union  Army.  Its  loss  was  not  only  numerically  large,  but  the  percentage  of  killed 
was  also  a  remarkable  one  ;  the  percentage  was  even  larger  than  shown  here,  because  the  enrollment  includes 
256  conscripts,  very  few  of  whom  reported  for  duty.  The  regiment  left  Wisconsin  on  September  21,  1861, 
going  to  Virginia,  where  it  joined  the  Iron  Brigade  at  Camp  Lyon.  The  principal  losses  of  the  regiment 
were:  at  Secoml  Bull  Run,  31  killed,  153  wounded,  and  33  missing;  at  South  Mountain,  11  killed,  116 
wounded,  and  20  missing;  at  Gettysburg,  21  killed,  105  wounded,  and  52  missing;  at  the  Wilderness,  27 
killed,  155  wounded,  and  35  missing;  at  Spotsylvania,  19  killed,  58  wounded,  and  3  missing;  and  at  Gravelly 
Run,  6  killed,  38  wounded,  and  3  missing.  The  Iron  Brigade  was  in  the  First  Division  of  the  First  Corps; 
this  division  (Wadsworth's)  was  transferred  in  March,  1864,  to  the  Fifth  Corps,  becoming  the  Fourth  Division. 
In  February,  1865,  the  Sixth  and  Seventh  Wisconsin  regiments  were  assigned  to  Kellogg's  (ist)  Brigade, 
Crawford's  (31!)  Division,  Fifth  Corps.  In  December,  1863,  the  Seventh  numbered  only  249  present  for  duty, 
all  told,  and  in  October.  1864,  only  156  muskets  were  present  at  the  fight  on  the  Boydton  Road. 


398 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTEENTH  WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
FORCE'S  BRIGADE  —  LEGGETT'S  DIVISION  —  SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  BENJAMIN  ALLEN. 


(2)  COL.  CASSIUS  PAIRCHILD  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

• 

2 

• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 

16 
i-4 

12 

7 
23 

J3 

J3 
J5 
14 
14 

•    * 

18 
14 

13 

8 

23 
14 

!3 

J5 
15 

14 

I 
1 

I 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 

25     . 

X9 

26 

M 
39 

21 

22 
26 
28 
27 

2 
26 

19 

27 

14 

39 

22 
22 
26 
28 
27 

15 
208 

J75 
220 

149 
241 
1  66 

217 
178 
203 
172 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I  

K  

Total  s. 

6 

141 

147 

4 

248 

252 

i,944 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  466  ;  captured  and  missing   45. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 3 

Battle  of  Atlanta,  Ga 43 

Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga 2 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 3 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 79 

Corinth,  Miss 14 

Goodrich,  La.  (Foraging) i 

Guerrillas,    Miss i 

Jackson,  Tenn i 

Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Lumpkin's  Mills,  Miss  ;  March  to  the  Sea ;  The  Carolinas ;  Brush  Moun 
tain,  Ga. ;  Nickajack  Creek,  Ga. ;  Jonesboro,  Ga. ;  Siege  of  Savannah ;  Pocotaligo,  S.  C. ;  Salkahatchie,  S.  C. ; 
Orangeburg,  S.  C. ;  Columbia,  S.  C. ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Madison,  Wis.,  and  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  on  January  31,  1862. 
After  a  few  weeks  of  drill  and  discipline  it  left  the  State  March  13,  proceeding  to  St.  Louis,  and  thence  to  Pitts- 
burg  Landing,  Tenn.,  where  General  Grant's  Army  was  then  encamped.  It  was  assigned  to  Peabody's  (ist) 
Brigade,  Prentiss's  (6th)  Division,  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  and  was  engaged  soon  after  its  arrival  in  the  great 
battle  of  Shiloh.  On  the  morning  of  that  battle,  April  6th,  the  pickets  of  the  Sixteenth  Wisconsin  received  the 
first  fire  of  the  enemy ;  the  regiment  was  hotly  engaged  soon  after,  its  losses  at  Shiloh  amounting  to  40  killed, 
188  wounded,  and  26  missing;  total,  254.  At  the  battle  of  Corinth,  the  Sixth  Division  was  commended  by 
General  McKean  for  its  efficiency ;  the  regiment  took  an  active  and  meritorious  part  in  the  fighting,  losing  there 
7  killed,  28  wounded,  and  10  missing.  In  November,  1862,  the  regiment  was  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of 
five  companies, —  A,  C,  E,  G  and  I.  The  year  1863  was  spent  in  Louisiana  and  Mississippi,  encamped  at  various 
points,  on  duty  with  the  Seventeenth  Corps.  During  the  spring  and  summer  of  1863  the  regiment  was  stationed 
near  Lake  Providence,  La.,  proceeding  in  August  to  Vicksburg,  in  which  vicinity  it  was  encamped  until  the  spring 
of  1864.  In  March,  1864,  four  new  companies  joined  the  regiment ;  the  old  battalion  reiinlisted,  and  in  Novem 
ber,  1864,  another  new  company  joined,  making  ten  companies  again.  On  June  8,  1864,  the  regiment  joined 
Sherman's  Army  at  Ackworth,  Ga.,  the  army  being  then  engaged  on  the  Atlanta  campaign.  The  Sixteenth  was 
then  in  the  First  Brigade  (Force's),  Third  Division  (Leggett's,)  Seventeenth  Corps.  It  was  prominently  engaged 
at  Atlanta,  July  22,  losing  25  killed  83  wounded,  and  it  missing.  The  regiment  marched  with  Sherman  to  the 
Sea  and  through  the  Carolinas. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


390 


TWENTY-SIXTH  WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
COGSWELL'S  BRIGADE  -  -  WARD'S  DIVISION  -  -  TWENTIETH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  II    JACOBS 


CJ)  COL.  FRED.  C.  WINKLEK;  BVT.  Riuri.-Qnr. 


C'OMPANIE 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIKU  OP  DIMKAHK,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'KISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officer*. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
I 

I 

2 

• 
1 
2 
2 

• 

2 
I 

2 
10 
21 

'7 

18 

19 
17 
24 
'9 
'5 
H 

2 
1  I 
22 

'9 
l8 

20 

19 

26 

'9 
'7 

'5 

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

7 
8 

5 
3 

'3 
1  1 

10 

6 
8 
6 

• 

7 
8 

5 
3 

13 

1  1 

10 
6 
8 
6 

12 
101 
103 
103 

I05 
114 

116 

112 
IOI 
112 
I  10 

Company  A.  •  •  •  •  

B  

c  

D. 

E  . 

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

I  2 

176 

1  88 

• 

77 

77 

1  ,089 

188  killed    -=  17.2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and   wounded,  503;  captured  and   missing.  103;  died   in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  17. 


BATTLES.  K.  &M.W. 

Chancellorsville,  Va 53 

Gettysburg,  Pa 6 1 

Resaca,  Ga 12 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 15 

Pine  Mountain,  Ga i 

Gulp's  Farm,  Ga 14 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga 15 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 5 

Averasboro,  N.  C i o 

Bentonville,  N.  C i 


Present,, also,  at  Lookout  Mountain  ;  Missionary  Ridge  ;  Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  March  to  the  Sea ;  Siege  of 
Savannah. 

NOTES. — A  German  regiment  whose  gallantry  and  soldierly  bearing  reflected  credit  upon  its  nationality. 
General  William  Cogswell,  formerly  Colonel  of  the  Second  Massachusetts,  and  hence  an  authority  in  such  matters, 
in  an  official  communication  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  alludes  to  the  Twenty-sixth  as  "  one  of  the  finest  military 
organizations  m  the  service.  '  The  regiment  left  Wisconsin  on  the  6th  of  October,  1862,  proceeding  to  Fairfax, 
Va.,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Krzyzanowski's  (2d)  Brigade,  Schurz's  (3d)  Division,  Eleventh  Corps.  Its  first 
battle  was  at  Chancellorsville,  where  it  made  a  creditable  fight,  although  the  corps  was  placed  in  an  extremely 
disadvantageous  position.  The  regiment  held  its  ground  there  until  nearly  surrounded,  gallantly,  but  vainly, 
trying  to  stem  the  victorious  onslaught  of  Jackson's  charge  ;  its  casualties  at  Chancellorsville  were  23  killed,  135 
wounded,  and  40  missing.  It  was  closely  engaged  at  Gettysburg,  and  when  the  corps  retreated  through  the  town, 
the  Twenty-sixth  was  ordered  to  protect  its  rear.  Its  loss  at  Gettysburg  was  26  killed,  1 29  wounded,  and  62 
missing;  a  heavy  percentage  of  those  engaged.  In  September,  1863,  the  corps  was  ordered  to  Tennessee,  and 
in  April,  1864,  was  merged  into  the  Twentieth  Corps,  under  General  Hooker.  The  regiment  thus  became  a  part 
of  the  Third  Brigade,  Third  Division  (Ward's),  Twentieth  Corps.  At  the  battle  of  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga.,  it 
captured  the  colors  of  the  Thirty-third  Mississippi  and  several  prisoners,  its  own  loss  amounting  to  9  killed,  and 
36  wounded  ;  its  conduct  in  that  affair  elicited  the  highest  commendation  in  the  official  reports.  After  partici 
pating  in  the  Atlanta  campaign,  the  regiment  marched  with  Sherman  to  the  sea,  and  thence  through  the  Carolinas 
to  the  Grand  Review  at  Washington. 


400 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRTY-SIXTH   WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
MCKEEN'S  BRIGADE— GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  FRANK  A.  HASKELL  (Killed). 
(3)  COL.  HARVEY  M.  BROWN. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  A.  SAVAGE,  JK.  (Killed). 
(4)  COL.  CLEMENT  E  WARNER 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 

• 

I 

• 
• 

I 
I 

I 

• 
• 

I 

•     • 

IO 
20 

18 

14 
23 

10 

14 
13 

12 

16 

2 
IO 
21 

18 

14 

24 

11 

15 

J3 

12 
17 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

* 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

I 

25 

22 

2O 

12 

13 

I  I 

2O 

25 
i? 
16 

2 

25 

22 

2O 

13 

13 

II 

20 

25 
17 
17 

12 
103 
104 
IOO 

95 

IO2 
96 
98 
101 
IO2 
101 

B  

c  

D. 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

H  

I  

K,  

7 

150 

157 

3 

182 

185 

1,014 

157  killed  =  15. 4  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  578  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  102. 


BATTLES. 

North  Anna,  Va 

Totopotomoy,  Va 

Bethesda  Church,  Va.,  June  i,  1864 


K.  &  M.W. 

7 

2 

..      49 


Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  3,  1864 26 

Cold  Harboi  Trenches,  Va 6 

Chickahominy,  Va i 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,  1864) 32 

Present,  also,  at  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Sailor's  Creek ;  High  Bridge  ;  Appomattox. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va 2 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 9 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 12 

Ream's  Station,  Va 9 

Boydton  Road,  Va i 

Farmville,  Va i 


NOTES. — Recruited  under  the  call  of  February  ist,  1864,  for  500,000  more  men.  It  was  organized  at  Mad 
ison  leaving  Wisconsin  on  May  loth  ;  Colonel  Haskell  was  transferred  from  the  Sixth  Wisconsin,  in  which  he 
was  serving  as  an  Adjutant.  Immediately  after  arriving  in  Virginia  the  regiment  joined  the  Army  of  the  Poto 
mac,  then  at  Spotsylvania,  having  been  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade  (Webb's),  Second  Division  (Gibbon's), 
Second  Corps.  The  regiment  was  under  fire,  for  the  first  time,  at  Spotsylvania,  May  19,  1864  ( Fredericksburg 
Pike),  where  it  was  held  in  reserve  ;  it  was  engaged  a  few  days  later  at  the  North  Anna,  and  also  at  Totopoto 
moy  Creek  ;  on  June  ist,  at  Bethesda  Church,  four  companies, —  B,  E,  F,  and  G, —  while  on  the  skirmish  line, 
made  a  dashing  charge  but  with  a  heavy  loss ;  of  240  men  engaged  in  this  charge,  128  were  killed,  wounded 
or  missing. 

Two  days  later  the  regiment  was  engaged  in  the  storming  of  Cold  Harbor,  a  desperate  fight,  in  which  it 
sustained  a  loss  of  1 7  killed,  53  wounded,  and  5  missing.  The  brigade  commander,  Colonel  H.  B.  McKeen, 
of  the  I^ighty-first  Pennsylvania,  was  killed  in  that  assault,  whereupon  the  command  devolved  upon  Colonel 
Haskell,  who  fell  dead  a  few  minutes  later.  Colonel  Savage  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  regiment,  but 
fell  mortally  wounded  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  18,  1864.  In  that  engagement  the  regiment  lost  16 
killed,  and  107  wounded.  It  became  so  reduced  by  death,  wounds,  and  disease,  that  it  carried  only  n  officers 
and  175  men  into  the  fight  at  Ream's  Station;  it  lost  in  that  action  134  men  taken  prisoners. 


THKKK  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


401 


THIRTY-SEVENTH  WISCONSIN  INFANTRY. 
HARTRANFT'S  BRIGADE  —  WILLCOX'S  DIVISION -- NINTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  SAMUEL  HARRIMAX  ;  RVT. 


(2)  COL  ANSON  O.  DOOLITTLK, 


(8)  COL.  JOHN  GHEKN. 


COM  PA  NIIS. 

t 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  In  PRISON.  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

• 

• 
2 

•    • 

'3 

M 
M 

JO 

M 
20 

'9 
21 

*3 
1  1 

•    • 

M 
»5 

15 
1  1 

15 
20 

19 

21 

'3 

13 

I 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

8 

10 

1  1 

12 
I  I 
10 

8 

4 
8 

7 

•     • 

9 
10 

1  1 

'3 

1  1 

10 

8 

4 
8 

7 

'3 
109 

109 

I05 
"3 

"3 
104 

118 
no 
n  i 

'°5 

B  

c 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

Totals  

7 

149 

156 

2 

89 

91 

1,110 

156  killed  —  14  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  557  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  21. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Petersburg  Assault,  June   1 7,  1864 15 

Petersburg  Assault,  June  18,  1864 42 

Petersburg   Mine,  July  30,  1864 55 

Weldon  Railroad,  Aug.  19,  1864 6 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Poplar  Spring   Church,  Sept.  30,  1864 2 

Boydton  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  27,  1864 i 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  April  2,  1864 18 

Petersburg  Trenches,  1864  and  1 865 17 


Present,  also,  at  Pegram  Farm  ;  Hatcher's  Run ;  Fort  Stedman. 

NOTES. —  The  Thirty-seventh  was  recruited  in  response  to  the  call  of  February  i,  1864,  for  500,000  more 
men,  and  was  organized  at  Madison  under  the  superintendence  of  Colonel  Harriman,  who  had  served  previously 
as  a  captain  in  the  Thirtieth  Wisconsin.  Six  companies  left  Wisconsin  on  the  28th  of  April,  1864,  two  more 
companies  joining  them  at  Washington  about  two  weeks  later.  The  eight  companies  left  Washington  on  the 
30th  of  May,  proceeding  by  steamer  to  White  House  Landing,  Va.,  where,  on  June  xoth,  they  joined  the  army, 
then  at  Cold  Harbor,  near  by.  The  regiment  was  assigned  to  the  First  Brigade  (Hartranft's),  Third  Division 
(Willcox's),  Ninth  Corps.  The  Thirty-seventh  was  in  action  for  the  first  time  in  the  assaults  on  Petersburg, 
June  i/th  and  i8th ;  the  regiment  made  a  gallant  charge  on  the  enemy's  works,  but  was  obliged  to  retire  with 
a  heavy  loss;  its  casualties  amounted  to  33  killed,  122  wounded,  and  2  missing.  While  in  the  trenches 
before  Petersburg,  Company  G  joined  the  command.  At  the  Mine  Explosion,  the  regiment  occupied  a  posi 
tion  in  the  Crater,  which  it  was  forced  to  abandon  after  having  sustained  a  severe  loss  in  its  efforts  to  hold  it ; 
out  of  250  who  advanced  to  the  assault,  it  lost  34  killed,  59  wounded,  and  52  missing.  It  was  transferred 
soon  after  to  the  First  Brigade  of  the  First  Division,  General  Willcox  commanding  the  division.  It  partici 
pated  in  all  the  succeeding  battles  of  the  Ninth  Corps,  and  in  the  dangerous  duty  in  the  trenches  during  the 
long  siege.  Under  command  of  Colonel  Green  it  took  a  prominent  and  honorable  part  in  the  successful  assault 
of  April  2,  1865,  which  resulted  in  the  capture  of  Petersburg.  In  that  assault,  three  companies  of  the  Thirty- 
seventh  were  the  first  troops  to  effect  an  entrance  in  Fort  Mahone,  a  stronghold  located  in  front  of  the  Ninth 
Corps.  After  Lee's  surrender  the  regiment  returned  to  Washington,  where  it  marched  in  the  Grand  Review,  and 

then  encamped  until  July  26,  1865,  when  it  was  mustered  out. 
26 


402 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIEST   MINNESOTA   INFANTRY. 
HARROW'S  BRIGADE  —  GIBBON'S  DIVISION  —  SECOND  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIS  A.  GORMAN  •  BRIG.-GEN. 

(2)  COL.  NAPOLEON  J.  DANA ;  MAJOR-GEN. 

(3)  COL.  ALFRED  SULLY  ;  MAJOR-GEN. 

(4)  COL.  GEORGE  N.  MORGAN. 


(5)  COL.  WILLIAM  COLVILLE,  JR.;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(6)  COL.  CHARLES  P.  ADAMS  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 

(7)  COL.  MARK  W.  DOWNIE. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 
I 
2 

• 

2 

• 

I 

2 

• 

•    • 

20 
I  I 

28 

13 

IO 

16 
ii 

J3 

17 

17 
ii 

10 

•     • 

21 
I  I 
29 

M 
12 

16 

T3 

J3 
18 

J9 
1  1 

10 

• 

I 

• 

I 

• 

New 
Battalion. 

.  . 

5 

5 
ii 

6 
6 

7 

12 

6 
8 
4 

27 

•    * 

6 

5 

12 

6 
6 

7 

12 

6 
8 

4 

27 

21 

IJ3 

108 

134 

128 

I2O 
124 
I2O 
123 
127 
124 

•    •     * 

B  

c  

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Veteran  A  .... 
Veteran  B  .  .  .  . 

Totals  

TO 

177 

187 

2 

97 

99 

1,242 

187  killed=  15  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  585  ;  missing   and   captured,  136  ;  died   in   Confederate  prisons  (previously   included),  13. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Fredericksburg,   Va 


Gettysburg,  Pa 

Bristoe  Station,  Va 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault,   1864) 

Jerusalem  Road,  Va < 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va < 

Deep  Bottom,  Va .'.  •  .        5 

Ream's  Station,  Va 2 

Boydton  Road,   Va i 


i 

75 

2 

3 

4 

5 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

First  Bull  Run,  Va 48 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  22,  1861 i 

Goose  Creek,  Va i 

Fair  Oaks,  Va 2 

Picket,  Va.,  June  i,  1862 i 

Savage  Station,  Va i  o 

Glendale,  Va i 

Flint  Hill,  Va.,  Sept.  i,  1862 i 

Vienna,  Va.,  Sept.  2,  1862 4 

Antietam,  Md 20 

Present,  also,  at  Yorktown ;  West  Point ;  Peach  Orchard ;  Malvern  Hill ;  Second  Fredericksburg ;  Mine 
Run  ;  Strawberry  Plains  ;  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Farmville  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. —  The  greatest  regimental  loss  in  any  battle,  in  proportion  to  the  number  engaged,  occurred  in  the 
ranks  of  the  First  Minnesota,  at  Gettysburg.  In  that  battle,  on  the  afternoon  of  the  second  day,  the  Confeder 
ates  had  broken  through  Sickles's  ranks,  and  were  about  seizing  an  important  position  within  the  Union  lines. 
The  only  body  of  troops  at  hand  was  the  First  Minnesota.  Hancock,  desiring  to  impede  the  enemy's  advance 
until  reinforcements  could  be  brought  up,  ordered  Colville  to  charge  the  advancing  Confederate  brigade  with  his 
regiment.  Alone  and  unsupported  it  attacked  them,  drove  them  back,  and  captured  their  colors.  But  It  was  ac 
complished  at  a  terrible  cost ;  of  the  eight  companies  engaged —  262  all  told  —  215  were  killed  and  wounded.  It 
is  the  largest  percentage  of  loss  recorded  in  the  annals  of  modern  warfare.  It  was  in  action  again  on  the  follow 
ing  day,  its  casualties  at  Gettysburg  aggregating  5  i  killed,  and  173  wounded;  total,  224.  This  regiment  was 
organized  April  29,  1861,  and  was  the  first  in  the  Union  Army  to  be  mustered  in  for  three  years.  It  fought  at 
First  Bull  Run  —  then  in  Franklin's  Brigade,  Heintzelman's  Division.  Its  casualties  on  that  field  were  42  killed, 
1 08  wounded,  and  30  missing,  the  largest  loss  sustained  by  any  regiment  there.  It  was  assigned,  soon  after,  to 
the  First  Brigade,  Second  Division,  Second  Corps,  in  which  it  remained  during  its  service. 


THREW  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


403 


SECOND  IOWA  INFANTRY. 
SWEENY'S  BRIGADE-  -  DODGE'S  DIVISION --SIXTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  SAMUEL  R.CURTIS,  OT.  $.;  MAJOK-UEN. 

ffl)  COL.  JAMES  M.  TUTTI.E;  Bmo.-GEN. 

(5)  Coi..  NOEL  B.  HOWARD. 


(3)  COL.  JAMES  BAKER  (Killed). 

(4)  COL.  JAMES  B.  WEAVER  ;  BVT.  BBIO.-OBN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  AC-CIDENTS,  IN  PIIIHON,  &o. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

2 

• 

I 

3 

• 

i 

2 

• 

I 
I 
I 

•    • 

12 

9 

12 

9 

10 

15 

'3 

7 

IO 

1  1 

2 
I  2 
IO 

»S 

9 
1  1 

!? 
13 

8 
it 

12 

• 

I 

I 
I 
I 

• 
• 
• 

•    • 

I  I 
14 

'7 

12 

18 

2  I 
2O 

»9 

I  I 

16 

*    • 

I  I 

M 
18 

12 

'9 

22 
21 

'9 
I  I 

16 

17 
117 

1  60 

"5 

129 

127 
107 

'5' 

120 
133 

"5 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G. 

H  

I  

K  

12 

1  08 

I  2O 

4 

'59 

163 

1,291 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  465  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  16. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Fort  Donelson,  Term 54 

Shiloh,  Term 15 

Corinth,  Miss 25 

Dallas,  Ga 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Nickajack,   Ga i 

Atlanta,  Ga 17 

Jonesboro,   Ga 2 

Eden  Station,  Ga.,  Dec.  7,  1864 2 


Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth,  Bear  Creek,  Ala. ;  Town  Creek,  Ala. ;  Resaca,  Ga. ;  Rome  Cross  Roads, 
Ga. ;  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga. ;  Litttle  Ogeeche  River,  Ga. ;  Siege  of  Savannah,  Ga. ;  Columbia,  S.  C. ;  Lynch's 
Creek,  S.  C. ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Davenport,  Iowa,  in  May,  1861.  During  the  first  year  of  its  service  it  was  stationed 
in  Missouri,  employed  on  guard  duty  at  various  points,  and  in  protecting  railroad  communications.  It  left  St. 
Louis  February  7,  1862,  proceeding  by  river  transports  to  Fort  Donelson,  where,  under  command  of  Colonel 
Tuttle,  it  was  engaged  in  the  assault  on  the  enemy's  right.  It  was  then  in  Lauman's  Brigade  of  General  C.  F. 
Smith's  Division,  and  led  the  attack  of  the  brigade.  Its  casualties  at  Fort  Donelson  were  33  killed  and  164 
wounded ;  two  color-bearers  were  killed,  and  two  wounded,  while  eight  of  the  nine  men  in  the  color-guard  were 
killed  or  wounded.  The  regiment  was  engaged  a  few  weeks  later  at  Shiloh  ;  it  was  then  in  Tuttle's  Brigade  of 
W.  H.  Wallace's  Division  ;  loss,  8  killed,  60  wounded,  and  4  missing.  Next  came  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  and  on 
October  3,  1862,  the  battle  of  Corinth.  At  that  battle  the  Second  fought  in  Hackleman's  Brigade  of  Davies's 
Division,  its  loss  there  amounting  to  1 2  killed,  84  wounded,  and  5  missing.  Among  the  killed  were  Colonel 
Baker,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Noah  VV.  Mills  and  four  line  officers ;  General  Hackleman  was  also  killed  in  this 
engagement. 

The  regiment  wintered  at  Corinth,  Miss  ,  and  in  the  fall  of  1863  moved  to  Pulaski,  Tenn.  It  rei-nlisted 
in  the  winter  of  1863-64,  and  upon  its  return  from  its  veteran  furlough  entered  the  Atlanta  campaign, 
during  which  it  was  in  Fuller's  (ist)  Brigade,  Veatch's  (4th)  Division,  Sixteenth  Corps.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta 
it  was  transferred  to  Howard's  (ist)  Brigade,  Rice's  (4th)  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps,  with  which  it  marched  to  the 
Sea  and  through  the  Carolinas.  In  November,  1864,  the  veterans  and  recruits  of  the  Third  Iowa  remaining  in 
the  field  were  transferred  to  this  regiment.  The  Second  Iowa  was  mustered  out  July  12,  1865. 


404: 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


THIRD   IOWA   INFANTRY. 
PUGH'S  BRIGADE  -  -  LAUMAN'S  DIVISION  —  SIXTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  NELSON  G.  WILLIAMS. 


(2)  COL.  AARON  BROWN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 

4. 
I 

I 

• 

•  • 
10 

18 
i5 

10 
12 
IO 

9 
i5 
13 

7 

I 
II 

22 

J5 
II 

12 
IO 

9 
16 

13 

7 

• 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

16 

'5 
8 

T3 
IS 

IO 

13 

12 
10 

9 

I 

16 

*5 
8 

T3 

rs 

IO 

*3 

12 
10 

9 

T5 
104 

117 
109 
92 
103 
116 
in 
no 

121 
101 

B  

C  . 

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

T  . 

K  

Totals  

8 

119 

127 

• 

122 

122 

I,099 

127  killed  =11.5  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed    and  wounded,  459  ,  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  12. 


BATTLES.  K.  <teM.  W. 

Monroe,  Mo.,  July  n,  1861 i 

Kirkville,  Mo.,  Aug.  20,  1861 i 

Shelbyville,  Mo.,  Sept.  2,  1861 i 

Blue  Mills,  Mo.,  Sept.  17,1861 1 1 

Shiloh,  Tenn 40 

Metamora,  Miss 7 

Greenville,  Miss i 


K.  &  M.  w. 

•••       5 

...     36 

...       i 


BATTLES. 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss 

Jackson,  Miss 

Canton,    Miss 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  21,  1864 3 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  22,  1864 16 

Ezra  Chapel,  Ga i 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 3 


Present,  also,  at  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Bolivar,  Miss. ;  Middleburg,  Miss. ;  Moscow,  Tenn. ;  Resaca,  Ga. ;  Kene- 
saw,  Ga. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  in  June,  1861.  It  served  in  Missouri  for  several  months,  during  which 
time  the  regiment  had  a  sharp  fight  at  Blue  Mills  with  a  superior  force  under  the  Confederate  General  Atchison. 
The  Third  was  alone  in  this  fight,  and  behaved  with  great  gallantry,  capturing  a  piece  of  artillery.  In  the  spring 
of  1862,  it  joined  Grant's  Army  in  the  advance  up  the  Tennessee  River,  and  was  engaged  at  Shiloh.  It  was  then 
in  Williams's  Brigade,  of  Hurlbut's  Division,  the  brigade  sustaining  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  brigade  in  that  battle ; 
the  loss  of  the  regiment  was  23  killed,  134  wounded,  and  30  missing.  Under  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Trumbull,  it  fought  at  Metamora,  or  Hatchie  Bridge,  where  it  lost  2  killed,  and  60  wounded,  out  of  about  300 
present ;  the  brigade  was  then  under  command  of  General  Lauman.  At  Vicksburg,  the  regiment  was  in  Pugh's 
(ist)  Brigade,  Lauman's  Division,  Sixteenth  Corps.  After  the  fall  of  Vicksburg  the  Army  invested  Jackson,  Miss., 
where  the  brigade  met  with  a  severe  loss  in  an  unsuccessful  attack  on  the  enemy's  works ;  the  regiment  losing  i  7 
killed,  57  wounded,  and  39  missing,  out  of  223  men  and  18  officers  engaged  ;  the  missing  ones  proved  to  have  been 
all  wounded  or  killed.  The  regiment  participated  in  Sherman's  Meridian  Campaign  in  February,  1864,  and  on  the 
Atlanta  campaign  in  the  following  summer.  At  the  expiration  of  its  term  of  service  it  was  mustered  out,  and  the 
recruits  and  reenlisted  men  remaining  in  the  field  were  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  three  companies,  which 
was  transferred  November  4,  1864,  to  the  Second  Iowa  Infantry.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign  the  regiment 
was  stationed  at  Etowah  Bridge  until  July  i7th,  when  the  battalion  was  ordered  to  the  front  and  placed  in 
Gresham's  (4th)  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIUIITINU  REGIMENTS. 


405 


FIFTH  IOWA  INFANTRY. 
BOOMKK'S   BRIGADE  --QUINBY'S   DIVISION --SEVENTEENTH   COUPS. 


(I)  Cou  W«.  II.  WORTH1NGTON 


(2)  COL.  CIIAKLKS  L.  MATTIIIK3;  Bmo.-GBN. 


(3)  COL.  JAHKX  UANHUKY. 


I"»H-\SII- 

KM.  i  i  n  AND  DIKD  OK  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OK  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  Piusos,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment! 

officers 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Kield  and  StafT  

I 
I 

• 

I 
I 

• 

2 
I 

2 

•    • 

I 
2 
1 

7 

i 

/ 

9 
i  i 

9 

10 

•     • 

I  2 

J3 

1  1 

7 

I  2 

'9 
9 

I  2 
IO 
I  2 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

J3 
'7 
'3 
13 

'3 

'3 

1  1 
'3 

I  2 

!3 

I 

'3 
i? 

'3 
'3 
M 

»3 

1  1 

'3 

I  2 
'3 

16 
96 

i°5 

101 

89 
109 

IO1 

1  08 
128 

89 

IOO 

(\)mivinv  *\  . 

B  . 

c  

I). 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

9 

1  08 

"7 

2 

T3* 

*33 

1,042 

117  killed—  ii. 2  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  419  ,  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  31. 


BATTLES 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 
Madison  Station,  Ala.  . . 
Milliken's  Bend,  La.  . . . 

Gillam's  Bridge,  Ga 

Place  unknown 


K.&M.NV. 
6 


i 

2 
I 

2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

New  Madrid,  Mo 2 

Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss i 

luka,  Miss 62 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss 27 

Vicksburg,  Miss 1 1 

Jackson,  Miss 2 

Present,  also,  at  Corinth  ;  Hatchie  River  ;  Port  Gibson  ;   Raymond. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Burlington,  in  July,  1861,  leaving  the  State  on  August  nth.  During  the  rest  of  the 
year  and  in  the  following  winter  it  was  on  active  duty  in  Missouri.  In  March,  1862,  it  engaged  in  the  operations 
around  New  Madrid,  Mo.,  after  which  it  was  stationed  for  a  few  months  in  various  places  in  the  Southwest.  In 
August,  1862,  it  encamped  at  Jacinto.  Miss.,  leaving  there,  September  iSth,  for  luka,  where  it  fought  the  next  day 
under  Rosecrans.  It  was  then  in  Sanborn's  (ist)  Brigade  of  Hamilton's  Division,  and  sustained  the  heaviest  loss 
of  any  regiment  in  that  battle,  its  casualties  amounting  to  37  killed,  179  wounded,  and  i  missing;  among  the 
killed  were  five  line  officers.  General  Rosecrans  said  officially,  that  "  the  glorious  Fifth  Iowa  bore  the  thrice- 
repeated  charges  of  the  rebel  left  with  a  valor  and  determination  seldom  equalled,  never  excelled  by  veteran  sol 
diers."  During  the  Vicksburg  campaign  the  Fifth  was  in  Boomer's  (3(1)  Brigade,  Crocker's  Division,  Seven 
teenth  Corps,  its  hardest  fighting  occurring  at  Champion's  Hill,  where  it  lost  19  killed  and  75  wounded  out  of 
350  engaged.  It  marched  to  Tennessee  in  November,  1863,  where  it  foughi  at  Missionary  Ridge  ;  its  casualties 
in  that  battle  were  2  killed,  22  wounded,  and  82  captured  or  missing.  The  reeidisted  men  received  the  usual 
veteran  furlough  of  one  month,  and  went  home  in  April,  1864.  Returning,  they  arrived  at  Decatur,  Ala.,  on  May 
1 4th,  after  which  the  regiment  was  stationed  at  Huntsville,  Ala.,  at  Kingston,  Ga.,  and  at  other  places,  until 
August,  1864,  when  it  was  mustered  out.  The  recruits  and  rei'-nlisted  men  who  were  retained  in  the  field,  were 
transferred  to  the  Fifth  Iowa  Cavalry.  Colonel  Worthington  was  killed  on  the  picket  line  at  Corinth,  May  22, 
1862,  having  been  shot  by  mistake. 


406 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SIXTH   IOWA  INFANTRY. 


HICKS'S  BRIGADE— W.  S.  SMITH'S  DIVISION — SIXTEENTH  CORPS. 


(i)  COL.  JOHN  A.  MCDOWELL. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  M.  CORSE  ;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 


(3)  COL.  WILLIAM  II.  CLUNE. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

2 

• 

I 
2 
I 

• 

I 

• 
* 

I 

•    • 

14 
14 
14 
14 

J9 
15 
M 
9 
19 

12 

2 
14 
IS 

16 
15 

J9 
16 

14 
9 
T9 
13 

• 
• 
• 
• 
I 
• 
* 
• 
• 
• 

I 

•     • 

15 
14 

J7 

9 

12 
H 

IS 
II 

10 

9 

*    • 

15 
H 

I? 

10 

12 
14 

15 
II 

IO 
10 

H 
104 

109 

97 

I2O 

i°5 
116 

1  08 
104 

TI5 
no 

B  . 

c  

D. 

E  

F  

G  

H  

T  . 

K  . 

Totals  

8 

144 

!52 

2 

126 

128 

I,IO2 

152  killed  =  13. 7  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  572  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  14. 

K.  &M.W 

63 

I 


BATTLES. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 

Jackson,  Miss.  (May  14,  1863) 

Vicksburg,  Miss i 

Jones's  Ford,  Miss 2 

Jackson,  Miss.  (July  16,  1863) 6 

Guerrillas 3 

Missionary   Ridge,  Tenn 13 

Resaca,  Ga 7 

Dallas,  Ga 10 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga i 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Big  Shanty,  Ga 4 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 9 

Atlanta,  Ga i  o 

Ezra   Chapel,  Ga 8 

Lovejoy's   Station,  Ga i 

Griswoldville,  Ga 

Columbia,  S.  C r 

Bentonville,  N.  C i 

Goldsboro,  N.  C 2 

Place  unknown i 


Present,  also,  at  Athens,  Mo. ;  Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss. ;  Chulahoma,  Miss. ;  Holly  Springs,  Miss. ;  Ezra 
Chapel,  Ga. ;  Jonesboro,  Ga. ;  East  Point,  Ga. ;  Coosaw  River,  S.  C. ;  Savannah,  Ga, 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Burlington,  Iowa,  July  17,  1861,  moving  to  Keokuk  on  August  2d,  and  to  St.  Louis 
on  the  igth.  In  October  it  participated  in  Fremont's  Missouri  campaign  against  Price,  and  during  the  winter 
of  1861-2,  the  regiment  guarded  the  railroad  from  Sedalia  to  Tipton.  In  March,  1862,  it  moved 
to  Pittsburg  Landing,  where  it  was  assigned  to  Sherman's  Division,  Colonel  McDowell  being  placed  in 
command  of  the  brigade.  The  battle  of  Shiloh  occurred  soon  after,  in  which  the  regiment  was  commanded  by 
Captain  John  Williams,  its  casualties  in  that  battle  amounting  to  52  killed,  94  wounded,  and  37  missing ;  a  total 
of  183,  out  of  less  than  650  engaged.  The  Sixth  continued  in  Sherman's  Division  during  the  Siege  of  Corinth, 
after  which  McDowell's  Brigade  moved  to  Memphis,  remaining  there  several  months.  The  regiment  passed  the 
winter  of  1862-3  at  LaGrange,  Tenn.  Under  command  of  Colonel  Corse,  the  regiment  distinguished  itself  on  the 
skirmish  line  at  Jackson,  Miss.,  July  16,  1863,  its  gallantry  there  eliciting  a  special  complimentary  order  from  General 
William  S.  Smith,  the  division  commander.  At  Missionary  Ridge,  the  regiment  was  in  Ewing's  Division,  Fifteenth 
Corps  ;  its  loss  there  was  8  killed  and  5  7  wounded.  Colonel  Corse  received  a  serious  wound  in  that  battle,  and 
soon  after  was  promoted  General  for  his  gallant  services.  He  afterwards  made  a  national  reputation  by  his  gallant 
defense  of  Allatoona,  where  he  received  the  historic  dispatch  signalled  from  Sherman,  to  "  Hold  the  Fort,  etc." 


TIIKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


407 


SEVENTH   IOWA  INFANTRY. 
BICE'S  BRIGADE  —  SWEENY'S  DIVISION --SIXTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  JACOB  G.  LA  UMAX.  B. «.;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.  (2)  Coi.  ELLIOT  W.  NICE.  B.  «.;  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN. 

(8)  COL.  JAMES  ('.  1'AUKOTT;  BVT.  BKI«.-(JEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PUISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 

• 

I 
2 

* 
• 

1 
I 

• 

I 

• 

I 

13 
13 

16 
1  1 

12 

18 
ii 

22 
JO 

7 

2 
*3 

14 

18 
1  1 

12 

19 

I  2 

22 
I  I 

7 

I 
I 

• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

M 
21 
21 

8 

21 

M 

21 

12 
'9 

9 

I 

'5 
21 

23 

8 

21 

M 
21 

12 

'9 

9 

16 
169 

175 

172 

124 
141 

'39 
1  08 

'33 

'43 
,58 

Company  A  

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

I    

K  

7 

*34 

141 

4 

1  60 

164 

1,478 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  465  ;  captured  and  missing,  73  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  13. 
BATTLES.  K.  &  M.VV. 

Belmont,  Mo.  (8  Cos.) 74 

Fort  Donelson,  Tenn 2 

Shiloh,  Tenn 12 

Corinth,  Miss 28 


Resaca,  Ga 15 

Dallas,  Ga i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i 

Marietta,  Ga i 

Atlanta,  Ga 4 

Allatoona,  Ga i 


Guerrillas 


Present,  also,  at  Fort  Henry,  Tenn. ;  luka,  Miss. ;  Jonesboro,  Ga. ;  Jenkins's  Bridge,  Ga. ;  Savannah,  Ga. ; 
Lynch  Creek,  S.  C. ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — Leaving  Iowa  August  6,  1861,  it  proceeded  to  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo.,  where  it  was  assigned  to 
Prentiss's  Division.  It  was  engaged  on  active  duty  in  Missouri  for  several  months,  during  which  it  fought  at 
Belmont,  sustaining  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  regiment  in  that  battle.  The  first  man  killed  at  Belmont  was  one  of 
the  skirmishers  of  the  Seventh;  its  loss  was  51  killed,  127  wounded,  39  captured,  and  10  missing;  a  total  of 
227  out  of  410  engaged.  Lieutenant- Colonel  Augustus  Wentz  and  three  line  officers  were  killed  there,  while 
Colonel  Lauman  and  Major  Rice  were  wounded.  At  Fort  Donelson  the  regiment  was  in  General  C.  F.  Smith's 
Division,  Colonel  Lauman  commanding  the  brigade  ;  loss  2  killed  and  37  wounded.  At  Shiloh, —  then  in  Tut- 
tle's  Brigade,  W.  H.  Wallace's  Division, —  the  regiment  was  on  parade  for  inspection  when  the  army  was  sur 
prised  by  the  Confederate  attack ;  the  Seventh  moved  promptly  to  the  front,  and  immediately  became  engaged  ; 
loss,  10  killed,  17  wounded,  and  7  missing. 

At  the  battle  of  Corinth, —  October  3<1  and  4th,  1862 — it  was  in  Davies's  Division;  under  command  of 
Colonel  Rice  it  made  a  stubborn  fight,  capturing  a  stand  of  colors,  but  losing  21  killed,  87  wounded,  and  13 
missing;  over  one-third  of  those  engaged.  The  year  1863  was  spent  near  Corinth,  and  in  1864,  the  regiment 
having  rec-nlisted,  entered  upon  Sherman's  Atlanta  campaign,  during  which  it  was  hotly  engaged  at  Lay's  Ferry, 
Ga.  (Resaca),  where  it  lost  n  killed  and  51  wounded.  It  was  then  in  Rice's  (ist)  Brigade,  Sweeny's  (zd) 
Division,  Sixteenth  Corps.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  it  was  placed  in  Rice's  (4th)  Division.  Fifteenth  Corps,  in 
which  it  served  during  Sherman's  Georgia  and  Carolina  campaigns.  Mustered  out  July  12,  1865. 


408 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


NINTH  IOWA  INFANTRY. 
THAYER'S  BRIGADE  —  STEELE'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  VANDEVER :  BVT.  MAJOR-GEN.          (3)  COL.  FRANK  J.  HERRON ;  MAJOR-GEN.  (3)  COL.  DAVID  CARSKADDON. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men, 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 

3 
i 

2 

• 

2 
I 
2 
I 

• 
• 

•  • 

13 

II 

M 
15 
14 

9 
16 

19 

J7 
M 

•     • 

16 

12 

16 

15 

16 
10 
18 

20 

J7 

14 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 

•    • 

20 

18 

27 

32 
26 

31 

19 

16 

16 

25 

2 
20 

18 

27 

32 
26 

31 

19 
16 

16 

25 

16 

122 

118 
118 
130 
123 

133 

112 
I24 
I  2O 

JI3 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T  . 

K  

Totals  

I  2 

142 

J54 

2 

230 

232 

1,229 

154  killed  =  12.5  per  cent.     . 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  571. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.\V 

Pea  Ridge,  Ark 74 

Chickasaw  Bluffs,  Miss i 

Arkansas  Post,  Ark i 

Brandon  Station,  Miss i 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss 13 

Assault  on  Vicksburg 29 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 5 

Ringgold,  Ga 2 

Claysville,  Ga 2 

Present,  also,  at  Sugar  Creek ;  Jackson ;  Cherokee 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga i 

Resaca,  Ga 4 

Dallas,  Ga 6 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 5 

Atlanta,  Ga 5 

Jonesboro,  Ga 2 

Bentonville,  N.  C 2 

Place  unknown i 

Station  ;  Tuscumbia  ;  Chattahoochie, ;  Lovejoy's  Sta 


tion  ;  Griswoldville  ;  Macon  ;  Eden  Station  ;  Congaree  Creek ;  Columbia. 

NOTES. — Mustered  in  at  Dubuque,  September  24,  1861,  it  left  the  State  on  the  26th,  1,007  strong,  and 
proceeded  to  Benton  Barracks,  St.  Louis.  Four  months  of  active  service  were  passed  in  Missouri,  and  then  it 
joined  Curtis's  Army  of  the  Southwest,  having  been  assigned  to  Vandever's  Brigade,  Carr's  Division.  It  fought 
at  Pea  Ridge,  withstanding  a  severe  attack  and  sustaining  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  regiment  on  that  field,  its  cas 
ualties  amounting  to  38  killed,  176  wounded,  and  4  missing, —  a  total  of  218  out  of  560  engaged.  The  regi 
ment  arrived  at  Helena,  Ark.,  in  July,  1862,  remaining  there  five  months  and  then  embarking  in  December,  1862, 
for  Chickasaw  Bayou,  where  it  was  under  fire.  The  spring  of  1863  was  passed  in  camp  at  Young's  Point,  on  the 
Mississippi,  where  its  ranks  were  sadly  depleted  by  disease.  The  Ninth  was  actively  engaged  at  the  Siege  of 
Vicksburg,  losing  there  121  killed  or  wounded.  In  the  assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  i9th,  it  lost  4  killed  and  12 
wounded;  in  the  assault  of  May  22d,  it  lost  18  killed  and  60  wounded.  In  January,  1864,  287  men  reenlisted, 
received  the  customary  furlough  of  one  month,  and  returned  accompanied  by  125  recruits.  The  Ninth  served 
during  the  Atlanta  campaign  in  Osterhaus's  (ist)  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps,  losing  in  that  campaign, —  from 
May  ist  to  September  ist, —  14  killed,  70  wounded,  and  6  missing.  While  on  the  March  to  the  Sea,  it  was  in 
Stone's  Iowa  Brigade,  C.  R.  Woods's  (ist)  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps. 


THKEE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


401) 


THIRTEENTH   IOWA  INFANTRY. 
HALL'S  BRIGADE-- GILES  A.  SMITH'S  DIVISION --SEVENTEENTH  COUPS. 


(1)  COL.  MARCELU'S  M.  CWM'KEU  ;  HIIKI.-CKN. 


(2)  COL.  JOHN  SHANK.        (8)  JAMKS  WILSON  ;  HVT.  HUIH.-<JKN. 


COMPANIES. 

KM  i  MI  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DlKll  OF  DlSEAHK,  AcClUENTtl,  IN  PlllHON,  &C. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  inil  Staff.  . 

i 

• 

i 

• 
• 
* 

i 

i 

• 

i 

• 

•  • 

15 

I  2 
12 

8 

9 
3 
»9 

10 

1  1 
*5 

l 

15 

13 
12 

8 

9 
4 

20 
IO 
12 

15 

I 

• 

2 

I 

• 

•     • 

'9 

22 
23 

25 

21 
22 
21 

15 
19 

18 

I 

*9 
24 
23 

25 
21 

22 
21 

15 
2O 

18 

IS 

118 

"5 

103 

118 

IO2 

95 

120 
114 

116 

IO2 

B  . 

(-  . 

D. 

E  . 

F  . 

G  . 

II. 

I 

K  

Totals  . 

5 

114 

II9 

.    4 

205 

209 

i,n8» 

ng  killed  —  10.7  per  cent. 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  443  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  12. 
BATTLES.  K.  &M.W.  BATTLES. 


Shiloh,  Term 41 

Corinth,  Miss 4 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss i 

Hillsboro,  Miss 2 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 2 

Nickajack  Creek,  Ga 4 

On  Picket,  Ga.,  Sept.  5,  1864 i 


K.&M.W. 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  20,  1864 3 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  2 1,  1864 23 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  22,  1864 29 

Ezra  Church,  Ga 3 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 3 

Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga 2 

Columbia,  S.  C i 

Present,  also,  at  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Kesaca,  Ga. ;  Flint  River,  Ga. ;  Savannah,  Ga. ;  Pocotaligo,  S.  C. ; 
Rivers's  Bridge,  S.  C. ;  Orangeburg,  S.  C. ;  Bentonville,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Davenport,  Iowa,  in  October,  1861.  It  served  in  Missouri  until  the  spring  of  1862, 
when  it  moved  with  Grant  to  Pittsburg  Landing,  Tenn.,  and  fought  at  Shiloh,  it  being  then  in  McClernand's 
Division  ;  loss,  20  killed,  139  wounded,  and  3  missing  ;  a  total  of  162,  out  of  7 1 7  present  in  action.  Soon  after  this 
battle  the  famous  Iowa  Brigade  —  Eleventh,  Thirteenth,  Fifteenth  and  Sixteenth  Iowa — was  organized,  and  placed 
under  command  of  Colonel  Crocker.  This  brigade  participated  in  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  and  on  October  4th,  1862, 
in  the  battle  at  that  place,  in  which  the  Thirteenth  lost  i  killed  and  14  wounded.  During  the  Vicksburg  campaign 
the  brigade  was  under  the  command  of  Colonel  Hall,  and  served  in  McArthur's  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps.  The 
autumn  of  1863,  and  most  of  the  following  winter,  was  passed  in  camp  at  Vicksburg.  In  February,  1864,  it  was 
engaged  in  Sherman's  March  to  Meridian,  Miss.,  after  which  the  regiment,  having  reenlisted,  went  home  on  a 
"veteran  furlough."  The  rei'nlistments  numbered  379,  officers  and  men,  which,  with  the  recruits,  preserved  the 
organization  after  its  term  of  service  had  expired.  Upon  its  return  it  entered  the  Atlanta  campaign,  the  Iowa 
Brigade  serving  as  the  Third  Brigade  of  Gresham's  (4th)  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps.  At  the  battle  of  Atlanta 
—July  2ist  and  221!  —  the  regiment,  under  Colonel  Shane,  was  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight,  losing  247  in  killed, 
wounded  and  missing,  out  of  410  present  for  duty;  Major  Win.  A.  Walker,  a  gallant  officer,  was  killed  in  the 
second  day's  fight.  The  regiment  marched  through  Georgia  to  the  Sea,  and  was  the  first  to  enter  Columbia, 
S.  C.  (February  17,  1865),  its  colors  being  the  first  to  wave  over  the  State  Capitol. 

*  In  addition  to  this  enrollment  there  were  635  unussigned  recruits. 


410 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIFTEENTH   IOWA   INFANTRY. 
IOWA  BRIGADE  —  MCARTHUR'S  DIVISION  —  SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HUGH  T.  REID  ;  BRIG.-GEN.      (2)  COL.  WILLIAM  W.  BELKNAP ;  BRIG.-GEN.     (3)  COL.  JOHN  M.  IIEDRICK ,  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

2 

• 

I 
I 

• 
• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

•  • 

1  1 

14 

IO 
10 
12 
II 

J3 

10 

9 

18 

I 

J3 
H 
i  r 

1  1 

12 

1  1 
M 

IO 
10 

T9 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

25 
28 

31 
29 

24 

32 

27 

14 
26 

23 

I 

25 
29 

31 
29 

24 

32 

27 

14 
26 

23 

15 

MS 
1.68 

i52 
183 
I7S 

175 
168 

142 

148 
148 

Company  A  •  

B  

c  . 

D  

E  

F  . 

G. 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  . 

8 

118 

126 

I 

260 

261 

1,619 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  462. 

BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Ezra  Chapel,  Ga 3 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 7 

Sherman's  March . i 

Savannah,  Ga i 

Pocotaligo,  S.  C i 

Congaree  Creek,  S.  C 2 

Bentonville,  N.  C 2 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W. 

Shiloh,  Tenn 41 

Corinth,  Miss 22 

Vicksburg,  Miss 2 

Kenesaw,  Ga 6 

Picket,  July  i,  1864 i 

Nickajack  Creek,  Ga 4 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  21,  1864  )   10 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  22,  1864  )   23 

Present,  also,  at  Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga. ;  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Noonday  Creek,  Ga.  :  Chattahoochie,  Ga. 

NOTES. — Organized  at Keokuk,  February  22,  1862,  and  mustered  in  on  March  i4th.  It  left  the  State,  1,038 
strong,  on  March  igth,  stopping  at  St.  Louis  where  it  was  armed  and  equipped,  and  on  the  morning  of  April  6th 
arrived  at  Pittsburg  Landing  just  as  the  battle  of  Shiloh  was  commencing.  It  had  been  previously  assigned  to 
Prentiss's  Division,  but  being  unable  to  find  that  command,  Colonel  Reid  ordered  the  regiment  into  line,  and 
it  fought  in  McClernand's  Division.  Though  entering  a  battle  with  so  little  preparation,  it  rendered  efficient  service 
and  acquitted  itself  creditably.  Its  loss  at  Shiloh  was  21  killed,  156  wounded,  and  8  missing  ;  a  total  of  185,  out 
of  760  engaged.  At  the  battle  of  Corinth  the  Iowa  Brigade  was  commanded  by  Crocker,  and  fought  in 
McKean's  Division  ;  the  Fifteenth,  Colonel  Belknap  commanding,  sustained  the  principal  loss  in  the  brigade,  its 
casualties  amounting  to  1 1  killed,  67  wounded,  and  8  missing,  out  of  "about"  350  engaged. 

In  the  early  spring  of  1863,  the  regiment  encamped  near  Lake  Providence,  La.,  and  assisted  in  digging  the 
military  canal  connecting  the  Lake  with  the  Mississippi  River.  During  the  Vicksburg  campaign  of  the  following 
summer,  the  Iowa  Brigade  served  in  McArthur's  Division  of  the  Seventeenth  Corps.  The  regiment  reenlisted, 
and,  returning  from  its  veteran  furlough,  joined  Sherman's  Army,  June  10,  1864,  at  Kenesaw,  Ga.  In  the  battle 
of  Atlanta  —  July  2ist  and  22d  —  the  regiment  lost  178  men,  killed,  wounded,  and  missing,  and  captured  the 
flags  of  two  Confederate  regiments.  During  the  March  to  the  Sea,  and  through  the  Carolina's,  the  division  - 
Fourth  Division,  Seventeenth  Army  Corps  —  was  commanded  by  General  Giles  A.  Smith,  and  the  brigade,  by 
General  Belknap. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


n  i 


TWENTY-SECOND   IOWA  INFANTRY. 
LAWLER'S  BRIGADE  —  CARR'S  (E.  A.)  DIVISION- -THIRTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  WILLIAM  M.  STONE;  BVT.  BRio.-Gnr. 


(2)  COL.  HARVEY  GKAHAM  ;  HVT.  BRIO.-UEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

officers. 

M.  •. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

l 
I 
I 

• 

I 

I 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 

I 
4 

10 

M 

18 

10 

8 
8 
16 

'3 

6 

2 

5 
1  1 

M 

'9 
ii 

8 
8 
16 

M 
6 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

2 
I  I 
I  I 

'9 
14 

16 
1  1 

'3 
J3 

1S 

10 

3 
1  1 

II 
!9 

14 

16 
ii 

M 
13 
i5 

IO 

16 
92 
109 
107 
1  08 

I05 
1  06 

117 
103 

99 
I05 

B  

c  

D  

E  

F  

G  . 

H  

I  

K,  

Totals  

6 

108 

114 

I 

'35 

136 

1,067 

114  killed  —  10.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  421. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Magnolia  Hills,  Miss 3 

Vicksburg,  Miss.  (May  22d) yo 

Vicksburg  Trenches,  Miss 9 


BATTLEH.  K.  &M.W. 

Jackson,  Miss i 

Opequon,  Va 22 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 9 


Present,  also,  at  Champion's  Hill ;  Black  River  Bridge  ;  Iberia  ;  Opelousas  ;  Fort  Ksperanza  ;  Indianola  ;  Port 
Lavaca  ;  Bermuda  Hundred  ;  Halltown  ;  Berryville  ;  Fisher's  Hill ;  Woodstock. 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  Iowa  City  in  August,  1862,  leaving  the  State  on  September  i4th.  It  was  stationed 
at  Rolla,  Mo.,  during  the  rest  of  the  year,  and  at  other  points  in  Missouri  until  March,  1863,  when  it  joined 
Grant's  Army,  then  commencing  the  Vicksburg  campaign.  It  was  assigned  to  Lawler's  (2(1)  Brigade,  Carr's 
Division,  Thirteenth  Corps.  It  was  engaged  at  Port  Gibson,  the  opening  battle  of  the  Vicksburg  campaign, 
where  it  lost  2  killed  and  21  wounded  ;  was  in  reserve  at  Champion's  Hill ;  was  slightly  engaged  at  Black  River 
Bridge,  where  the  brigade  carried  off  the  honors  of  the  day. 

In  the  assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  22d,  it  sustained  the  greatest  loss  of  any  regiment  engaged,  its  casualties 
amounting  to  27  killed,  118  wounded,  and  19  missing.  The  brigade  was  formed  for  this  assault  by  column  of 
regiments,  with  the  Twenty-second  in  advance,  the  point  of  attack  being  a  fort  on  a  hill  in  front  of  the  column. 
The  regiment  passed  the  abattis,  gained  the  ditch  and  planted  its  flag  on  the  parapet,  where  it  remained 
waving  for  nine  hours.  The  assault  having  failed  at  other  points,  the  gallant  regiment  was  obliged  to  abandon 
the  position  which  it  had  fought  so  hard  to  gain.  At  one  time  during  the  assault,  Sergeant  Joseph  E.  Griffith, 
of  Company  I.  with  a  squad  of  twenty  men,  climbed  the  wall  of  the  fort,  and,  effecting  an  entrance,  engaged  in 
a  hand-to-hand  fight,  from  which  the  sergeant  and  only  one  man  returned  alive. 

In  August,  1863,  the  division  (Washburne's)  moved  to  New  Orleans,  and  the  regiment  served  in  that 
department  during  the  ensuing  twelve  months.  In  July,  1864,  the  regiment  was  transferred  to  the  Nineteenth 
Corps,  with  which  it  proceeded  to  Virginia  and  fought  under  Sheridan  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley:  At  the 
battle  of  the  Opequon  it  lost  11  killed,  63  wounded,  and  31  missing;  total,  105.  It  was  then  in  Molineux's 
(2d)  Brigade,  Grover's  (2d)  Division,  Nineteenth  Corps. 


412 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TWENTY-FOURTH   IOWA  INFANTRY. 
SLACK'S  BRIGADE  —  HOVEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  EBER  C.  BYAM.       (2)  COL.  JOHN  QU1NCY  WILDS  (Killed).       (3)  COL.  EDWARD  WRIGHT  ;  BVT  BRIG.-GBN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

i 
Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 
I 

• 

2 
I 
I 

I 

• 

I 

• 

I 

•     • 

19 

4 

12 

I? 

IO 

M 

16 

IO 
12 

5 

I 

2O 

4 
14 
18 
ii 

J5 
16 
ii 

12 

6 

I 

I 
I 

• 
• 

• 
• 

I 

12 

23 

16 

24 
26 

20 

22 

23 
20 

25 

2 

!3 
24 

16 

24 
26 

20 

22 

23 
2O 

25 

J9 
107 

127 
107 

i37 
117 

123 

"3 
129 

104 

124 

B  

C  . 

D  . 

E  

F  

G  

H  

T  . 

K. 

Totals  

9 

119 

128 

3 

212 

2I5 

1,207 

128  killed  =  10.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  474. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Magnolia  Hills,  Miss 2 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss « 75 

Black  River,  Miss i 

Siege  of  Vicksburg 3 

Jackson,  Miss i 

Grand  Coteau,  La i 

Nachitoches,  La i 

Present,  also,  at  Duvall's  Bluff,  Ark. ;  Fisher's  Hill,  Va. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W. 

Sabine  Cross  Roads,  La 6 

Rosedale  Bayou,  La i 

Opequon,  Va 21 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va i 

Cedar  Creek,  Va 13 

Guerrillas,  La 2 


NOTES. — Organized  in  August,  1862,  the  men  having  been  recruited  from  the  State  at  large.  Leaving  Iowa 
soon  after,  it  proceeded  to  Helena,  Ark.,  where  it  was  stationed  for  a  few  months,  and  in  January,  1863,  took 
part  in  General  Gorman's  Expedition  up  the  White  River  to  Duvall's  Bluff.  In  the  spring  of  1863,  the  regiment 
joined  the  army  in  its  advance  on  Vicksburg,  having  been  assigned  to  Slack's  (2d)  Brigade,  Hovey's  Division, 
Thirteenth  Corps.  Its  first  engagement  occurred  at  Port  Gibson  (Magnolia  Hills),  May  i,  1863,  in  which  the 
regiment  lost  i  killed  and  5  wounded.  At  the  battle  of  Champion's  Hill,  May  i6th,  it  sustained  a  severe  loss, 
having  charged,  captured,  and  held  a  battery  of  the  enemy.  It  was  a  daring  act,  but  as  it  made  the  advance 
alone,  and  without  proper  arrangement  for  support,  it  became  the  object  of  a  concentrated  fire  which  drove  it 
back  in  disorder.  Its  loss  at  Champion's  Hill  was  35  killed,  120  wounded,  and  34  missing;  total,  189.  From 
January,  1864,  it  lay  encamped  at  Algiers  and  in  the  defences  of  New  Orleans,  until  March  i3th,  when  it  joined 
Banks's  Red  River  Expedition.  It  was  then  in  Raynor's  (2d)  Brigade,  McGinniss's  (3d)  Division,  Thirteenth 
Corps.  At  the  battle  of  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  this  division  was  commanded  by  General  Cameron.  The  regiment 
was  then  transferred  to  the  Nineteenth  Corps,  accompanying  it  to  Virginia,  where  it  fought  in  the  Shenandoah 
Valley  campaign,  during  which  Colonel  Wilds  was  killed  at  Cedar  Creek.  The  regiment  was  then  in  Shunk's 
(4th)  Brigade,  Grover's  (2d)  Division,  Nineteenth  Corps.  Its  casualties  at  the  Opequon  were  10  killed,  57 
wounded,  and  8  missing  ;  and  at  Cedar  Creek,  8  killed,  43  wounded,  and  41  missing. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  413 

ELEVENTH   MISSOURI  INFANTRY. 
MOWER'S  BRIGADE-   TITTU:'S  DIVISION    -FIFTEENTH  CORPS, 


(1)  COL.  JOSEPH  B.  PLUMMER,  1H.  IP.,  B.  «.;  BIUG.-GKN.,  U.  S.  V.  (3)  COL.  ANDKEW  J.  WEBER  (Killed). 

(2)  COL.  JOSEPH  A.  MOWER,  ».  «.;  BVT.  MAJOK-GKN.,  V.  S.  A.  (4)  COL.  WILLIAM  L.  BARNt'M. 

(5)  COL.  ELI  BOYER  ;  BVT.  BBIQ.-GEN..U.  8.  V. 


Losses,  Officers.  J:n.  Altn.  Total. 

Killed  or  mortally  wounded 6  98  1 04 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  in  prison,  etc 2  1 79  1 81 


Totals 277  285 

Total  enrollment,  945;  killed,  104;  percentage,  n.o. 
fatties.  Killed.         Wounded*  Missing.\      Total. 

Dallas,  Mo.,  Sept.  2,1861 2  r  . .                 3 

Fredericktown,  Mo 2  10 

Farmington,  Miss i  i  2 

Siege  of  Corinth,  Miss 3  22  25 

luka,  Miss} 7  66  3                76 

Corinth,  Miss} 7  62  5               74 

Holly  Springs,  Miss 2  2  i                  5 

Jackson,  Miss i  6  2                  9 

Vicksburg,  Miss,  (assault  May  22) 7  85  92 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss 5  39  44 

Mechanicsburg,  Miss i  i 

Richmond,  La 3  3 

Tupelo,  Miss i  6  7 

Abbeville,  Miss 2  . .                  2 

Nashville,  Tenn 4  83  87 

Spanish  Fort,  Ala 4  '3  '7 

Guerrillas 2  6  2                10 

Skirmishes 4  2l  3                z8 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded.        ^Includes  the  captured. 

Totals 52  427  1 6  495 

NOTES.  —  This  regiment  was  recruited  in  Missouri  and  Illinois  during  the  summer  of  1861,  and  organized  at 
St.  Louis  in  August.  On  the  6th  of  August,  it  moved  to  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo.,  where  it  went  into  camp  and 
remained  until  March,  1862,  having  been  engaged  in  the  meantime  in  several  expeditions,  reconnoissances,  and 
skirmishes  in  Missouri,  in  some  of  which  there  was  some  brisk  fighting,  with  several  men  killed  or  wounded. 
The  regiment  joined  Pope's  army,  in  March,  1862,  and  was  engaged  in  the  operations  about  New  Madrid  and 
Island  Number  Ten.  It  moved  thence  to  Corinth,  where  it  took  an  active  part  in  the  siege.  The  gallantry  of 
the  Eleventh  at  luka,  elicited  special  mention  from  General  Rosecrans  in  G.  O.  No.  130,  in  which  he  calls  attention 
"  to  the  magnificent  fighting  of  the  Eleventh  Missouri,  under  the  gallant  Mower."  The  regiment  was  also  hon 
orably  mentioned  in  the  official  report  of  Corinth.  The  Eleventh  led  the  charge  of  Mower's  Brigade  in  the  grand 
assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  22,  1863.  In  that  desperate  struggle  it  was  the  only  entire  regiment  of  the  Fifteenth 
Corps  that  reached  the  fort,  and  the  only  regiment  in  that  corps  that  planted  its  colors  on  the  parapet.  Colonel 
Weber  was  killed  in  the  trenches  at  Vicksburg.  The  Eleventh  was  also  hotly  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Nashville 
-then  in  Hubbard's  (2d)  Brigade,  McArthur's  (ist)  Division,  Sixteenth  Corps  —  after  which  it  accompanied 
the  Corps  to  Mobile,  Ala. 

^Official  Records  ;  the  United  States  Volunteer  Register  gives  different  figures. 


414  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

TWELFTH  MISSOURI  INFANTRY. 
C.  R.  WOODS'S  BRIGADE  —  OSTERHAUS'S  DIVISION  —  FIFTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  P.  J.  OSTEKHAUS  ;  MAJOR-GENERAL.  (2)  COL.  HUGO  WANGELIN  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN. 


Losses. 

Officers.            En.  Men. 
IO                          IO2 

2                    94 

Total. 

112 

96 

Totals  . 

12                           196 

208 

Total  enrollment,  931  ; 
Battles. 

killed,  112  ;  percentage,  12.0. 
Kill* 

/.         Wounded.*  Missing.} 
29                          2 

4 
i 

2 

3 

82 

42 

5 
3 

23                 3 

22                           I 

18 

9 
6 

5                 i 

2 

8 

10                         I 

Total. 
34 
6 

i 

2 

4 

1  08 

52 
6 

4 
27 

28 
24 

12 
IO 

8 
3 

10 

14 

Vicksburg  Miss  (assault   May  22)...  

26 

Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn.  ) 

Misssionary  Ridge,  Tenn.  ) 

6 

Dallas  Ga  

Kenesaw  Mountain  Ga  

Battle  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  2  2d  •>  , 

Siege  of  Atlanta  Ga  

2 

Skirmishes  ;  Guerillas  ;  On  Picket  

"•Includes  the  mortally  wounded.       tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals  . 

71 

274                      8 

1^1 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  St.  Louis  in  August,  1861.  After  participating  in  Fremont's  expedition  in  Missouri, 
the  regiment  left  its  camp  at  Rolla,  Mo.,  in  January,  1862,  with  General  Curtis's  Army,  moving  into  Arkansas, 
where  it  was  engaged,  March  8, 1862,  at  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge.  It  was  then  in  Greusel's  Brigade,  of  Osterhaus's 
Division.  The  rest  of  that  year  was  passed  in  Southern  Missouri  and  Northern  Arkansas,  its  next  battle  occurring, 
December  29,  1862,  at  Chickasaw  Bluffs  ;  a  few  days  after  it  sailed  for  Ai  kansas  Post,  where  it  was  present  butnot 
engaged.  It  was  then  in  Hovey's  Brigade,  of  Steele's  Division.  During  the  Vicksburg  campaign  it  was  in  C.  R. 
Woods's  Brigade,  Steele's  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps.  It  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  assault  on  Vicksburg,  May 
22,  1863,  in  which  Major  Gustavus  Lightfoot  was  killed.  After  the  fall  of  Vicksburg,  the  regiment  accompanied 
its  corps  to  Tennessee,  where  it  participated  in  the  battles  of  Lookout  Mountain  and  Missionary  Ridge,  in  which 
Colonel  VVangelin  lost  an  arm.  On  May  i,  1864,  it  moved  with  Sherman's  Army  in  the  advance  on  Atlanta.  It 
was  then  in  Wangelin's  (3d)  Brigade,  Osterhaus's  (ist)  Division,  Fifteenth  Corps  ;  this  division  was  subsequently' 
commanded  by  General  Charles  R.  Woods.  The  Twelfth  fought  its  last  battle  at  Ezra  Chapel,  Ga.,  on  July  28, 
1864  ',  its  time  having  expired  it  was  shortly  afterwards  ordered  home  for  muster-out.  Of  the  officers  belonging 
to  the  regiment,  ten  were  killed,  one  lost  both  eyes,  one  lost  a  leg  and  arm,  one  lost  one  arm,  and  two  lost  one 
leg  each ;  one  died  of  disease,  and  one  was  drowned. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS.  415 

FIFTEENTH  MISSOURI  INFANTRY  —  "  SWISS  RIFLES." 
KIMBALL'S  BRIGADE  —  NEWTON'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTH  CORPS 


(1)  Cou  FRANCIS  J.  JOLIAT.  (2)  COL.  JOSEPH  CONKA1) ;  BVT.  BRIO.-GEN. 

Losses.                                                                                                                                            Officers.           En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 8                  107  115 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  in  prison,  etc i                  106  107 


Totals 9  213  222 

Enrollment  (prior  to  1865),  904  ,  killed,  115  ;  percentage,  12.7. 

Battles.                                                                                                                                Killed.        Wounded*  Afisstng.\     Total. 
Pea  Ridge,  Ark . .  1 1  1 1 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky i  7  .  .  8 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 12  55  5  72 

Liberty  Gap,  Tenn i  .  .  i 

Chickamauga,  Ga n  67  22  100 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 5  22  ..  27 

Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Ga i  . .  i 

Resaca,  Ga 6  24  i  31 

Adairsville,  Ga i  4  .  .  5 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 4  . .  4 

Dallas,  Ga 3  1 6  . .  19 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga 8  19  2  29 

Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga i  2  . .  3 

Siege  of  Atlanta,  Ga 4  1 6  . .  20 

Jonesboro,  Ga i  4  •  •  5 

Lovejoy's  Station,  Ga 2  5  . .  7 

Spring  Hill,  Tenn 3  1 1  3  17 

Franklin,  Tenn 44  34 

Nashville,  Tenn i  6  2  9 

Columbia,  Tenn i  •  •  •  •  i 

•Includes  the  mortally  wounded.       tlucludes  the  captured. 

Totals 68  308  80  456 

NOTES. —  Organized  at  St.  Louis  in  August,  1861.  After  serving  in  Missouri  and  Arkansas  during  the  rest  of 
the  year,  it  marched,  in  the  spring  of  1862,  with  Curtis's  Army  of  the  South-west  on  the  campaign  which  culminated 
in  the  victory  at  Pea  Ridge,  Ark.  The  regiment  was  then  in  Asboth's  (2d)  Division,  but  as  it  was  in  reserve  at 
that  battle  it  sustained  but  slight  loss.  In  June,  1862,  it  moved  with  Asboth's  command  to  Corinth,  Miss. 
It  was  there  transferred  to  Buell's  Army  of  the  Ohio,  with  which  it  marched  on  the  Kentucky  campaign,  and  was 
engaged  at  the  battle  of  Chaplin  Hills,  Ky.,  it  being  then  in  Sheridan's  Division.  Three  months  later  it  fought 
at  Stone's  River,  where  Colonel  Schaeffer,  the  brigade  commander,  was  killed  while  leading  the  regiment.  Colonel 
Joliat,  who  had  resigned  in  November,  1862,  was  succeeded  by  Colonel  Conrad,  formerly  Major  of  the  Third 
Missouri.  The  regiment  suffered  its  severest  loss  at  Chickamauga,  its  casualties  on  that  field  being  unusually  large 
in  proportion  to  the  very  small  number  engaged;  it  was  then  in  Laiboldt's  (2d)  Brigade,  Sheridan's  Division, 
McCook's  Corps.  Upon  the  reorganization  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  October,  1863,  the  regiment  was 
placed  in  Steedman's  (ist)  Brigade,  Sheridan's  (2d)  Division,  Fourth  Corps,  remaining  in  that  corps  during  the 
rest  of  its  sen-ice.  Reenlisting  in  January,  1864,  it  was  furloughed  for  thirty  days,  and  upon  its  return  joined 
Sherman's  Army  as  it  was  starting  on  its  Atlanta  campaign.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta,  the  corps  fought  at 
Franklin  and  Nashville,  proceeding  thence  to  Texas,  where  the  regiment  was  mustered  out  in  December,  1865. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

TWENTY-SIXTH  MISSOURI  INFANTRY. 
BOOMER'S  BRIGADE  —  QUINSY'S  DIVISION -- SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  B.  BOOMER  (Killed).  (2)  COL.  BENJAMIN  D.  DEAN. 

Losses.                                                                                                                                                   Officers.           En.  Men.  Total. 

Killed  and  mortally  wounded 6                 112  118 

Died  of  disease,  accidents,  etc 2                  171  173 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons 12  12 


Totals 8  295  303 


Original  enrollment,  972;  killed,  118  ;  percentage,  12.1. 
Battles.  Killed.       Wounded*     Missing.\     Total. 

luka,  Miss 21  75  i  97 

Guerillas,  Miss . i  . .  i  2 

Corinth,  Miss i  2  ..  3 

Jackson,  Miss i  . .  i 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss 18  69  .  .  87 

Assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  1 9th 2  . .  .  .  2 

Assault  on  Vicksburg,  May  22d 5  5  ..  10 

Siege  of  Vicksburg,  Miss 2  10  . .  12 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 15  34  4  53 

Sherman's  March,  Ga i  . .  i  2 

The  Carolinas i  2  ..  3 

"Includes  the  mortally  wounded,    tlncludes  the  captured. 

Totals 67  198  7  272 

Present,  also,  at  New  Madrid,  Mo. ;  Island  No.  Ten,  Mo. ;  Tiptonville,  Mo. ;  Farmington,  Miss. ;  Siege  of 
Corinth,  Miss. ;  Raymond,  Miss. ;  Siege  of  Jackson,  Miss. ;  Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn. ;  Savannah,  Ga. ;  Salka- 
hatchie,  S.  C. ;  Neuse  River,  N.  C. 

NOTES. — Recruited  in  the  fall  of  1861.  In  March,  1862,  it  joined  Pope's  expedition  against  New  Madrid, 
Mo.,  and  participated  in  the  investment  and  capture  of  Island  Number  Ten.  Its  division  —  Hamilton's  —  then 
moved  to  Corinth,  where  it  joined  the  besieging  army,  arriving  there  April  22,  1862.  Although  the  regiment  was 
under  fire  at  New  Madrid,  and  also  during  the  Siege  of  Corinth,  yet  it  sustained  little  or  no  loss.  But  at  luka 
it  was  hotly  engaged,  its  skirmishers  opening  that  battle  ;  the'  whole  regiment  was  soon  under  a  severe  fire,  in 
which  Colonel  Boomer  was  seriously  wounded.  Two  weeks  later,  under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Holman,  it  was 
engaged  at  the  battle  of  Corinth;  it  was  then  in  Buford's  (ist)  Brigade,  Hamilton's  (3d)  Division,  Army  of 
the  Mississippi. 

During  the  Vicksburg  campaign  it  was  in  Boomer's  (3d)  Brigade,  Crocker's  Division,  Seventeenth  Corps.  At 
Champion's  Hill  the  regiment  encountered  some  more  hard  fighting  and  heavy  losses,  Major  Charles  F.  Brown 
being  among  the  killed.  Colonel  Boomer  was  killed  in  the  assault  on  Vicksburg —  May  22d  —  while  in  command 
of  the  brigade.  In  October,  1863,  the  division  under  command  of  General  John  E.  Smith — now  the  Third 
Division,  Fifteenth  Corps  —  left  Memphis,  and  moved  to  Chattanooga,  where  it  fought  in  the  battle  of  Missionary 
Ridge.  This  division  did  not  move  with  Sherman  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  but  garrisoned  Allatoona,  Ga., 
Kingston,  Ga.,  and  other  points  on  that  line.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  in  November,  1864,  the  recruits 
having  been  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  three  companies,  which  marched  with  Sherman  to  the  Sea,  and 
through  the  Carolinas. 


THREE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


417 


FIRST  KANSAS  INFANTRY. 
REID'S  BRIGADE  —  Me  ARTHUR'S  DIVISION -- SEVENTEENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  GEORGE  W.  DEITZLER ;  BKIG.-OEN. 


COL.  WILLIAM  Y.  ROBERTS. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
. 
I 

• 
I 

• 

I 

• 

I 
I 

2 

*    • 

5 

2 
2O 

9 
18 

M 
7 
23 
J5 

7 

•    • 

5 
3 

20 
10 

18 

'5 
7 
24 
16 

9 

• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

2 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

•    • 

I  I 

J3 
M 
'5 

I  2 

M 
I  2 
10 

13 

8 

•   • 

1  1 

14 
14 
15 
14 
14 

12 
1O 

13 

8 

16 
104 

"5 

141 

i37 
146 

121 
127 
144 
129 
128 

B  

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

T 

K  

Totals  

7 

1  20 

127 

3 

122 

125 

1,308 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  339. 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.W 

Wilson's  Creek,  Mo 106 

Tuscumbia  Mountain,  Miss 2 

Old  River,  La i 

Bayou  Macon,  La 3 

Lake  Providence,  La 3 

Cross  Bayou,  La i 

Alexandria,  La i 


BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Atchafalaya,    La i 

Vicksburg,  Miss.  (1864) 1 

Columbia,  Ark 2 

Guerrillas 2 

Rebel  Prison  Guard i 

Place  unknown 3 


Present,  also,  at  Dug  Springs,  Mo. ;  Trenton,  Tenn. ;  Tallahatchie,  Miss. ;  Big  Black    River,  Miss. ;  Yazoo 
City,  Miss. 

NOTKS. —  Organized  at  Leavenworth  in  May,  1861,  and  in  June,  was  ordered  into  Missouri  where  it  joined 
General  Lyon's  forces.  It  fought  at  Wilson's  Creek,  August  10,  1861,  a  desperate  battle  in  which  General  Lyon 
was  killed,  and  in  which  the  regiment  suffered  an  unusual  loss,  its  casualties  amounting  to  77  killed,  187  wounded, 
and  20  missing  ;  a  total  of  284,  out  of  644  engaged  ;  four  line  officers  were  killed,  and  Colonel  Deitzler  was  severely 
wounded.  General  Sturgis,  after  having  passed  through  many  of  the  bloodiest  battles  of  the  war,  once  remarked 
that  "  for  downright,  hard,  persistent  fighting,  Wilson's  Creek  beat  them  all."  After  this  battle  the  regiment  was 
stationed  in  Missouri  until  May,  1862,  when  it  was  ordered  to  Corinth.  The  summer  of  1862  was  spent  in 
opening  and  guarding  the  Mobile  &  Ohio  R.  R.  In  January,  1863,  it  moved  to  Young's  Point,  opposite  Vicks 
burg,  where  the  regiment  was  mounted  by  order  of  General  Grant.  It  served  as  mounted  infantry  during  the 
ensuing  eighteen  months,  including  the  siege  of  Vicksburg,  after  which  it  joined  the  expedition  to  Natchez. 
During  this  time  it  was  engaged,  almost  continuously,  on  scouting  and  outpost  duty.  In  October,  1863,  it  re 
turned  to  Vicksburg,  and  was  stationed  at  Black  River  Bridge,  twelve  miles  south  of  the  city,  where  it  went  into 
winter  quarters.  The  spring  of  1864  was  also  passed  in  the  vicinity  of  Vicksburg.  On  June  i,  1864,  the  regi 
ment,  excepting  two  companies  of  rei;nlisted  men  and  recruits,  embarked  on  transports  for  home,  its  term  of 
service  having  expired.  While  passing  Columbia,  Ark.,  the  steamer  was  fired  on  by  an  eight-gun  battery,  killing 
two  of  the  men.  The  two  companies  remaining  in  the  field  were  continued  in  service  until  August  30,  1865, 

when  they  were  mustered  out. 
27 


418 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


FIRST   UNITED   STATES   SHARPSHOOTERS -- "BERDAN'S." 
WARD'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION — -THIRD   CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HIRAM  BERDAN  ;  BVT.  BBIG.-GEN. 


(2)  COL.  GEORGE  G.  HASTINGS. 


KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,  <fce. 

Total 

COMPANIES. 

Officers. 

>Ien. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff.  . 

I 

I 

I 

I 

2 

14 

Co.  A  —  New  York  .  .  . 

• 

*5 

15 

10 

10 

124 

Co.  B  —  New  York  .  .  . 

. 

13 

13 

. 

J3 

X3 

157 

Co.  C  —  Michigan  .  .  . 

I 

I? 

18 

. 

17 

!7 

137 

Co.  D—  New  York  .  .. 

I 

7 

8 

. 

8 

8 

138 

Co.  E  —  N.  Hampshire 

2 

J3 

J5 

. 

1  1 

1  1 

XI3 

Co.  F  —  Vermont  .... 

. 

31 

31 

• 

*9 

T9 

182 

Co.  G  —  Wisconsin  ... 

2 

20 

22 

. 

18 

18 

176 

Co.  H—  New  York  .  .  . 

I 

6 

7 

• 

8 

8 

I  IO 

Co.  I  —  Michigan  .... 

I 

1  1 

I  2 

. 

J3 

J3 

12  1 

Co.  K  —  Michigan  .... 

I 

10 

I  I 

• 

10 

10 

120 

Totals  

10 

'43 

'53 

I 

128 

129 

^392 

153  killed  =10.9  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  546. 


BATTLES.  K.&M.  W. 

Yorktown,  Va 4 

Hanover  C.  H.,  Va 2 

Mechanicsville,  Va i 

Gaines's  Mill,  Va 5 

Glendale,  Va 8 

Malvern  Hill,  Va 5 

Manassas,  Va 10 

Antietam,  Md i 

Shepherdstown,  Va 2 

Chancellorsville,  Va 19 

Gettysburg,  Pa 1 1 


BATTLES.  K.  &  M.  W 

Kelly's  Ford,  Va 5 

Locust  Grove,  Va.  (Mine  Run) 12 

Wilderness,  Va 20 

Spotsylvania,  Va 9 

Hanovertown,  Va 7 

Cold  Harbor,  Va 7 

Petersburg,  Va.  (assault  1864) to 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864 2 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va 6 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va i 

Deep  Bottom,  Va 2 

Boydton  Road,  Va 3 


Wapping   Heights,  Va i 

Present,    also,   at   Big   Bethel    (1862);  Williamsburg ;  Savage  Station;  South  Mountain ;  Fredericksburg ; 
Auburn  ;  Po  River  ;  North  Anna. 

NOTES. — The  unique  regiment  of  the  war.  Berdan's  Sharpshooters  were  United  States  troops,  in  which  respect 
they  were  different  from  other  volunteer  regiments  ;  each  company,  however,  was  furnished  entire  by  some  one 
State.  In  1 86 1,  General  Berdan  received  authority  from  the  War  Department  to  organize  a  regiment  of  skilled 
marksmen  from  companies  to  be  recruited  in  various  States,  and  in  March,  1862,  it  was  ordered  to  the  Peninsula, 
where  it  was  attached  to  the  Fifth  Corps.  The  men  took  an  active  part  in  the  Siege  of  Yorktown,  their  target  rifles 
and  deadly  aim  rendering  the  enemy's  batteries  nearly  useless.  While  there,  the  men  were  supplied  with  Sharp's 
rifles  of  an  improved  pattern  and  excellent  finish,  manufactured  expressly  for  their  use.  In  1863  the  regiment 
was  transferred  to  the  Third  Corps,  and  thence,  in  1864,  to  the  Second.  It  distinguished  itself  at  Chancellorsville, 
where  its  skirmishers  captured  the  Twenty-third  Georgia ;  its  loss  in  that  battle  was  1 1  killed,  5  i  wounded,  and 
6  missing.  At  Gettysburg,  Colonel  Berdan  with  a  detachment  of  his  men,  supported  by  the  Third  Maine,  made 
the  important  and  memorable  reconnoissance  on  the  morning  of  July  zd,  which  developed  the  movements  of 
the  enemy,  but  with  a  severe  loss  to  the  small  number  engaged.  The  regiment  was  also  hotly  engaged  at  Mine 
Run,  where  Lieutenant-Colonel  Caspar  Trepp,  then  in  command,  was  killed. 


THKKK  Hi  M>KI  D  FKJHTIV;   UKIMMKNTS. 


SECOND  UNITED  STATES  SHARPSHOOTERS. 
WARD'S  BRIGADE  —  BIRNEY'S  DIVISION  —  THIRD  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  HENRY  A.  POST. 


(2)  COT..  IIOMKK  K.  BTOTJOHTON. 


COMI'ANIKS 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DIHEAME,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IUHON,  Ac. 

Totul 
Enrollment* 

Offlceri. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

I 
I 
I 

• 
• 

2 

• 

I 
2 

•    • 

10 
12 
I  I 
21 
22 

14 
I  I 

16 

I 
II 

13 
II 

21 

24 

M 

12 

18 

• 

I 

• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

I 
IO 

J9 
T9 
I? 

16 

10 

1  1 

20 

I 
II 
'9 

19 

'7 
16 

1  1 
1  1 

20 

M 
123 

121 
124 

156 
228 
114 

116 
182 

Co.  A  Minnesota  .... 
Co   B  Michigan  

Co.  C  Pennsylvania  .  . 
Co  D  Maine  

Co.  F  N.  Hampshire  . 
Co.  G  N.  Hampshire  . 

Totals  

8 

117 

I25 

2 

123 

I25 

1,178 

125  killed  —  10.6  per  cent. 
Total  of  killed    and  wounded,  462  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  17 


BATTLE*.  K.JeM. 

Rappahannock,  Va.  (1862) 3 

Sulphur  Springs,  Va i 

Groveton,  Va .  ) 3 

Manassas,  Va .  j 2 

South  Mountain,  Md i 

Antietam,  Md 21 

Chancellorsville,  Va 3 

Gettysburg,  Pa 9 

Brandy  Station,  Va i 

Mine  Run,  Va i 

Wilderness,  Va 26 


K.  &  M.  W. 


BATTLES. 

Spotsylvania,  Va  ...........................  19 

North  Anna,  Va  ...........................  3 

Totopotomoy,  Va  ..........................  i 

Cold  Harbor,  Va  ..........................  5 

Petersburg  Va.,  assault,  1864  ................  1  1 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va  ....................  5 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va.,  June  22,  1864  .........  3 

Picket,  Va.,  Oct.  18,  1864  ...................  i 

Boydton  Road,  Va  .........................  5 

Place  unknown  ...........................  i 


Present,also,at  Falmouth  ;  Fredericksburg  ;  Wapping  Heights  ;  Auburn  ;  Kelly's  Ford  ;  Po  River ;  Hatcher's  Run. 

NOTES. — Berdan's  United  States  Sharpshooters  were  the  best  known  of  any  regiments  in  the  Army.  It  would 
have  been  difficult  to  have  raised  in  any  one  State  a  regiment  equal  to  Berdan's  requirements.  No  recruit  was 
eligible  that  could  not  make  ten  consecutive  shots,  whose  aggregate  distance  from  the  center  of  the  target  would 
"  string  "  less  than  fifty  inches,  an  average  of  less  than  five  inches  for  each  shot ;  the  distance  was  600  feet  at  a 
rest ;  or  300  feet  offhand.  Many  of  the  men  could,  at  that  distance,  put  all  the  ten  shots  inside  the  bull's-eye. 
The  class  of  men  selected  were  also  of  a  high  grade  in  physical  qualifications  and  intelligence.  The  regiment 
was  organized  in  1861,  and  in  March,  1862,  commenced  active  service,  then  in  McDowell's  Corps.  At  Antietam, 
—  in  Phelps's  Brigade,  Doubleday's  Division  —  it  lost  13  killed,  51  wounded,  and  2  missing.  It  fought  there  in 
line  of  battle,  infantry  formation.  Both  of  Berdan's  regiments,  however,  were  generally  employed  as  skirmishers, 
and,  consequently,  never  suffered  the  heavy  losses  incidental  to  heavy  columns.  They  were  continually  in 
demand  as  skirmishers  on  account  of  their  wonderful  proficiency  as  such,  and  they  undoubtedly  killed  more  men 
than  any  other  regiment  in  the  Army.  In  skirmishing  they  had  no  equal.  The  "  Second  "  served  successively  in 
the  First,  Third,  and  Second  Corps ;  most  of  the  time  in  Birney's  Division,  and  in  company  with  the  First 
Regiment  United  States  Sharpshooters.  At  the  Wilderness  the  regiment  lost  16  killed,  49  wounded,  and  n 
missing ;  at  Spotsylvania,  1 2  killed,  38  wounded,  and  3  missing. 


420 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


EIGHTEENTH   UNITED   STATES   INFANTRY 
KING'S  BRIGADE  —  ROUSSEAU'S  DIVISION  —  FOURTEENTH  CORPS. 


COLONEL  HENRY  B.  CAKRINGTON  ;  BVT.  BRIG.-GEN.  USA. 


KILLED  OR  MORTALLY  WOUNDED. 


FIRST  BATTALION. 

SECOND  BATTALION 

THIRD  BATTALION. 

Company. 

Officers. 

En.  Men. 

Total. 

Company.  \-   Officers. 

En.  Men. 

Total. 

Company. 

Officers. 

En.  Men. 

Total. 

N.  C.  S. 

• 

• 

•    • 

N.  C.  S. 

• 

I 

I 

N.  C.  S. 

• 

•    • 

•     • 

A  ... 

• 

3 

3 

A  ... 

• 

10 

IO 

A  ... 

. 

3 

3 

B  •  •  • 

I 

14 

i5 

B  ... 

2 

1  1 

J3 

B  ... 

. 

3 

3 

\^  •  •  • 

I 

2 

3 

C  ... 

• 

9 

9 

\^s      •     •     • 

. 

6 

6 

D... 

I 

8 

9 

D  ... 

I 

1  1 

12 

D  ... 

. 

4 

4 

E  ... 

• 

J3 

*3 

Jii  ... 

. 

12 

12 

E  ... 

. 

3 

3 

F  ... 

• 

9 

9 

F  ... 

I 

12 

13 

F  ... 

. 

8 

8 

G... 

. 

M 

M 

G  ... 

I 

10 

II 

G  .  .  . 

. 

9 

9 

H... 

• 

19 

J9 

H... 

I 

9 

IO 

H  .  .  . 

• 

6 

6 

Total. 

3 

82 

85 

Total. 

6 

85 

91 

Total. 

• 

42 

42 

Killed  in  action,  131  ;  died  of  wounds,  87  ;  total. .  .  .  218 
Total  of  killed  and  wounded  (omitting  slight  wounds)  854 
Captured  and  missing 206 

BATTLES.  K.&  M.W 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky i 

Stone's  River,  Tenn 102 

Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn i 

Chickamauga,  Ga 48 

Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn 2 

Tunnel  Hill,  Ga 2 


Died  of  disease   199 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (not  previously  included)     53 

BATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

New  Hope  Church,  Ga 22 

Kenesaw  Mountain,  Ga i 

Smyrna  Church,  Ga 5 

Utoy  Creek,  Ga 14 

Before  Atlanta,  Ga i 

Jonesboro,  Ga 12 


Resaca,  Ga 7 

Present,  also,  at  Lick  Creek ;  Siege  of  Corinth  ;  Munfordville  ;  Peach  Tree  Creek. 

NOTES.  -  -  The  Eighteenth  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  in  action  of  any  regiment  in  the  Regular  Army  ;  it  was, 
also,  the  largest  regiment.  In  his  proclamation  of  May  3d,  1861,  President  Lincoln  directed  an  increase  of  the 
Regular  Army,  and  the  Eighteenth  Infantry  was  one  of  the  three- battalion  regiments  created  under  this  act. 
Headquarters  were  located  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  the  recruits  coming  principally  from  Ohio,  Pennsylvania,  Indiana, 
and  Illinois.  The  organization  was  to  have  contained  three  battalions  of  eight  companies  each,  but  the  Third 
Battalion  was  never  fully  organized,  and  its  companies  were  attached  to  the  other  battalions.  In  December,  1861, 
twelve  companies  took  the  field,  four  more  companies  joining  this  detachment  in  March,  1862  ;  eight  more  com 
panies  joined  during  the  year.  At  the  battle  of  Stone's  River,  where  the  regiment  encountered  its  hardest 
fighting,  the  First  Battalion,  with  two  companies  of  the  Third,  was  commanded  by  Major  J.  N.  Caldwell ;  the 
Second  Battalion,  with  four  companies  of  the  Third,  by  Major  Frederick  Townsend.  The  Regular  Brigade  was 
then  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  O.  L.  Shepherd,  Eighteenth  United  States  Infantry,  and  was  in 
Rousseau's  ( i st)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps.  The  Eighteenth  took  603  officers  and  men  into  the  fight  at  Stone's 
River,  48  per  cent,  of  whom  were  killed  or  wounded.  The  First  Division  was  commanded,  at  Chickamauga,  by 
General  Baird,  and,  on  the  Atlanta  campaign,  by  General  Johnson;  the  Regular  Brigade  (ad  Brigade,  ist  Div'n, 
i4th  A.  C.  )  was  under  command  of  General  John  H.  King.  After  the  Atlanta  campaign,  in  October  1864,  the 
regiment  was  consolidated  into  one  battalion,  and  was  withdrawn  from  active  service  in  the  field.  [Courtesy  of 
Colonel  Frederick  Phisterer,  late  Captain  and  Adjutant  of  the  Eighteenth  United  States  Infantry.] 


THUEE   HUNDRED   FUJHTIMJ    JtEUlMENTS. 


EIGHTH   U.  S.  (JOLOItKD   INFANTRY. 
HAWLKY'S  BRIGADE  —  SEYMOUR'S  DIVISION  — TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  CHARLES  W.  FRIBLEY  (Killr.lt. 


(2)  COL.  SAMUEL  C.  ARMSTRONG  ;  livr.  BKKI-OKN. 


('OHPAMK8. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DlKI)  OK  DlXEAMK,  ACCIDKNTH,  IN  I'ltlMO.N,  &C. 

Total 
Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Field  and  Stall  

i 

• 
• 
• 

i 

* 
• 
• 

i 
i 

•     • 

13 

M 

10 

M 

10 

16 

4 
M 
8 

12 

I 

13 

14 
10 

15 
IO 

16 

4 
M 
9 
13 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
* 
• 

*  • 
16 
6 
>4 

2  I 
I  2 
I  I 

13 

1S 

12 
12 

•    • 

16 
6 
14 

21 
12 
I  I 

13 

15 
12 

12 

'3 

'35 
124 

127 
140 

I25 
1  29 

122 

'37 
'34 
136 

B  

c 

D  

E  

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

4 

I'5 

119 

• 

I32 

132 

1,322 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded,  364  ;  captured  and  missing,  72  ;  died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  6. 
BATTLES.  K.  &M.  W. 

Olustee,  Fla Feb.  20,  1864 87 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va August  24,  1864 i 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va Sept.  29,  1 864 1 8 

Darbytown  Road,  Va Oct.  13,  1864 10 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va June  15,  i864-April  2,  1865 3 

Present,  also,  at  Hatcher's  Run  ;  Fall  of  Petersburg  ;  Pursuit  of  Lee  ;  Appomattox. 

NOTES. — Organized  at  Philadelphia,  recruiting  having  commenced  in  September,  1863.  The  field  officers 
had  seen  service  in  other  regiments,  Colonel  Fribley  having  served  as  a  Captain  in  the  Eighty-fourth  Pennsylvania. 
The  Eighth  left  Philadelphia,  January  16,  1864,  proceeding  to  New  York,  where  it  embarked  for  Hilton  Head, 
S.  C.  After  a  short  stay  of  two  weeks,  it  sailed  with  Seymour's  Division  for  Florida,  where  it  was  engaged,  soon 
after,  at  the  battle  of  Olustee  ;  it  had  been  assigned,  shortly  before  this  action,  10  Hawley's  Brigade.  The  fighting 
at  Olustee  resulted  in  a  serious  defeat  to  Seymour's  forces,  and  the  Eighth,  after  facing  the  enemy's  musketry  for 
over  half  an  hour,  retired  slowly  and  in  good  order,  its  casualties  amounting  to  50  killed,  187  wounded,  and  73 
missing  ;  the  latter  were  all  killed  or  wounded  men.  Colonel  Fribley  was  killed  in  this  battle. 

The  regiment  remained  in  Florida  until  August,  when  it  accompanied  General  William  Birney's  Brigade  to 
Virginia,  where  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  James.  At  Chaffin's  Farm  the  regiment,  under  Major  Wagner,  dis 
tinguished  itself  by  its  gallantry  and  efficiency,  losing  there,  8  killed,  and  60  wounded,  out  of  abcut  200  in  action. 
In  the  affair  on  the  Darbytown  Road  —  then  in  Doubleday's  (ad)  Brigade,  Birney's  (3d)  Division,  Tenth  Corps  - 
it  took  only  150  men  into  the  fight,  losing  4  killed,  31  wounded,  and  5  missing.  Upon  the  organization  of  the 
Twenty-fifth  Corps  in  December,  1864,  a  corps  composed  wholly  of  colored  troops,  the  regiment  was  placed  in 
the  Second  Brigade,  Second  Division  (General  William  Birney's).  Of  the  166  colored  regiments  in  the  Union 
Armies  the  Eighth  U.  S.  stands  third  in  point  of  loss  in  action.  It  saw  considerable  active  service  in  the  field 
during  the  campaign  of  1864-65,  and  was  known  as  an  efficient  and  reliable  regiment.  After  Lee's  surrender, 
the  Eighth  was  ordered  to  Texas,  where  it  encamped  on  the  Rio  Grande,  at  Ringgold  Barracks,  until  October, 
1865,  when  it  returned  to  Philadelphia  for  muster-out. 


422 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


SEVENTY-NINTH  U.  S.  COLORED  INFANTRY. 
ADAMS'S  BRIGADE  —  THAYER'S  DIVISION  —  SEVENTH  CORPS. 


COLONEL  JAMES  M.  WILLIAMS  ;  BVT  BBIG.-GEN. 


COMPANIES. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c. 

Total 

Enrollment. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

Field  and  Staff  

• 
• 

I 
I 

• 

I 

• 

1 
I 

•    • 

16 
ii 

i? 

12 

15 
21 

13 

14 
16 
48 

•    * 

16 

12 

18 

12 

16 

21 

13 

15 

16 
49 

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 

.  * 

22 
21 

17 
23 
I? 
17 
19 
IS 

7 
7 

•    • 

22 
21 

17 
23 
I? 

18 

19 

J5 

7 
7 

17 
III 

I30 
1  08 
109 

116 
129 
136 
128 

121 

144 

B  . 

r  . 

13  

E  . 

F  

G  

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

5 

183 

188 

I 

'65 

1  66 

1,249 

188  killed  =  15  per  cent. 


BATTLES. 


K.  &M.W. 


BATTLES. 


Island  Mounds,  Mo 10 


Sherwood,    Mo 16 

Cabin  Creek,  C.  N i 

Honey  Springs,  C.  N. 5 

Fort  Gibson,  C.  N i 

Lawrence,  Kan i 

Baxter  Springs,  C.  N i 

Present,  also,  at  Bush  Creek ;  Prairie  d' Ann  ;  Jenkins's  Ferry ;  Joy's  Ford. 


Horshead    Creek,  Ark. 


Poison  Springs,  Ark. 

Flat  Rock,  C.  N 

Timber  Hills,  C.  N . 

Ivy  Ford,  Ark 

Roseville,  Ark 


K.&M.W. 

...  i 

...  in 

...  36 

.  .  .  2 

.  .  .  I 

...  2 


NOTES. — Organized  originally  as  the  First  Kansas  Colored  Volunteers,  its  designation  being  changed  to  the 
Seventy-ninth  United  States  Colored  Infantry,  December  13, 1864.  Recruiting  commenced  in  August,  1862,  and 
within  sixty  days  500  men  were  enlisted  and  placed  in  camp,  although  not  without  the  usual  difficulty  and  oppo 
sition  arising  from  the  prejudice  against  colored  troops.  On  the  28th  of  October,  1862,  a  detachment  of  recruits 
numbering  about  225  men,  under  Captain  H.  C.  Seaman,  encamped  near  Butler,  Mo.  (Island  Mounds),  where  it 
was  attacked  by  a  superior  force  under  Colonel  Cockrell ;  the  enemy  were  repulsed  and  driven  off, —  Seaman's 
detachment  losing  10  killed  and  12  wounded,  Captain  A.  J.  Crew  being  among  the  killed.  This  affair  is  note 
worthy  as  the  first  fight  in  the  war  in  which  colored  troops  were  engaged.  A  regimental  organization  was  not 
effected  until  January,  1863,  when  six  companies  were  mustered  in;  the  other  four  companies  were  organized  by 
May,  1863.  At  Poison  Springs,  Ark.,  April,  1864,  the  regiment  while  on  a  forage  expedition  in  company  with  the 
Eighteenth  Iowa,  one  section  of  artillery,  and  a  small  detachment  of  cavalry,  was  attacked  by  a  large  force 
under  Generals  Marcy  and  Fagan.  The  Union  troops  were  completely  surrounded,  but  cut  their  way  out,  the 
regiment  losing  189  killed  and  wounded,  besides  the  missing.  Colonel  Williams  was  in  command  of  the  party. 
In  the  affair  at  Flat  Rock,  only  one  company  (K),  numbering  42  men,  was  engaged;  it  was  surprised  and 
attacked  by  General  Gano,  the  company  being  nearly  annihilated.  In  May,  1864,  Colonel  Williams  was  placed 
in  command  of  the  Second  Brigade,  Frontier  Division,  Seventh  Corps,  the  regiment  being  included  in  that  brig 
ade.  Mustered  out  October  i,  1865. 


TH HUE  HUNDRED  FIGHTING  REGIMENTS. 


4.':; 


FIFTY-FOURTH  MASSACHUSETTS  INFANTRY. -- (COLORED). 
STRONG'S  BRIGADE  —  SEYMOUR'S  DIVISION  —  TENTH  CORPS. 


(1)  COL.  ROBERT  G.  SHAW  (Killed). 


(2)  Coi,.  EDWARD  N.  IIALLOWELL;  BVT. 


COMPANIES. 

Field  and  Staff  

Kin  i  H  AND  DIED  or  WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIIISON,  Ac. 

Total 
Enrollment 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total 

Officers. 

Men. 

Total. 

I 

• 
• 
* 

I 

• 
• 

I 

I 

. 
I 

•     • 

16 
10 

9 
'3 

5 
8 

7 
9 

I  2 

'5 

T 

16 

10 

9 
M 

5 
8 

S 

10 
12 

1  6 

• 
* 
* 
* 
• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

•     • 

>7 

15 
10 

'3 
20 

16 

*3 
16 

2  I 

J9 

•    • 

'7 

IS 
10 

'3 
20 

16 

M 
16 

21 

'9 
161 

17 
140 

'3« 
124 

'43 
127 

124 
129 
126 

139 

127 

Company  \  

B 

c  

I)  

E  

F  

n 

H  

I  

K  

Totals  

5 

104 

109 

I 

160 

'•334 

Died  in  Confederate  prisons  (previously  included),  60. 


RATTLES.  K.&M.W. 

Honey  Hill,  S.  C 3 

Boykin's  Mill,  S.  C 5 

Cassiden,  S  C i 

Charleston,  S.  C i 

Georgetown,  S.  C i 


BATTMS.  K.&M.W 

James  Island,  S.  C.  (1863) 18 

Fort  Wagner  Assault,  July  18,  1863 58 

Siege  of  Wagner,  S.  C 4 

Oiustee,  Fla 14 

James  Island,  S.  C.  (1864) i 

Morris  Island,  S.  C.  ( 1 864) 3 

NOTES. —  In  the  attack  on  Fort  Wagner,  the  regiment  was  assigned  the  honor  of  leading  the  assault,  and, 
when  the  division  was  drawn  up  on  the  beach  at  nightfall  preparatory  to  the  attack,  the  order  to  advance  was 
delayed  until  the  Fifty-fourth  marched  by  and  took  its  place  at  the  head  of  the  column.  It  charged  under  fire 
over  a  long  distance  of  sandy  plain,  reaching  the  ditch,  where  many  of  the  men  climbed  the  parapet  and  entered 
the  outer  works ;  but  the  fort  proved  impregnable,  and  a  bloody  repulse  ensued,  the  regiment  losing  34  killed, 
146  wounded,  and  92  captured  or  missing. 

The  Fifty- fourth  was  organized  in  April,  1863,  at  Readville,  Mass.,  and  was  one  of  the  first  colored  regiments 
organized  in  the  Northern  States.  The  men  came  from  the  free  colored  citizens  of  New  England  and  the  Middle 
States,  while  many  came  from  far  Western  States  to  embrace  this,  their  first  opportunity  to  enlist.  Governor 
Andrews  tendered  the  Colonelcy  to  Captain  Robert  G.  Shaw,  of  the  Second  Massachusetts  Infantry,  who  accepted. 
Shaw  was  killed  at  Fort  Wagner ;  he  was  the  first  man  on  the  parapet,  where  he  fell,  shot  through  the  heart.  At 
Oiustee,  the  regiment  lost  n  killed,  68  wounded  and  8  missing;  at  Honey  Hill,  3  killed,  38  wounded,  and  4 
missing ;  at  Boykin's  Mill,  2  killed,  and  20  wounded.  After  the  close  of  the  war  it  remained  in  South  Carolina, 
on  garrison  duty,  until  August  20, 1865,  when  it  was  mustered  out.  and  ordered  to  Boston,  where  the  men  received 
their  final  payment  and  discharge. 

Shortly  after  Oiustee,  the  Sergeant-Major  (colored),  was  commissioned  a  lieutenant  by  Governor  Andrews, 
for  gallantry  in  that  battle  ;  but  for  a  long  time  the  United  States  Government  refused  to  muster  him  in,  on  account 
of  his  color.  Admittance  to  the  Invalid  Corps  was  also  refused  a  private  who  was  disabled  at  Fort  Wagner. 
Full  pay  was  also  refused  these  men  for  sixteen  months.  On  seven  successive  pay-days  they  were  tendered  $7 
per  month ;  but  each  time  it  was  refused  and  a  white  soldier's  pay  demanded.  On  September  28,  1864,  the  men 
were  paid  in  full  from  the  date  of  enlistment,  at  £13  per  month. 


CHAPTER  XL 


LIST    OF   BATTLES,  WITH    THE    REGIMENTS    SUSTAINING    THE    GREATEST 

LOSSES    IN    EACH. 

TT  is  intended  in  this  chapter  to  give  a  list  of  the  battles  and  minor  engagements  of  the  war 

in  their  chronological  order ;  and,  with  each  battle  or  engagement,  a  statement  of  the 
regiments  which  sustained  the  greatest  loss  in  that  particular  action.  The  figures  thus  given 
have  been  compiled  from  the  Official  Records  of  the  Rebellion,  either  already  published  or  in 
process  of  publication,  by  the  War  Department  at  Washington.  The  statement  of  the  loss 
in  each  case  is  based  on  the  nominal  lists  made  out  by  the  regimental  commandants  at  the 
close  of  the  action,  and  which  are  still  preserved  on  file  at  the  War  Department.  These 
nominal  lists  have,  in  many  instances,  been  revised  and  corrected  in  accordance  with  subse 
quent  information.  Where  it  has  been  ascertained  that  captured  or  missing  men  have  been 
killed  or  wounded  ;  or  that  men  reported  as  killed  were  among  the  captured,  and  were  still 
alive  ;  or  that  men  reported  as  missing  were  stragglers,  who  reported  for  duty  soon  after,  • 
these  lists  and  their  totals  have  been  amended  accordingly. 

These  lists  are  made  out  in  "  Killed,  Wounded,  and  Missing,"  and  show  the  casualties  as 
reported  at  the  close  of  the  action.  Consequently,  the  mortally  wounded  are  included  with 
the  wounded.  This  fact  must  be  borne  in  mind,  as  it  will  be  needed,  at  times,  in  accounting 
for  a  seeming  discrepancy, — -cases  where  a  regimental  historian,  or  others,  places  the  number 
of  killed  at  a  higher  figure,  they  having  included  with  the  killed  those  who  died  of  wounds. 

Among  the  missing  there  must  have  been  many  wounded  men,  and  many  who  were 
killed.  The  captured  men  are  also  included  under  this  head,  and,  in  many  cases,  the  missing 
ones  were  all,  or  nearly  all,  prisoners.  Then  there  are  cases  in  which  the  missing  were,  for 
the  most  part,  killed  or  wounded,  the  nominal  lists  not  having  been  amended  accordingly. 

The  nature  or  history  of  the  battle  will,  generally,  throw  some  light  on  the  fate  of  the 
missing.  From  Fredericksburg  and  Cold  Harbor  but  few  of  the  missing  ones  ever  returned  ; 
they  fell  close  to  the  enemy's  works,  and  in  the  repulse,  or  swift  retreat,  were  left  to  be 
buried  by  the  enemy.  But,  in  actions  like  Ream's  Station  or  Poplar  Spring  Church,  the  his 
tory  of  the  fight  tells  of  flanking  movements  with  large  captures  of  prisoners  from  certain 
divisions,  and  the  student  justly  infers  that  the  missing  were  captured  men,  as  an  examina 
tion  of  the  muster-out-rolls  will  show. 

In  the  following  lists  of  greatest  losses  in  particular  actions,  the  regiment  named  first, 
although  having  the  largest  number  of  casualties,  did  not  always  sustain  the  greatest  loss  of 
life.  The  number  actually  killed,  as  increased  by  the  death  from  wounds,  will  be  found  in  the 
regimental  sketch, —  if  one  of  the  "  Three  Hundred  Fighting  Regiments  ;  "  or,  if  the  number 
of  those  killed  and  died  of  wounds  exceed  fifty,  it  will  appear  in  the  table  given  on  pages  17-22. 

It  will  be  found  interesting  to  note  these  differences  between  the  number  of  "killed  or 
died  of  wounds,"  and  the  number  of  "killed"  as  stated  in  the  casualty  lists  of  "killed, 
wounded,  and  missing."  The  comparison  will,  in  many  cases,  account  for  the  missing  ;  as, 
many  who  were  borne  on  the  nominal  lists  as  missing  were  subsequently  recorded  on  the 
muster-out-rolls  as  killed  in  that  particular  action. 

(424) 


GKEATKHT  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES.  425 

A  remarkable  feature  of  these  casualty  lists  is  the  wide  variation  at  times  from  the  usual 
proportionate  number  of  killed  to  wounded.  This  is  due,  quite  often,  to  delay  in  making  out 
the  nominal  list  after  the  battle.  If  the  first  sergeants  hand  in  their  company  list  of  casualties 
promptly  to  the  adjutant  or  colonel  at  the  close  of  the  action,  tluMv  will,  evidently,  be  less  men 
reported  as  killed  than  if  there  is  a  delay  of  several  days.  In  the  latter  case,  many  will  have 
died  of  their  wounds  and  thus  be  included  with  the  killed,  instead  of  with  the  wounded.  As 
a  large  proi>ortion  of  the  mortally  wounded  die  within  a  few  days  after  the  battle,  the  ratio  of 
the  number  of  killed  to  the  wounded  would  be  changed  considerably  by  delay  in  the  reports. 
In  some  actions  and  in  some  campaigns  it  was  difficult  to  make  prompt  reports  of  casualties. 
In  some  actions  a  division  would  be  under  arms  for  several  days,  momentarily  exacting  an 
attack. 

The  nature  of  the  fighting  also  affected  the  ratio  of  the  killed  and  wounded.  In  a  hot 
fight  at  close  quarters,  or  in  an  assault,  the  proportion  of  killed  is  naturally  large  ;  at  long 
range,  or  in  the  second  line,  or  while  engaged  in  "supporting  battery,"  the  proportion  of 
killed  is  less  than  the  common  ratio. 

But  casualty  lists  will  fail  to  give  an  intelligent  idea  of  the  extent  of  the  loss  unless  the 
number,  or  probable  number,  of  men  engaged  is  kept  in  mind.  The  average  American  regi 
ment  of  infantry  in  the  last  war,  while  in  active  service,  numbered  about  4<»o  muskets ;  and, 
unless  the  number  taken  into  action  is  definitely  known,  it  will  be  safe  to  assume,  in  examin 
ing  the  casualties,  that  the  number  engaged  was  not  far  from  that  amount.  Newly  organized 
regiments,  fresh  from  their  rendezvous,  often  took  from  700  to  800  men  into  a  battle  ;  but,  if 
their  first  battle  did  not  occur  until  after  several  months  of  campaigning,  they  would  take 
only  about  500  men  into  action.  Then,  there  were  regiments  which  became  so  depleted  by 
battles,  marches,  campaigns,  and  disease,  that  they  often  went  into  battle  with  less  than  200 
effectives.  Some  of  these  depleted  commands  were  restored  to  an  effective  strength  by 
accessions  of  recruits  ;  or,  by  transfers  of  men  from  regiments  returning  home,  these  trans 
ferred  men  having  unexpired  terms  of  enlistment.  Even  then,  the  regiment,  thus  recruited, 
would  seldom  number  over  400  effectives. 

From  personal  observations  at  the  time,  and  subsequent  studies  of  official  returns,  an 
effective  strength  of  400  appears  to  have  been  the  most  common.  In  many  of  the  instances 
specified  in  the  subjoined  table  of  greatest  casualties,  the  number  actually  engaged  will  be 
found  in  the  list  of  maximum  percentages,  pages  28-34:. 

The  heavy  artillery  regiments  have  in  some  instances  here  been  classed  by  themselves, 
their  larger  organizations  requiring,  in  a  fair  statement  of  losses,  that  their  casualties  be  kept 
separate  from  those  of  the  small  and  depleted  infantry  commands.  These  heavy  artillery 
regiments  were  not  called  upon  to  take  the  field  until  the  spring  of  1804,  their  first  experience 
under  fire  occurring  at  Spotsylvania  and  Cold  Harbor,  in  which  actions  each  of  these  regi 
ments  had  nearly  1,800  men  engaged.  But  the  bloody  vicissitudes  of  Grant's  campaign  soon 
reduced  these  splendid  commands  to  nothing  but  skeletons  of  their  former  selves. 

The  casualties  in  the  cavalry  are  also  given  separately  in  these  lists.  Their  losses  occurred 
mostly  in  cavalry  battles, — cavalry  fighting  cavalry,  with  no  infantry  near.  In  many  cases 
the  losses  are  not  large  enough  to  warrant  classing  them  with  the  heavier  losses  of  the  infantry, 
and,  so,  they  are  given  separately.  The  cavalry  losses  in  particular  actions  are  not  so  remark 
able  as  those  of  the  infantry  ;  but,  the  mounted  regiments  were  in  action  so  much  oftener, 
that  the  aggregate  of  casualties  in  one  of  their  campaigns,  or  raids,  would  equal  those  of  an 
average  infantry  regiment. 

The  style  of  fighting  which  prevailed  in  the  cavalry  service  during  the  Civil  War  was  new 
and  peculiar.  The  wooded  countries  in  which  they  operated  prevented  any  charges  by  large 
bodies  of  mounted  troops.  The  cavalry  used  their  sabres  but  little  ;  they  fought  dismounted, 


426 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


using  their  carbines  only.  Their  horses  were  available  for  rapid  movements  or  marches,  but, 
in  fighting,  they  relied  on  their  carbines  and  dismounted  tactics. 

Some  of  the  regiments  which  were  recruited  for  the  cavalry  service  in  1863,  experienced 
a  long  delay  in  receiving  their  horses  from  the  Government,  during  which  they  were  assigned 
to  infantry  divisions,  where  they  fought  and  manoeuvred  as  infantry. 

The  maximum  casualties  of  the  Light  Artillery,  in  particular  engagements,  will  also  be 
found  appended  to  the  following  lists. 

Eight  here,  however,  it  may  be  well  to  caution  the  reader  against  any  assumption  that 
the  regiments  most  prominent  in  these  casualty  lists  were,  necessarily,  the  ones  which  ren 
dered  the  most  efficient  service.  At  times  some  commands,  by  an  exercise  of  dash  and  daring, 
accomplished  brilliant  results  with  but  slight  loss,  while  others,  under  similar  circumstances, 
succeeded  only  at  a  bloody  cost. 

Among  the  leading  regiments  in  point  of  loss  at  Gettysburg,  as  given  here,  the  Twelfth 
Corps  is  scarcely  represented  ;  and,  yet,  the  services  rendered  on  that  field  by  that  command 
were  unsurpassed  in  gallantry  and  important  results.  The  remarkable  losses  sustained  by 
Johnson's  (Confederate)  Division  and  the  three  brigades  attached  to  his  command,  were  inflicted 
by  regiments  which  have  no  place  in  the  list  of  those  prominent  at  Gettysburg,  by  reason  of  their 
casualties.  Granted,  that  Greene's  Brigade  delivered  that  deadly  fire  from  behind  breastworks  ; 
but,  when  Williams's  and  Geary's  Divisions  returned  from  Round  Top,  and  found  that  during 
their  absence  their  works  had  been  occupied  by  the  enemy,  they  became  the  assaulting 
party ;  they  drove  the  enemy  out  of  the  works,  re-took  the  position,  and  saved  the  right. 
That,  in  accomplishing  this,  they  could  inflict  so  severe  a  loss  and  sustain  so  slight  a  one,  is 
as  good  evidence  of  their  gallantry  and  efficiency  as  any  sensational  aggregate  of  casualties. 


LIST  OF  BATTLES,  WITH  THE  REGIMENTS  SUSTAINING   GREATEST 

LOSS  IN  EACH. 


Regiment. 

GREAT  BETHEL,  VA. 

June  10, 1861. 

5th  New    York. 


Division. 


Pierce's 


Corps. 


Killed.      Wounded*  Missing.^  Aggregate. 


RICH  MOUNTAIN,  W.  VA. 

July  11,  1861. 

13th  Indiana  Rosecrans's 

BLACKBURN'S  FORD,  VA. 

July  18,  1861. 

1st  Massachusetts Tyler's 

12th  New  York.  Tyler's 

FIRST  BULL  RUN,  VA. 

July  21,  1861. 

1st  Minnesota  .  Heiiitzelmaii's 

69th  New  York  .  Tyler's 

79th  New  York.  Tyler's 


6 


8 


10 

5 


42 

38 
32 


13 


8 
19 


108 

59 
51 


14 

10 


30 

95 

115 


19 


17 


32 
34 


180 
192 
198 


*Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


•(•Includes  the  captured. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 


437 


Regiment. 

WII-SON'S  CREEK,  Mo. 

August  10,  1861. 


Division. 


Corps. 


Killed.       U'ounJcJ*  Missing.\  Aggregate. 


1st  Missouri   

Lyon's                     

76 

208 

11 

295 

1st  Kansas    

Ly  oil's                    

77 

187 

20 

•JM 

CARN  FEX  FERRY,  W.  VA. 

Sept.  10,  1801. 

10th  Ohio  .  .  . 

Rosecrans'              

9 

50 

•    » 

59 

BALL'S  BLUFF,  VA. 

Oct.  21,  1861. 

15th  Massachusetts  . 

Baker's                   

14 

61 

227 

302 

20th  Massachusetts  

Baker's                   

13 

40 

228 

281 

BELMONT,  Mo. 

Nov.  7,  1881. 

7th  Iowa    ... 

Grant's                   

26 

93 

_  _ 

119 

22d    Illinois  . 

Grant's                    

23 

74 

-- 

97 

CAMP  ALLEGHANY,  W.  VA. 

Dec.  13,  1861. 

25th  Ohio  

Milroy's                  

6 

54 

6 

66 

DRANESVILLE,  VA. 

' 

Dec.  20,  1861. 

1st  Penu.  Rifles  

McCalPs                

3 

26 

-- 

29 

MILL  SPRINGS,  KY. 

Jan.19,  1862. 

10th  Indiana  _  

Thomas's               

10 

75 

.  . 

85 

4th  Kentucky  

Thomas's                

8 

52 

60 

FORT  DONELSON,  TENN. 

Feb.  12-16,  1862. 

llth  Illinois  

McClemand's         

70 

181 

88 

339 

8th  Illinois  . 

McClernand's 

54 

|VS 

_  _ 

242 

18th  Illinois  

McClernand's 

53 

157 

18 

228 

9th  Illinois  . 

C.  F.  Smith's 

36 

165 

9 

210 

2d   Iowa 

C.  F.  Smith's 

33 

164 

_  . 

197 

31st  Illinois  

McClernaud's 

31 

117 

28 

176 

PEA  RIDGE,  ARK. 

March  6-8,  1862. 

9th  Iowa  . 

Carr's,  E.  A. 

38 

176 

4 

218 

4th  Iowa  . 

Carr's,  E.  A. 

18 

139 

3 

160 

37th  Illinois  

Davis's 

20 

121 

3 

144 

NEW  BERNE,  N.  C. 

March  14,  1862. 

51st  New  York  

Burnside's 

11 

6.0 

_  _ 

71 

21st  Massachusetts  

Burnside's 

15 

42 

57 

*  Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


t  Includes  the  captured. 


428 


Regiment. 

KERNSTOWN,  VA. 

March  23,  1862. 

84th  Pennsylvania Shields's 

7th  Ohio Shields's 

SHILOH,  TENN. 

April  C,  7,  1862. 

9th  Illinois W.  H.  Wallace's 

55th  Illinois Sherman's 

28th  Illinois  .  Hurlbut's 

16th  Wisconsin Prentiss's 

46th  Ohio  _.  Sherman's 

40th  Illinois Sherman's 

45th  Illinois  .  McOlernand's 

44th  Indiana-  ._.  Hurlbut's 

llth  Iowa..  McClernand's 

77th  Ohio  Sherman's 

43d    Illinois  .  McClernand's 

6th  Iowa Sherman's 

15th  Illinois Hurlbut's 

15th  Iowa  .  Prentiss's 


REGIMENTAL    LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Division.  Corps.  Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


21 
20 


71 
02 


10 


92 
92 


61 

300 

5 

366 

51 

197 

27 

275 

29 

211 

5 

245 

40 

188 

26 

254 

37 

185 

24 

246 

47 

160 

9 

216 

23 

187 

3 

213 

24 

174 

—  _ 

198 

33 

160 

1 

194 

51 

116 

51 

218 

50 

118 

29 

197 

52 

94 

37 

183 

49 

117 

_  — 

166 

21 

156 

8 

185 

CAMDEN,  N.  C. 

April  19,  18S2. 

9th  New  York 


Burnside's 


FARMINGTON,  Miss. 

May  3,  1862. 

2d    Iowa  Cavalry Pope's 

WlLLIAMSBURG,  VA. 

May  5,  1862. 

70th  New  York  .  _  Hooker's 

72d    New  York . .  Hooker's 

8th  New  Jersey Hooker's 

6th  New  Jersey .  .  -  Hooker's 

5th  Michigan  .      Kearny's 

WEST  POINT,  VA. 

May  7, 1862. 

31st  New  York Franklin's 

MCDOWELL,  VA. 

May  8, 1802. 

25th  Ohio  ...  Milroy's 

82d    Ohio Milroy's 


RUSSELL  HOUSE,  Miss 

May  17,  186V. 

8th  Missouri . 


PRINCETON,  W.  VA. 

May  17,  1662. 

37th  Ohio  . 


Sherman's 


Cox's 


Third 
Third 
Third 
Third 
Third 


Sixth 


23 


6 
6 


10 


13 


61 


45 


33 


51 

50 


30 


45 


6 


27 


1 

1 


75 


51 


79 

138 

113 

330 

59 

90 

46 

195 

35 

122 

4 

161 

39 

74 

26 

139 

29 

115 

144 

83 


58 
57 


40 


58 


Ktgimtnt. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  INT  BATTLES.  429 

Division.  Corps  Killed.     Woumltti.      Missing.    Aggiv^utt. 


SEARCY  LANDING,  ARK. 

Mar  10,  1888. 

17th  Missouri . 

ovTt 
4*o«T  ROYAL,  VA. 

May  23,  1863. 

1st  Maryland.  AVilliams's  

WINCHESTER,  VA. 

May  25,  1863. 

2d    Massachusetts  .  Williams's  

HANOVER  COURT  HOUSE,  VA. 

May  27,  1802. 

25th  New  York  .  Morell's  Fifth 

44th  New  York  Morell's  Fifth 

FAIR  OAKS,  VA. 

May  31 -June  1,  1863. 

Gist  Pennsylvania.  Couch's  Fourth 

5th  New  Hampshire  .         Richardson's  Second 

04th  New  York.  Richardson's  Second 

67th  New  York.  Couch's  Fourth 

3d    Michigan  .  Kearny's  Third 

105th  Pennsylvania  .  Kearny's  Third 

104th  Pennsylvania  .  Casey's  Fourth 

5th  Michigan .  Kearny's  Third 

CROSS  KEYS,  VA. 

June  8,  1862. 

8th  New  York...  Blenker's 

27th  Pennsylvania .  Blenker's 

PORT  REPUBLIC,  VA. 

June  9, 1808. 

G6th  Ohio  .                             Shields's 
7th  Indiana .  Shields's  

JAMES  ISLAND,  S.  C. 

Juno  16,  1862. 

8th  Michigan  .                     Stevens's 
79th  New  York  *  Stevens's  

OAK  GROVE,  VA. 

June  25,  1862. 

20th  Indiana.  Kearny's  Third 


MECHANICSVILLE,  VA. 

June  26,  1862. 

5th  Penn.  Reserves  . 


McCall's 


Fifth 


15 


14 


13 


28 
27 


68 
26 
30 
27 
30 
41 
28 
31 


43 
17 


20 
9 


48 
9 


11 


8 


47 


79 
59 


152 
147 
143 
135 
124 
112 
111 
105 


134 
61 


75 
107 


120 

67 


535 


80 


51 


43 

7 


8 
15 

8 

67 
19 


43 
14 


110 
29 


16 
34 


32 


41 


140 


158 
86 


263 

ISO 

173 
170 
169 
161 

206 
155 


220 

92 


205 
145 


is-j 
llo 


125 


46 


*  The  missing  of  the  79th  New  York  in  this  action  were  killed  or  wounded. 


430 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Division 

GAINES'S  MILL,  VA. 

June  27,  1862. 

9th  Massachusetts Morel Fs 

16th  New  York Slocum's 

3d    New  Jersey...   -...  Slocum's 

22d    Massachusetts Morell's 

16th  Michigan Morell's 

12th  U.  S.  Infantry Sykes's 

llth  Penn.  Reserves.     ..  McCall's 

4th  New  Jersey Slocum's 

5th  New  York _ . .  Sykes's 

83d    Pennsylvania  .  Morell's 


SAVAGE  STATION,  VA. 

June  29,  1862. 

5th  Vermont  

72d    Pennsylvania  . . 


GrLENDALE,  VA. 

June  30,  1862. 

1st  New  York 

1st  Penn.  Reserves 

81st  Pennsylvania  -  - 

5th  Penn.  Reserves 

9th  Perm.  Reserves 


W.  F.  Smith's 
Sedgwick's 


Kearny's 

McCall's 

Richardson's 

McCall's 

McCall's 


MALVERN  HILL,  VA. 

July  1,  1862. 

4th  Michigan Morell's 

83d    Pennsylvania Morell's 

14th  New  York Morell's 

MURFREESBORO,  TENN. 

July  13,  1862. 

9th  Michigan Crittenden's 

BATON  ROUGE,  LA. 

Aug.  5,  1862. 


Corps. 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Fifth 

Fifth 

Fifth 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Fifth 

Fifth 


Sixth 
Second 


Third 

Fifth 

Second 

Fifth 

Fifth 


Fifth 
Fifth 
Fifth 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


57 

149 

25 

231 

32 

162 

7 

201 

35 

136 

44 

215 

58 

108 

117 

283 

47 

114 

53 

214 

54 

102 

56 

212 

50 

105 

529 

684 

45 

103 

437 

585 

38 

110 

14 

162 

46 

51 

99 

196 

30 
14 


41 
33 

22 


11 


145 

85 


22 

121 

20 

103 

23 

107 

18 

103 

19 

94 

100 
115 
103 


89 


26 
20 


23 

18 


37 


201 
119 


87 

230 

37 

160 

5 

135 

50 

171 

40 

153 

164 
166 
125 


137 


21st  Indiana 

Williams's 

(Thos.) 

24 

98 

4 

126 

14th  Maine 

Williams's 

(Thos.) 

36 

71 

12 

119 

CEDAR  MOUNTAIN,  VA 

Aug.  9,  1862. 

2d    Massachusetts 

Williams's 

Twelfth 

40 

93 

40 

46th  Pennsylvania 

Williams's 

Twelfth 

31 

102 

111 

244 

7th  Ohio 

Augur's 

Twelfth 

31 

149 

2 

182 

10th  Maine  - 

Williams's 

Twelfth 

24 

145 

4 

173 

KETTLE  RUN,  VA.* 

Aug.  27,  1862. 

73d   New  York 

Hooker's 

Third 

12 

41 

53 

*  Preliminary  actions  at  Manassas,  ,;r  Second  Bull  Kuu. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTI.KS. 


Regiment.  Division. 

BULL  RUN  BRIDGE,  VA.* 

AUK.  27,  1888. 

2d    New  Jersey.  Slocum's 
THOROUGHFARE  GAP,  VA.* 

August  28,  1862. 

llth  Pennsylvania .  Ricketts's 
MANASSAS,    VA. 

August  27-81,  1862. 

5th  New  Yorkf  . . .  Sykes's 

2d    Wisconsin  \ Hatch's 

28th  Massachusetts  .  Stevens's 

19th  Indiana  \ Hatch's 

80th  New  York  § .  Hatch's 

7th  Wisconsin:}:.  Hatch's 

llth  Pennsylvania!  Ricketts's 

24th  New  York  .  Hatch's 

Gth  New  Hampshire  .  Reno's 

1st    Michigan Morell's 

18th  Massachusetts  .  Morell's 

26th  New  York  .  Ricketts's 

RICHMOND,  KY. 

August  90.  1862. 

12th  Indiana...  Nelson's 

18th  Kentucky.  Nelson's 

16th  Indiana  Nelson's 


CHANTILLY,  VA. 

Sept.  1,   1862. 

21st  Massachusetts. 
FAYETTEVILLE,  VA. 

Sept.  10,  1862. 

34th  Ohio  ** . 


Reno's 


Cox's 


HARPER'S  FERRY,  VA. 

Sept.  12-15,  1862. 

126th  New  York Miles's 

32d    Ohio  .  Miles's 


MUNFORDSVILLE,    KY. 

Sept.  14,  1862. 

67th  Indiana  . 


Gilbert's 


CRAMPTON'S  GAP,  MD. 

Sept.  14,  1862. 

36th  Pennsylvania  .  Slocum's 

16th  New  York  .  Slocum's 


Corps. 

Sixth 
First 


F.  J.  Porter's 

McDowell's 

Ninth 

McDowell's 

McDowell's 

McDowell's 

McDowell's 

McDowell's 

Ninth 

F.  J.  Porter's! 

F.  J.  Porter's 

McDowell's 


431 

Killed.       Wounded.     Missing.     Aggregate. 


Ninth 


Sixth 
Sixth 


8 


18 


79 
53 
33 
47 
32 
31 
44 
36 
30 
33 
34 
26 


25 
39 
25 


•1-1 


16 


13 

10 


11 


20 
20 


II 


170 
213 
188 
168 
165 
153 
114 
115 
117 
114 
106 
106 


14S 
111 
120 


98 


87 


42 

5S 


71 
41 


64     130 


(50 


48 
32 
13 
44 

82 
33 
88 
86 
70 
31 
29 
37 


608 
237 
395 


26 


976 
674 


SS8 


297 
298 
234 
259 
279 
217 
246 
237 
217 
178 
169 
169 


781 
387 
540 


146 


112     215 


1,031 
742 


931 


91 
61 


*  Preliminary  actions  at  M.inassas,  or  Second  Bull  Hun.  t  Duryee  Zouaves.  %  This  loss  occurred  at  Gainesville,  on  the  28th. 

§  20th  N.  Y.  S.  M.  I  Includes  loss  at  Thoroughfare  Gap  on  the  28th. 

^  Porter's  regiments  were  small,  having  sustained  heavy  losses  on  the  Peninsula :  McDowell's  regiments  were  in  action  for  the  first  time. 

"Includes  a  few  casualties  in  the  37th  Ohio,  attached. 


432 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Division.  Corps. 

SOUTH  MOUNTAIN,  MD.* 

Sept.  14,  1862. 

23d    Ohio Cox's  Ninth 

45th  Pennsylvania .  Willcox's  Ninth 

17th  Michigan . .  Willcox's  Ninth 

7th  Wisconsin Hatch's  First 

6th  Wisconsin Hatch's  First 

30th  Ohio Cox's  Ninth 

ANTIETAM,  MD. 

Sept.  17,  1862. 

15th  Massachusetts  f Sedgwick's  Second 

28th  Pennsylvania Greene's  Twelfth 

9th  New  York  \ Rodman's  Ninth 

12th  Massachusetts Ricketts's  First 

1st  Delaware French's  Second 

7th  Michigan Sedgwick's  Second 

35th  Massachusetts Sturgis's  Ninth 

72d    Pennsylvania  .  Sedgwick's  Second 

59th  New  York  . .  . .  Sedgwick's  Second 

63d    New  York Richardson's  Second 

27th  Indiana. ..  Williams's  Twelfth 

3d    Wisconsin Williams's  Twelfth 

69th  New  York Richardson's  Second 

4th  New  York French's  Second 

16th  Connecticut Rodman's  Ninth 

14th  Indiana French's  Second 

8th  Connecticut Rodman's  Ninth 

108th  New  York French's  Second 

42d   New  York Sedgwick's  Second 

130th  Pennsylvania French's  Second 

IUKA,  Miss. 

Sept.  19, 1862. 

5th  Iowa Hamilton's  

48th  Indiana Hamilton's 

26th  Missouri Hamilton's 

llth  Missouri Stanley's  

SHEPHERDSTOWN,  VA. 

Sept.  20,  1862 

1 1 8th  Pennsylvania Morell's  Fifth 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


NEWTONIA,  Mo. 

Sept.  30,  1862. 

9th  Wisconsin 


Salomon's 


CORINTH,  Miss. 

Oct.  3,  4,  1862. 

63d  Ohio Stanley's 

9th  Illinois  -          Davies's 


32 
27 
26 
11 
11 
17 


65 
44 
45 

49 
31 
39 

48 
38 
48 
35 
18 
27 
44 
44 
42 
30 
34 
26 
35 
32 


37 
37 
21 

7 


63 


25 


24 
11 


95 

107 

106 

116 

79 

53 


255 
217 
174 
165 
182 
178 
160 
163 
153 
165 
191 
173 
152 
142 
143 
150 
139 
122 
127 
146 


179 
56 

75 
66 


101 


51 


105 

82 


20 
2 


24 

5 

14 
10 
17 

4 

6 

36 

23 

2 


21 

47 
19 


1 

7 
1 
3 


105 


116 


3 

55 


130 

134 

132 

147 

92 

70 


344 

266 
233 
224 
230 
221 
214 
237 
224 
202 
209 
200 
196 
187 
185 
180 
194 
195 
181 
178 


217 
100 

97 

76 


269 


192 


132 

148 


*  The  Pennsylvania  Reserves  sustained  a  severe  percentage  of  loss  in  this  action,  but  their  regiments  being  small  their  casualties  do  not 
appear  in  this  list. 

t  Includes  a  company  of  sharpshooters,  which  were  attached  to  this  regiment.  %  Hawkins's  Zouaves. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 


433 


Regiment.  Division. 

CORINTH,  Miss.— Continued. 

7th  Iowa Davies's 

47th  Illinois Stanley's 

12th  Illinois Davies's 

14th  Wisconsin McKean's 

43d    Ohio Stanley's 

2d    Iowa  .  Davies's 


Corps. 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


21 

87 

14 

122 

19 

79 

10 

108 

15 

79 

15 

109 

27 

50 

21 

98 

20 

76 

—  _ 

96 

12 

84 

5 

101 

HATCHIE  BRIDGE,  Miss. 

Oct.  5,  1801 

53d    Indiana Hurlbut's 

28th  Illinois  _  _   Hurlbut's 

25th  Indiana Hurlbut's 

3d    Iowa Hurlbut's 

53d    Illinois  .  Hurlbut's 


13 

91 

8 

84 

3 

77 

2 

60 

9 

49 

2 

100 

3 

95 

13 

93 

_  _ 

62 

58 

CHAPLIN  HILLS,  KY.  * 

Oct.  8,  1862. 

10th  Ohio Rousseau's 

15th  Kentucky Rousseau's 

75th  Illinois Mitchell's 

1st  Wisconsin Rousseau's 

105th  Ohio Jackson's 

3d    Ohio Rousseau's 

98th  Ohio Jackson's 

79th  Pennsylvania  . . .  Rousseau's 

21st  Wisconsin Rousseau's 

123d    Illinois Jackson's 

10th  Wisconsin Rousseau's 

22d    Indiana.  Mitchell's 


60 

169 

66 

130 

46 

167 

58 

132 

43 

147 

43 

147 

35 

162 

40 

146 

38 

103 

35 

119 

37 

109 

49 

87 

229 

_  _ 

196 

12 

225 

14 

204 

13 

203 

—  _ 

190 

32 

229 

30 

216 

56 

197 

35 

189 

4 

150 

23 

159 

POCOTALIGO,    S.    C. 
Oct.  22,  1862. 

47th  Pennsylvania Brannan's 

76th  Pennsylvania Brannan's 


LABADIESVILLE,  LA. 

Oct.  27,  1862. 

8th  New  Hampshire 


Weitzel's 


PRAIRIE  GROVE,  ARK. 

Dec.  7, 1862. 

20th  Wisconsin Herron's 

19th  Iowa Herron's 

26th  Indiana Huston's 

10th  Kansas Blunt's 

HARTSVILLE,  TENN. 

Dec.  7, 1862. 

104th  Illinois  . 


18 
12 


12 


50 
45 
25 
6 


25 


94 


35 


154 

145 

175 

63 


131 


13 
3 

1 


112 

79 


48 


217 
193 
201 


568 


724 


28 


*  Know  a  also  as  1'erry  ville. 


434: 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Division.  Corps. 

FREDERICKSBURG,  VA.* 

Dec.  13, 1862. 

7th  New  York Hancock's  Second 

142d    Pennsylvania Meade's  First 

16th  Maine:}:  .._  ..  Gibbon's  First 

145th  Pennsylvania^  . .  Hancock's  Second 

llth  Penn.  Reserves  .  Meade's  First 

5th  New  Hampshire,  Hancock's  Second 

llth  New  Hampshire.  Sturgis's  Ninth 

28th  New  Jersey-  French's  Second 

133d    Pennsylvania..  Humphrey s's  Fifth 

131st  Pennsylvania  . .  Humphreys's  Fifth 

20th  Massachusetts  - .  -  Howard's  Second 

81st  Pennsylvania  . .  Hancock's  Second 

26th  New  York  .  Gibbon's  First 

5th  Penn.  Reserves  .  Meade's  First 

13th  Penn.  Reserves  Meade's  First 

53d    Pennsylvania  . .   ...  Hancock's  Second 

7th  Rhode  Island  Sturgis's  Ninth 

28th  Massachusetts  _  _  Hancock's  Second 

KINSTON,  WHITEHALL  and  GOLDSBORO,  N.  C. 

Dec.  14  -17,  1862. 

10th  Connecticut .  Foster's  

45th  Massachusetts  Foster's  

9th  New  Jersey  _  Foster's  

103d    Pennsylvania . .  Peck's 

23d    Massachusetts.  Foster's 


Killed.     Wounded.     Missing.    Aggregate. 


CHICK  AS  AW  BAYOU,  Miss. 

Dec.  27-29,  1862. 

16th  Ohio  _  _ 
54th  Indiana. 
13th  Illinois  . 
31st  Missouri . 
29th  Missouri . 
58th  Ohio  . . 

4th  Iowa  . 
22d    Kentucky. 

6th  Missouri . 


PARKER'S  X  ROADS,  TENN. 

Dec.  30,  1862. 

122d    Illinois  . 


STONE'S  RIVER,  TENN. 

Dec.  81,  1862— Jan.  2,  1863. 

18th  U.S.  Inf.,  20  Cos.! 
21st  Illinois  . 


Morgan's 
Morgan's 

Steele's 

Steele's 

Steele's 

Steele's 

Steele's 

Morgan's 

Morgan's 


Stanley's 


Rousseau's 
Davis's 


Fourteenth 
Fourteenth 


26 
16 

27 
34 
10 
20 
19 
12 
20 
22 
25 
15 
23 
18 
19 
21 
11 
14 


11 

18 
5 

16 
12 


16 

17 

27 

17 

19 

36 

7 

9 


16 


60 

57 


184 
182 
170 
152 
147 
154 
151 
157 
145 
138 
138 
141 
136 
87 
113 
133 
132 
124 


89 
59 
86 
53 
55 


101 
112 
107 

72 
70 
78 
105 
72 
43 


50 


224 

187 


33 
45 
34 
43 
54 
19 
25 
24 
19 
15 

20 
11 
61 

29 
1 

15 
20 


194 
135 
39 
62 
61 
11 

26 


15 


7 
59 


243 

243 
231 
229 
211 
193 
195 
193 
184 
175 
163 
176 
170 
166 
161 
155 
158 
158 


100 
77 
95 
69 
67 


311 
264 
173 
151 
150 
125 
112 
107 
57 


81 


291 
303 


*  Most  of  the  missing  in  this  battle  were  killed  or  wounded.  t  Of  the  total,  91  were  killed  or  died  of  wounds. 

t  Of  the  total,  76  were  killed  or  died  of  wounds.    In  a  history  of  the  16th  Maine,  its  loss  at  Fredericksburg  is  tabulated  by  companies,  and 
shows  56  killed,  34  mortally  wounded,  and  134  wounded    total,  234. 
§Two  battalions,  numbering  603  officers  and  men  in  action. 
{The  Army  of  the  Cumberland  was  then  the  Fourteenth  Corps;  and  was  divided  into  the  Right  Wing,  Centre,  and  Left  Wing, 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 


•I:;:, 


Regiment.  Division. 

STONE'S  RIVER,  TENN.— Continued. 

30th  Illinois Sheridan's 

15th  Indiana Wood's 

6th  Ohio.  Palmer's 

84th  Illinois..  Palmer's 

19th  Ohio.  Van  Cleve's 

39th  Indiana.  Johnson's 

78th  Pennsylvania  .  ...     Negley's 

101st  Ohio.  Davis's 

51st  Ohio Van  Cleve's 

38th  Illinois  .  Davis's 

37th  Indiana.  Negley's 

30th  Indiana.  Johnson's 

18th  Ohio.  Negley's 
16th  U.  S.  Inf.,  s  Con.  .        Rousseau's 

44th  Illinois . . .  Sheridan's 

65th  Ohio  Wood's 

21st  Ohio.  Negley's 

22d   Illinois.  Sheridan's 

SPRINGFIELD,  Mo. 

Jan.  8,  1863. 

18th  Iowa  . 


ARKANSAS  POST,  ARK. 

Jan.  11.1863. 

26th  Iowa...  Steele's 

3d    Missouri  .  Steele's 

76th  Ohio  .  Steele's 

25th  Iowa  .  Steele's 

DESERTED  HOUSE,  VA. 

Jan.  30,  1863. 

130th  New  York  .  Corcoran  Js 

THOMPSON'S  STATION,  TENN. 

March  4-5,  1863. 

19th  Michigan  ...   

33d    Indiana. 


FORT  BISLAND,  LA. 

April  12-13, 1863. 

38th  Massachusetts. 


Emory's 


IRISH  BEND,  LA. 

April  14,  1863. 

159th  New  York  .  Grover's 

25th  Connecticut.  Grover's 


SIEGE  OP  SUFFOLK,  VA. 

April  18— May  4,  1863. 

99th  New  York. 


Corpt. 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 

Fourteenth 


Killed.     Wounded.     Missing.    Aggregate. 


Fifteenth 
Fifteenth 
Fifteenth 
Fifteenth 


Seventh 


Nineteenth 


40 

l.M 

t:> 

212 

38 

143 

7 

iss 

25 

l.",s 

14 

177 

35 

124 

8 

167 

27 

125 

34 

186 

31 

118 

231 

:>«» 

16 

133 

39 

188 

23 

123 

66 

212 

24 

122 

44 

190 

34 

109 

34 

177 

27 

115 

- 

i  :,i  » 

31 

110 

72 

213 

26 

115 

26 

,167 

16 

123 

16 

i  :>:, 

29 

109 

17 

155 

35 

100 

38 

173 

24 

109 

26 

159 

21 

116 

56 

!:«:; 

5 


18 
14 
11 
10 


6 


46 


99 
61 
57 
43 


20 


29 


2 


52 


117 
75 
68 
55 


29 


20     92    345    457 
13     85    407 


35 


Nineteenth  19  7-  20          117 

Nineteenth  9  77  10 


Corcoran's 


Seventh 


13          58 


71 


436 


Regiment. 

FITZ  HUGH'S  CROSSING,  VA. 

April  29-30,  1863. 

24th  Michigan Wadsworth's 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Division.  Corps.  Killed.     Wounded.     Missing.    Aggregate. 


First 


20 


24 


PORT  GIBSON,  Miss. 

May  1,  1863. 

18th  Indiana  

Carr's 

Thirteenth 

19 

64 

—  _ 

83 

29th  Wisconsin  

Hovey's 

Thirteenth 

10 

65 

_  _ 

75 

69th  Indiana  ... 

Osterhaus's 

Thirteenth 

14 

45 

_  _ 

59 

42d    Ohio  

Osterhaus's 

Thirteenth 

12 

47 

59 

CHANCELLORSVILLE,  VA. 

May  1-3,  1863. 

12th  New  Hampshire  Whipple's 

Third 

41 

213 

63 

317 

124th  New  York... 

Whipple's 

Third 

28 

161 

15 

204 

141st  Pennsylvania  

Birney's 

Third 

23 

152 

60 

235 

llth  New  Jersey  

Berry's 

Third 

18 

146 

5 

169 

26th  Wisconsin  

Schurz's 

Eleventh 

23 

135 

40 

198 

12th  New  Jersey  

French's 

Second 

24 

132 

22 

178 

148th  Pennsylvania  

Hancock's 

Second 

31 

119 

14 

164 

27th  Indiana  

Williams's 

Twelfth 

20 

126 

4 

150 

114th  Pennsylvania  

Birney's 

Third 

20 

123 

38 

181 

2d    Massachusetts  

Williams's 

Twelfth 

21 

110 

7 

138 

123d    New  York  

Williams's 

Twelfth 

16 

114 

18 

148 

25th  Ohio  

Devens's 

Eleventh 

14 

107 

31 

152 

8th  New  Jersey  

Berry's 

Third 

18 

101 

6 

125 

82d    Illinois  

Schurz's 

Eleventh 

29 

88 

38 

155 

13th  New  Jersey  

Williams's 

Twelfth 

17 

100 

24 

141 

5th  New  Jersey  

Berry's 

Third 

13 

102 

6 

121 

37th  New  York  

Birney's 

Third 

3 

111 

108 

222 

55th  Ohio  

Devens's 

Eleventh 

9 

87 

57 

153 

3d    Wisconsin  

Williams's 

Twelfth 

18 

74 

9 

101 

149th  New  York  

Geary's 

Twelfth 

15 

68 

103 

186 

MARYE'S  HEIGHTS,  VA.* 

May  3,  1863. 

5th  Wisconsin  

Burnham's 

Sixth 

35 

122 

36 

193 

33d   New  York  

Howe's 

Sixth 

17 

130 

74 

221 

7th  Massachusetts  

Newton's 

Sixth 

22 

125 

3 

150 

6th  Maine  

Burnham's 

Sixth 

23 

111 

35 

169 

2d   Vermontf  

Howe's 

Sixth 

17 

115 

-- 

132 

SALEM  CHURCH,  VA. 

May  3,  1863. 

121st  New  York  

Brooks's 

Sixth 

48 

173 

55 

276 

15th  New  Jersey  

Brooks's 

Sixth 

24 

126 

4 

154 

95th  Pennsylvania  

Brooks's 

Sixth 

23 

110 

20 

153 

16th  New  York  .  .  . 

Brooks's 

Sixth 

23 

70 

49 

142 

*Including  losses  at  other  parts  of  the  field,  Salem  Heights,  etc. 


tincluding  loss  at  Banks's  Ford. 


Rtgiment. 

RAYMOND,  Miss. 

Muy  12,  1SG3. 

23d   Indiana... 
20th  Illinois  . 
7th  Missouri . . 
20th  Ohio. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES.  437 

Division.  Corps.  Killed,     Wounded,      Missing.    Aggregate. 


JACKSON,  Miss. 

May  14, 1883. 

17th  Iowa 

10th  Missouri . 


CHAMPION'S  HILL,  Miss. 

May  1C,  1863. 

24th  Indiana 

10th  Iowa 

24th  Iowa 

llth  Indiana 

93d    Illinois 

47th  Indiana 

56th  Ohio 

29th  Wisconsin  . 


Logan's 
Logan's 
Logan's 
Logan's 


Crocker's 
Crocker's 


Hovey's 

Crocker's 

Hovey's 

Hovey's 

Crocker's 

Hovey's 

Hovey's 

Hovey's 


Seventesnth  16  76 

Seventeenth  17  us 

Seventeenth  10  57 

Seventeenth  10  58 


Fifteenth  16  61 

Fifteenth  10  65 


Thirteenth  27  166 

Seventeenth  36  131 

Thirteenth  35  120 

Thirteenth  28  126 

Seventeenth  38  113 

Thirteenth  32  91 

Thirteenth  20  90 

Thirteenth  19  92 


23 
1 
6 


3 


115 
86 
73 


80 
75 


8 

201 

_  _ 

167 

34 

189 

13 

167 

11 

162 

17 

140 

28 

138 

2 

113 

BIG  BLACK  RIVER,  Miss. 

May  17, 1863. 

23d    Iowa 

21st  Iowa  . 


Carr's  (E.  A.) 
Carr's  (E.  A.) 


Thirteenth 
Thirteenth 


13 
13 


70 

88 


101 


ASSAULT  ON  VICKSBURG. 

May  19, 1863. 

4th  West  Virginia 

13th  U.S.  Inf.,  1st  Batt'n. 
116th  Illinois 

95th  Illinois  . 


Blair's 
Blair's 
Blair's 
McArthur's 


Fifteenth  27  110 

Fifteenth  21  49 

Fifteenth  6  64 

Seventeenth  8  54 


137 
70 
71 
62 


ASSAULT  ON  VICKSBURG. 

May  22, 1863. 

22d    Iowa 

8th  Indiana 

12th  Missouri . . . 

77th  Illinois 

21st  Iowa 

59th  Indiana 

95th  Illinois 

7th  Missouri 

99th  Illinois  . 


Carr's 

Carr's 

Steele's 

A.  J.  Smith's 

Carr's 

Quinby's 

McArthur's 

Logan's 

Carr's 


Thirteenth  27  118  19  164 

Thirteenth  22  95  117 

Fifteenth  26  82  108 

Thirteenth  19  85  26  130 

Thirteenth  16  87  10  113 

Seventeenth  11  99  1  111 

Seventeenth  18  83  8  109 

Seventeenth  10  92  ..  102 

Thirteenth  19  77  6  102 


PLAINS'S  STORE,  LA, 

May  21,  1863. 

116th  New  York. 


Augur's 


Nineteenth 


11 


44 


56 


438 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

PORT  HUDSON,  LA. 

*  May  23— July  8, 1863. 

8th  New  Hampshire 

4th  Wisconsin 

26th  Connecticut 

8th  Vermont 

6th  Michigan 

91st  New  York 

2d    Louisiana 

116th  New  York 

73d    U.  S.  Colored  Inf.g. 

128th  New  York 

1st  Louisiana 

53d    Massachusetts 

133d    New  York. 

131st  New  York. 

49th  Massachusetts 

MILLION'S  BEND,  LA. 

June  6-8,  1863. 

5th  U.  S.  H.  A.,  Colored 
49th  U.  S.  Inf.,  Colored .. 
23d  Iowa  . 


Division. 

Paine'sf 

Paine's 

Sherman's:}: 

Augur's 

Sherman's 

Grover's 

Augur's 

Augur's 

Sherman's 

Grover's 

Paine's 

Paine's 

Grover's 

Augur's 


Corps. 

Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 


Killed.    Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregai* 


30 
49 
15 
25 
20 
21 
32 
20 
34 
22 
31 
17 
23 
21 
18 


||62 
30 
26 


198 
117 

160 

132 

129 

120 

108 

105 

95 

100 

89 

99 

90 

88 

83 


30 

53 

1 

9 

8 
4 
5 

6 
3 
5 
2 

10 
1 


258 
219 
176 
166 
149 
149 
144 
130 
129 
128 
123 
121 
115 
119 
102 


130 

120 

60 


192 
150 

86 


FRANKLIN'S  CROSSING,  VA. 

June  6,  1863. 

6th  Vermont  .  Howe's 


Sixth 


13 


17 


BEVERLY  FORD,  VA. 


June  9,  1863. 


8th  New  York  Cavalry.     Buford's 

Cavalry 

12 

31 

7 

50 

2d   U.  S.  Cavalry                Buford's 

Cavalry 

11 

29 

26 

66 

WINCHESTER,  VA. 

June  13,  1863. 

123d    Ohio  Milroy's 

Eighth 

21 

62 

466 

549 

18th  Connecticut  Milroy's 

Eighth 

18 

46 

534 

598 

67th  Pennsylvania  Milroy's 

Eighth 

17 

38 

736 

791 

ALDIE,  VA. 

June  17,  1863. 

* 

1st  Mass.  Cavalry  Gregg's 

Cavalry 

20 

57 

90 

167 

2d    New  York  Cavalry.     Gregg's 

Cavalry 

16 

19 

15 

50 

MlDDLEBURG,    VA. 

June  19,  1863. 

1st  Maine  Cavalry  Gregg's 

Cavalry 

10 

18 

12 

40 

10th  New  York  Cavalry.     Gregg's 

Cavalry 

3 

10 

19 

32 

*  Nearly  all  these  losses  occured  in  the  assaults  of  May  27th  and  June  14th.  t  Emory's  (3d)  Division. 

%  General  Thomas  W.  Sherman's  (3d;  Division,  afterwards  Dwight's  Division.  §  First  Louisiana  Native  Guards,  Corps  d'  Afrique. 

I  As  officially  reported  by  Mr.  Dana,  Asst.  Sec'y  of  War;  but  see  paces  52'  and  522. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES.  430 

Regiment.  Division.    .  Corps.  Killfd.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 

HOOVER'S  GAP,  TENN. 

June,  '-'I  1863. 

17th  Indiana  Reynolds's  Fourteenth 

17th  Ohio  .  Brannan's  Fourteenth 

LIBERTY  GAP,  TENN. 

June  •»'.">.  1863. 

79th  Illinois  Johnson's  Twentieth* 

77th  Pennsylvania  .       .  .     Johnson's  Twentieth 

15th  Ohio  .  Johnson's  Twentieth 

ll.\\<>\  1.1;.    l'\. 

June  80,  1888. 

18th  Penn.  Cavalry  .  Kilpatrick's  Cavalry 

5th  New  York  Cavalry  .       Kilpatrick's  Cavalry 

GETTYSBURG,  PA. 

July  1-3  18«8. 

24th  Michigan  .  Wadsworth's  First 

lllth  New  York.  Alex.  Hays's  Second 

M    Mimir-Mi.-i  Gibbon's  Second 

126th  New  York.  Alex.  Hays's  Second 

151st  Pennsylvania  .  Doubleday's  First 

149th  Pennsylvania  .  Doubleday's  First 

26th  Pennsylvania  .  Humph  reys's  Third 

134th  New  York.  Steinwehr's  Eleventh 

157th  New  York  .  Schurz's  Eleventh 

19th  Maine  .  Gibbon's  Second 

72d    Pennsylvania..  Gibbon's  Second 

120th  New  York.  Humphreys's  Third 

140th  Pennsylvania  .  CaldwelFs  Second 

2d    Wisconsin.  Wadsworth's  First 

150th  Pennsylvania  .  Doubleday's  First 

147th  New  York.  Wadsworth's  First 

82d    New  York  (2dS.M.)    Gibbon's  Second 

76th  New  York.  Wadsworth's  First 

153d   Pennsylvania.  Barlow's  Eleventh 

143d    Pennsylvania.  Doubleday's  First 

19th  Indiana.  Wadsworth's  First 

73d    New  York.  Humphreys's  Third 

2d    New  Hampshire.         Humphreys's  Third 

26th  Wisconsin  .  Schurz's  Eleventh 

80th  New  York  (20th  S.M.)  Doubleday's  First 

20th  Indiana  .  .  Birney's  Third 

6th  Wisconsin  ...  Wadsworth's  First 

17th  U.  S.  Inf.  (7  Cos.).      Ayres's  Fifth 

40th  New  York  .  Birney's  Third 

73d    Ohio  .  Steinwehr's  Eleventh 

142d    Pennsylvania  .  Doubleday's  First 


6 

2 


6 
4 


3 
4 


69f 

58 

50 

40 

31 

34 

30 

42 

27 

29 

44 

30 

37 

26 

29 

43 

45 

32 

23 

21 

27 

51 

20 

26 

35 

32 

30 

25 

23 

21 

13 


19 
20 


41 
35 
24 


26 
24 


247 
177 
173 
181 
202 
171 
176 
151 
166 
166 
145 
154 
144 
155 
151 
134 
l.",2 
132 
142 
140 
133 
103 
137 
129 
111 
114 
116 
118 
120 
120 
12S 


57 
20 


47 

14 

1 

10 

102 

131 

7 

59 

114 

4 

2 

19 

60 

52 

84 

92 

15 

70 

46 

91 

50 

36 

62 
24 
10 

22 
7 
7 
4 

70 


25 

22 


47 
39 
32 


86 

48 


363 

249 

U24 

231 

335 

336 

213 

252 

307 

199 

191 

203 

241 

i1: 

264 

269 


-j:;i 
211 
252 
210 
162 
193 
217 
170 
156 


150 
145 

211 


»McCook'8  Corps. 


•  The  killed  and  mortally  wounded  numbered  04. 


440 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Division. 

GETTYSBURG,  PA. — Continued. 

llth  New  Jersey Humphrey s's 

62d    Pennsylvania  . .  Barnes's 

107th  Ohio  . .  Barlow's 

2d   Massachusetts Williams's 

125th  New  York Alex.  Hays's 

14th  U.  S.  Inf. ,(8  Cos.)  . .  Ayres's 

137th  New  York  . . .  Geary's 

69th  Pennsylvania  -  Gibbon's 

84th  New  York* Wadsworth's 

7th  Michigan  Cavalry  .  _  Kilpatrick's 

1st  Michigan  Cavalry  . .  Kilpatrick's 

1st  Vermont  Cavalry . . .  Kilpatrick's 

5th  Michigan  Cavalry  .  _  Kilpatrick's 

3d    Indiana  Cavalry Buford's 

MORGAN'S  RAID,  KY. 

July  4,  1863. 

25th  Michigan 

20th  Kentucky., 


HELENA,  ARK. 

July  4,  1863. 

33d   Iowa  . . .  . . Salomon's 

33d    Missouri  _  Salomon's 


HAGERSTOWN,  MD. 

July  6,  1863. 

18th  Penn.  Cavalry 

1st  Vermont  Cavalry  __ 


Kilpatrick's 
Kilpatrick's 


DONALDSONVILLE,  LA. 

July  13, 1863. 

174th  New  York Grover's 

30th  Massachusetts,  Grover's 

161st  New  York  .  _  _     Grover's 

FALLING  WATERS,  MD. 

July  14,  1863. 

6th  Michigan  Cavalry  . .     Kilpatrick's 


Corps, 

Third 

Fifth 

Eleventh 

Twelfth 

Second 

Fifth 

Twelfth 

Second 

First 

Cavalry 

Cavalry 
Cavalry 
Cavalry 
Cavalry 


Killed.     Wounded.     Missing.    Aggregate, 


Thirteenth 
Thirteenth 


Cavalry 
Cavalry 


Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 
Nineteenth 


Cavalry 


17 
28 
23 
23 
26 
18 
40 
40 
13 
13 
10 
13 
8 
6 


6 
5 


19 
16 


8 
6 


18 

8 

7 


23 


124 

107 

111 

109 

104 

110 

87 

80 

105 

48 

43 

25 

30 

21 


23 
16 


50 

25 


21 
14 


29 
39 
39 


33 


12 

40 

77 

4 

9 

4 

10 

9 

99 
39 
20 
27 
18 
5 


16 
9 


59 
63 


7 
1 

7 


23 


153 

175 

211 

136 

139 

132 

137 

129 

217 

100 

73 

65 

56 

32 


29 
21 


85 
50 


88 
83 


54 

48 
53 


79 


SHEPHARDSTOWN,  MD. 

July  16,  1863. 

16th  Penn.  Cavalry 

Grresrff's 

Cavalry 

5 

19 

24 

J   ~ 

"      OO 

1st  Maine  Cavalry 

Gregg's 

Cavalry 

3 

22 

8 

33 

JACKSON,  Miss. 

July  16.  1863. 

41st  Illinois  .  . 

Lauman's 

Sixteenth 

27 

135 

40 

202 

53d    Illinois 

Laumaii's 

Sixteenth 

17 

95 

50 

162 

3d    Iowa 

Lauman's 

Sixteenth 

17 

57 

39 

113 

28th  Illinois  .  . 

Lauman's 

Sixteenth 

6 

43 

19 

68 

2d    Michigan 

Welsh's 

Ninth 

9 

40 

10 

59 

CJ 

*  "  14th  Brooklyn,"  or  14th  Regiment  N.  Y.  S.  National  Guard. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 


141 


Regiment. 

FORT  WAGNER,  S.  0. 

July  11.  1863. 

76th  Pennsylvania  . . 


Division. 


FORT  WAGNER,  S.  C. 

July  18,  1863. 

48th  New  York Seymour's 

54th  Mass.  (Colored) Seymour's 

7th  New  Hampshire Seymour's 

100th  New  York Seymour's 

62d    Ohio Seymour's 

6th  Connecticut Seymour's 

WAPPING  HEIGHTS,  VA. 

July  23, 1888. 

70th  New  York Humphreys's 

BRANDY  STATION,  VA. 

Auffustl,  1863. 


Corps. 


Tenth 


Terth 
Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 


Third 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


35 


te 


21 


83 


54 

112 

76 

•JlL> 

34 

146 

92 

272 

41 

119 

56 

216 

49 

97 

29 

175 

26 

87 

38 

151 

15 

77 

46 

138 

32 


6th  Penn.  Cavalry.  

Buford's 

Cavalry 

5 

20 

4 

29 

9th  New  York  Cavalry.  . 

Buford's 

Cavalry 

4 

21 

4 

29 

2d    U.  S.  Cavalry  

Buford's 

Cavalry 

5 

18 

-- 

23 

WHITE  SULPHUR  SPRINGS, 

VA. 

August  20-27.  1863. 

14th  Penn.  Cavalry  . 

10 

42 

50 

102 

3d   WestVa.,  M.  Inf.. 

5 

29 

5 

39 

2d   WestVa.,  M.  Inf... 

5 

16 

8 

29 

CHICKAMAUGA,  GA. 

Sept.  19-80,  1863. 

22d    Michigan  _  

Steedman's 

Granger's 

58 

261 

YO 

389 

9th  Ohio  

Bramian's 

Fourteenth 

48 

185 

16 

249 

14th  Ohio  . 

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

35 

167 

43 

245 

8th  Kansas  

Davis's 

Twentieth* 

30 

165 

25 

220 

21st  Ohio 

Negley's 

Fourteenth 

34 

153 

56 

243 

18th  U.S.  Infantry. 

Baird's 

Fourteenth 

33 

152 

118 

303 

96th  Illinois  .  . 

Steedman's 

Granger's 

39 

134 

52   . 

225 

87th  Indiana  

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

40 

142 

8 

190 

4th  Kentucky  

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

25 

i.-.T 

9 

191 

25th  Illinois  

Davis's 

Twentieth* 

10 

171 

24 

205 

21st  Illinois  

Davis's 

Twentieth* 

32 

144 

62 

238 

115th  Illinois  

Steedman's 

Granger's 

22 

151 

10 

l>:i 

26th  Ohio  

Wood's 

Twenty-first 

27 

140 

45 

212 

35th  Ohio  

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

21 

139 

27 

1-7 

10th  Indiana.  

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

24 

136 

6 

166 

10th  Kentucky  

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

21 

134 

11 

166 

1st  Wisconsin  

Baird's 

Fourteenth 

26 

121 

41 

I>s 

74th  Indiana.  

Brannan's 

Fourteenth 

22 

125 

10 

157 

35th  Illinois  

Davis's 

Twentieth* 

17 

130 

13 

160 

2d    Minnesota  

Brannan's 

Fourteen  tli 

34 

107 

51 

192 

*31cCook's  Corps; 


442 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Division.  Corps. 

MORGANZIA,    LA. 

Sept.  29,  1863. 

19th  Iowa Herron's  Thirteenth 

BLUE  SPRINGS,  TENN. 

Oct.  10,  1863. 

45th  Pennsylvania Ferrero's  Ninth 

*BRISTOE  STATION,  VA. 

Oct.  14,  1863. 

126th  New  York Alex.  Hays's  Second 

125th  New  York  . .'.  , Alex.  Hays's  Second 

82d   New  York Webb's  Second 

64th  New  York CaldwelPs  Second 

14th  Connecticut Alex.  Hays's  Second 

WAUHATCHIE,  TENN. 

Oct.  27.  1863. 

33d    Massachusetts Steinwehr's  Eleventh 

137th  New  York Geary's  Twelfth 

73d    Ohio Steinwehr's  Eleventh 

lllth  Pennsylvania Geary's  Twelfth 

fKnap's  Penn.  Battery  . . .  Geary's  Twelfth 

GRAND  COTEAU,  LA. 

Nov.  3,  1863. 

96th  Ohio A .  J.  Smith's         Thirteenth 

23d    Wisconsin A.  J.  Smith's         Thirteenth 

DROOP  MOUNTAIN,  W.  VA. 

Nov.  6, 1863. 

10th  West  Virginia 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


EAPPAHANNOCK  STATION,  VA. 

Nov.  7  1863. 

6th  Maine Russell's 

5th  Wisconsin Russell's 

KELLY'S  FORD,  VA. 

Nov.  O863. 

1st  U.  S.  Sharpshooters.     Birney's 
CAMPBELL'S  STATION,  TENN. 

Nov.  16,  1863. 

17th  Michigan Ferrero's 

23d   Michigan White's 

20th  Michigan Ferrero's 

2d   Michigan Ferrero's 

SIEGE  OF  KNOXVILLE,  TENN. 

Nov.  17— Dec.  4. 1863. 

2d    Michigan Ferrero's 

112th  Illinois  (Mt'd  Inf  y) .  Cavalry 

24th  Kentucky HascalPs 

27th  Michigan  ...         . . .  Ferrero's 


Sixth 
Sixth 


Third 


Ninth 

Twenty-third 
Ninth  " 
Ninth 


Ninth 

Army  of  Ohio 

Twenty-third 

Ninth 


10  23 


17 


210 


6 
3 

7 
6 
4 


26 

15 

12 

8 

3 


11 
6 


38 
10 


3 


7 
8 
3 
3 


10 

18 

4 

6 


33 
25 
19 
11 

18 


61 

75 
55 
37 
19 


33 
37 


29 


101 
49 


10 


51 
23 
30 

27 


6T 
38 
55 
12 


10 

8 

25 
4 


1 
1 


72 
85 


15 

8 
4 

2 


16 
12 

20 


243 


21 


49 
36 

26 
42 

26 


88 
90 
68 
46 

22 


116 

128 


36 


139 
59 


13 


T3 
39 
37 

32 


93 

68 
59 
38 


"Including  losses  at  Auburn,  Va. 


tTwo  sections  only. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 


443 


Regiment. 

LOOKOUT  MOUNTAIN,  TENS. 

Nov.  23,  1B63 


Division. 


Corps. 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


149th  New  York*... 

Geary's 

Twelfth 

10 

'•,! 

74 

60th  New  York*. 

Geary's 

Twelfth 

7 

43 

— 

50 

40th  Ohio  . 

Cruft's 

Fourth 

12 

16 

2 

30 

ORCHARD  KNOB,  TENN. 

Nov.  23,  1863. 

Hist  Ohio  . 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

18 

70 

— 

88 

f93d    Ohio  .... 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

19 

69 

88 

MISSIONARY   K'IIM.K.    TKNN. 

Nov.  25,  1863. 

15th  Indiana  

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

24 

175 

_  _ 

199 

40th  Indiana 

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

20 

1:^ 

.. 

158 

97th  Ohio  

Sheridan's 

Fourth 

16 

i:;:', 

.. 

11'.' 

100th  Indiana  

Ewing's 

Fifteenth 

10 

102 

2 

114 

90th  Illinois  . 

Ewing's 

Fifteenth 

10 

94 

13 

117 

26th  Illionis  . 

Ewing's 

Fifteenth 

10 

82 

1 

93 

103d    Illinois  . 

Ewing's 

Fifteenth 

15 

74 

-  - 

89 

73d    Pennsylvania  . 

Steinwehr's 

Eleventh 

14 

55 

93 

162 

93d   Illinois  . 

J.  E.  Smith's 

Seventeenth 

20 

46 

27 

93 

1st  Ohio 

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

11 

68 

.. 

79 

6th  Indiana  

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

13 

63 

.. 

76 

27th  Pennsylvania  .  . 

Steinwehr's 

Eleventh 

12 

59 

13 

84 

36th  Ohio  .  . 

Baird's 

Fourteenth 

10 

62 

3 

75 

10th  Missouri  

J.  E.  Smith's 

Seventeenth 

11 

53 

.. 

64 

76th  Ohio  .  .  . 

Osterhaus's 

Fifteenth 

18 

43 

2 

63 

5th  Kentucky  

T.  J.  Wood's 

Fourth 

10 

52 

_  _ 

62 

92d    Ohio  . 

Baird's 

Fourteenth 

12 

46 

.. 

58 

26th  Missouri  .  .  . 

J.  E.  Smith's 

Seventeenth 

15 

34 

4 

53 

RINGGOLD,  GA. 

Nov.  27.  1863. 

7th  Ohio  

Geary's 

Twelfth 

16 

58 

_  _ 

74 

28th  Pennsylvania  . 

Geary's 

Twelfth 

4 

30 



34 

76th  Ohio  ... 

Osterhaus's 

Fifteenth 

18 

43 

2 

63 

13th  Illinois  .  . 

Osterhaus's 

Fifteenth 

4 

58 

1 

63 

4th  Iowa  

Osterhaus's 

Fifteenth 

10 

37 

2 

49 

MINE  RUN,  Va. 

Nov.  26-28,  1863. 

10th  Vermont  

Carr's 

Third 

11 

56 

2 

69 

14th  New  Jersey  

Carr's 

Third 

14 

47 

-  - 

61 

151st  New  York  

Carr's 

Third 

9 

43 

1 

53 

6th  Maryland  

Carr's 

Third 

10 

42 

„  _ 

52 

17th  Maine  

Birney's 

Third 

7 

43 

2 

52 

138th  Pennsylvania  

Carr's 

Third 

8 

43 

.. 

51 

1st  U.  S.  Sharpshooters.  .  . 

Birney's 

Third 

8 

39 

47 

•Includes  loss  at 

Kinjjgold  on  the  2Tth. 

+Includes  loss  at 

Missionary 

Ridge  on  the  25th. 

444 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Division. 

MINE  KUN,  VA.— Continued. 

122d    Ohio Carr's 

110th  Ohio Carr's 

3d   Penn.  Cavalry Gregg's 


Corps. 


Kilkd.    Wounded.     Missing.     Aggregate. 


Third  5 

Third  6 

Cavalry  A.  P.        5 


BEAN'S  STATION,  TENN. 

Dec.  14,  1863. 

65th  Indiana  M.  I. . 


Shackleford's        Cavalry  A.  0.        6 


MOSSY  CREEK,  TENN. 

Dec.  29,  1863. 

118th  Ohio 

1st  Tennessee  Cavalry  _  _ 

MORTON'S  FORD,  VA. 

Feb.  6  1864. 

14th  Connecticut  . 


White's 
Sturgis's 


Twenty-third         5 
Cavalry  A.  0.        6 


Alex.  Hays's        Second 


33 
25 

22 


10 


31 
11 


90 


OLUSTEE,  FLA. 

Peb  20- 1864. 

8th  U.  S.  Colored 

115th  New  York 

47th  New  York 

48th  New  York 

35th  U.  S.  Colored 

7th  New  Hampshire 

BUZZARD  BOOST,  GA. 

Feb.  25-27, 1864. 

10th  Michigan Da  vis's 

SABINE  CROSS  EOADS,  LA. 

April  8,  1864. 


Seymour's 
Seymour's 
Seymour's 
Seymour's 
Seymour's 
Seymour's 


Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 


Fourteenth 


16 


36 


26 


13 


19 


14 


38 
31 
53 


29 


36 
17 


115 


50 

187 

*3 

310 

29 

208 

59 

296 

30 

197 

86 

313 

32 

163 

49 

244 

21 

132 

77 

230 

17 

71 

121 

209 

66 


161st  New  York  

.     Emory's 

Nineteenth 

9 

43 

38 

90 

28th  Iowa  

Cameron's 

Thirteenth 

8 

30 

32 

70 

130th  Illinois  

.     Landram's 

Thirteenth 

2 

23 

232 

257 

3d    Mass.  Cavalry  

Lee's  Cavalry 

Nineteenth 

8 

52 

11 

71 

PLEASANT  HILL,  LA. 

April  9,  1864. 

32d    Iowa  

.     Mower's 

Sixteenth 

35 

115 

60 

210 

162d    New  York*.. 

-     Emory's 

Nineteenth 

16 

48 

47 

111 

30th  Maine*.. 

.     Emory's 

Nineteenth 

11 

58 

69 

138 

14th  Iowa  

.     Mower's 

Sixteenth 

19 

61 

9 

89 

24th  Missouri  

Mower's 

Sixteenth 

9 

80 

7 

96 

JENKINS'S  FERRY,  ARK. 

April  30,  1864. 

9th  Wisconsin.  

Salomon's 

Seventh 

13 

81 

_  ^ 

94 

33d    Iowa  

-     Salomon's 

.  Seventh 

10 

103 

10 

123 

83d    U.  S.  Coloredf... 

Thayer's 

.Seventh 

17 

53 

6 

76 

29th  Iowa  . 

+ 

Salomon's 

Seventh 

7 

84 

32 

123 

*  Including  loss  at  Sabine  Cross  Roads. 


t  Second  Kansas  Colored. 


(!m-:.\Ti-xr   LOSSKS  IN    r..\rn.i-.s. 


H;, 


Regiment.                                             Division.                            Corps.  Killed.  Wounded. 

WILDERNESS,  VA. 

May  5-6,  1S04. 

2d   Vermont  Getty's  Sixtli  41)  285 

4th  Vermont  ._  Getty's  Sixth  41  _':':: 

93d   New  York Birney's  Second  42  213 

f>th  Vermont Getty's  Sixth  33  187 

57th  Massachusetts  .  Stevenson's  Ninth  57  ir>s 

3d    Vermont  .  Getty's  Sixth  38  1G7 

6th  Vermont  Getty's  Sixth  34  155 

139th  Pennsylvania .  Getty's  Sixth  33  157 

7th  Wisconsin  ..  Wadsworth's         Fifth  27  155 

03d    Pennsylvania  . .     . .  Birney's  Second  32  140 

17th  Maine .  Birney's  Second  22  155 

40th  New  York .  Birney's  Second  20  1 50 

4th  Maine Birney's  Second  32  130 

lllth  New  York ..  Barlow's  Second  42  119 

143d    Pennsylvania  .  Wadsworth's         Fifth  23  130 

105th  Pennsylvania  . .     ..  Birney's  Second  38  HO 

102d   Pennsylvania.       ..  Getty's  Sixth  31  132 

19th  Maine...  Gibbon's  Second  22  130 

57th  Pennsylvania  .  Birney's  Second  22  128 

120th  Ohio  . . .  Ricketts's  Sixth  22  125 

140th  New  York .  Griffin's  Fifth  23  118 

6th  Maryland ..  Eicketts's  Sixth  24  112 

9th  Massachusetts  Griffin's  Fifth  26  108 

43d    New  York.  Getty's  Sixth  21  100 

20th  Massachusetts  . .  Gibbon's  Second  23  108 

llth  Pennsylvania .  Robinson's  Fifth  10  120 

122d    Ohio Ricketts's  Sixth  18  110 

1st  New  Jersey...  Wright's  Sixth  17  106 

45th  Pennsylvania  ...  Potter's  Ninth  17  119 

5th  Wisconsin ...  Wright's  Sixth  14  121 

93d    Pennsylvania  .  Getty's  Sixth  15  114 

110th  Ohio Ricketts's  Sixth  17  106 

*lst  New  York  Dragoons  Merritt's  Cavalry  20  36 

f5th  New  York  Cavalry..  Wilson's  Cavalry  16  21 

1st  New  Jersey  Cavalry  Gregg's  Cavalry  7  41 

1st  U.  S.  Cavalry Merritt's  Cavalry  -  34 

1st  Vermont  Cavalry. . .  Wilson's  Cavalry  5  30 

CHESTER  STATION,  VA. 

May  6-7,  1864. 

67th  Ohio Terry's  Tenth  12  66 

13th  Indiana  .. Ames's  Tenth  7  35 

PORT  WALTHALL,  VA. 

May  7, 1864. 

8th  Connecticut.. Brooks's  Eighteenth  3  63 

9th  New  Jersey Weitzel's  Eighteenth  7  26 

*At  Todd's  Tavern,  May  7th.  tAt  Parker's  Store,  May  5th  ;  opening  fight. 


268 


246 
245 
211 
196 
195 
217 
191 
192 
213 
171 
178 


Missing.    Aggregate. 


14 

4 

5 

26 


6 
7 
5 

35 
13 
15 
37 
3 

17 

61 

6 

6 

3 

62 

114 

34 

3 
71 

9 

13 
48 
39 

7 
10 

25 

35 
13 
10 
3 
11 


40 


8 

1 


160 
103 
158 
153 
209 
255 
170 
137 
198 
140 
155 
170 
102 
143 
145 
129 
148 

91 

50 
58 
45 
46 


78 
82 


74 
34 


446 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

ROCKY  FACE  EIDGE,  GA. 

May  8,  1864. 


Division. 


Corps. 


Killed.      Wounded.     Missing.     Aggregate. 


29th  Ohio*  

Geary's 

Twentieth 

26 

71 

2 

99 

64th  Ohio  

Newton's 

Fourth 

21 

65 

2 

88 

154th  New  York  .  _ 

Geary's 

Twentieth 

14 

42 

9 

65 

134th  New  York  .  .  . 

Geary's 

Twentieth 

11 

24 

7 

42 

SPOTSYLVANIA,  VA. 

May  8-13,  1864. 

148th  Pennsylvaniaf  

Barlow's 

Second 

33 

235 

33 

301 

15th  New  Jersey:}:  

Wright's 

Sixth 

75 

159 

38 

272 

49th  Pennsylvania§  

Wright's 

Sixth 

50 

180 

44 

274 

27th  Michigan  

Willcox's 

Ninth 

30 

156 

9 

195 

26th  Michigan  

Barlow's 

Second 

35 

121 

11 

167 

140th  Pennsylvania  

Barlow's 

Second 

34 

126 

9 

169 

1st  Michigan  S.  S.  

Willcox's 

Ninth 

38 

121 

3 

162 

121st  New  York  

Wright's 

Sixth 

49 

106 

_  _ 

155 

96th  Pennsylvania  _  . 

Wright's 

Sixth 

31 

115 

32 

178 

53d    Pennsylvania  

Barlow's 

Second 

26 

123 

28 

177 

9th  New  Hampshire  .  . 

Potter's 

Ninth 

41 

101 

42 

184 

83d    Pennsylvania  

Griffin's 

Fifth 

21 

119 

24 

164 

39th  Massachusetts  

Robinson's 

Fifth 

19 

121 

28 

168 

52d    New  York  ... 

Barlow's 

Second 

21 

115 

28 

164 

1]  9th  Pennsylvania  .  _  . 

Wright's 

Sixth 

31 

102 

12 

145 

61st  Pennsylvania  .  . 

Neill's 

Sixth 

31 

102 

6 

139 

100th  Pennsylvania  

Stevenson's 

Ninth 

23 

110 

2 

135 

50th  Pennsylvania  .  _ 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

23 

109 

113 

245 

16th  Maine  

Robinson's 

Fifth 

13 

119 

11 

143 

109th  New  York  

Willcox's 

Ninth 

25 

101 

14 

140 

183d    Pennsylvania  

Barlow's 

Second 

18 

109 

34 

161 

145th  Pennsylvania  

Barlow's 

Second 

.23 

103 

46 

172 

62d    Pennsylvania  

Griffin's 

Fifth 

14 

112 

18 

144 

32d    Massachusetts  

Griffin's 

Fifth 

23 

101 

5 

129 

3d    New  Jersey.  .  . 

Wright's 

Sixth 

20 

103 

25 

148 

83d   New  York  . 

Robinson's 

Fifth 

29 

94 

5 

128 

5th  Wisconsin    .  . 

Wright's 

Sixth 

19 

102 

28 

149 

7th  Maine  

Neill's 

Sixth 

20 

101 

5 

126 

20th  Michigan  

Willcox's 

Ninth 

17 

108 

19 

144 

llth  U.  S.  Infantry 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

17 

101 

10 

128 

84th  New  York  

Cutler's 

Fifth 

13 

105 

5 

123 

6th  Maine  

Wright's 

Sixth 

11 

103 

21 

135 

6th  New  York  H.  A. 

Fifth 

18 

131 

12 

161 

15th  New  York  H.  A.  1 

Fifth 

18 

132 

6 

156 

Po  RIVER,  VA.f 

May  10,  1864. 

148th  Pennsvlvania  

Barlow's 

Second 

23 

177 

200 

*Geary's  Division  made  its  attack  at  Dug  Gap. 
^Includes  a  loss  of  116  in  killed  and  died  of  wounds. 
ISpotsylvania. 


1 1ncludes  loss  at  Po  River,  May  10th. 

^Includes  a  loss  of  109  in  killed  and  died  of  wounds. 

S  1st  and  3d  Battalions. 


Regiment. 

SPOTSYLVANIA,  VA. 

May  18,  1964. 

104th  New  York  . 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES.  447 

Division.  Corps.  Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


SPOTSYLVANIA,  Va. 

May  10,  1864. 

1st  Maine  H.  Artillery. . 
1st  Mass.  H.  Artillery.. 


Gibbon's 


Tyler's 
Tyler's 


ARROWFIELD  CHURCH,  VA. 

May  9,  1804. 

25th  Massachusetts Weitzel's 

CLOYD'S  MOUNTAIN,  W.  VA. 

May  0-10,  1854. 

9th  West  Virginia..  Crook's 

23d    Ohio  .  Crook's 


YELLOW  TAVERN,  VA. 

May  11,  188*. 

1st  Michigan  Cavalry... 


Torbert's 


DREWRY'S  BLUFF,  VA. 

May  12-16,  1864. 

3d    New  Hampshire..  Terry's 

55th  Pennsylvania  . . .  Ames's 

118th  New  York  .  Brooks's 

9th  New  Jersey.  Weitzel's 

7th  Connecticut-  Terry's 

V6th  Pennsylvania  .  Turner's 

25th  Massachusetts  Weitzel's 

21st  Connecticut.  Brooks's 

39th  Illinois Terry's 

1 1th  Connecticut Weitzel's 

98th  New  York  .  Brooks's 

27th  Massachusetts  Weitzel's 

8th  Maine  . . .  Ames's 

142d    New  York  .  Turner's 

8th  Connecticut.  Brooks's 


NEW  MARKET,  VA. 

May  15, 1864, 

34th  Massachusetts 


Sigel's 


RESACA,  GA. 

May  14-15,  1864. 

70th  Indiana Butterfield's 

8uth  Indiana. ..  Judah's 

102d    Illinois  .  Butterfield's 

63d    Indiana .  Cox's 

118th  Ohio  Judah's 

3d    Tennessee ...  Judah's 

141st  New  York  .  Williams's 


Second 


Second 
Second 


Eighteenth 


Cavalry 


Tenth 

Tenth 

Eighteenth 

Eighteenth 

Tenth 

Tenth 

Eighteenth 

Eighteenth 

Tenth 

Eighteenth 

Eighteenth 

Eighteenth 

Tenth 

Tenth 

Eighteenth 


Twentieth 

Twenty-third 

Twentieth 

Twenty-third 

Twenty -third 

Twenty-third 

Twentieth 


12 


81 
50 


12 


45 
21 


11 


26 
15 
21 
19 
17 
19 
15 


60 


395 
312 


49 


144 

78 


34 


171 


130 

108 

95 

95 

89 
80 

77 


14 


19 


22 


10 


92 


4-1 


61 


189 
123 


4S 


39 

!»•_' 

16 

237 

20 

138 

163 

321 

42 

111 

46 

199 

11 

137 

57 

205 

30 

104 

69 

203 

10 

— 

9 

107 

14 

73 

66 

153 

14 

71 

24 

109 

11 

64 

47 

122 

13 

55 

127 

195 

15 

63 

12 

90 

8 

32 

249 

289 

3 

63 

32 

98 

9 

39 

20 

68 

7 

31 

-•; 

64 

221 


156 

145 

116 

114 

116 

99 

92 


448 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

RESACA,  GA.— Continued. 

55th  Ohio 

5th  Tennessee 

103d    Ohio 

33d    Massachusetts. 

136th  New  York  _ . ., 

19th  Michigan 

33d    Ohio ; 

22d    Wisconsin 

31st  Wisconsin  _ 


Division. 

Butterfield's 

Cox's 

Cox's 

Butterfield's 

Butterfield's 

Butterfield's 

Johnson's 

Butterfield's 

Johnson's 


WARE  BOTTOM  CHURCH,  VA.* 

May  18-20, 1864. 

97th  Pennsylvania Ames's 

8th  Maine _  _  Ames's 

13th  Indiana Ames's 

67thOhio Terry's 

142d    New  York  .  Turner's 


YELLOW  BAYOU,  LA. 

May  18, 1864. 

58th  Illinois 


Mower's 


Corps. 

Twentieth 

Twenty-third 

Twenty  third 

Twentieth 

Twentieth 

Twentieth 

Fourteenth 

Twentieth 

Fourteenth 


Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 


Sixteenth 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missin 


18 
16 
12 
16 
12 
14 
17 
11 
10 


29 
13 
13 
9 
10 


12 


72 
71 
75 
67 
70 
66 
53 
56 
43 


186 
87 
58 
60 
39 


51 


22 
19 

2 


91 
87 
87 
83 
82 
80 
70 
68 
53 


237 

100 

90 

69 

51 


63 


NORTH  ANNA,  VA. 

May  23-27,  1864 

6th  New  York  H  A  

17 

99 

17 

133 

170th  New  York  

Gibbon's 

Second 

22 

55 

22 

99 

3d    Maine  

Birney's 

Second 

12 

40 

18 

70 

56th  Massachusetts  

Crittenden's 

Ninth 

8 

47 

19 

74 

57th  Massachusetts  _  - 

Crittenden's 

Ninth 

10 

28 

8 

46 

7th  Indiana  

Cutler's 

Fifth 

8 

31 

4 

43 

182d    New  York... 

Gibbon's 

Second 

6 

28 

6 

40 

93d    New  York  

Birney's 

Second 

6 

27 

4 

37 

149th  Pennsylvania  

Cutler's 

Fifth 

7 

23 

26 

56 

NEW  HOPE  CHURCH,  GA. 

May  25,  1864. 

107th  New  York  

Williams's 

Twentieth 

26 

141 



167 

3d    Wisconsin  

Williams's 

Twentieth 

15 

96 

111 

PICKETT'S  MILLS,  GA. 

May  27.  1864. 

49th  Ohio  

Wood's 

Fourth 

52 

147 

4 

203 

89th  Illinois  

Wood's 

Fourth 

16 

71 

67 

154 

41st  Ohio  .. 

Wood's 

Fourth 

26 

70 

6 

102 

15th  Ohio  .  . 

Wood's 

Fourth 

19 

64 

19 

102 

5th  Kentucky  _  . 

Wood's 

Fourth 

14 

-58 

10 

82 

15th  Wisconsin  

Wood's 

Fourth 

14 

41 

28 

83 

1st  Ohio  - 

Wood's 

Fourth 

10 

73 

83 

*Bermuda  Hundred. 


Regiment. 

HAWI-S'S  Sii.. p.  VA. 

May  28,  ISM. 

1st  N.  Jersey  Cavalry 
5th  Michigan  Cavalry 
1st  Penn.  Cavalry. 
10th  N.  York  Cavali  \ 
tith  Mich.  Cavalry 
6th  Ohio  Cavalry 

TOTOPOTOMOY,  VA. 

May  20-31,  1864. 

36th  Wisconsin  (4  Cos.) 
7th  New  York H.  A.. 
2d   New  York  H.  A 

HANOVER,  VA. 

May  30,  1864. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 

Division.  Corps.  Killed.    Wounded.     Missing.    Aggregate. 


airy  .  .     Gregg's 

Cavalry 

7 

53 

3 

63 

airy         Torbert's 

Cavalry 

8 

42 

50 

Gregg's 

Cavalry 

10 

32 

.. 

42 

dry  .        Gregg's 

Cavalry 

13 

27 

2 

42 

Torbert's 

Cavalry 

3 

22 

a. 

.,., 

mm  mm 

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...I 

Greek's 

Cavalrv 

fl 

9A 

Q 

«.* 

».)- 

Gibbon's 

Second 

20 

108 

:;- 

166 

.  

Barlow's 

Second 

22 

97 

16 

135 

Barlow's 

Second 

7 

77 

7 

Q1 

Wilson's 


•/ 

BETHESDA  CHURCH,  VA.* 

***-S  ***t     *     V  *>•*..!.       T 

v 

t/v/ 

J.V 

Juno  1,  1864. 

45th  Pennsylvania  

Potter's 

Ninth 

18 

141 

22 

58th  Massachusetts  . 

Potter's 

Ninth 

24 

83 

18 

31st  Maine  

Potter's 

Ninth 

18 

52 

6 

27th  Michigan  . 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

17 

57 

48th  Pennsylvania  . 

Potter's 

Ninth 

10 

57 

2 

14th  NewYorkH.  A.. 

Crittenden's 

Ninth 

15 

43 

61 

100th  Pennsylvania  .  . 

Crittenden's 

Ninth 

10 

48 

14 

5th  New  York  .  .  . 

Lock  wood's 

Fifth 

8 

50 

29 

32d    Massachusetts 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

10 

44 

21st  Pa.  Cav'y  (dism'ted) 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

8 

47 

Purnell  Legion  (Md.)  

Lockwood's 

Fifth 

8 

23 

6 

4th  Delaware  

Cutler's 

Fifth 

13 

21 

2 

COLD  HARBOR,  VA. 

June  3,  1864.  t 

81st  New  York 

Brooks's 

Eighteenth 

46 

159 

10 

5th  New  Hampshire.  .  . 

Barlow's 

Second 

43 

151 

37 

23d    Pennsvlvania  . 

Russell's 

Sixth 

47 

134 

L".' 

112th  New  York  . 

Devens'sJ 

Eighteenth 

-_- 

140 

12 

25th  Massachusetts  . 

Martindale's 

Eighteenth 

24 

142 

49 

188th  Pennsylvania  . 

Brooks's 

Eighteenth 

19 

144 

- 

10th  Vermont. 

Ricketts's 

Sixth 

28 

131 

3 

12th  New  Hampshire. 

Martindale's 

Eighteenth 

23 

129 

15 

i:;;»th  New  York 

Brooks's 

Eighteenth 

33 

118 

2 

82d    Pennsvlvania  .  - 

Russell's 

Sixth 

30 

115 

14 

14th  New  Jersey  

Ricketts's 

Sixth 

29 

110 

15 

155th  New  York  

Gibbon's 

Second 

13 

124 

17 

55th  Pennsylvania  . 

Martindale's 

Eighteenth 

12 

110 

29 

•HL'htof  the  Army  :  the  left 

rested  at  Cold  Harbor. 

•(Includes  the 

assault  of 

the  Sixth  Corps  on  June  1st. 

65 


181 
125 
76 
74 
69 
110 
72 
87 
54 
55 
37 
36 


215 
231 
210 
180 
215 
171 
162 
167 

i;,:; 

159 
154 
154 

I.M 


^Composed  of  troops  from  the  Tenth  Corps  temporarily  attached. 
29 


450 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Division. 

COLD  HARBOR,  VA.—  Continued. 

148th  New  York Martindale's 

106th  New  York  .  Ricketts's 

98th  New  York Brooks's 

184th  Pennsylvania Gibbon's 

164th  New  York Gibbon's 

HEAVY  ARTILLERY  :* 

8th  New  York  H.  A. .  _  _  Gibbon's 

7th  New  York  H.  A. .  Barlow's 

2d    Connecticut  H.  A. . .  Russell's 

2d    New  York  H.  A. .  Barlow's 

1st  Vermont  H.  A.  Neill's 

9th  New  York  H.  A.  f  _  Rickets's 

CAVALRY : 

1st  N.  Y.  Dragoons  _  _  Torberts's 

1st  Michigan  Cavalry  . .  Torbert's 

PIEDMONT,  VA. 

June  5,  1864. 

116th  Ohio Hunter's 

28th  Ohio  .  Hunter's 

18th  Connecticut Hunter's 

34th  Massachusetts  Hunter's 

MOUNT  STIRLING,  K\. 

June  9,  1864. 

12th  Ohio  Cavalry  Burbridge's 


Corps. 

Eighteenth 

Sixth 

Eighteenth 

Second 

Second 

Second 

Second 

Sixth 

Second 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Cavalry  A.  P. 
Cavalry  A.  P. 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate, 


BRICE'S  CROSS  ROAD'S,  Miss. 

June  10,  1864. 

93d    Indiana  ____  Sturgis's  __________ 

TREVILIAN  STATION,  VA. 

June  11,  1864. 

1st  N.Y.  Dragoons.  Torbert's  Cavalry  A.  P. 

1st  Michigan  Cavalry  Torbert's  Cavalry  A.  P. 

6th  Peiin.  Cavalry  Torbert's  Cavalry  A.  P. 

3d    U.  S.  Cavalry  Torbert's  Cavalry  A.  P. 

1st  U.  S.  Cavalry  .  Torbert's'  Cavalry  A.  P. 

9th  New  York  Cavalry.  Torbert's  Cavalry  A.  P. 

4th  New  York  Cavalry..  Torbert's  Cavalry  A.  P. 

PINE-  KNOB,  GA. 

June  15-16,  1864. 

33d    New  Jersey.  Butterfield's  Twentieth 

PETERSBURG,  VA. 

June  15,  18644 

55th  Pennsylvania  .  _  Martindale's  Eighteenth 

1st  U.  S.  Colored.  Hinks's  Eighteenth 


20 
23 
20 
16 
16 

80 
45 
85 
21 
18 
16 

8 
5 


20 
28 
19 
15 


17 


13 


16 

12 

6 

8 
8 
4 
6 


14 


24 
17 


100 
88 
91 
94 
59 

339 
259 
221 
174 
153 
126 

26 
20 


156 

110 

103 

95 


40 


56 


61 

23 
56 

38 
32 
41 
32 


44 


124 
114 


4 

23 

3 

82 

86 

114 

19 

20 

6 
1 


75 


184 


8 

64 
5 
5 
5 
5 
6 


124 
134 
114 
110 

157 

505 
418 
325 
215 
171 
148 

35 

25 


176 
138 
123 
110 


132 


253 


85 
99 
67 
51 
45 
50 
44 


8 
25 


156 
156 


*Actin<r  as  infantry  and  numbering  nearly  1,800  men  each.  tFirst  and  Second  Battalions,  only,  were  present. 

t  Assault  by  General  W.  F.  Smith's  troops,  before  the  arrival  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 


•l.M 


Regiment. 

Division. 

Corps. 

Killed. 

Wounded. 

.Missing. 

Aggregate 

PETERSBURG,  VA.  —  Continu*  •<  1  . 

22d    U.S.  Colored. 

Hinks's 

Eighteenth 

\\ 

116 

8 

138 

4th  U.S.  Colored. 

Hinks's 

Eighteenth 

15 

110 

10 

135 

2d    Penn.  II.  A. 

Martindale's 

Eighteenth 

1*; 

94 

16 

120 

148th  New  York  . 

Martindale's 

Eighteenth 

10 

74 

20 

110 

89th  New  York  . 

Martindale's 

Eighteenth 

LO 

82 

2 

94 

25th  Massachusetts 

Martindale's 

Eighteenth 

1  1 

44 

55 

5th  U.  S.  Colored  . 

Hinks's 

Eighteenth 

s 

48 

20 

76 

llth  Connecticut. 

Martindale's 

Eighteenth 

6 

52 

5 

63 

PETERSBURG,  VA  .  * 

June  17-18,  IWBJ.t 

24th  N.  Y.  Cav'y  (dism'ted) 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

38 

150 

3 

197 

2d    Michigan  . 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

21 

170 

13 

204 

187th  Pennsylvania 

Griffin's 

Ninth 

23 

105 

1 

189 

37th  Wisconsin  . 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

33 

122 

2 

157 

170th  New  York  . 

(  ribbon's 

Second 

22 

111 

3 

136 

27th  Michigan  . 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

17 

100 

5 

I2S 

30th  Wisconsin  . 

Gibbon's 

Second 

10 

107 

_  _ 

123 

109th  New  York  . 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

20 

81 

20 

127 

4th  Delaware  . 

Cutler's 

Fifth 

21 

91 

.. 

112 

1st  Michigan  S.  S.  . 

NVillcox's 

Ninth 

22 

53 

81 

156 

00th  Ohio 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

20 

69 

5 

94 

182d    New  York  . 

Gibbon's 

Second 

19 

75 

10 

104 

2d   N.  Y.  M.  Rifles  (dis.) 

Potter's 

Ninth 

18 

82 

2 

102 

21st  Pa.  Cav'y  (dism'ted). 

Griffin's 

Fifth 

11 

80 

I 

98 

155th  New  York  .  . 

Gibbon's 

Second 

17 

02 

_  _. 

79 

17th  Maine  

Birney's 

Second 

14 

09 

4 

87 

5th  Michigan  .  . 

Birney's 

Second 

17 

54 

21 

92 

179th  New  York  .. 

Ledlie's 

Ninth 

11 

70 

10 

91 

48th  Pennsylvania  . 

Potter's 

Ninth 

15 

57 

3 

75 

20th  Michigan  ... 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

14 

55 

_  , 

09 

59th  Massachusetts  . 

Ledlie's 

Ninth 

11 

58 

5 

74 

7th  Wisconsin. 

Cutler's 

Fifth 

12 

52 

_  _ 

04 

3d    Delaware  .  . 

Cutler's 

Fifth 

9 

50 

-- 

05 

1st  Maine  H.  A.. 

Birney's 

Second 

90 

459 

31 

580:}: 

8th  New  York  H.  A 

Gibbon's 

Second 

42 

201 

5 

308 

1st  Massachusetts  H.  A. 

Birney's 

Second 

31 

222 

194 

447 

2d    New  York  H.  A.  . 

Barlow's 

Second 

28 

218 

60 

300 

2d    Pennsylvania  H.  A. 

Ledlie's 

Ninth 

40 

193 

13 

•241  ; 

14th  New  York  H.  A 

Ledlie's 

Ninth 

38 

152 

60 

250 

7th  New  York  H.  A 

Barlow's 

Second 

33 

152 

310 

:,i  •  i 

4th  New  York  H.  A.  . 

Birney's 

Second 

10 

88 

104 

LYNCHBURG,  VA. 

June  17,  1864. 

54th  Pennsylvania  

Crook's 

Eighth 

11 

37 

14 

62 

*The  Ninth  Corps  assaulted  on  the  17th :  the  Second  Corps  on  the  18th.  ^Includes  losses  in  the  trenches,  June  l»-30th. 

JWur  Department  records  ;  tin-  '  'niri:il  state  Reports  make  the  loss  115  killed,  and  4«9  wounded. 


452 

Regiment. 

NOONDAY  CREEK,  GA. 

June  20,  1664. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Division.  Corps.  Killed.    Wounded.     Missing.     Aggregate. 


4th  Michigan  Cavalry. .  _     Garrard's 


Cavalry  A.  C.      11 


25 


JACKSON,  Miss. 

July  6, 1864. 

76th  Illinois 

VINING'S  STATION,  GA. 

July  9,  1864. 

21st  Ohio  . 


Johnson's 


MONOCACY,  MD. 

July  9,  1864. 

9th  New  York  H.  A Ricketts's 

14th  New  Jersey  . .  Ricketts's 

106th  New  York.  Ricketts's 

151st  New  York.  Ricketts's 

110th  Ohio  .  Ricketts's 


11 


47 


JERUSALEM  ROAD,  VA.* 

• 

June  22.  1864. 

8th  New  York  H.  A.  .. 

Gibbon's 

Second 

24 

96 

1 

121 

184th  Pennsylvania  

Gibbon's 

Second 

10 

42 

115 

167 

llth  Vermont  (H.  A.  )  -  -  -  - 

Getty's 

Sixth 

9 

27 

263 

299 

ST.  MARY'S  CHURCH,  VA. 

June  24,  1864. 

1st  Maine  Cavalry  

Gregg's 

Cavalry  A.  P. 

9 

46 

11 

66 

6th  Ohio  Cavalry  

Gregg's 

Cavalry  A.  P. 

3 

32 

-- 

35 

WILSON'S  RAID,  VA. 

June  27-29,  1864. 

llth  Perm.  Cavalry  

Kautz's 

Cavalry  A.  J. 

21 

45 

117 

183 

1st  D.  C.  Cavalry.. 

Kautz's 

Cavalry  A.  J. 

14 

58 

66 

138 

KENESAW  MOUNTAIN,  GA. 

June  22,  1864.  t 

97th  Ohio  

Newton's 

Fourth 

16 

110 

1 

127 

51st  Ohio  

Stanley's 

Fourth 

13 

42 

... 

55 

KENESAW  MOUNTAIN,  GA. 

June  27,  1864.  t 

40th  Indiana  

Newton's 

Fourth 

34 

125 

10 

169 

113th  Ohio... 

Davis's 

Fourteenth 

27 

121 

5 

153 

121st  Ohio               

Davis's 

Fourteenth 

22 

125 

..  _ 

147 

125th  Illinois  

Davis's 

Fourteenth 

47 

52 

5 

104 

86th  Illinois  

Davis's 

Fourteenth 

29 

75 

12 

116 

74th  Illinois  

Newton's 

Fourth 

21 

58 

10 

89 

103d    Illinois. 

Harrow's 

Fifteenth 

22 

51 

73 

Seventeenth    16     71     15    102 


Fourteenth    15     39      2     56 


Sixth  13  89  99  201 

Sixth  24  87  29  140 

Sixth  16  73  44  133 

Sixth  24  45  32  101 

Sixth  4  82  52  138 


*  Known  also  as  Weldou  Railroad. 


tlucluctmg  other  losses  near  Kenesaw  Mountain. 


Regiment. 

FORT  STEVENS,  D.  C. 

July  12.  1864. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLE.  453 

Division.  Corps.  Killed.    Wounded.     Missing.     Aggregate. 


98th  Pennsylvania  

Getty's 

Sixth 

8 

28 

.. 

36 

43d    New  York... 

Getty's 

Sixth 

7 

29 

36 

TUPELO,  Miss. 

July  13-15,  1861 

12th  Iowa.  . 

Mower's 

Sixteenth 

9 

53 

1 

63 

7th  Minnesota   

Mower's 

Sixteenth 

9 

50 

1 

60 

CARTER'S  FARM,  VA. 

July  20,  1884. 

14th  West  Virginia  

DuvaPs 

Eighth 

10 

52 

_  ^ 

62 

91st  Ohio  ..               

Duval's 

Eighth 

8 

58 

-- 

66 

PEACH  TREE  CREEK,  GA. 

July  19  20,  1864. 

46th  Pennsylvania  . 

Willianis's 

Twentieth 

25 

101 

2 

!•_- 

52d    Ohio  . 

Davis's 

Fourteenth 

17 

59 

23 

99 

33d    Indiana  . 

Ward's 

Twentieth 

17 

07 

84 

141st  Kew  York. 

Willianis's 

Twentieth 

15 

65 

80 

61st  Ohio  

Willianis's 

Twentieth 

13 

66 

2 

81 

5th  Connecticut  . 

Willianis's 

Twentieth 

23 

52 

1 

76 

ATLANTA,  GA. 

July  21-22,  1864,* 

12th  Wisconsin  . 

Leggett's 

Seventeenth 

47 

153 

21 

221 

13th  lowa. 

Gresham's 

Seventeenth 

25 

ISS 

93 

30<; 

27th  Ohio  . 

Fuller's 

Sixteenth 

29 

145 

6 

180 

15th  Iowa  

Gresham's 

Seventeenth 

19 

122 

79 

220 

39th  Ohio  

FuUer's 

Sixteenth 

21 

144 

165 

31st  Illinois  .   

Leggett's 

Seventeenth 

36 

89 

38 

163 

64th  Illinois  . 

FuUer's 

Sixteenth 

23 

90 

9 

122 

llth  Iowa  

Gresham's 

Seventeenth 

20 

92 

60 

172 

32d    Ohio  

Gresham's 

Seventeenth 

19 

91 

41 

151 

16th  Wisconsin  

Leggett's 

Seventeenth 

25 

83 

11 

119 

78th  Ohio  

Leggett's 

Seventeenth 

25 

73 

24 

122 

lllth  Illinois  . 

M.  L.  Smith's 

Fifteenth 

18 

50 

86 

154 

66th  Illinois  . 

Sweeny's 

Sixteenth 

17 

57 

2 

76 

WINCHESTER,  VA. 

July  24-25,  1864. 

36th  Ohio  

Duval's 

Eighth 

9 

103 

24 

130 

13th  West  Virginia  . 

Duval's 

Eighth 

14 

50 

15 

79 

23d    Illinois  

Mulligan's 

Eighth 

14 

63 

37 

114 

10th  West  Virginia 

Mulligan's 

Eighth 

12 

57 

43 

112 

DEEP  BOTTOM,  VA.f 

July  26-29,  1864. 

110th  Pennsylvania  

Birney's 

Second 

7 

24 

.  _ 

31 

llth  Maine  

Terry's 

Tenth 

3 

29 

_  _ 

32 

16th  Penn.  Cavalry  

Gregg's 

Cavalry  A.  P. 

5 

29 

2 

36 

2d    U.  S.  Cavalry 

Gregg's 

Cavalry  A.  P. 

4 

16 

5 

25 

'  Including  slight  loss  at  Nickajack,  and  Kzra  Chapel. 


tOr,  "First"  Deep  Bottom. 


454 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Division.  Coips. 

PETERSBURG  MINE,  VA. 

July  30,  1864. 

23d    U.  S.  Colored Ferrero's*  Ninth 

30th  U.  S.  Colored  .  Ferrero's  Ninth 

19th  U.  S.  Colored Ferrero's  Ninth 

39th  U.  S.  Colored  . .     -  -  Ferrero's  Ninth 

43d    U.  S.  Colored  . .  Ferrero's  Ninth 

31st  U.  S.  Colored  .  Ferrero's  Ninth 

29th  U.  S.  Colored  . .  Ferrero's  Ninth 

28th  U.  S.  Colored Ferrero's  Ninth 

27th  U.  S.  Colored  ...    . .  Ferrero's  Ninth 

37th  Wisconsin  . . .         _  _  Willcox's  Ninth 

13th  Ohio  Cav'y(dism'ted)  Willcox's  Ninth 

27th  Michigan . .  Willcox's  Ninth 

14th  New  York  H.  A. .  Ledlie's  Ninth 

2d    Pennsylvania  H.  A.  _  Ledlie's  Ninth 

4th  Rhode  Island  Potter's  Ninth 

9th  New  Hampshire .   . .  Potter's  Ninth 

4th  New  Hampshire Turner's  Tenth 

76th  Pennsylvania . .  Turner's  Tenth 

2d    N.  Y.  M.  Rifles  f . . . .  Potter's  Ninth 

100th  Pennsylvania Ledlie's  Ninth 

llth  New  Hampshire Potter's  Ninth 

UTOY  CREEK,  GA. 

August  5-6, 1864. 

100th  Ohio Cox's  Twenty-third 

8th  Tennessee  .  Cox's  Twenty-third 

112th  Illinois Cox's  Twenty-third 

38th  Ohio . .  Baird's  Fourteenth 

DEEP  BOTTOM,  VA. 

August  14-16, 18C4. 

1 1th  Maine Terry's  Tenth 

24th  Massachusetts Terry's  Tenth 

1st  Maryland  Cavalryf  .  Terry's  Tenth 

39th  Illinois Ter  ry 's  Tenth 

3d  New  Hampshire Terry's  Tenth 

85th  Pennsylvania Terry's  Tenth 

9th  U.  S.  Colored Birney's  (Wm.)  Tenth 

10th  Connecticut Terry's  Tenth 

62d  Ohio Terry's  Tenth 

115th  New  York Turner's  Tenth 

1st  Maine  Cavalry Gregg's  Cavalry 

13th  Penn.  Cavalry  .  Gregg's  Cavalry 

2d    Penn.  Cavalry  . .  Gregg's  Cavalry 


Killed.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


74 
18 
22 
13 
14 
27 
21 
11 
9 

34 

17 

11 

10 

9 

7 

9 

6 

3 

10 

10 

9 


34 
25 
12 
13 


20 
19 
18 
20 
12 
21 
13 
10 
11 
5 

8 
5 
4 


115 
104 
87 
97 
86 
42 
56 
64 
46 
59 
59 
51 
44 
35 
51 
35 
35 
40 
31 
28 
32 


57 
56 
58 
43 


121 

99 
89 
76 
71 
62 
63 
62 
39 
44 

25 
22 
24 


121 

78 
6 

47 
23 
66 
47 
13 
20 
52 
7 

23 

78 

72 

25 

30 

5 

9 

7 

30 

22 


9 

13 
1 
6 


6 
12 

16 
7 
9 
4 
5 

10 
11 
24 

2 
39 
29 


310 

200 

115 

157 

123 

135 

124 

88 

75 

145 

83 

85 

132 

116 

83 

74 

46 

52 

48 

68 

63 


100 
94 
71 
62 


147 

130 
123 
103 

92 
87 
81 
82 
61 
73 

35 

66 

57 


*In  comparing  losses  in  this  engagement,  it  should  be  understood  that  this  was  the  first  action  in  which  the  colored  troops  of  this  division 
were  engaged  and  that  their  ranks  were  comparatively  full.  tDism  ->unted. 


Rfgimfnt. 

liAlNKSX  II. IK.    Fl.A. 
August  17, 1884. 

75th  Ohio  Mounted  Inf. 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 


Corps.  Killed. 


455 
Missing.    Aggregate. 


WELDON  RAILROAD,  VA. 

J.U 

60 

August  10,  1864. 

Purnell  Legion  (Md.)  .  . 

.  .     Ayres's 

Fifth 

17 

65 

5th  New  York  

Ayres's 

Fifth 

14 

49 

15th  New  York  H.  A.. 

.  .     Ayres's 

Fifth 

13 

75 

1st  Maryland  

Ayres's 

Fifth 

10 

64 

39th  Massachusetts 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

10 

35 

14th  New  York  H.  A 

White's 

Ninth 

10 

36 

llth  U.  S.  Infantry 

.  .     Ayres's 

Fifth 

6 

32 

17th  U.  S.  Infantry 

Ayres's 

Fifth 

9 

25 

14th  U.  S.  Infantry 

.  .     Ayres's 

Fifth 

6 

25 

7th  Maryland  

Ayres's 

Fifth 

10 

21 

Oth  Wisconsin  

Cutler's 

Fifth 

9 

20 

51st  Pennsylvania 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

3 

27 

REAM'S  STATION,  VA.* 

August  ar>,  IN',  i. 

•it  h  New  York  H.  A 

Miles's 

Second 

13 

32 

2d    New  York  H   A 

Miles's 

Second 

15 

20 

7th  New  York  II.  A 

Miles's 

Second 

9 

13 

8th  New  York  H    A 

Gibbon's 

Second 

0 

28 

14th  Connecticut  

Gibbon's 

Second 

5 

19 

148th  Pennsylvania  _  . 

Miles's 

Second 

5 

21 

JONESBORO,  GA. 

August  31,  18*>4. 

38th  Ohio  .  .  . 

Baird's 

Fourteenth 

42 

108 

17th  New  York  .  .  . 

Morgan's 

Fourteenth 

23 

74 

10th  Michigan  .. 

Morgan's 

Fourteenth 

20 

70 

14th  Ohio  

Baird's 

Fourteenth 

16 

74 

74th  Indiana  

Baird's 

Fourteenth 

13 

40 

78th  Illinois  

„  .     Morgan's 

Fourteenth 

13 

37 

OPEQUON,  VA. 

Sept.  19,  18&1. 

114th  New  York  

Dwight's 

Nineteenth 

21 

164 

2d    Connecticut  H.  A. 

.  .     Russell's 

Sixth 

20 

118 

26th  Massachusetts  . 

.  .     Grover's 

Nineteenth 

38 

so 

14th  New  Hampshire  .- 

Grover's 

Nineteenth 

31f 

88 

150th  New  York  

Grover's 

Nineteenth 

20 

91 

3d    Mass.  Cavalry:}: 

Grover's 

Nineteenth 

19 

87 

91st  Ohio  

Duval's 

Eighth 

11 

95 

10th  West  Virginia 

Thoburn's 

Eighth 

17 

78 

12th  Maine  

Grover's 

Nineteenth 

14 

83 

34th  Massachusetts 

Thoburn's 

Eighth 

0 

96 

llth  Vermont  (H.  A.). 

.  .     Getty's 

Sixth 

8 

85 

*With  the  missing  are  included 

many  who  were  killed  or 

wounded.              tKilled  and 

mortally  wounded,  59, 

114 


I.M; 


50 

13S 

50 

119 

5 

93 

0 

80 

240 

291 

3 

4i) 

51 

89 

17 

51 

80 

111 

10 

41 

10 

45 

5 

35 

3:  K) 

«>*•  " 
6t  .» 

37 

72 

72 

04 

210 

244 

20 

50 

43 

09 

150 

_  _ 

97 

.. 

90 

—  — 

90 

_  _ 

53 

50 

185 

_  _ 

138 

21 

139 

19 

138 

-  - 

111 

_  _ 

100 

.. 

100 

2 

97 

15 

112 

.. 

102 

0 

99 

^Dismounted. 

456 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

Division. 

Corps. 

Killed. 

Wounded. 

Missing. 

Aggregate, 

OPEQUON,  VA.—  Continued. 

37th  Massachusetts  

Russell's 

Sixth 

12 

79 



91 

22d    Iowa  . 

Grover's 

Nineteenth 

11 

63 

31 

105 

160th  New  York  *  

Dwight's 

Nineteenth 

15 

61 

1 

77 

131st  New  York  

Grover's 

Nineteenth 

10 

64 

74 

1st  Michigan  Cavalry  .  . 

Merritt's 

Cavalry 

6 

33 

.. 

39 

5th  Michigan  Cavalry  _  - 

Merritt's 

Cavalry 

5 

17 

2 

24 

1st  U.  S.  Cavalry..-. 

Merritt's 

Cavalry 

4 

14 

6 

24 

18th  Penn.  Cavalry  

Wilson's 

Cavalry 

7 

12 

1 

20 

FISHER'S  HILL,VA. 

Sept.  22,  1864. 

126th  Ohio  

Ricketts's 

Sixth 

6 

25 

1 

32 

139th  Pennsylvania  

Getty's 

Sixth 

2 

24 

-- 

26 

CHAFFIN'S  FARM,  VA.+ 

6th  U.  S.  Colored 

Paine's 

Eighteenth 

41 

160 

8 

209 

5th  U.  S.  Colored 

Paine's 

Eighteenth 

28 

185 

23 

236 

4th  U.  S.  Colored 

Paine's 

Eighteenth 

27 

137 

14 

178 

36th  U.  S.  Colored 

Paine's 

Eighteenth 

21 

87 



108 

38th  U.  S.  Colored 

Paine's 

Eighteenth 

17 

94 



111 

7th  U.  S.  Colored 

Birney's  (Wm.) 

Tenth 

20 

82 

133 

235 

2d    Pennsylvania  H.  A.  - 

Heckman's 

Eighteenth 

14 

85 

138 

237 

58th  Pennsylvania  

Stannard's 

Eighteenth 

15 

85 

5 

105 

117th  New  York.. 

Foster's 

Tenth 

15 

76 

33 

124 

13th  New  Hampshire  

Stannard's 

Eighteenth 

14 

63 

1 

78 

96th  New  York  

Stannard's 

Eighteenth 

8 

66 

29 

103 

158th  New  York  

Heckman's 

Eighteenth 

14 

54 

10 

78 

POPLAR  SPRING  CHURCH,  V 

A4 

Sept.  30,  1864. 

6th  New  Hampshire.  _ 

Potter's 

Ninth 

5 

30 

77 

112 

9th  New  Hampshire. 

Potter's 

Ninth 

3 

22 

95 

120 

45th  Pennsylvania  -  _ 

Potter's 

Ninth 

4 

15 

185 

204 

35th  Massachusetts  -  _  . 

Potter's 

Ninth 

6 

19 

156 

181 

20th  Maine  

Griffin's 

Fifth 

6 

52 

_. 

58 

16th  Michigan  

Griffin's 

Fifth 

7 

41 



48 

118th  Pennsylvania  

Griffin's 

Fifth 

8 

37 

3 

48 

83d    Pennsylvania  

Griffin's 

Fifth 

6 

28 

— 

34 

llth  U.  S.  Infantry 

Ayres's 

Fifth 

5 

12 

17 

6th  Ohio  Cavalry  

Gregg's 

Cavalry 

3 

11 

51 

65 

10th  New  York  Cavalry  . 

Gregg's 

Cavalry 

4 

11 

-- 

15 

ALLATOONA  PASS,  GA. 

Oct.  5,  1864. 

39th  Iowa  

Corse's 

Fifteenth 

40 

52 

78 

170 

7th  Illinois  

Corse's 

Fifteenth 

35 

67 

39 

141 

93d    Illinois  ... 

Corse's 

Fifteenth 

21 

52 

10 

83 

*Detachment  from  90th  New  York  temporarily  attached. 
jKnown,  also,  as  Peebles's  Farm. 


tlnclud.es  Fort  Harrison,  Fort  Gilmer,  and  New  Market  Heights. 


Regiment, 

NEW  MARKET  ROAD,  VA. 

Oct.  7,  1864. 

16thN.Y.H.  A.  (7  Cos.). 
5th  Penu.  Cavalry 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES.  457 

Division,  Corps.  KilUd.     Wounded.      Missing.    Aggregate. 


Terry's 
Kautz's 


Tenth 


DARBYTOWN  ROAD,  VA. 

Oft  13,  1864. 

67th  Ohio Ames's 

39th  Illinois Ames's 

10th  Connecticut Ames's 

STRASBURG,  VA. 

Oct.  IS,  1864. 

34th  Massachusetts Thobnrn's 

CEDAR  CREEK,  VA. 

Oct.  19, 1*4. 

47th  Pennsylvania  .   Dwight's 

29th  Maine D wight's 

114th  New  York  .  Dwight's 

12th  Connecticut . .  Dwight's 

30th  Massachusetts  . .  Dwight's 

8th  Vermont  .  Dwight's 

102d    Pennsylvania Getty's 

65th  New  York Wheaton's 

10th  Vermont Ricketts's 

28th  Iowa Grover's 

15th  New  Jersey Wheaton's 

153d    New  York Dwight's 

1st  Maine  (Veteran) Getty's 

98th  Pennsylvania Getty's 

121st  New  York Wheaton's 

9th  New  York  H.  A. .  Ricketts's 

2d    Conn.  H.  A.  .  Wheaton's 

1st  Vermont  H.  A. . .  Getty's 

1st  Mich.  Cavalry Merritt's 

2d    Mass.  Cavalry Merritt's 

BOYDTON  ROAD,  VA.* 

Oct  27,  1864. 

5th  Michigan Mott's 

8th  New  Jersey Mott's 

120th  New  York  . . .  Mott's 

187th  New  York  . . .  Griffin's 

188th  New  York  .  Griffin's 

91st  Pennsylvania  .  Griffin's 

8th  New  York  H.  A. .  Egan's 

43d    U.  S  Colored Ferrero's 

1st  Maine  Cavalry Gregg's 


Tenth 
Tenth 
Tenth 


Eighth 


Nineteenth 

Nineteenth 

Nineteenth 

Nineteenth 

Nineteenth 

Nineteenth 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Nineteenth 

Sixth 

Nineteenth 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Sixth 

Cavalry 

Cavalry 


Second 

Second 

Second 

Fifth 

Fifth 

Fifth 

Second 

Ninth 


11 

10 


3 
1 

5 


9 


37 
20 
21 
22 

12 
17 
12 
12 
10 
10 
13 
10 
10 
13 
10 

43 

21 

13 

3 


6 
3 

8 
8 
6 
6 
5 
18 


54 
32 


60 
45 
37 


48 


89 
107 
86 
57 
96 
66 
80 
74 
65 
71 
57 
63 
60 
41 
42 

I*;:, 

107 

74 

24 

16 


Cavalry  A.  P.    9 


47 
58 
30 
43 
46 
45 
32 
17 

56 


67 


2 
4 
3 


40 


28 

8 
93 

23 

4 

4 

9 

15 

8 
8 
1 
5 

62 

20 

1 

1 


68 
42 
21 

8 
2 
2 
11 
2 

12 


65 
109 


•  ;;, 
60 
45 


97 


154 
127 
115 
172 

108 
106 
92 
90 
85 
90 
85 
81 
78 
55 
57 

208 

190 

107 

28 

24 


121 
103 
59 
59 
54 
53 
48 
37 

77 


•Also  known  as  "  First  Hatcher's  Kun." 


458 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.                                            Division.                            Corps.  Killed.  Wounded.  Missing.  Aggregate. 

BOYDTON  ROAD,  VA. — Continued. 

21st  Penn.  Cavalry Gregg's  Cavalry  A.  P.  3  35  19  57 

16th  Penn.  Cavalry..     ..  Gregg's  Cavalry  A.  P.  5  22  2  29 

6th  Ohio  Cavalry Gregg's  Cavalry  A.  P.  6  18  13  37 

10th  New  York  Cavalry..  Gregg's  Cavalry  A.  P.  6  11  ..  17 

FAIR  OAKS,  VA.* 

Oct.  27,  1664. 

1st  U.  S.  Colored Holman's  Eighteenth  12  96  16  124 

29th  Conn.  Colored....  Birney's  (Wm.)     Tenth  11  69  ..  80 

22d    U.  S.  Colored  .       . .  Holman's  Eighteenth  5  45  . .  50 

142d    New  York...         ..  Fosters  Tenth  8  90  5  103 

117th  New  York ...   Foster's  Tenth  6  42  4  52 

9th  Maine Foster's  Tenth  3  43  3  49 

89th  New  York . .  Heckman's  Eighteenth  4  37  98  139 

19th  Wisconsin  . .  Heckman's  Eighteenth  6  22  113  141 

5th  Maryland ...           .  _  Marston's  Eighteenth  4  30  36  70 

112th  New  York .  Foster's  Tenth  4  28  3  35 

67th  Ohio Ames's  Tenth  2  20  2  24 

SPRING  HILL,  TENN. 

Nov  29,  1864. 

42d    Illinois  _ Wagner's  Fourth  16  64  20  100 

FRANKLIN,  TENN. 

Nov.  30,  1864. 

44th  Missouri Ruger's  Twenty-third  34  37  92  163 

72d    Illinois  ...  Wagner's  Fourth  15  97  38  150 

51st  Illinois  .  Wagner's  Fourth  11  45  98  154 

lllth  Ohio. -.  Wagner's  Fourth  16  46  20  82 

36th  Illinois  .  Opdycke's  Fourth  6  35  21  62 

57th  Indiana . .  Wagner's  Fourth  5  24  63  92 

40th  Indiana Wagner's  Fourth  2  20  50  72 


HONEY  HILL,  S.  C. 

Nov.  30,  1864. 

55th  Mass.  Colored Hatch's 

25th  Ohio  . . .  Hatch's 

35th  U.  S.  Colored Hatch's 

DEVEAUX  NECK,  S.  C. 

Dec.  6-9,  1864. 

127th  New  York . .     Hatch's 

32d    U.  S.  Colored Hatch's 

MURFREESBORO,  TENN. 

Dec.  7,  1864. 


8th  Minnesota 


FORT  MCALLISTER,  GA. 

Dec.  13,  1864. 

70th  Ohio  .  Hazen's 


Fifteenth 


31 

24 

7 


16 

9 


14 


6 


112 
134 
101 


54 

39 


75 


31 


1 

3 

4 


144 
161 
112 


70 
49 


89 


37 


*Also  known  as  "  Darbytown  Road." 


Regiment. 

NASHVILLE,  TENN. 

Deo.  1516.  law. 

13th  U.S.  Colored.... 
100th  U.  S.  Colored . . . 
71st  Ohio 

12thU.  S.  Colored.... 

5th  Minnesota  . . 

51st  Indiana 

50th  Illinois  . 

11  th  Missouri 

17th  U.S.  Colored. 
10th  Minnesota 

8th  Wisconsin 

7th  Minnesota 

Oth  Minnesota  . 
40th  Ohio  . . 
18th  Ohio  . . . 
31st  Indiana 
26th  Kentucky 
33d    Missouri . 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES.  459 

Division.  Corps.  Killed.    Wounded.     Missing.    A^regate. 


12th  Missouri  Cavalry  . 
llth  Indiana  Cavalry. 

«/ 

10th  Tennessee  Cavalry 


Steedman's 

Steednian's 

Beatty's 

Steedman's 

Me  Arthur's 

Beatty's 

Beatty's 

Me  Arthur's 

Steedman's 

MrArtlmr's 

McArthur's 

Me  Arthur's 

McArthur's 

Beatty's 

Craft's 

Kimball's 

Couch's 

McArthur's 

Hatch's 
Hatch's 
Hatch's 


Fourth 


Sixteenth 
Fourth 
Fourth 
Sixteenth 

Sixteenth 
Sixteenth 
Sixteenth 
Sixteenth 
Fourth 

Fourth 

Twenty-third 

Sixteenth 

Cavalry 
Cavalry 
Cavalry 


55 
12 

21 

10 

14 

15 

8 

4 

1(5 

17 

7 

G 

8 

10 

11 

10 

2 

3 

5 

2 

7 


FORT  FISHER,  N.  C. 

Jan.  15,  1865. 

203d    Pennsylvania Ames's  Tenth*  46 

160th  New  Yorkf  .  Ames's  Tenth  31 

1 1 7th  New  York  . .  Ames's  Tenth  27 

142d    New  York .  Ames's  Tenth  12 

112th  New  York.  Ames's  Tenth  11 

1 1 5th  New  York Ames's  Tenth  1 1 

RIVERS'S  BRIDGE,  S.  C. 

Feb.  3-9,  1865. 

32d    Wisconsin Force'  Seventeenth  8 

DABXEY'S  MILLS,  VA.$ 

Feb.  5-7,  1660. 

6th  Wisconsin . .     Crawford's  Fifth  13 

107th  Pennsylvania  ..  Crawford's  Fifth  6 

8th  New  Jersey . .  -  Mott's  Second  1 1 

1st  Maryland  Ayres's  Fifth  6 

NATURAL  BRIDGE,  FLA. 

March  6,  1865. 

2d    U.S.  Colored  Inf..  14 


165 

121 

101 

104 

02 

88 

83 

S3 

68 

<;o 

55 
54 
50 
44 
40 
33 
44 
42 

40 
40 

28 


145 
54 
82 
32 
35 
32 


43 


M 
54 
37 

I.; 


44 


1 
0 


0 


3 

1 
1 


7 
21 


12 


221 

133 

122 

114 

107 

103 

100 

87 

84 

77 

62 

60 

58 

54 

60 

43 

46 

45 

45 
42 
35 


101 
88 

110 
45 
46 
44 


51 


101 
81 
48 
57 


70 


•These  troops  were  detached  from  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  but  remaining  in  North  Carolina,  were  reorganized  as  the  Tenth  Corps,  to 
which  they  originally  belonged. 

•*Part  of  this  loss  occurred  in  the  explosion  of  the  magazine,  after  the  capture  of  the  fort.         I  Also  known  as  "  Second  Hatcher's  Run." 


460 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment. 

AVERASBORO,  N.  C. 

March  16,  18(55. 


Division. 


Corps. 


Killed.    Wounded.     Missing.    Aggregate. 


17th  New  York     

_  .     Morgan's 

Fourteenth 

7 

25 

32 

107th  New  York  . 

Williams's 

Twentieth 

4 

23 

19 

46 

8th  Indiana  Cavalry  .  . 
BENTONVILLE,  N.  C 

March  19,  1865. 

13th  Michigan 

.  _     Kilpatrick's 
Carlin's 

Cavalry  A..  G. 
Fourteenth 

9 
15 

32 

81 

10 

41 
106 

21st  Michigan 

Carlin's 

Fourteenth 

13 

49 

11 

73 

31st  Wisconsin  
79th  Pennsylvania 

Williams's 
Carlin's 

Twentieth 
Fourteenth 

7 
10 

44 

38 

19 

6 

70 
54 

14th  Michigan 

_  _     Morgan's 

Fourteenth 

7 

43 

8 

58 

16th  Illinois 

Morgan's 

Fourteenth 

9 

40 

2 

51 

20th  Connecticut      .   __ 

_  .     Williams's 

Twentieth 

4 

30 

2 

36 

FORT  STEDMAN,  VA. 

March  25,  1865. 

14th  New  York  H.  A. 

Willcox's 

Ninth 

12 

45 

217 

274 

100th  Pennsylvania 

_     Willcox's 

Ninth 

9 

61 

47 

117 

200th  Pennsylvania 

Hartranft's 

Ninth 

9 

113 

122 

«/ 

57th  Massachusetts  

_  _     Willcox's 

Ninth 

6 

31 

53 

90 

PETERSBURG,  VA. 

March  25,  1865. 

93d    Peiinsvlvania 

Getty's 

Sixth 

15 

136 

151 

•/ 

28th  Massachusetts 
120th  New  York 

.  .     Miles's 
Mott's 

Second 
Second 

7 
6 

69 
32 

46 

76 
84 

APPOMATTOX  CAMPAIGN, 

March  29—  April  9,  1865. 

198th  Peiinsvlvania 

VA.* 
Griffin's 

Fifth 

37 

178 

22 

237 

»/ 

91st  New  York... 
185th  New  York 

.  .     Crawford's 
Griffin's 

Fifth 
Fifth 

33 
32 

176 
171 

21 

6 

230 
209 

207th  Pennsylvania 

Hartranft's 

Ninth 

38 

139 

8 

185 

5th  Wisconsin 

Wheaton's 

Sixth 

28 

144 

172 

186th  New  York 

Potter's 

Ninth 

33 

138 

9 

180 

82d    Pennsylvania 

Wheaton's 

Sixth 

24 

103 

1 

128 

205th  Peiinsvlvania 

Hartranft's 

Ninth 

24 

97 

5 

126 

«/ 

211th  Peiinsvlvania 

Hartranft's 

Ninth 

21 

93 

21 

135 

•/ 

199th  Pennsylvania 

Foster's 

Twenty-fourth 

22 

92 

1 

115 

15th  New  York  H.  A 

Ayres's 

Fifth 

12 

98 

132 

242 

7th  New  York  . 

Miles's 

Second 

18 

86 

10 

114 

10th  Connecticut  . 

Foster's 

Twenty  -fourth 

13 

91 

104 

39th  New  Jersey  . 

Potter's 

Ninth 

17 

84 

1 

102 

4th  New  York  H.  A. 

Miles's 

Second 

7 

94 

1 

102 

210th  Pennsylvania  . 

Ayres's 

Fifth 

7 

82 

28 

117 

*y 

6th  Wisconsin  

&/ 

Crawford's 

Fifth 

8 

79 

32 

119 

38th  Wisconsin  

Willcox's 

Ninth 

12 

74 

7 

93 

*  Includes  Gravelly  Run,  March  29th  ;  White  Oak  Road  and  Boydton  Road,  March  31st ;  Five  Forks,  April  1st ;  Fall  of  Petersburg,  April 
2d  ;  Sutherland  Station,  April  2d  ;  Sailor's  Creek,  and  High  Bridge,  April  6th  ;  Farmville,  April  7th  ;  and  Appouiattox,  April  9th.  The  regiments 
sustained  the  above  losses  as  follows :  those  of  the  Fifth  Corps,  at  Gravelly  Tlun,  White  Oak  Road,  and  Five  Forks  ;  the  Second  Corps,  at  White 


GREATEST  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 

Regiment.  Division.  Corps.  Kitted.  Wounded.  Missing.     Aggregate. 

APPOMATTOX  CAMPAIGN. — Continued. 

31st  Maine.  Potter's  Ninth  11  74  3 

5th  New  Hampshire  . .  Miles's  Second  14  66  82          162 

11 1th  New  York....  Miles's  Second                   9  72  81 

llth  Maine.  Foster's  Twenty-fourth      9  69  34  112 

53d    Pennsylvania.  Miles's  Second  17  59  76 

37th  Massachusetts . .  Wheaton's  Sixth  13  62  75 

48th  Pennsylvania.  I 'oiler's  Ninth  13  61  25            '.''.' 

67th  Ohio  .  Foster's  Twenty-fourth  65  73 

39th  Illinois .  Foster's  Twenty-fourth  20  52  72 

7th  Wisconsin.  Crawford's  Fifth  11  59  11            81 

2d    New  York  H.  A Miles's  Second                    6  62  73  141 

9th  New  York  H.  A Seymour's  Sixth                       5  63  4  72 

95th  New  York..             ..  Crawford's  Fifth                        4  63  9  76 

49th  Pennsylvania.  Wheaton's  Sixth  16  50  66 

116th  New  York.         Turner's  Twenty-fourth  1<»  56  66 

llth  West  Virginia.,  Turner's  Twenty-fourth      5  61  66 

94th  New  York.  Crawford's  Fifth  12  49  24            85 

52d    New  York.  Miles's  Second  12  49  12            73 

1st  Maryland  . .  Ayres's  Fifth                        U  48  24  81 

2d    Rhode  Island  .  Wheaton's  Sixth  41)  57 

54th  Pennsylvania.  Turner's  Twenty-fourth       7  50  57 

158th  New  York.  Foster's  Twenty-fourth  11  44 

179th  New  York.  Potter's  Ninth'                     9  43  8  60 

106th  New  York.              ..  Seymour's  Sixth  40  48 

99th  Pennsylvania.  Mott's  Second  11  30  16            57 

2d    Vermont  . .  Getty's  Sixth  33  41 

1st  Maine  Cavalry  Crook's  Cavalry  A.  P.  23  107  12          142 

1st  New  Jersey  Cavalry.  Crook's  Cavalry  A.  P.  11  43  34 

8th  Penn.  Cavalry .  Crook's  Cavalry  A.  P.        9  47  6  62 

2d    W.Va.  Cav'y(7Cos.)  Custer's  Cavalry  A.  S.        7  50  3  60- 

2d    New  York  Cavalry.  Custer's  Cavalry  A.  S.        9  44  ..  53 

16th  Penn.  Cavalry Crook's  Cavalry  A.  P.        9  43  5  57 

SELMA,  ALA. 

April  2,  1865. 

17th  Indiana  .    Long's  Cavalry  12  80  ..             92 

SPANISH  FORT,    \\.\. 

April  8,  1865. 

8th  Iowa..                       ..  Carr's  Sixteenth                8  43  2  53 
FORT  BLAKELY,  ALA. 

April  9,  1865. 

68th  U.  S.  Colored. Hawkins's  10  91  ..  101 

76th  Illinois ..  Andrews's  Thirteenth  17  81  98 

llth  Wisconsin Garrard's  Sixteenth  15  46  61 

8th  Illinois .  Veatch's  Thirteenth  in  54  64 

Oak  Road.  Sutherland  Station,  Sailor's  Creek,  and  Fannville  ;  the  Sixth  Corps,  at  the  Fall  of  Petersburg,  and  Sailor's  Creek  ;  the  Ninth  Corps, 
at  the  Fall  of  Petersburg ;  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps,  at  the  Fall  of  Petersburg,  Iligh  Bridge,  ami  Apponmttox.  The  cavalry  sustained  losses 
daily,  from  Gravelly  Run  to  Appomattox. 


462  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Although  the  fighting  may  be  considered  as  having  ended  at  Fort  Blakely  and  Appoma- 
tox,  still,  some  minor  affairs  occurred  afterwards. 

Upton's  Division  of  Cavalry,  while  on  the  Wilson  Raid,  had  a  sharp  fight  at  Columbus,  Ga.. 
on  the  16th  of  April,  1865,  and  other  divisions  in  Wilson's  Corps  were  engaged  at  West  Point, 
Ga. ,  on  the  same  date  ;  also  at  Macon,  Ga. ,  on  the  20th  of  April ;  and  at  Talladega,  Ala. ,  on 
the  22d.  In  South  Carolina,  a  provisional  division  under  command  of  General  E.  E.  Potter 
was  engaged,  with  some  loss  of  life,  on  the  18th  of  April,  1865,  at  Boy  kin's  Mills.  Some 
fighting  also  occurred  at  Palmetto  Ranch,  Texas,  on  May  13th,  1865. 

But  the  war  ended,  substantially,  at  Appomattox,  April  9,  1865.  Fort  Blakely,  Ala.,  fell 
the  same  day,  carried  by  a  bloody  assault. 

The  war  commenced  on  the  19th  of  April,  1861,  and  was  officially  declared  as  ended, 
August  20,  1866. 

CASUALTIES  IN  LIGHT  ARTILLERY.. 

The  following  list  of  remarkable  casualties  in  the  light  artillery  is  given  in  a  separate 
class,  as  the  small  number  of  men  in  a  light  battery  would  not  give  their  losses  a  proper  place 
among  those  of  the  larger  organizations. 

These  artillery  losses,  though  they  may  appear  slight  numerically,  were  really  severe,  and 
represent  large  percentages.  Scarcely  any  of  these  batteries  took  100  men  into  action;  many 
of  them  did  not  take  75  men  into  battle. 

The  Eleventh  Ohio  Battery,  in  which  the  most  remarkable  loss  occurred,  took  "about  105 
men'1'  into  action  at  Iuka,"x~  of  whom  54  were  gunners,  or  helped  serve  the  guns;  most  of 
the  others  were  drivers.  Of  the  54  men  at  the  guns,  46  were  killed  or  wounded  at  luka. 
General  Rosecrans  says,  in  his  official  report  of  this  affair,  that  "  Sands's  Eleventh  Ohio 
Battery,  under  command  of  Lieutenant  Sears,  behaved  nobly.  The  fearful  losses  sus 
tained  by  this  battery  show  their  unyielding  obstinacy."  Also,  that  it  "was  served  with 
unequalled  bravery  under  circumstances  of  danger  and  exposure  such  as  rarely,  perhaps  never, 
has  fallen  to  the  lot  of  one  single  battery  during  the  war."  The  Chief  of  Artillery  also  men 
tions  this  battery  in  his  official  report,  and  says,  ' '  one  officer  and  sixteen  men  were  kiUed  at 
their  pieces,  several  of  them  being  bayonetted  by  the  enemy.  I  cannot  speak  in  too  high 
terms  of  the  bravery  of  the  officers  and  the  men  in  this  battery."  The  brigade  commander 
states  that  "the  battery  fired  with  great  rapidity  and  with  extraordinary  accuracy  of  aim, 
which  threw  the  enemy  into  confusion."  This  battery  was  in  the  possession  of  the  enemy 
at  one  time  during  the  fight,  but  it  was  soon  recaptured.  Three  of  the  guns  had  been  spiked 
-  done  by  their  own  gunners,  some  of  whom  were  killed  in  the  act  —  and  the  wheels  and 
caissons  were  badly  splintered  by  bullets.  The  charge  on  the  battery  was  made  by  two  Texan 
regiments.  The  battery  fired  116  rounds,  mostly  canister,  and  some  of  it  in  double  charges. 

Bigelow's  Battery  (9th  Massachusetts)  took  104  officers  and  men  into  its  famous  fight  at 
Gettysburg. 

But,  80  men  seem  to  have  been  a  common  strength  of  the  six-gun  batteries,  when  in 
action. 

The  attachment  of  the  men  to  their  pieces  developed  a  bravery  which  was  heroic  in  the 
extreme  ;  they  often  accepted  death  rather  than  surrender  their  guns. 

When  Loomis's  famous  Michigan  Battery  was  captured  at  Chickamauga,  Lieutenant  Van 
Pelt,  its  commander,  disdaining  to  retreat  stood  by  the  muzzle  of  a  cannon  shouting  to  the 
enemy  to  keep  their  hands  off  the  guns,  and  was  killed  at  his  post. 


*Lieutenant  Cyrus  Sears,  in  National  Tribuue. 


<  IRK  \Tl-ST    LnssKS    IN     I'.  \TT1  I  s 


403 


Captain  Easton  fell  beside  a  gun  at  Gaines's  Mill,  shouting,  "  No  !  we  never  surrender," 
in  reply  to  the  demand  of  the  victors  to  give  up  his  battery.* 

At  Gettysburg,  young  Gushing  shouts  to  his  general  that  he  will  give  them  "one  shot 
more,"  and  falls  dead  as  Pickett's  men  surge  up  to  the  muzzles  of  his  pieces. 

Of  the  noted  batteries  mentioned  in  the  accompanying  list  of  casualties,  Kern,  Woodruff, 
Burnham,  Hazzard,  DeHart,  Dimmick,  Rorty,  Hazlitt,  Leppien,  McGilvery,  Geary  (of  Knap's), 
Simonson,  Erickson  and  Whitaker  (of  Bigelow's)--were  killed  in  action. 

When  closely  pressed  by  a  charge  of  the  enemy,  the  gunners,  though  unarmed,  would 
often  defend  their  pieces  with  rammers  and  handspikes  used  as  clubs.  In  the  charge  of  the 
Louisiana  Tigers  on  Ricketts's  Pennsylvania  Battery,  at  Cemetery  Hill,  Gettysburg,  one  of 
the  assailants  fell  dead  in  the  battery,  killed  by  a  stone  which  was  bin-led  at  him. 

Some  of  the  light  batteries  sustained  a  remarkable  loss  in  horses,  killed  in  battle. 

Bigelow  lost,  at  Gettysburg,  50  horses  killed  and  15  wounded,  according  to  the  official 
report  of  Lieutenant  Milton,  who  brought  the  battery  off  the  field. f 

Lieutenant  Sears  states  in  a  newspaper  article  that  the  Eleventh  Ohio  Battery  lost,  at 
luka,  "42  horses  killed  upon  the  field,  and  (a  coincidence'  42  so  disabled  from  wounds  that 
they  had  to  be  turned  over,  unfit  for  service." 

Lieutenant  Snow,  First  Maine  Battery,  in  his  official  report  for  Cedar  Creek,  states  that 
he  "lost  40  horses  killed  in  harness." 

The  maximum  losses  of  horses  killed  in  any  one  action  seems  to  have  been  reached  in 
these  instances  ;^  at  least,  a  careful  examination  of  official  reports  fails  to  show  any  greater. 

The  following  list  of  remarkable  losses  in  the  light  artillery,  during  the  last  war, 
embraces  every  instance  in  which  a  battery  lost  twenty  or  more  killed  and  wounded,  in  any 
one  action,  the  mortally  wounded  being  included  with  the  wounded. 

MAXIMUM  LOSSES  OF  LIGHT  ARTILLERY 
Ix  ANY  ONE  ENGAGEMENT. 


Synonym.  Battery. 

"Sands's"  ..  llth  Ohio 

«Q~O,^  »  ir  e  4th  United  States 

v 

« , 


Seeley's"..    K,{ 

Campbell's  " .  B,§  4th  United  States 


Cushing's"..  A, 

Burnham's".  H, 

Parsons's  "  . .  I, 

Stewart's"  ..  B, 

SangerV  .  E,|[ 

Langdon's"  M, 

"Arnold's"..  A,§ 

"Wood's".  A, 


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4th  United  States 
5th  United  States 
4th  United  States 
4th  United  States 
3d  United  States 
1st  United  States 
1st  Rhode  Island 
1st  Illinois 


'  Burrows's  "  14th  Ohio 

Randolph's".  E,     1st  Rhode  Island 


Bigelow's  "  9th  Massachusetts 

Leppien's"  _^[  5th  Maine 


Battle. 

luka 

Chancellorsville 

\ntietam 

Gettysburg 

Chickamauga 

Chaplin  Hills 

Gettysburg 

Olustee 

Olustee 

Gettysburg 

Shiloh 

Shiloh 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Chancellorsville 


Killed. 

16 

9 

6 

13 
10 

2 
11 

4 

3 

4 

4 

3 

8 

6 


IVoundcd. 

35 
38 
31 
32 
18 
19 
31 
22 
22 
28 
26 
26 
26 
18 
22 


Missing, 

3 


13 

lo 

3 
6 
6 

1 


1 
2 


54 
45 
40 
38 
44 
39 
36 
39 
32 
32 
30 
30 
30 
28 
28 


*Batee's  History  of  the  Pennsylvania  Volunteers. 

tGeneral  Hunt,  Chief  of  Artillery,  jn  an  article  in  the  Century  Magazine,  states  that  Bigelow  lost  80  horses  killed  or  wounded,  out  of  88 
horses. 

JA  tabulated  report  of  artillery  losses  at  Stone's  River  (official),  mentions  some  large  figures;  but  as  in  each  case,  the  battery 
captured  and  held  by  the  enemy,  it  would  appear  that  the  captured  horses  had  been  erroneously  included  in  the  column  with  the  killed. 

^Appears  twice  in  this  list.  'Including  loss  in  the  detail  from  "  Les  Enfans  Perdus."  ^Appears  three  times  in  this  list 


464 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


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Ricketts's" 

Rorty's"---. 

Stevens's" 

Adams's  " 

Brown's". . 
Dillon's". 
Kern's"-. 
Houghtaling's  " . . 

Woodruff's" 

Turnbull's".. 

Bush's  " 

Edgerton's  " 

Adams's  " 

Cooper's" 

Cowan's  " 

Bridges's  " . 

Cushing's"(H.C.) 
Knap's  "f. 
Smith's  "  . 
Zickerick's  "  . 
Ricketts's"  . 

Dimmick's  " 

Simonson's" 

Seeley's  " 

Haley's  "  .  _ 

Watson's  " 

Nims's"...  _ 
Tompkins's".- 

Kern's" 

Cooper's" 

McKnight's  " 

Woodbury's" 

Harris's  " 

Standart's" 

Griffin's" 

Mann's" 

Belger's  " 

Rogers's" 

Andrews's" 

Loomis's  " 

Stevens's" 

Monroe's  " 

De  Hart's" 

Goodspeed's  " 

Simonson's" 

Bainbridge's  "  - .  . 
Sutermeister's  "_ 


G,* 
B, 


Battery. 

I,*    1st  United  States 

B,  1st  New  York 
. .     5th  Maine 

1st  Rhode  Island 
1st  Rhode  Island 
6th  Wisconsin 
G,*  1st  Pennsylvania 

C,  1st  Illinois 

I,      1st  United  States 
F&K,3d    United  States 
4th  Indiana 

E,  1st  Ohio 

G,  1st  Rhode  Island 
B,*  1st  Pennsylvania 
.  _  1st  New  York 

-  _    Illinois 
H,    4th  United  States 

_  _    Pennsylvania 
I,      4th  United  States 
...    12th  Wisconsin 
F  &  G,  1st  Pennsylvania 
H,     1st  United  States 
_ .  *   5th  Indiana 
K,    4th  United  States 

1st  Maine 

I.  5th  United  States 
. .  2d  Massachusetts 

A,  1st  Rhode  Island 
G,     1st  Pennsylvania 

B,  1st  Pennsylvania 
M,    5th  United  States 
M,     1st  New  York 

__    19th  Indiana 

B,  1st  Ohio 

D,  5th  United  States 
. .    Missouri 

F,  1st  Rhode  Island 
._   19th  New  York 

F,  1st  Michigan 

A,  1st  Michigan 

_  _  5th  Maine 

D,  1st  Rhode  Island 

C,  5th  United  States 
A,  1st  Ohio 

5th  Indiana 

1st  United  States 


A, 

llth  Indiana 


Battle.                          Killed.  Wounded,  Missing.    Aggregate. 

First  Bull  Run  12  15  27 

Gettysburg  10  16  26 

Cedar  Creek  2  26  28 

Cedar  Creek  4  23  27 

Gettysburg  7  19  2  28 

Corinth  5  21  26 

Manassas  3  23  8  34 

Stone's  River  5  20  25 

Gettysburg  1  24  25 

Gettysburg  9  14  1  24 

Stone's  River  5  19  24 

Stone's  River  3  20  25  48 

Fredericksburg  5  18  ..  23 

Manassas  4  19  ..  23 

Cedar  Creek  6  17  23 

Chickamauga  6  16  4  26 

Chickamauga  5  17  ..  22 

Wauhatchie  3  19  22 

Chickamauga  1  21  ..  22 

Allatoona  Pass  6  15  _  _  21 

Gettysburg  6  14  3  23 

Chancellorsville  3  18  21 

Stone's  River  3  18  21 

Gettysburg  2  19  4  25 

Cedar  Creek  3  17  8  28 

Gettysburg  1  19  2  22 

Sabiiie  X  Roads  1  18  1  20 

Antietam  4  15  19 

Gaines's  Mill  7  12  19 

Seven  Days  4  15  19 

Cedar  Creek  2  17  4  23 

Chancellorsville  5  13  4  22 

Chickamauga  2  16  2  20 

Stone's  River  5  12  3  20 

First  Bull  Run  4  13  10  27 

Shiloh  3  14  17 

Drewry's  Bluff  3  14  4  21 

Spotsylvaiiia  7  9  ._  16 

Richmond  (Ky.)  6  9  54  69 

Chickamauga  6  7  12  25 

Gettysburg  3  13  7  23 

Manassas  6  12  1  19 

Seven  Days  7  5  7  19 

Chickamauga  2  14  4  20 

Chaplin  Hills  2  13  6  21 

Port  Hudson  3  13  3  19 

Chickamauga  3  12  4  19 


*Appears  twice  in  this  list, 


tTvvo  sections  only. 


CHAPTER    XII. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  AND  BATTERIES  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES  WITH  MOR 
TUARY  LOSSES  OF  EACH  — THE  NUMBER  KILLED  AND  NUMBER  OF 
DEATHS  FROM  DISEASE  OR  OTHER  CAUSES. 

A  NOTHER  interesting  chapter  in  this  story  of  loyalty  may  he  found  in  the  statistics 
•**•  showing  the  total  numherof  deaths  in  each  organization  from  the  Northern  States  that 
served  in  the  War  for  the  Union.  The  deaths  incurred  in  battle  are  tabulated  here  separately 
from  those  induced  by  other  causes,  and  the  loss  in  officers  is  also  given  by  itself. 

These  figures  are  based  on  the  records  of  the  muster-out  rolls  on  file  in  the  Military 
Bureaus  of  the  various  States,  and  have  been  revised  by  a  careful  comparison  with  the 
records  of  the  War  Department  at  Washington.  They  have  also  been  tested  by  the  casualty 
lists  of  the  various  battles,  as  published  in  the  Official  Records  of  the  Rebellion,  or.  awaiting 
publication.  The  figures  are  believed  to  be  correct ;  and,  beyond  the  possible  change  of  an 
unit  or  so.  will  admit  of  no  variation. 

In  footing  up  the  regimental  losses  of  any  State,  a  seeming  discrepancy  may  arise 
between  the  total  result  and  the  figures  of  the  War  Department  which  are  given  elsewhere 
in  these  pages.  This  difference  in  the  total  losses  of  a  State  may  be  due  to  the  following 
reasons:  some  soldiers  who  were  borne  on  the  muster-out  rolls  as  "wounded  and  missing 
in  action"  are  included  in  these  regimental  tables  with  the  killed;  while  in  the  official  statistics 
of  the  War  Department  none  are  counted  as  killed  unless  definite  information  through  offi 
cial  sources  has  been  received  to  that  effect.  For  this  reason  the  total  of  killed  in  any  State, 
as  tabulated  here  by  regiments,  may  exceed  somewhat  the  figures  of  the  War  Department. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  footings  of  the  regimental  losses  from  disease  and  other  causes 
may,  in  some  States,  fall  somewhat  below  the  figures  of  the  Adjutant  General's  office  at 
Washington.  This  difference  is  due  largely  to  deaths  among  the  "  unassigned  recruits,"  who 
are  omitted  in  these  regimental  tables.  These  unassigned  recruits  were  seldom  borne  on  the 
regimental  rolls  ;  they  never  reported  to  the  regiments  for  duty  ;  and  most  of  the  deaths 
among  them  occurred  at  the  North  while  in  recruiting  barracks  or  camps  of  instruction. 
Hence,  the  deaths  in  this  class  are  not  considered  in  connection  with  the  matter  of  regimental 
losses,  although  they  enter  properly  into  the  State  totals. 

Some  minor  organizations,  in  which  deaths  from  disease  occurred,  are  also  omitted  , 
companies  or  small  battalions  which  never  left  their  State,  or  were  organized  in  1805,  at  the 
close  of  the  war. 

For  these  reasons  the  State  totals  are  not  given,  except  in  the  official  table  issued  by  the 
Adjutant -General  of  the  War  Department  at  Washington,  and  which  is  reprinted  elsewhere 
in  these  pages  for  that  purpose. 

With  each  regiment  is  given  the  division  and  corps  in  which  it  served.     In  some  cases  a 

regiment  served   in  different  divisions,   and,  sometimes,  in  more  than  one  corps  ;  but  the 

division  and  corps  designated  here  are  not  intended  to  cover  the  history  of  a  regiment,  but 

rather  to  suggest  something  which  will  assist  the  reader  in  identifying  the  battalion  and  the 

30  (465) 


400  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

campaigns  in  which  it  served.  Without  this  mention  of  some  one  division  or  corps,  the 
figures  would,  too  often,  remain  meaningless  and  useless. 

In  designating  the  division,  the  name  of  its  general  is  used  in  preference  to  its  numer 
ical  title.  The  soldiers  were  wont  to  so  designate  their  commands,  while  historians  invari 
ably  allude  to  a  division  by  its  commander's  name.  As  many  of  the  divisions  served  under 
different  generals,  and  were  known  successively  by  these  commanders'  names,  it  becomes 
difficult  at  times  to  select  the  name  which  might  most  properly  designate  the  command. 
In  some  cases  the  doubt  was  decided  by  using  the  name  of  the  general  under  whom  the  regi 
ment  served  longest. 

Still,  to  do  all  this  accurately  would  necessitate  a  knowledge  of  the  corps  histories  which 
few,  if  any,  possess.  It  is  hoped,  however,  that  the  name  of  the  division  will  in  each  case 
assist  in  some  degree  to  identify  the  regiment,  to  recall  its  history,  and  to  throw  some  light 
upon  the  nature  of  its  losses,  —  even  though  the  name  selected  may  not  be  the  one  best 
adapted  to  the  purpose. 

In  giving  the  date  of  organization,  the  day  of  the  month  has  been  omitted,  as  in  many 
commands  the  companies  were  mustered  in  at  various  dates  ;  and,  in  each  case,  a  large  part 
of  the  men  had  enlisted  and  were  in  barracks  a  considerable  time  before  the  regiment  effected 
its  complete  organization  and  muster-in  as  a  regiment.  In  some  regiments  there  were  men 
who  had  enlisted  several  weeks,  often  months,  before  their  regiment  was  organized.  On  the 
other  hand,  some  of  the  regiments  raised  under  the  second  call  (1862)  organized  and  left  for 
the  front  within  thirty  days  after  the  first  man  signed  the  roll. 

The  total  enrollments  are  omitted  for  lack  of  space ;  but  the  number  enrolled  in  three 
hundred  of  these  regiments,  the  leading  ones  in  point  of  loss,  will  be  found  in  the  various 
pages  of  Chapter  X.  The  other  regiments  numbered  about  one  thousand  men  each  when 
organized,  and  received,  on  an  average,  300  recruits.  Some  of  them  took  the  field  with  only 
800  men  or  thereabouts,  and  received  but  few  recruits,  while  some  others  carried  1,800  on 
their  rolls. 

Where  the  number  enrolled  is  not  otherwise  stated,  the  average  infantry  regiment  may 
be  considered  as  numbering  1,300,  original  members  and  recruits.  The  cavalry  regiments 
carried  1,800  men  on  their  rolls  as  an  average,  and  the  heavy  artillery  commands  about  2,200. 
In  the  light  batteries  (six-gun  batteries),  250  was  a  common  enrollment. 

By  noting  these  facts  the  regimental  losses  in  killed  will  be  better  understood,  and  an 
approximate  idea  of  the  percentage  of  loss  will  be  obtained. 

These  figures  are  far  above  the  plane  of  ordinary  statistics.  They  represent  the  measure 
of  blood  which  an  unflinching  patriotism  gave  in  exchange  for  the  perpetuity  of  the  Nation 
and  the  ransom  of  the  Republic. 

NOTE.— Many  of  the  regiments  marked  in  the  following  tables  as  having  "  reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war,"  preserved  their 
organization  by  reason  of  a  large  number  of  recruits  (who  had  unexpired  terms  to  serve),  rather  than  by  the  number  of  veterans  who  reen 
listed.  Some  of  the  three-years' regiments  whose  term  expired  in  1864,  and  were  discharged  and  discontinued,  contained  in  their  ranks  more 
reenlisted  veterans  than  some  commands  which  served  through  the  war. 


LIST  OP  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  A  KM  IKS,  ETC. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  WITH  TOTAL  NUMBER  OF 

DEATHS  IN  EACH. 


OltliAMXKI) 

ItECJlMENT. 

Kii.i.KD  AND  DIED  or 
WOVNDS. 

DIKD  OK  DIM.  \«i.. 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBINON.&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

Ottoen 

'5 

2 

23 

2 

I 

En.  Men    Totol. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Oct.,  '61 
Jan.,  '64 

Aug.,  '62 

Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Dec.,  '63 

Dec.,  '64 
Aug.,  '64 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
July,  '6  • 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '61 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Dec.,  '61 
Jan.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 

Cavalry. 

159 

8 

400 

13 
4 
3 

5 
16 

'3 
3 

7 
40 

65 
124 

156 

99 
141 

"3 

128 
172 

74 
"5 
49 

'3 
8  1 

5 
172 

i95 
189 

138 
26 

•74 

IO 

423 

'5 

5 
3 

5 
18 

»3 
3 

7 
46 
69 

J34 
170 
107 

'53 
128 

!34 

182 

82 

I  22 

52 
M 

86 

5 
181 

207 
192 

M7 

27 

3 

2 

• 
• 
• 

I 

• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

I 
2 
I 
2 

3 
4 

3 
i 

4 

2 

3 

2 

3 

2 

4 

2 

I 
I 

341 

334 

258 

28 
26 
'4 

22 
I? 
27 

'5 

1  2 
40 
70 
148 

'35 
76 

100 

209 

243 
236 

53 
233 

237 
178 

33« 
34« 

257 

'59 
182 

MS 
144 

344 
334 

260 

28 
26 
M 
23 

'7 

27 
'5 

12 
40 
70 
149 

'37 

77 
102 

212 

247 

239 

54 
237 

239 
181 

332 

343 

259 
163 

184 
146 

MS 

5'8 

344 

683 

43 
31 

'7 
28 

35 
40 

,8     ; 

'9 
86 

139 
283 

307 
184 

255 
34« 
38i 
421 
136 

359 
291 

'95 
418 

348 
44° 
37° 
376 

293 
172 

Heavy  Artillery. 

Light  Batteries. 
ist   Maine.*  "Hradlmry's" 
2d    Maine.*  '•  Hall's"  
3d    Maine  *  "Mayo's".  .  . 

4th  Maine.*  ''Robinson's" 
5th  Maine.*  '  Stevens's"  . 
6th  Maine.*  "Dow's"  
yth  Maine.    "Twitchell's" 
Infantry. 
ist    Maine  Sharpshooters. 

•     * 

2 

•     • 
•     • 

•     • 

6 

4 

10 

M 
8 

12 
15 

6 

10 

8 

7 

3 

i 

5 

fi\     \fnint*  "fr  . 

3  1  1      M  n  i  n  p  . 

nth    \fiinp  *  . 

i  2th   Maine  *  

i  ^th  Maine  

9 

12 

3 

9 
i 

i  7th    M.iinp  . 

loth  Maine  •  

DIVISION. 


Gregg's 


Hirney's 

Grover's 

Wadsworth's 

Willcox's 

Robinson's 
Willcox's 


COHI'H. 


Cavalry  A.  P. 
Nineteenth. 

Second. 

Nineteenth. 

First. 

Ninth. 

Sixth. 

First. 

Second. 

Ninth. 


Griffin's 

Fifth. 

Getty's 
Griffin's 

Sixth. 
Fifth. 

Birney's 
Hirney's 
Wright's 
Wright's 
Getty's 
Martinclale's 
Ames's 

Third. 
Third. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Eighteenth. 
Tenth. 

Williams's 

Twelfth. 

Terry's 
Grover's 

Tenth. 
Nineteenth. 

Dwight's 
Grover's 

Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 

Dwight's 
Robinson's 

Nineteenth. 
First. 

Hirney's 
Gibbon's 

Third. 
Second. 

Griffin's 

Fifth. 

Augur's 

Nineteenth. 

•Keenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.  +Enlisted  for  two  years.  i  Enlisted  for  nine  months. 

NOTES.  —  Maine  Regiments.  —  The  First  Cavalry  sustained  the  greatest  loss  in  battle  of  any  cavalry  regiment 
in  the  army  ;  and  the  First  Heavy  Artillery  the  greatest  loss  of  any  regimental  organization  in  any  arm  of  the 
service.  The  First  Infantry  was  a  three-months  regiment,  which  was  mustered  in  May  3,  1861.  It  left  the  State 
June  i,  and  was  mustered  out  August  5,  1861.  No  deaths  occurred  in  its  ranks,  and  it  is  omitted  in  the 
preceding  table.  The  First  Veteran  Infantry  was  organized  in  the  field,  at  Charlestown,  VV.  Va.,  on  the  2 ist  of 
August,  1864,  and  was  composed  of  the  rei;nlisted  veterans  and  recruits  with  unexpired  terms,  which  were  left 
at  the  front  by  the  sth,  6th,  and  7th  Infantry  when  those  regiments  went  home,  at  the  expiration  of  their  term 
of  enlistment 

The  2d  and  loth  Infantry  were  enlisted  for  two  years,  and  were  mustered  out  in  May,  1863,  just  after 
Chancellorsville  which  was  their  last  battle.  The  i8th  Infantry  became  the  ist  Heavy  Artillery,  leaving  that 
infantry  number  vacant. 

The  regiments,  i6th  to  2Oth  inclusive,  were  organized  under  the  second  call  for  troops  —  the  call  of  July  2,  1862, 


468 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED                     REGIMENT. 

| 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Dec.,  '63 
Jan.,    '64 
April,  '64 
April,  '64 
Feb.,  '65 
'6j. 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

I 

8 

9 

2 

5 

*   • 

i 
i 

3 

4 

2 

•     • 

3 

2 
I 

.  . 

6 

2 

5 

2 

3 
i 

2 

3 
i 

i 
i 

•    * 

4 

•    * 

5 

158 
56 
I85 
2O 
130 
21 
140 
I9I 

254 
I76 
114 

40 

14 

112 

45 
6 

5 
166 

IS2 
194 

176 

228 
241 

256 

251 

J33 
I5I 
138 
92 

J57 

134 

216 

36 

160 

56 
190 
20 

J31 

22 

'43 

195 

256 

176 

JI7 
40 

14 
114 

46 
6 

5 
172 

154 

199 

178 
231 
242 
258 
254 
134 
J52 
J39 
92 
161 

134 

221 
36 

169 

56 
191 
2O 
l65 

22 

154 

237 
290 

359 
202 

40 
M 

H7 

48 

12 

5 
35° 

352 
284 

473 
418 

426 
360 
409 

195 

297 

320 
181 
232 
161 

221 

41 

Grover's 

Nineteenth. 
Twenty-sec'd 
Nineteenth. 
Twenty-sec'd 
Nineteenth. 
Twenty-sec'd 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 

2  ^d  Maine*  .  •  

24th  Maine*  .. 

1 

I 

Sherman's 

2  ^th  M^aine*  

34 

34 

Grover's 

27th  Miaine*  •  

28th  Maine*  

I 

2 

3 
18 

4 

10 
40 

31 
165 
81 

ii 

42 
34 
i33 
85 

Dvvight's 
Dwight's 
Dwight's 
Potter's 
Potter's 

2oth  JVIame  

•joth  Maine  

"i  i  st  Miaine  

•22<i  Maine  

Maine  C'oast  Guard. 
Cavalry. 

ist  New  Hampshire  .... 
Heavy  Artillery. 
ist  New  Hampshire  .... 
Light  Batteries. 
ist  N.  Hamp.  "EdgelPs" 
Infantry. 
ist  New  Hampshire  f.  . 
2d    New  Hampshire  J  .  . 
3d    New  Hampshire  \  -  - 
4th  New  Hampshire  J  .  . 
5th  New  Hampshire  J.  . 
6th  New  Hampshire  J  .  . 
7th  New  Hampshire  J.  . 
8th  New  Hampshire  J.  . 
9th  New  Hampshire  .  .  . 
loth  New  Hampshire  .  .  . 
nth  New  Hampshire  .  .  . 
1  2th  New  Hampshire  .  .  . 
1  3th  New  Hampshire  .  .  . 
1  4th  New  Hampshire  .  .  . 
i5th  New  Hampshire  *.  . 
1  6th  New  Hampshire  *.  . 
1  8th  New  Hampshire  .  .  . 

5 
*5 

12 

3 
18 

TO 
15 

8 
10 

7 

5 
ii 

5 
8 

•   . 

i 

28 

2 

6 

•    •    • 

163 

186 
82 

277 

'77 
169 

94 
145 

54 
140 
170 

84 

63 

27 

•   • 

4 

•    •   • 

33 

2 

6 

178 
198 

85 

295 
187 

184 

IO2 
155 

61 

145 

181 

89 

71 

27 

•   • 

5 

,    04 

Oct.,  '6  1 
May,  '63 
Sept.,  '6  1 

April,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
Aug..  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '64 

Wilson's 
De  Russy's 
Doubleday's 

Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Twenty-sec'd 
First. 

Humphreys's 
Terry's 
Ames's 
Hancock's 
Potter's 
Terry's 
Emory's 
Potter's 
Brooks's 
Sturgis's 
Humphreys's 
Brooks's 
Grover's 
Sherman's 
Emory's 
Willcox's 

Third. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 
Second. 
Ninth. 
Tenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 
Eighteenth. 
Ninth. 
Third. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 

*Enlisted  for  nine  months.       tThree-months'  regiment.       JReenlisted  and  served  through  the  war. 

for  300,000  more  ;  the  regiments  2  ist  to  28th,  inclusive,  were  organized  in  response  to  the  call  of  August  4,  1862, 
for  300,000  men  for  nine  months'  service.  The  remaining  regiments  went  out  in  response  to  the  different 
calls  for  three-years  men. 

The  greatest  mortality  from  disease  in  any  regiment  from  the  State  occurred  in  the  i5th  regiment,  and  was 
undoubtedly  due  to  the  climate  of  the  Gulf  and  Lower  Mississippi,  in  which  locality  the  regiment  was  stationed 
during  much  of  its  service.  It  was  mustered  out  at  Charleston,  S.  C.,  July  5,  1866,  having  served  the  longest  of 
any  regiment  from  the  State. 

New  Hampshire  -  -The  5th  sustained  the  greatest  loss  in  battle  of  any  infantry  regiment  in  the  war.  The 
ist  Infantry  was  a  three-months'  regiment,  which  was  organized  April  26,  1861,  and  left  the  State  May  25.  It 
served  under  General  Patterson  in  the  Shenandoah,  and  was  mustered  out  on  the  9th  of  August.  The  i5th  and 
1 6th  Infantry  enlisted  for  nine  months ;  the  other  regiments  enlisted  for  three  years.  The  3d,  4th,  6th,  7th,  and 
8th  Infantry  re-enlisted  for  another  term ;  the  2d  and  5th  were  filled  up  with  recruits,  which,  with  their  reenlisted 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUKII. 


OllUANIZBII 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 
RTCIMXNT. 

Mil  n  or  MI-I  \M  . 

Al'CIDKNTtt.lN  I'ltlMON.&C 

TOTAL 

lu  \  ni- 

DIVISION. 

COUPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Nov.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '62 

Feb.,  '62 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec,  '63 

Ap'l,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
July,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '61 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
July,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Feb.,  '64 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Jan,  '63 
Sept,  '62 
Dec,  '63 
May,  '64 

July,  '6  1 
July,  '63 
Jan,  '63 
Aug.,  '64 
,'63 

Cavalry. 

124 
"54 

3 

I 

•    *    * 

2 

218 

2OI 

'5° 

202 
I9I 
10 

115 

22 
I4O 

>34 

164 

3 

i 

•   •    • 

2 

224 
206 
162 
213 
203 

J3 
119 

24 
149 

4 

2 

•     • 
•     • 
•     * 

•     • 
•     • 

I 
I 
I 

3 

4 
7 
3 

•   • 
2 

4 

•     • 

I 

•    • 

3 

2 
2 

•     • 

2 

4 

I 

2 

•      • 

300 
410 

5' 
53 

21 

6 

'75 
164 

279 
124 

212 

4°3 
241 

278 
203 

65 
55 
43 
80 

48 
116 

140 

'38 

1  80 

128 
116 

241 

363 
38 
23 
'7 

3°4 

412 

51 
53 

21 

6 

175 
165 
280 
125 

2I5 

407 

248 
281 
203 
67 

59 

43 
81 

49 
n? 

140 
141 
182 
130 
116 

243 
367 
39 

25 
'7 

438 

576 

54 
54 

21 

8 

399 
37i 
442 

338 
418 
420 

3^7 
305 
352 
67 
76 
70 
81 

73 
264 

239 
231 

288 
162 
123 

484 
382 

4i 

25 
i" 

Wilson's 
Getty's 

Emory's 
Emory's 
Ferrero's 

Cavalry  A.  I'. 
Sixth. 

Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 

Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Sixth. 
First. 
First. 
First. 
First. 
First. 
Ninth. 

Cavalry. 
Cavalry. 
Nineteenth. 
Tenth. 
Eighteenth. 

Second. 
Eighteenth. 
Twenty-  sec'd. 
Twenty-sec'd. 

Heavy  Artillery. 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  Vermont  "  Hebard's  " 
2d  Vermont  "  Chase's  "  * 
3d  Vermont  "  Start's 
Infantry. 

2(1  Vermont*  6 

Getty's 
Getty's 
Getty's 
Getty's 
Getty's 

?d  Vermont*  ^ 

4th  Vermont*  \~> 

cth  Vermont*  11 

Dwight's 
Weitzel's 
Ricketts's 
Doubleday's 
Doubleday's 
Doubleday's 
Doubleday's 
Doubleday's 
Potter's 

Gregg's 
Merritt's 
Grover's 

i  ^th  Vermont')'  i 

16 

26 

'7 

27 

1  4th  Vermontf  i 

1  6th  Vermontf  i 

23 
!33 

93 

82 

101 

28 
7 

232 
'5 

2 

24 
'47 

99 
90 

106 
32 

7 

241 
'5 

2 

1  7th  Vermont  14 

Cavalry. 
i  st  Massachusetts  *  6 

2(\    Massachusetts  8 

^d    Massachusetts  ^ 

4th  Massachusetts  

sth  Massachusetts  .  . 

Hinks's 
Birney's 

Heavy  Artillery. 
ist  Massachusetts  *.....        o 

2d    Massachusetts  .  . 

4th  Massachusetts  .  . 

ist  Mass    Battalion  

1 

*Heenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.        tEnllsted  for  nine  months. 

men,  preserved  their  organizations,  also,  through  the  war.  The  i  7th  regiment  failed  to  effect  an  organization,  and 
the  two  companies  which  were  recruited  for  it  were  transferred  to  the  2d  regiment.  The  large  number  of  deaths 
from  disease  in  the  Sth  Infantry  was  due  to  the  fatal  climate  of  the  Gulf  States  in  which  it  served.  Its  loss  in 
battle  occurred  entirely  in  the  battles  of  the  Lower  Mississippi  and  Red  River  campaigns.  The  deaths  from 
disease  in  the  i6th  Infantry  occurred  while  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  and  within  nine  months,  the  regiment 
having  enlisted  for  that  term.  The  entire  loss  in  action  of  the  i4th  Infantry  occurred  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley, 
in  the  two  battles  of  the  Opequon  and  Cedar  Creek,  59  falling,  killed  or  mortally  wounded,  at  the  Opequon. 

Vermont.  —  The  per  centage  of  killed  in  the  quota  furnished  by  Vermont  is  far  alxjve  the  average,  and  is 
exceeded  by  only  one  other  state.  Its  large  per  centage  is  easily  understood  by  a  glance  at  the  battle  losses  of 
its  regiments.  The  "Old  "  Vermont  Brigade,  composed  of  the  2d,  3d,  4th,  5th,  and  6th  Infantry,  and  the  ist 
Heavy  Artillery,  lost  more  men  killed  in  action  than  any  other  brigade  in  the  army.  The  Second  Vermont 
Brigade,  composed  of  the  izth,  i3th,  i4th,  isth,  and  i6th  Infantry,  was  enlisted  for  nine  months,  and  was 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,   ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OUOANIZKD 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

COUPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Oct.,  '61 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '61 
Sept.,  '5  1 
Feb.,  '62 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Jan.,  '64 
Dec.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Feb.,  '64 
Feb.,  '63 
Mar.,  '64 
May,  '6  1 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 

May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
June,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '62 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  Mass  "Porter's"  ..  . 

6 
4 

9 
i 

18 
6 

3 

i 

13 

6 

3 

6 

4 

10 

i 
19 
6 

3 

i 

15 

8 

3 

•     • 
•     « 

I 

I 

•     • 
•     • 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     * 
•     • 
*     • 

I 

2 
2 

2 

•     • 

3 

i 

2 

•     • 
•     • 

I 

2 

4 

15 

26 

10 

5° 
1  1 

5° 
36 

IO 

4 
16 

12 

25 
26 

9 

27 

6 
i 

IS 

12 

78 
96 

17 
129 

16 
18 

72 
1  1 
66 

55 
95 

83 

40 

121 

93 
H7 

J5 
26 

10 

5° 
1  1 

51 

37 

10 

4 
16 

12 

25 
26 

9 

27 

6 
i 

J5 

12 

79 
98 

i? 

13* 

16 

18 

74 
1  1 

69 
56 
97 

83 

40 

122 

95 
'51 

21 

3° 
20 

51 
3° 

57 
40 

1  1 

19 

24 

15 

25 

26 
18 
28 
6 
i 

39 
23 

221 

288 

18 

tS1 
16 

31 
T54 
1  1 
278 
190 
261 
276 
161 
363 

245 
172 

Slocum's 
Grover's 
Griffin's 
Emory's 
Griffin's 
Augur's 
Grover's 
Willcox's 
Art'y  Brigade 
Art'y  Brigade 
Potter's 
Augur's 
Sherman's 
Stevenson's 
Andrews's 

Sixth. 
Nineteenth. 
Fifth. 
Nineteenth. 
Fifth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 
Fifth. 
Second. 
Ninth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 
Thirteenth. 
Twenty-  sec  'd. 

Second. 
Second. 

Third. 
Twelfth. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Seventh. 
Sixth. 
Eighteenth. 
Fifth. 
Sixth. 
Third. 
First. 
First. 
Second. 
Third. 
Eighteenth. 

2d    Mass   "Nim's"*  . 

3d    Mass.  "Martin's"..  . 

4th  Mass   "Trull's"*  .  .  . 

( 

5th  Mass.  "Phillips's"*  . 
6th  Mass.  "Everett's"*. 
7th  Mass  "Davis's"*.  •  . 

I 

8th  Mass.  "Cook's"!  ... 
9th  Mass.  "Bigelow's".  . 
loth  Mass.  "Sleeper's"  .  . 

2 
"? 

1  2th  Mass  "Miller's"  .  .  . 

1  3th  Mass.  "Hamlin's".  . 
i4th  Mass.  "Wright's".  .  . 
1  5th  Mass.  "Pearson's".  . 
r6th  Mnss    "Srott's"  . 

I 

•    *   • 

8 

i 

•    *   * 

9 
i 

\\r\c-c,         "Poolf'^" 

Sharpshooters. 
ist  Mass.  Company.  ...         3 

or]    TVTass    Cnmnanv. 

2  I 
1  I 

J34 
176 
i 

19 

24 
1  1 

142 
190 
i 
20 

Gibbon's 
Gibbon's 

Humphreys's 
Williams's 
Naglee's 
Emory's 
Palmer's 
Corcoran's 
Getty's 
Naglee's 
Griffin's 
Getty's 
Humphreys's 
Robinson's 
Robinson's 
Gibbon's 
Humphreys's 
Palmer's 

Infantry. 

8 
14 

2(1    Massachusetts  *  .... 
^d    IVlassachusetts  i  •  •  •  • 

4th  Massachusetts  \  .  .  .  . 

i 

6th  Massachusetts  \  .  .  .  . 

2 

4 

1  1 

76 

13 

80 

otri  Massachusetts  

15 

TO 
I  I 

18 
4 
H 
16 

»   • 

194 
124 

'53 

i7S 
117 

227 
*34 

2  I 

209 

J34 
164 

J93 

121 
241 

15° 

2  r 

i  otri  Massachusetts  

1  1  th  Massachusetts  

1  2th  Atassarhusetts  ..... 

i  'ith  Massachusetts  

i  ^th  IVlassachusetts  

1  6th  Massachusetts  

i  yth  Massachusetts  *  .... 

*Reenlisted.       1Six  months  service.        $Nine  months  men. 

present  at  Gettysburg,  where  three  of  the  regiments,  under  command  of  General   Stannard,  took  a  conspicuous 
part  in  the  repulse  of  Pickett's  charge. 

The  ist  Infantry  was  a  three-months  regiment.  It  was  organized  at  Rutland,  May  9,  1861,  and  fought  at 
Big  Bethel.  The  other  regiments  enlisted  for  three  years,  and  the  ist  Cavalry,  the  ad  Battery,  and  the  2u,  3d, 
4th,  5th,  6th,  7th,  8th,  and  gth  Infantry  reenlisted,  and  served  through  rhe  war.  The  nth  Infantry  was 
changed  to  the  ist  Heavy  Artillery,  leaving  that  number  in  the  line  vacant. 

Massachusetts. —  The  i4th  Infantry  was  changed  to  the  ist  Heavy  Artillery  ;  and  the  4 ist  Infantry  to  the  3d 
Cavalry  —  leaving  their  original  numbers  vacant.  The  3d,  4th,  5th,  6th,  and  8th  Infantry  served  first  as  three- 
months'  regiments,  having  volunteered  in  April,  1861,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war.  The  6th  became  famous  by 
reason  of  its  fight  in  the  streets  of  Baltimore.  The  4th  fought  at  Big  Bethel,  and  the  5th  was  hotly  engaged  at 
First  Bull  Run.  These  regiments  belonged  to  the  State  Militia,  and  volunteered  a  second  time,  under  the  Presi 
dent's  call  of  August  4,  1862,  for  300,000  militia  for  nine  months'  service.  The  5th,  6th  and  8th  volunteered  for 


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ORGANIZED 

RKOnOCNT. 

KII.I.EO  AND  hi;  ii  UP 
WOUNDS. 

hiin  OP  1  )i-  '  \  -i 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'IHSON.&I- 

Total 
Dftilus. 

DIVISION. 

COUPS. 

Officers  En.  Men 

Total. 

Offioeri 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.  ,'6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Oct.,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  2 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
May,  '63 
June,  '63 

Infantry  —  Continual  , 

9 

M 

'7 

9 
4 
7 
7 
3 
9 
•5 
4 
4 

114 

•47 
243 
148 

207 
80 
90 

•54 
61 
128 

235 
53 

57 
52 
i39 
104 

128 
138 
'°5 
165 
73 
9' 
6? 
4 

3 
1  1 

'9 

i 

i 

'7 
28 

2 

I23 

161 
260 

'59 
216 

84 

97 
161 

64 

137 
250 

57 
61 

52 
144 

1  1  i 

'35 

148 

1  1  1 
169 

77 
96 
72 

4 

3 
1  1 

'9 
i 

i 

'9 
30 

2 

2 

•  . 

2 
I 

2 
I 

•     • 

3 

3 

i 

4 

2 

3 

2 

•     • 

2 
I 

3 

•    • 

•    • 
*    • 
2 

•  • 

i 

•  * 

i 
i 

•  • 

i 

2 

127 

'33 

148 

89 
IO2 
I32 
I  22 
169 
182 
26l 
I36 

95 
34i 
i5° 
M3 

77 
132 

IOO 

1  60 
92 

IS* 
'83 
I25 
44 

12 
29 

32 
35 
36 

5° 
84 

IOO 

44 

IOI 

144 
1  60 
128 

I29 

133 
149 

91 
103 

134 
123 

169 

i85 
264 

137 
99 
343 
'53 
'45 
77 
'34 

IOI 

163 
92 

'5* 
183 

'25 
46 

I  2 
30 

32 
35 
37 

5° 

84 

IOI 

44 

101 

144 
161 
130 

252 
294 
409 

25° 
f    3'9 
2l8 

22O 

33« 
249 
4OI 

387 

'56 
404 
205 
289 
1  88 
269 
249 
274 
261 
228 
279 
197 

5° 
'5 
4' 
5' 
36 
38 
69 
114 
103 
44 

I  12 

'77 
270 

I97 

Griffin's 
Gibbon's 
Gibbon's 
Stevenson's 
Griffin's 
WeitzePs 
Terry's 
WeitzePs 
Graver's 
WeitzePs 
Hancock's 
Willcox's 
Dwight's 
Emory's 
Griffin's 
ButterfiekPs 
Thoburn's 
Sturgis's 
Potter's 
Getty's 
Emory's 
Robinson's 
Brooks's 
Sherman's 
Palmer's 
Wessells's 
Palmer's 
Palmer's 
Sherman's 
Augur's 
Augur's 
Augur's 
Palmer's 
G  rover's 
Emory's 
Seymour's 
Seymour's 

Fifth. 
Second. 
Second. 
Ninth. 
Fifth. 
Eighteenth. 
Tenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Second. 
Ninth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Fifth. 
Twentieth. 
Eighth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Sixth. 
Nineteenth. 
Fifth. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 

igth  Massachusetts  *  .... 
2Oth  Massachusetts  *  .... 

2  i  si     \I  ivvirhiis'f'tts"  . 

231!    Massachusetts  *  .... 
24th  Massachusetts  *  .... 
25th  Massachusetts  *  .... 
26th  Massachusetts  *  .... 
271)1  Massachusetts  *  .... 
28th  Massachusetts  *  .... 
29th  Massachusetts  *  .... 
3oth  Massachusetts*.  •  -  • 

321!    Massachusetts  *  .... 

5 

7 

7 
10 

6 
4 
4 
5 
5 

?4th  Massac'hu  setts  

35th  Massachusetts  
^6th  Massachusetts  ..... 

42(1    Massachusetts  t  •  ... 

43(1    Massachusetts! 
44th  Massachusetts  f  .  .  .  . 
45th  Massachusetts  t  •  •  •  • 
46th  Massachusetts  "f"  «  •  •  • 

•   • 

47th  Massachusetts  f  .  - 
48th  Massachusetts  f  .  .  .  . 
49th  M  assachusetts  f  .  .  .  .         2 

5ist  Massachusetts")"  

5  2(1    Massachusetts  f  •  •  •  • 
53(1    Massachusetts  f  •  •  •  • 
54th  Massachusetts  \  .  .  .  . 
55th  Massachusetts  j  .  .  .  . 

i 

5 
5 
3 

IO 
28 
104 
64 

I  I 

33 
109 

67 

*KeenIisted.       tNine-months'  regiment.        {Colored. 

the  third  time,  in  1864,  for  one  hundred  days,  and  were  stationed  at  Baltimore.  In  addition  to  the  organizations 
in  the  above  tabulation,  the  State  accepted,  in  1864,  some  separate  unattached  companies,  24  in  number,  which 
were  sworn  in  for  one  hundred  days'  service.  Some  of  these  companies  reenlisted  for  one  year,  and  were 
organized  as  the  4th  Heavy  Artillery.  The  2(1  Heavy  Artillery  lost  two  companies  at  the  capture  of  Plymouth, 
N.  C. ;  they  numbered  about  275  men,  of  whom  173  died  while  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy.  The  deaths  in  the 
39th  include  102  which  occurred  in  Confederate  prisons,  this  regiment  having  lost  246  men  captured  in  the 
battle  at  the  Weldon  Railroad.  The  loss  by  disease  in  the  30th  Infantry  was  caused  by  the  climate  of  the  Lower 
Mississippi,  where  it  was  stationed  for  over  two  years.  The  5th  Battery  —  Phillips's  —  sustained  the  greatest 
percentage  of  loss  (in  battle)  of  any  light  battery  in  the  volunteer  service. 

The  1 3th  Massachusetts  has  a  meritorious  record  in  its  small  number  of  deaths  from  disease,  its  percentage 
of  deaths  from  that  cause  being  the  smallest  of  any  three-years  regiment  in  the  entire  army.  There  were 
regiments  with  a  smaller  number  of  deaths  from  disease  ;  but  they  were  two-years  regiments,  or  carried  a  less 
number  of  names  on  their  rolls.  The  extraordinary  exemption  from  disease  in  the  i3th  Infantry  would  indicate 
that  the  regiment  was  composed  of  superior  material. 


472 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,   ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGAN  IZKD 

KEGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIISD  OP  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PnisoN,&cl 

• 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Mer 

Total 

Feb.,  '64 
April,  '64 
April,  '64 
April,  '64 
Aug.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
April,  '65 

April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 

July,  '64 
July,  '64 
July,  '64 
July,  '64 

Dec.,  '6, 
Dec.,  '62 
Sept.,  '63 

Oct.,  '61 
Dec.,  '6  1 

June,  '6  1 
Aug.,'6i 

Aug.,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept..  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '62 

May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

6 
10 
10 

7 

I  2O 
I9I 
129 

83 

126 
2OI 

!39 

9° 

*    • 
•     • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 
*    • 
•     • 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     * 

2 

4 

4 
4 

*    • 
•    • 

2 

•      • 

TOO 

86 
156 

93 
1  1 

20 

2 

•     •      • 

2 

9 

IO 

4 

20 

77 
31 
!35 

90 
106 

5 

T5 
8 

I  2 
12 

J7 

18 

10 

8 

74 
67 

IOC 

86 
156 

94 
ii 

20 
2 

•    •     • 

2 

•     •      • 

9 

10 

4 

20 

79 
31 
*39 

94 

I  10 

5 

J5 
8 

12 
12 

*7 

18 

10 

8 
76 
67 

226 

287 

295 
184 

II 

26 

2 

I 
II 

4 
9 

10 

4 

20 

96 

35 
M7 

*35 
119 

18 
29 

27 

22 
29 
27 
28 
12 

25 
196 

140 

Stevenson's 
Stevenson's 
Potter's 
'Stevenson's 

Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 

Ninth. 
McDowell's. 

Cavalry. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 

Tenth. 
Eighteenth. 

Second. 
Second. 
Fifth. 
First. 
Third. 
Eighteenth. 
Second. 
Sixth. 

McDowell's. 
Sixth. 
Ninth. 

6ist  Massachusetts  f  .  .  .  . 

i 

5 

6 

Three-  Months  Service('6i). 
4th  Mass.  (Big  Bethel)  . 
5th  Mass.  (Bull  Run)  .  . 
6th  Mass.  (Baltimore).  . 
Hundred-  Days  Men  (  i  864) 

.  * 

i 

9 

4 

i 

9 
4 

Heintzelman's 

Cavalry. 
rst    R  hnrlp  Island  t  . 

j 

16 

4 
8 

39 

8 

12 

J3 

!9 
IO 

17 

IO 

8 

2 

16 
in 

68 

T7 
4 
8 

4i 
9 

T3 
M 

!9 

10 
i? 

IO 
IO 

2 

*7 
12O 

73 

Averell's 
Augur's 
Arnold's 

Terry's 
Wessels's 

Sedgwick's 
Howard's 
Morell's 
Doubleday's 
Birney's 

•?H     RhnHf  fslnnrl  . 

ic\     R  hodp  Island  . 

Heavy  Artillery. 
•*d    Rhode  Island  

2 
I 

I 
1 

•      • 

15  th  Rhode  Island  

Light  Artillery. 
ist  Rhode  Island— 
A  —  "Tompkins's"  j 
B—  "Hazard's"!.  . 
C—  "Weeden's"... 
D—  "Monroe's"  J.. 
E—  "Randolph's  "J 
F      "  Behrer's"  + 

G—  "Owen's"!  ... 
H—  "Allen's"  
Infantry. 
ist  Rhode  Island  §  

2 

*      • 

I 

9- 

5 

French's 
Wheaton's 

Hunter's 
Getty's 
Sturgis's 

2d    Rhode  Island  j  

4th  Rhode  Island  

*Hundred-days'  men.        tOne  year's  term.        JReenlisted.        §Three-months1  service. 

,• 

Rhode  Island. —  The  Rhode  Island  troops  became  prominent  by  reason  of  the  fine  regiment  of  light  artillery 
furnished  by  that  State.  The  light  batteries  of  this  command  were  remarkable  for  their  efficiency,  and  the  con 
spicuous  part  assigned  them  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  As  a  whole  they  were  unsurpassed, 
and  they  made  a  record  which  reflected  credit  on  their  State.  A  comparison  of  their  losses  in  action  with 
those  of  other  batteries  tells  plainly  the  story  of  the  dangers  which  they  braved.  The  ist  Infantry  was  a 
three-months  regiment  which  was  actively  engaged  at  First  Bull  Run.  The  6th  and  8th  Infantry  failed  to  com 
plete  their  organizations.  The  ist  Cavalry  contained  a  battalion  of  four  companies  from  New  Hampshire,  which 
was  detached  January  7,  1864,  and  placed  in  the  ist  New  Hampshire  Cavalry.  The  2d  Rhode  Island  Cavalry 
was  organized  with  eight  companies  only,  and  in  July,  1863,  they  were  consolidated  into  a  battalion  of  four  com 
panies,  and  transferred  to  the  ist  Louisiana  (Union)  Cavalry.  The  men  objected  to  this  transfer,  and  would  not 
leave  camp  for  their  new  quarters  until  surrounded  by  the  Louisiana  Cavalry,  and  forced  to  go.  Two  men  who 
were  conspicuously  reluctant  were  led  out  by  their  new  comrades  and  shot  in  front  of  the  regiment,  without  a 
trial.  After  serving  over  a  year  in  the  Louisiana  regimen.,  the  battalion  was  re-transferred  to  the  jd  Rhode 
Island  Cavalry. 


(JONNKCTKT  T    Ri:<;lMK.NTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OROANIZEU 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  <>r 

WOOMM. 

DlEO  OF  DlSEAHE, 

ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBOIOM,AO 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

Potter's 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Mon 

Total. 

Offloen 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Sept.,  '62 
Julv,  '62 
May,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 

Nov.,  '6  1 

May,  '6  1 
July,  '62 

Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '64 

April,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '61 

July,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '61 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept  ,'62 
Sept.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

5 

85 

90 

i 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

2 

4 
4 

2 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

I 

4 
4 
3 
3 

5 
i 

6 

3 
i 

5 

3 

i 

3 
i 

•    • 

2 

1  08 
4 
3 

8 
43 

149 

172 
171 

21 
19 

3 

i 

2 
I 
82 
124 
I92 
141 
240 

'55 
176 

196 

'57 
191 

142 

240 

74 
80 

85 
114 

20 
46 

109 
4 

3 

8 

45 

»53 

176 
i?3 

21 
19 

3 
i 

2 
I 

83 
128 

196 
144 

243 
I  60 

'77 
2O2 

I  60 
192 

H7 
243 

75 
81 

88 

"5 
20 

48 

I99 
4 

3 

8 

57 

'93 

227 
427 

25 

21 

3 

2 

4 
5 
J93 
235 
364 
264 

253 

282 

325 

273 

204 

397 
185 

325 
128 

'52 
168 

»75 

20 

59 

Ninth. 

Seventh. 
Ninth. 

Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Artillery,  A.  P. 
Sixth. 

Tenth. 
Thirteenth. 

McDowell's. 
McDowell's. 
McDowell's. 
Twelfth. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 
Ninth. 
Nineteenth. 
Tenth. 
Ninth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Second. 
Twenty-  third. 
Ninth. 
Eleventh. 
Kighth. 
Twelfth. 
Eighteenth. 
Fourth.  § 
Nineteenth. 

nth  Rhode  Isl'ind*  . 

loth  Rhode  Isl'ind*. 

Corcoran  's 

Sturgis's 

Wilson's 

Hunt's 

Wright's 

1  2th  Rhode  Island!  

i 
4 

2 

1  2 

I 

1  1 

36 

49 
242 

3 

2 

12 
40 

51 
254 

4 

2 

Cavalry. 

Heavy  Artillery. 

ii\    {~!nniMf*tM*iit. 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  Conn.  "Rockwell's"  { 
iA    (^onn    "Sterling's'1 

3d  Conn  "Gilbert's"  

Infantry. 

I 

2 

4 
104 

99 

'57 

112 
10 
109 
I4O 

65 
42 
188 

34 
76 
48 
67 
/6 
55 

I 

2 

4 

I  10 

107 
168 
1  20 
10 

122 
148 
71 

44 
205 

38 
82 

53 

7i 
80 

60 

Tyler's 
Tyler's 
Tyler's 
Williams's 
Terry's 
Terry's 
Rodman's 
drover's 
Terry's 
Rodman's 
Dwight's 
Grover's 
Gibbon's 
Carter's 
Sturgis's 
Barlow's 
Thoburn's 
Williams's 
Brooks's 
Gordon's 
Grover's 

tJ 

6 
8 
1  1 
8 

6th  Connecticut!  

^th  Connecticut!  •  

J3 
8 

6 

2 

'7 
4 
6 

5 
4 
4 
5 

i.ith  Connecticut  .  ...... 

1  6th  Connecticut  

i 

10 

1  1 

*Three-montlis' service.         -(-Nine-months'  service.          iReonlisied.        (Peninsular  Cur]**  (1»*>3). 

Connecticut. —  The  ist  Heavy  Artillery  is  noteworthy  as  having  served  in  the  field  through  the  war,  and  in 
the  arm  of  service  to  which  it  belonged.  Very  few  of  the  other  heavy  artillery  regiments  in  the  army  saw  any 
service  aside  from  garrison-duty,  except  while  acting  as  infantry.  The  ist  Connecticut  Heavy  Artillery  was  or 
ganized  as  the  4th  Infantry,  but  was  changed  in  January,  1 862,  to  heavy  artillery.  It  served  as  heavy  artillery  at  the 
Siege  of  Yorktown,  in  1862,  and  was  prominently  engaged  during  the  Siege  of  Petersburg,  the  most  of  its  losses 
in  action  occurring  at  the  latter  place.  The  ist,  2(1,  and  3d  Infantry  were  three-months'  regiments  which  went  out 
in  April,  1861,  in  response  to  the  first  call  for  troops,  and  were  in  action  at  First  Bull  Run.  The  4th  and  igth  In 
fantry  became,  respectively,  the  island  2d  Heavy  Artillery,  thereby  leaving  those  regimental  numbers  vacant.  In 
the  8th  Infantry,  five  men  were  executed  for  desertion,  an  unusually  large  number  for  one  regiment.  The  deaths  in 
the  1 6th  Regiment  include  154  deaths  in  Confederate  prisons,  over  400  of  this  regiment  having  been  captured  at 
Plymouth,  N.  C.  The  great  mortality  in  the  gth  was  largely  due  to  its  sen' ice  in  the  district  of  the  Lower  Missis 
sippi,  153  of  the  deaths  —  or  half  of  the  number  present  for  duty  —  occurring  in  the  summer  and  fall  of  1862 
while  stationed  in  the  vicinity  of  Baton  Rouge,  Vicksburg,  and  New  Orleans. 


• 


474 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Jan.,  '64 

July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
June,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Feb.,  '63 
Nov.,  '62 
Aug.,  '63 
May,  '63 

July,  '63 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
Jan.,  '64 
Feb.,  '63 
Jan.,  '64 
Oct.,  '63 
Dec.,  '64 

July,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Sept.,  '6  1 

Aug.,  '61 
Oct.,  '63 

In/a  n  try  —  Co  n  tin  ued. 

16 
26 

51 

42 

M 

44 

41 

1  12 

45 
39 

93 

67 

91 
84 

93 

22 

31 

31 
16 

35 
20 

10 
126 

5 

63 
20 

16 

29 

55 
46 

16 
45 

46 

121 

48 

44 

IOI 

76 
105 
9° 

IO2 
23 

34 

31 
18 

37 

2  I 
I  I 
I30 

5 
66 

23 

2 

4 

i 

•    • 

3 
i 

i 
i 

i 

3 

'j 

•   • 

5 

7 
j 

2 

5 
i 
3 

5 

•   • 
2 
I 
2 
I 
I 

•      • 

I 

•      • 
•      • 

I 

3 

•    • 

3 
i 

57 
61 
89 

22 

94 

*52 

119 

235 
15° 

54 

222 
129 
2OO 
126 
148 

3T9 
1  70 

97 

137 

126 

1  20 
203 
130 

I25 
76 

183 

14 

J33 
49 

3 
89 

212 
IO 

I24 
112 

59 

65 
90 

22 

97 
'53 

I2O 
236 

'51 

57 
225 

129 
205 

i33 
149- 

321 

i75 
98 

140 

I31 

1  20 

205 

'31 

127 

77 
184 

14 

J34 
49 

3 
90 

2I5 

IO 

127 
JI3 

75 
94 

J45 
68 

"3 
198 

166 

357 
199 

IOI 

326 
205 
310 
223 

251 

344 

209 

129 

158 
168 
141 
216 
261 
132 

143 

207 

14 
248 
66 

3 

15° 

249 

IO 

159 

2I5 

Grover's 
Grover's 
Sherman's 
Caldwell's 
Emory's 
Birney's  (W.) 

Averell's 
Wilson's 
Kautz's 
Torbert's 
Wilson's 
Torbert's 
Wilson's 
Merritt's 
Gregg's 

Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Second. 
Nineteenth. 
Tenth. 

Cavalry,W.Va 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  J. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Nineteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Twenty-sec'd 
Nineteenth. 
Cavalry,W.Va 
Twenty-sec'd 
Nineteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Cavalry,W.Va 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Eighteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Cavalry,  W.Va 
Nineteenth. 

Eighteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

3 
4 

4 

2 
I 

5 
9 
3 

5 
8 

9 
M 
6 

9 
i 

3 

27th  Connecticut*  

28th  (Connecticut*  

2oth  Connecticut")"  

Cavalry. 

2<\    New  York  I  . 

~z(\    New  York  t  . 

4th  New  York  

6th  New  York 

8th  New  York 

oth  New  York 

loth  New  York  i  

T  i  tli   NPW  Vnrk    . 

T  2th  New  York  . 

r  7th  New  York  . 

2 
2 
I 

I 

4 

Arnold's 
Duffle's 

i^th  New  York  

1  6th  New  York  

i8th  New  York  

Arnold's 
Torbert's 

i  pth  New  York  §  

2  oth  New  York  

2  1  st  New  York  ........ 

3 
3 

Duffle's 
Wilson's 

22d    New  York  

27,d    New  York  II  

24th  New  York  

ij 

i 

107 
16 

114 
i? 

Crook's 
Merritt's 

25th  New  York  

26th  New  York  

ist  New  York  Veteran  . 
2tl    New  York  Veteran  . 
—   New  York  (  i  Co.)f  . 
Mounted  Rifles. 
ist  New  York  j  

4 

5 

2 

8 

56 
29 

30 
94 

60 
34 

32 

IO2 

Duffle's 
Arnold's 

Kautz's 
Crook's 

2cl    New  York  

*Nine-:nonths'  men.        tColored  troops.        JRcenlisted.        §First  New  York  Dragoons.        ||  Mix's  Battalion  (2  Go's).       «[Oneida  Cavalry. 

New  York.  -  -  The  Empire  State  furnished  the  most  men  and  sustained  the  heaviest  loss  of  any  State  in  the 
War.  It  sent  448,850  men  to  the  Union  Armies,  of  whom  19,085  were  killed  in  battle,  while  27,449  more  lost 
their  lives  from  other  causes  while  in  the  service  ;  a  total  of  46,534  deaths. 

In  addition  to  the  number  of  men  furnished,  as  just  stated,  New  York  sent  17,000  militia  to  the  field  for 
thirty  days,  which  were  not  credited  on  the  required  quota.  The  National  Guard  of  New  York  took  a  prominent 
and  meritorious  part  in  the  war.  In  various  emergencies  it  hastened  to  the  front  with  a  promptness  that  was 
surprising.  Many  of  these  militia  regiments  —  notably  those  from  the  city  of  New  York — were  well  drilled, 
perfectly  equipped,  and  rendered  valuable  service  —  not  only  in  guarding  the  lines  of  communication,  but  on  the 
battlefield  itself.  At  First  Bull  Run  the  three-months  men  of  the  New  York  State  National  Guard  —  the  8th, 
69th,  and  7  ist  Regiments  —  fought  with  a  gallantry  unsurpassed  on  all  that  bloody  field. 

Nor  was  this  all.  Some  of  the  National  Guard  regiments  enlisted  for  three  years,  and  taking  the  field  promptly 
at  the  first  call,  gave  the  country  the  benefit  of  their  previous  drill  and  military  experience.  In  this  meritorious 
class  were  the  2(1  Regiment  Militia,  or  82d  Volunteers;  the  Qth  Militia,  or  83(1  Volunteers;  the  I4th  Brooklyn, 
or  84th  Volunteers  :  the  2Oth  Militia  (Ulster  Guard),  or  the  8oth  Volunteers  ;  and  the  79th  "  Highlanders." 


NEW  YORK  REGIMENTS. 


475 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OllUAMZED 

KKUIME.NT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 

\VoCND8. 

[in  •. 

AmDE* 

Officers 

•  OF  DlflUABK, 
IT8.IN  I'HISON.&C 

Total 
Death*. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

i  »f!lrers 

KM.  Men 

Total. 

Kit.  Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '63 

Nov.,  '6  1 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 

Nov.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Sept.,'6i 
Nov.,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 

Heavy  Artillery. 

10 

I 

8 

204 
18 
1  08 
90 
130 

277 
342 
198 

47 
4 
220 

142 
42 

7 

*    •   • 

4 
16 

4 

12 

4 

214 
'9 

116 
90 

136 
291 
361 
204 
47 

5 
226 

^o 

42 

8 

2 

4 
16 

4 

'3 

5 

•     • 

3 
4 
i 

6 
4 
4 
3 

2 
2 
2 

5 

2 

* 

1 

•     • 
•     • 

I 
2 

•      • 

I 

•      • 
•      • 

I 

•      • 
•      • 
•      • 

1 

•      • 

247 

2«5 
334 
295 
275 
374 
298 

254 
218 
144 
299 

225 
284 

8  1 

•  •   • 

9 

10 

1  8 
>4 

I  2 
M 

16 

10 

'5 
'5 

I  2 
I  1 

38 

5 
4 
i  i 

'3 
9 

27 

247 
288 

33* 
296 

281 

378 
302 

257 
220 

146 
3OI 
230 
286 

82 

•     •     • 

9 

10 

18 

14 

!3 

'4 
18 

10 

16 
'5 

1  2 

I  2 

38 

5 
4 

I  2 

»3 

9 

27 

461 
3°7 

454 
386 

4i7 
669 

663 
461 
267 

'51 

527 
380 

328 
90 

2 

13 
26 

22 
27 

1  8 

14 
30 

'7 
29 

'7 
23 

25 

56 
10 
18 

'7 
'7 
>7 
31 

Barlow's 

Second. 
Eighteenth. 
Second. 
Eighth. 
Fifth. 
Second. 
Second. 
Sixth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Ninth. 
Fifth. 
Tenth. 

Fourth. 
Second. 
Fifth. 
Third. 
Fifth. 
Twcnty-sec'd. 
Second. 
Fifth. 
Eleventh. 
Twelfth. 
First. 
Twelfth. 

Sixth. 
Eleventh. 
Sixth. 
Third. 
Reserve  Art'y. 
Third. 
Eighteenth. 

3(1    New  York  *f  

4th  New  York  

Miles's 
Thoburn's 
Ayres's 
Barlow's 
Gibbon's 
Ricketts's 
Martindale's 

5th  New  York  *  

6th  New  York  

6 
14 

»9 
6 

8th  New  York  

i  ^th  New  York  

i 
6 
8 

1  4th  New  York  

Ferrero's 
Ayres's 
Terry's 

i5th  New  York  *  

1  6th  New  York  

Marine  Artiltery. 

i 

2 

Light  Artillery. 
ist  New  York*  (F.&  S.) 
A  —  "Bates's"  

B     "Pettit's"  

C      "Barnes's".... 

D—  "Osborne's"  .  . 
E—  "Wheeler's"  .. 
K  —  "Wilson's"  .  .  . 

I 
I 

G—  "Frank's"  
H  —  "Mink's"  

I 

1  1 
7 

12 
2 
I  I 

'3 

1  6 

4 
'4 

5 
4 
8 

4 

12 

7 
'3 

2 
I  I 

'3 

1  8 

5 
'4 
5 
4 
8 

4 

I—  "Weidrich's".. 
K—  "Fitzhugh's".. 
L—  "Reynolds's"  . 
M—  "Cothran's1'  .  . 
Independent  Batteries. 
ist  N.  Y.*  "Cowan's".  . 
zd    N.  Y.J  "SchirmerV 
3d    N.  Y*  "Harn's"..  . 

I 

•     • 
•     • 

2 

I 

4th  N.  Y.     "Smith's"... 
5th  N.  Y.*  "Taft's"  .... 

•  • 

6th  N.  Y.*  "BramhaH's" 
7th  N.  Y.*  "Regan's"  .  . 

•  • 
•  • 

•ReSnlistod  and  served  through  the  war.       tServed,  alao,  aa  light  artillery.       iKnlisted  for  two  years. 

In  addition  to  the  organizations  which  appear  in  the  above  tabulations,  New  York  furnished  the  Army  with 
i  7  regiments  of  militia  for  thirty  days'  service  ;  16  regiments  for  ninety  days ;  and  1 1  regiments  for  one  hundred 
days.  Some  of  these,  like  the  7th  Regiment,  responded  to  the  call  in  three  different  emergencies,  and  served 
three  separate  enlistments. 

Of  these  troops,  the  Seventh  Regiment,  National  Guard  --  or  7th  Militia,  as  it  was  called  — was  particularly 
conspicuous  by  the  surprising  celerity  with  which  it  went  to  the  front  in  time  of  need  ;  by  its  superior  drill  and 
equipment ;  and  by  the  high  standard  of  personal  character  which  marked  its  rank  and  file.  When  the  war 
broke  out  it  was  among  the  very  first  to  take  the  field,  leaving  New  York  on  the  igth  of  April,  with  991  officers 
and  men,  and  by  its  timely  arrival  at  Washington  contributed  largely  to  the  relief  of  the  threatened  Capital.  This, 
its  first  enlistment,  was  for  thirty  days.  It  volunteered  again  in  May,  1862,  for  three  months  ;  and,  again,  in  June, 
1863,  for  one  month. 

But  the  Seventh  rendered  a  far  greater  and  more  valuable  service  to  the  country  by  the  large  number  of  efficient 
and  well-drilled  soldiers,  which  went  from  its  ranks  to  accept  commissions  in  the  new  volunteer  regiments.  The 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF           DIED  OP  DISEASE, 
WOUNDS.                ACCIDENTS,  IN  PUISON,&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total.   Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Oct.,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
April,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '62 
Feb.,  '63 
Dec.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '63 
Oct.,  '6  1 

Sept.,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 

Sept.,  '62 

May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 

Independent  Batteries,  Con. 

8tU  M    V  *  "Ril-i-l-iV 

36 

4 
9 
'3 
M 
16 

4 
3 
44 
16 

23 
16 

6 

3° 

47 

77 
27 
33 

*7 
8 

3 
1  1 

5 
3 

12 
14 

116 
119 

206 

38 
31 

22 

83 
23 

36 

4 
9 
'3 
M 

16 

4 
3 
44 
16 

23 

17 
6 

3i 

47 

77 
27 

33 

i? 

8 

4 
ii 

5 
3 
J3 
14 

121 
122 
2Oy 

39 

34 

22 

85 
24 

36 

4 
1  1 

21 

19 

28 

9 
1  1 

44 

*7 

26 

3i 
6 

33 

47 
81 

3° 
33 

J9 

8 

6 
18 

5 
5 
13 

21 

148 
129 

227 

62 

IX3 

48 

122 

88 

Fourth. 

Third. 
Third. 
Second. 
Eleventh. 
Second. 
Fifth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 

Nineteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 

Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Tenth. 
Ninth. 

Fifth. 

Third. 
Third. 
Tenth. 
Second. 

9th  N.  Y.    "Schubert's"  . 
iQthN.Y.    "Bruen's"  ... 
nthN.Y.    "Havelock".. 
i2thN.Y.    "McKnight's" 
1  3thN.  Y.*"  Wheeler's".. 
J4thN.  Y.f  "Rorty's"  ..  . 

Ti-tV»  M    V  +  "Mnrf-'c" 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

I 
i 
2 

•    •     • 

2 

8 

4 
1  1 

3 

8 

•    •    •                       •     • 

2     j        .. 

8 

5 

12 

5  '     •• 
8 

r/^fVi  TV    V       "T  r>rkpV 

T  il-Vi  TV    V       "Orleans" 

1 
3 
M 

i 

3 
14           i 

1  8th  N.Y.    "Mack's"  
i9thN.Y.    "Rogers's"... 

Tol-K  T»J   V      "RvprV 

•      • 
•      • 

orct  N    V      ""RirnpsV 

221 

•     ••                   •••                          •      • 

4          4   '      •  • 
3           3 

23d  N.Y.*  "Ransom's".  . 

-7/itli  N    V  +  "T  eeV 

<>r  l-l-i  IV    V      "finwV 

7(ith  N    V      "Fox's" 

?  -7th  N  V     "Faton's" 

2 

•     •     • 

2 

7 

2 

*     •      • 

7 

25 
7 
T9 

23 

79 
25 
36 
62 

2             .  . 

•      •     •                             •      • 

2                I 

7 

2             .  . 
...                 I 

7 

27          5 

7          3 
20          i 

23          i 

79          3 
26 

37          2 
64          i 

28th  N.Y.    "Hannum's"  .       .. 
2nth  N  Y  §  "Wever's" 

3oth  N.  Y.*  'Von  Kleiser's' 
3ist  N.Y.    "Langner's"  . 
32ti  N.  Y.*  "Kusserow's" 
33d   N.Y.    "Wheeler's"  . 
34th  N.Y.*  "Roemer's".  . 
Engineers. 
T  cf-   ^pw  Yorlc^". 

•      • 
•      • 
•      • 

2 

rtth  New  York  II 

cotVi  NPW  Vnrt*  . 

I 

•      * 

Sharpshooters. 
ist  New  York  (6  cos.).  . 
Infantry. 

Cutler's 

Birney's 
Hooker's 
Ames's 
French's 

I 
I 
2 

4th  New  York  ||  

*Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war. 

tThe  14th  and  15th  Batteries  originally  formed  the  3d  Battalion,  N.  Y.  Light  Artillery. 

i'fhe  23d  and  24th  Batteries  originally  formed  the  Rocket  Battalion,  N.  Y.  Artillery. 

§The  29th,  30th,  31st,  and  32d  Batteries  originally  formed  the  1st  Battalion,  N.  Y.  Light  Artillery. 

[Enlisted  for  two  years. 

volunteers  were  lacking  in  drill  and  military  experience  ;  the  proficiency  of  the  Seventh  was  well  known,  and 
membership  in  its  ranks  was  a  guarantee  of  character.  Hence  the  volunteer  service  made  such  demands  on  it  for 
officers  that  603  men  of  this  regiment  were  commissioned  in  other  commands  during  the  war.  It  was  the  West 
Point  of  the  New  York  volunteer  service.  The  Seventh  has  no  casualty  list  of  its  own,  but  of  the  officers  which 
graduated  from  its  ranks,  4 1  were  killed  in  battle,  and  1 7  died  of  disease  while  in  the  service. 

The  first  infantry  regiments  organized  in  the  State  —  aside  from  the  three-months  men  who  volunteered  so 
promptly  in  April,  1861  —  were  enlisted  for  two  years'  service.  All  the  infantry  from  the  ist  to  the  38th  regi 
ments,  inclusive,  were  in  this  class,  and  were  mustered  out  in  May,  1863.  Hence,  the  losses  in  these  regiments 
were  simller  than  in  those  which  were  recruited  for  a  three-years  term,  or  those  which,  having  served  their  three 
years,  reenlisted  for  another  term  and  served  through  the  war. 


NEW  YORK  REGIMENTS. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  or 

\\  DI  -,  i-  . 

I'll  l.  OF  DlSKANK, 
AOC'IDENTH,1N  I'lUHON.&f 

TOTA  L 

UEATII* 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

nrtircr* 

1    M    M.   ', 

Total. 

officers  En.  Men 

Total. 

May,  "6  1 
Aug.,  '63 
May,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '63 
April,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
July,  '63 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
June.  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

6 

8 

I7I 

91 
H 
88 

S2 
90 
69 
1  06 
48 
61 
67 

56 
1  06 

32 
51 
34 
53 
74 
62 

i7 
82 

54 

101 

72 
46 
40 

72 
62 

37 
4-4 
90 
40 

36 
69 

72 
107 
228 

177 

99 
'4 

IO2 

55 
90 

71 

112 

51 
64 

71 
60 

in 

37 
53 
38 
61 

76 
73 
>7 
88 

61 

1  06 

74 
48 

42 

78 
68 

45 
47 
93 
4i 
37 
74 
75 

"5 
238 

•     • 
*     • 
•     • 

I 

•     • 

I 
2 

3 

3 

i 

•    • 

•   • 

i 
3 

•    • 

i 
i 

2 
I 
2 
I 

4 

2 

•     • 

I 
2 

T 

I 

•        • 

I 

•       • 

4 

i 

3 
i 

2 

34 
90 

32 
46 

73 
42 

23 
86 

12 

59 
29 

43 
85 
37 
56 
32 
58 
40 
28 
53 
3° 
25 
42 
7» 
5° 

2  I 

31 
29 

53 

105 
68 

53 
26 

37 
39 
158 
170 

34 
90 

32 

47 
73 
43 

25 
89 

11 

29 

43 

86 

40 
56 
33 
59 
42 

29 
55 
3i 
29 

42 
72 

5° 

22 

33 
3° 
54 

i°5 
69 

53 
3° 
38 
42 

'59 

172 

21  I 

189 
46 
149 
128 

J33 
96 

2OI 

66 
124 

100 

103 

'97 

77 
109 

71 
1  20 

118 
102 

72 
119 
90 
148 
146 

98 
64 
i  i  i 
98 

99 

152 
162 

94 
67 

112 

"7 

2/4 

410 

Sykes's 
Ayres's 

Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Nineteenth. 
Second. 
Second. 
First,  A.  Va. 
Ninth. 
Second. 
McDowell's. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Sixth. 
Fifth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
First. 
First. 
First. 
First. 
Fifth. 
First. 
Sixth. 
Twelfth. 
Eleventh. 
First. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Second. 
First. 
Sixth. 
Third. 
Third. 
Second. 
Third. 

cth  NP\V  York  , 

6th  New  York*  

'4 
3 

Hancock's 
Miles's 
Schenck's 
Rodman's 
French's 
Heintzelman's 
Griffin's 
Griffin's 
Griffin's 
Slocum's 
Griffin's 
Davis's 
Slocum's 
Smith  's,W.  F. 
Doubleday's 
Doubleday's 
Doubleday's 
Uoubleday's 
Griffin's 
Ricketts's 
Slocum's 
Williams's 
Steimvehr's 
Doubleday's 
Slocum's 
Slocum's 
Smith  's,W.F. 
Sedgwick's 
Doubleday's 
Newton's 
Birney's 
Birney's 
Barlow's 
Birney's 

8th  New  York*  

oth  New  York*  ....... 

2 

6 

3 
3 

4 

( 

5 
5 

2 

4 

O 

1  1 

loth  New  York*f  

1  6th  New  York*  

i  Tth  Nf\v  York  . 

1  8th  New  York*  

22cl    New  York*  

24th  New  York*  

6 

7 
5 

2 
2 
2 

6 
6 
8 

3 

3 

i 

i 

5 

3 

8 

10 

""jth  New  York*  

•>8th  New  York*  

320!    New  York*  

34th  New  York*  

35th  New  York*  ....... 

36th  New  York*  

3?th  New  York*  

38th  New  York*  

39th  New  York~t"  

4  oth  New  Yorkf  

'Enlisted  for  two  years.  tKeenlisted  and  served  through  the  war. 

And,  yet,  there  were  no  better  regiments  in  the  war,  taken  as  a  whole,  than  these  two-year  regiments  from 
New  York.  They  were  composed  of  young  men  who  volunteered  promptly  at  the  first  alarm  of  the  war  ;  whose 
incentive  was  a  true  patriotism,  combined  with  military  ardor  and  that  love  of  adventure  which  helps  so  much 
to  make  the  daring  and  gallant  soldier.  There  were  no  conscripts  or  mercenaries  in  their  number  ;  the  ranks  of 
each  regiment  were  recruited  from  that  grandest  type  of  manhood  —  the  American  Volunteers. 

It  should  be  remembered  that,  although  these  two-year  regiments  were  organixed  early  in  1 86 1,  the  Army 
did  not  take  the  field  until  the  spring  of  1862  ;  and  that  when  the  fighting  did  commence,  they  had  only  a  year 
to  serve,  which  accounts  for  their  comparatively  small  loss  in  action.  Some  of  them,  however --the  i2th,  i3th, 
1 8th,  nth  (Fire  Zouaves),  and  38th — were  engaged  at  First  Bull  Run. 

Prominent  among  these  two-year  regiments  was  the  loth  New  York  (National  Zouaves),  raised  in  New 
York  City,  which,  by  recruiting  and  rei-nlistments,  preserved  its  organization  through  the  war.  In  April,  1863,  the 
two-years  men  in  the  regiment  were  mustered  out,  and  the  three-years  men  were  formed  into  a  battalion  of  four 
companies,  under  Major  Hopper,  which  remained  in  the  field.  During  the  first  half  of  its  service  the  Tenth  was 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,IN  PKISON,&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Jifne,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '61 
Sept.,  '61 
Sept.,  '61 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,'6i 
Aug.,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '61 
July,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept..  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
June,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Jan.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '61 
Oct.,  '61 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

I 
1  1 

'3 

4 

5 
8 

7 
18 

*5 

9 
M 

i 

2 

69 
141 
I  10 

I78 
42 
96 
70 

218 
126 

193 

X39 

3 
33 
33 
63 

95 

28 

129 
64 
177 

85 
141 
1  60 

112 

88 
96 

38 

246 

181 
83 
'5° 
138 

122 
91 

161 

87 

55 

70 

I52 
I23 

182 

47 
104 

77 
236 

141 
202 

i53 

4 
40 

33 
64 

103 

32 

J43 

67 

i93 
88 

156 

173 

117 

97 

IOI 

43 

259 
190 

88 
161 

156 
130 

95 

i73 
96 

58 

4 
I 

I 
2 
I 
2 

•      • 

2 

5 

2 

•     • 
*     • 

I 

3 
i 

3 

5 

2 
2 

I 

5 

i 

4 

2 
I 

•     • 

2 
2 
I 
I 

2 

•     • 

I 

2 

69 
I03 
I  2O 

MS 

106 
89 
1  60 

'31 
174 

174 
197 

7 

TOI 
29 
213 

9° 
60 

127 
96 

121 
82 
92 
IT4 

88 

I2O 

75 
74 
142 
62 

73 
88 

76 
67 
103 

156 

!75 

73 

73 
104 

121 

147 
107 

91 
1  60 

i33 
179 
176 
197 

7 

IO2 
29 

216 

91 

63 

127 

IOI 

123 

84 

93 
119 

89 
124 

77 

75 
142 

64 

75 
89 

77 
69 

103 

157 

177 

73 

M3 

256 

244 
329 
i54  • 
195 
237 

369 
320 

378 

35° 
1  1 

142 
62 
280 
194 

95 
270 

168 
316 

172 

249 

292 

206 

221 
I78 

118 
401 

254 
163 
250 

233 
199 
198 

33° 
273 
131 

Barlow's 
Gibbon's 
Getty's 
Griffin's 
Schurz's 
Willcox's 
Turner's 
Turner's 
Getty's 
Potter's 
Barlow's 

Eleventh. 
Second. 
Sixth. 
Fifth. 
Eleventh. 
Ninth. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 
Sixth. 
Ninth. 
Second. 

Eleventh. 
Third. 
Fourth,  A.  P. 
Second. 
Eleventh. 
Second. 
Twelfth. 
Second. 
Sixth. 
Second. 
Second. 
Sixth. 
Second. 
Sixth. 
Eleventh. 
Second. 
Third. 
Third. 
Third. 
Third. 
Third. 
Nineteenth. 
First. 
Sixth. 
Twelfth. 

A  i\\\  MPVV  Vnrk  *  . 

A  8th  New  York  *. 

c  A\\\  MPW  Vnrk  *. 

Barlow's 
Birney's 
Casey's 
Barlow's 
Schurz's 
Gibbon's 
Geary's 
Barlow's 
Newton's 
Hancock's 
Hancock's 
Russell's 
Hancock's 
Newton's 
Barlow's 
Hancock's 
Hooker's 
Hooker's 
Hooker's 
Hooker's 
Hooker's 
Grover's 
Wadsworth's 
Getty's 
Geary's 

I 

8 

4 
M 

'  3 
16 

3 
i.S 

*3 

5 
9 
5 
5 
T3 
9 

5 
ii 

18 

8 

4 

I  2 

9 
3 

c8th  New  York  *  . 

C\  T  st   NPW  York  *  . 

f\?f\    NPW  York  *  . 

f\?c\    NPW  York  *  . 

f>A  th  New  York  *  . 

6cth  New  York  *  . 

66th  New  York  *  

67th  New  York  

68th  New  York  *  

6oth  New  York  *  

*7Oth  New  York  . 

7Tcf   NPW  York  . 

72cl    New  York  

74th  New  York  *  

Y^th  New  York  *  

7  6th  New  York  

77th  New  York  *  

78th  New  York  

*lleenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.         tDisbanded  March  21.  1862  (D'Epineuil  Zouaves). 

brigaded  with  the  famous  Duryee  Zouaves,  and  was  attached  to  Sykes's  Division  of  regulars.  Although  serving 
in  company  with  the  finest  regiments  in  the  Army,  its  discipline  and  efficiency  was  such  that  it  lost  nothing  by 
any  comparison  with  the  other  magnificent  troops  of  that  division.  In  September,  1862,  it  was  transferred  to  the 
Second  Corps,  in  which  it  afterwards  remained.  The  service  of  the  Tenth  was  a  long  and  varied  one ;  it  was 
among  the  first  to  enlist,  and  it  remained  in  the  field  until  the  last  shot  had  been  fired. 

An  interesting  episode  in  the  history  of  the  Tenth  was  the  organization  of  a  working  lodge  of  Master  Masons 
in  the  regiment  —  the  National  Zouave  Lodge  (U.  D.) — which  found  lodge-room  in  a  casemate  at  Fort  Monroe. 
These  communications  were  attended,  also,  by  brethren  from  neighboring  camps ;  thirty-four  members  were 
entered,  passed,  and  raised;  and,  frequently,  gray-clad  soldiers  of  the  Southern  Army  —  prisoners  within  the 
lines — found  their  way  to  the  spot  and  sat  in  lodge  with  their  more  fortunate  brethren.* 

The  3d  Infantry,  though  a  two-years'  regiment,  also  preserved  its  organization  after  its  term  expired,  and 
served  through  the  war.  The  1 2th  Infantry  had  enough  three-years  men  among  its  recruits  to  organize  a 

*History  10th  New  York- Volunteers  :  Captain  Chas.  W.  Oowtan. 


NKW  YORK  REGIMENTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


REGIMENT 


May,  '6 1 
April,  '6 1 
Dec.,  '61 
May,  '6 1 
May,  '6 1 
May,  '6 1 
Dec.,  '6 1 
Sept.,  '6 1 
Oct.,  '6 1 
Sept., '5 1 
Dec.,  '6 1 
Dec.,  '6 1 1 
Dec.,  '61! 
Jan.,  >6s 
Nov., '6 1 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62! 
Mar.,  '62J 
Jan.,  '62' 
Jan.,  '62 
Aug.,  '6 1 
Jan.,  '62 
Oct.,  '6 1 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62! 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62' 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 


Infantry— 

79th  New 

8oth  New 

8ist  New 

82d    New 

8jd    New 

84th  New 

85th  New 

86th  New 

87th  New 

88th  New 

8gth  New 

9Oth  New 

9ist  New 

92d    New 

93d    New 

94th  New 

95th  New 

96th  New 

97th  New 

98th  New 

99th  New 

xooth  New 

loist  New 

iO2d    New 

iO3d    New 

iO4th  New 

i05th  New 

io6th  New 

iO7th  New 

toSth  New 

iO9th  New 

i  loth  New 

i  ith  New 

1 2th  New 

i4th  New 

1 5th  New 

1 6th  New 


-Continued. 

York  * 

York  * 

York  * 

York 

York 

York 

York  * 

York  * 

York 

York  * 

York  * 

York  * 

York  * 

York 

York  * 

York  * 

York  * 

York  * 

.York  * 

York  * 

York  * 

York  * 

York 

York  * 

York  * 

York  * 

York 

York 

York  | 

York 

York 

York 

York 

York 

York 

York 

York 


KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 

1  in   1  OF  hi-i  \-i 

\Vnl    ND- 

ArCIMKNTlMN  I'ltlMON.&C 

'  MlirtT- 

Kn.Mi-n 

Total. 

Officers 

Kii  M.  ii 

Total 

3 

116 

II9 

I 

78 

79 

8 

I  2O 

128 

•     • 

'57 

J57 

13 

I29 

142 

I 

96 

97 

10 

i;i 

181 

5 

83 

88 

9 

M7 

156 

2 

86 

88 

8 

'54 

162 

•     • 

69 

69 

i 

34 

35 

2 

324 

326 

13 

'59 

172 

2 

129 

'31 

i 

22 

23 

•     • 

26 

26 

'5 

U6      '51 

3        69         7- 

6 

89  ,     95 

'59 

159 

2 

58        60 

7 

181 

188 

3 

I  IO 

!'3 

i       i,S4 

185 

i 

67 

68 

2      US       "7 

6 

1  20 

126 

ij 

130 

132 

5      '05 

I  IO 

•    * 

'37 

137 

5      I!4 

119 

i 

136 

137 

9        59 

68 

'2 

.58 

1  60 

12          169          iSl 

\ 

156 

'57 

4        95 

99 

4 

132 

136 

2        37 

39 

3 

161 

164 

12          I.Sj 

194 

i 

202 

203 

I 

24  !    25 

i 

48 

49 

7 

66        73 

•    * 

82            82 

5 

6  1        66 

2 

TOO 

IO2 

5 

81 

86 

2 

M5 

'47 

2 

43 

45 

•     • 

45 

45 

10      127 

137 

4 

1  66 

170 

4         87 

9' 

••       13' 

'31 

9        95 

104 

87 

87 

5 

1  60 

'65 

•    • 

164 

164 

2             14 

16 

3 

191 

194 

IO        2IO        22O 

2 

178 

1  80 

9    I     122         131 

3 

190 

'93 

9         112         121 

2 

192 

'94 

7      128      135 

•     • 

1  88 

1  88 

5        9i 

96 

2 

124 

126 

Total 
Deaths 


198 

285 

239 
269 

244 
231 

36l 


49 
223 

254 
248 
298 

i«5 
258 
247 
256 
228 
338 

2.55 
203 

397 
74 

'55 
168 

233 
90 

3°  7 

222 
I9I 

329 
210 

40O 
324 
315 

323 
222 


DIVISION. 


Willcox's 
Doubleday'a 

Brooks's 

Gibbon's 

Robinson's 

Wadsworth's 

Casey's 

Hi nicy's 

Kearny's 

Hancock's 

Rodman's 

Dwight's 

Grover's 

Brooks's 

Birney's 

Robinson's 

Wadsworth's 

Brooks's 

Robinson's 

Brooks's 

Getty's 

Terry's 

Birney's 

Geary's 

Rodman's 

Robinson's 

Ricketts's 

Ricketts's 

Williams's 

French's 

Willcox's 

Emory's 

Barlow's 

Ames's 

Dwight's 

Ames's 

Dwight's 


(•OKI'S. 


Ninth. 

First. 

Eighteenth. 

Second. 

First. 

First. 

Fourth. 

Third. 

Third. 

Second. 

Ninth. 

Nineteenth. 

Nineteenth. 

Eighteenth. 

Second. 

First. 

First. 

Eighteenth. 

First. 

Eighteenth. 

Seventh. 

Tenth. 

Third. 

Twelfth. 

Ninth. 

First. 

First. 

Sixth. 

Twelfth. 

Second. 

Ninth. 

Nineteenth. 

Second. 

Tenth. 

Nineteenth. 

Tenth. 

Nineteenth. 


*Reenlisted.  and  served  through  the  war.  + First  regiment  to  organize  under  the  second  call. 

battalion  after  the  regiment  went  home,  and  this  battalion  remained  in  the  field  until  June,  1864,  when  it  was 
transferred  to  the  5th  Veteran  Infantry.  After  the  5th,  7th,  and  1 7th  Regiments  had  returned  to  New  York  at  the 
expiration  of  their  two  years'  term,  and  had  been  mustered  out,  other  regiments  bearing  these  numbers  were 
organized  from  the  disbanded  veterans  of  the  first  thirty-eight  infantry  regiments,  the  i7th  returning  to  the  field 
with  many  who  had  served  in  the  old  organization. 

The  ist  Veteran  Cavalry  was  composed  mostly  of  men  who  served  in  the  two-years'  infantry,  and  was 
recruited  largely  from  the  veterans  of  the  27th  and  33d  regiments.  The  2d  Veteran  Cavalry  contained  many  of 
the  veterans  of  the  30th  Infantry. 

Attention  is  called  to  the  large  number  of  killed  in  the  7th,  igth,  26th,  and  34th  Infantry  during  their  last 
year  of  service.  The  7th  lost  243  killed  and  wounded,  at  Fredericksburg,  out  of  488  engaged;  the  i6th  lost  201 
at  Gaines's  Mill ;  the  26th  lost  339  in  the  two  actions  of  Manassas  and  Fredericksburg,  and  the  34th  lost  25 1  at 
Fair  Oaks  and  Antietam. 

The  24th.  Cavalry  and  2d  Mounted  Rifles  served  dismounted  —  in  the  Ninth  Corps  —  until  November,  1864, 
most  of  their  casualties  in  battle  occurring  while  dismounted  and  serving  as  infantry. 


480 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBISON,&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

COEPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  2 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.  ,'62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept..,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

7 
6 

6 
1  1 

14 
6 
6 
1  1 

IS 

16 

123 

93 
66 

140 

212 

85 

66 
i37 

112 

137 
35 

58 
82 

'3 

4i 
86 

7i 

121 

66 
141 

7i 
126 

37 
37 
14 
126 

'54 

112 
129 

49 

IOI 

66 

38 
81 

i°5 
56 

87 

130 

99 

72 

J5£ 
226 

91 

72 

148 
127 

i53 

35 
bo 

84 
14 
43 
91 

73 
127 

71 
149 

75 
129 

42 

39 
i5 
i33 
163 
116 

i33 

51 
1  06 

69 

39 

83 
114 
60 

94 

I 

•     • 

2 

3 
4 
3 

i 
i 
i 

T 

3 

3 
i 

i 

3 

i 

4 
i 

2 
2 
2 
I 

4 

•    • 

2 
2 
2 

•     • 

3 
i 

i 
i 

2 
2 

3 

2 

135 

1  88 
92 
179 
117 

85 

95 
92 

112 

122 

94 

203 
107 

159 

78 

91 

91 
163 

79 
168 

172 
161 
177 
i74 

35 
179 

175 
149 

78 
78 
99 

91 
1  60 

J93 
71 
164 

104 

136 

1  88 

94 
182 

121 

88 

95 
93 

"3 

123 

95 
206 

no 
1  60 

79 
94 
92 

167 
80 
170 

174 

163 
178 
178 

35 
181 

177 

!5r 

78 

81 

IOO 

92 

161 

T95 
73 
167 

106 

266 

287 

166 

333 

347 
179 

167 
241 
240 
276 
130 
266 
194 

174 

122 

I85 

I65 
294 

!5l 

3'9 
249 

292 
220 

217 

5° 
3J4 
340 

267 

211 
I32 
2O6 

161 

200 

278 
I87 
227 
2OO 

Ames's 
Brooks's 
Schurz's 
Humphreys's 
Wright's  " 
Newton's 
Williams's 
Birney's 
Barlow's 
Barlow's 
Hatch's 
Grover's 
Grover's 
Prince's 
Dwight's 
Steinwehr's 
Steinwehr's 
Geary's 
Brooks's 
Ayres's 
Williams's 
Ames's 
Williams's 
Hatch's 
Williams's 
Ayres's 
Wadsworth's 
Brooks's 
Geary's 
Williams's 
Ricketts's 
Gibbon's 
Dwight's 
Steinwehr's 
Gibbon's 
Grover's 
Schurz's 

Tenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eleventh. 
Third. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Twelfth. 
Third. 
Second. 
Second. 
Dept.  S.  C. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Eleventh. 
Eleventh. 
Twelfth. 
Eighteenth. 
Fifth. 
Twentieth. 
Tenth. 
Twentieth. 
Dept.  S.  C. 
Twelfth. 
Fifth. 
First. 
Eighteenth. 
Twelfth. 
Twelfth. 
Sixth. 
Second. 
Nineteenth. 
Eleventh. 
Second. 
Nineteenth. 
Eleventh. 

r  oXtli  TVTpw  Vnrk  . 

2 
2 
I 

2 

5 

2 

6 

5 
8 

4 
3 

5 

2 
I 

7 
9 

4 
4 

2 

5 

3 
i 

2 

9 
4 

7 

T  -7/ith   New  Vnrk  . 

T  •?  rtli  New  Vnrk  . 

i  -?nth  NPW  Vnrk  . 

T  A  nth  NPW  Vnrk  . 

i  A  f\\\\  NPW  Vnrk  . 

r/iTth  NPW  Vnrk. 

i/iSth  NPW  York. 

lAoth  New  York  

i  cjoth  New  York  

j  r  i  gt  New  York  

j  c  2(1    New  York  

T  c  if\     NPW  Vnrk  . 

ic/ith  NPW  Vnrk  . 

1  5  6th  New  York  

i  ^  7th  New  York  

The  85th  New  York  lost  222  men  who  died  in  Confederate  prisons,  the  regiment  having  been  captured  at 
Plymouth,  N.  C.,  April  20,  1864.  The  loss  by  disease,  accidents,  etc.,  in  the  i32d  New  York  includes  31  men 
who  were  killed  at  Bachelor's  Creek,  N.  C.,  May  26,  1864,  by  an  accidental  explosion  of  torpedoes. 

The  1 07111  New  York  was  the  first  regiment  from  the  North  to  organize  under  the  second  call  and  the  first  to 
arrive  at  Washington,  in  acknowledgment  of  which  it  received  a  banner  from  the  State,  and  on  its  arrival  at 
Washington  was  greeted  by  a  personal  visit  from  the  President.  It  was  a  fine  regiment,  and  though  its  casualties 
were  not  among  the  largest,  it  made  a  splendid  record  for  discipline  and  efficiency. 

The  77th  New  York  was  also  a  fighting  regiment,  and  sustained  a  loss  in  officers  above  that  of  the  average. 
The  loss  of  officers  in  its  brigade  (7th  Me.,  43d  N.  Y.,  49th  N.  Y.,  77th  N.  Y.,  and  6ist  Pa.)  was  without  a 
parallel  in  the  war,  the  five  regiments  losing  72  officers  killed  in  action. 

The  i44th  sustained  its  loss  in  killed  in  the  battles  along  the  South  Carolina  coast, —  at  John's  Island,  James 
Island,  Siege  of  Wagner,  Deveaux  Neck,  and  Honey  Hill,  half  of  its  loss  occurring  in  the  latter  battle. 

The  i4ist  New  York  .encountered  its  hardest  fighting  and  severest  losses  at  Resacaand  Peach  Tree  Creek. 

The  following  regiments  failed  to  complete  their  organizations,  and  their  numbers  are  accordingly  vacant : 
the  i7th  Cavalry;  nth  and  i2th  Heavy  Artillery ;  i66th,  167:!!,  17151,  i72d,  iSoth,  i8ist,  and  i83d  Infantiy. 


NEW  YOKK  KKGIMKNTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


1  >|;,,  VSI  /!  , 

KECJIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE, 

ACCIUKNTH.  IN  I'HIHON.&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

(Mean 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Feb.,  '63 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Oct.,  '63 
Oct.,  '63 
Nov.,  '62 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Oct  ,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
April,  '65 
June,  '62 

April,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
July,  '64 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
1  58th  New  York  

2 
10 

6 

t 
8 

3 

10 

2 

45 
74 
53 
55 
58 

'5 
1  06 

41 
i 

H7 
119 

38 

22 

12 

30 

7 
18 

61 
65 

10 

53 
48 

'5 
36 
8 

47 
84 

59 
S^ 
66 
18 
116 

43 

i 

'57 
129 

44 
23 
M 
32 

9 
18 

68 

73 
1  1 

56 
•48 

15 
37 
9 

•     • 

I 
I 

•     • 

3 

•    • 

3 

2 

I 

3 

2 
2 

I 

3 

2 

3 

2 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

3 

i 

•    • 

i 

•    • 

83 
M° 

'59 
250 

i52 
8 

1  26 

79 
36 

I25 
96 

129 

59 
117 
146 
149 
190 
118 

53 
27 
39 
39 
32 

53 
70 

T 

83 

'3* 
1  60 

250 

'55 
8 

129 
81 

37 
128 

98 

131 
60 

1  20 
148 

T52 
192 

118 

53 

27 
42 

40 
32 

53 

?i 
i 

130 

215 

219 

306 
221 
26 

245 
124 

38 
285 
227 

'75 
«3 
'34 
1  80 

161 

2IO 

1  86 
126 
38 
98 
88 

47 
90 

80 
i 

Heckman's 
G  rover's 
Dwight's 
Augur's 
Dwight's 
Whipple's 
Gibbon's 
Dwight's 
Keyes's 
Ames's 
Gibbon's 
Dwight's 
Augur's 
Grover's 
Grover's 
Sherman's 
Mower's 
Potter's 
Gibbon's 
Ricketts's 
Griffin's 
Potter's 
Griffin's 
Griffin's 
Griffin's 

Eighteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Third. 
Second. 
Nineteenth. 
Fourth. 
Tenth. 
Second. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Ninth. 
Second. 
Sixth. 
Fifth. 
Ninth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 

Eighteenth. 

McDowell's. 
McDowell's. 
McDowell's. 

i  coth  New  York  

1  6oth  New  York  

1  68th  New  York*  

IO 
IO 

6 
i 

2 
2 
2 

I7cfh  New  Vnrk  . 

i  7/Sth  NPW  York  . 

i  ?8th  New  York  

7 
8 

i 
3 

1  8  2(1    NewYorkt  

1  84th  New  York  \  

1  85th  New  YorkJ  

1  86th  New  YorkJ  

i87th  NewYorkt. 

1  88th  New  Yorkt 

i 
i 

iSoth  New  York}  

i  •  j  -<  1    New  York  --       --- 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 

i 
i 

26 

25 
52 

3 
6 

4 
i  r 

26 

25 
52 

3 
6 

5 

12 

26 

25 
61 

M 

51 
20 

12 

"  I  es  Enfans  Perclus  "... 

9 

1  1 
44 
M 

9 

1  1 

45 
J5 

Naglee's 

Hunter's 
Tyler's 
Hunter's 

National  Guard. 
8th  New  York§  

6gth  New  York^  

i 
i 

7  1  st  New  York>5  

84th  New  York  

'Enlisted  for  nine  months.       tSixty-ninth  X.  Y.  National  Guard  Artillery.       ^Enlisted  for  one  year.       JThree-months'  service. 

Missing  numbers  in  the  line  were  also  caused  by  transfers  of  regiments  to  a  different  arm  of  service ;  the  7th 
Cavalry  became  the  ist  Mounted  Rifles;  the  i5th  and  5oth  Regiments  served  as  Engineers;  the  igth  Infantry 
was  changed  to  the  3*!  Artillery  ;  the  i  i3th  to  the  7th  Heavy  Artillery  ;  the  i29th  to  the  8th  Heavy  Artillery  ;  the 
i3Oth  to  the  i9th  Cavalry  (ist  Dragoons)  ;  the  i35th  to  the  6th  Heavy  Artillery ;  and  the  i38th  to  the  gth  Heavy 
Artillery.  The  22d  Light  Battery,  which  was  organixed  in  October,  1862,  was  transferred  soon  after  to  the  gth 
Artillery. 

For  various  reasons  some  of  the  regiments  were  discontinued  or  disbanded  before  completing  their  term  of 
enlistment:  the  7th  Cavalry,  organi/ed  in  October,  1861,  was  discontinued  after  six  months ;  the  ist  Marine 
Artillery  was  mustered  out  in  March.  1863;  the  nth  Infantry  (Fire  Zouaves)  was  disbanded  in  May,  1862; 
the  53(1  was  discontinued  in  March,  1862  ;  the  55th  was  transferred  to  the  38th  in  December,  1862  ;  the  87th 
was  transferred  to  the  4Oth  in  September,  1862  ;  the  loist  was  transferred  to  the  37th  in  December,  1862  ;  the 
i45thwas  disbanded  December  9,  1863,  and  distributed  to  the  io7th,  i23d,  and  1501)1  Regiments;  and  the  i63d 
was  transferred  to  the  73(1  on  January  20,  1863.  The  igoth  and  19 ist  were  small  battalions  which  did  not  leave 
the  State,  the  war  ending  soon  after  their  organization  was  commenced. 
31 


482 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
REGIMENT. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,IN  PRISON,  &c 

TOTAL 
DEATHS 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers  'En.Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '63 
Jan.;  '64 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 

May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  2 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 

Cavalry. 

116 

48 

47 

3 
8 

8 
6 

2 

144 
89 
148 

156 
126 
124 
126 
I67 
89 

91 

I31 

168 

71 

*39 

232 

20 

128 

51 
5° 

3 

9 

8 

6 

2 

'53 
96 

J57 
161 

138 
127 

137 
176 

96 

93 
142 

177 
74 

J47 
240 

21 

4 

•     • 

2 

•     * 
•     • 

•     • 

I 
2 
I 

2 

•      • 

I 
2 
I 

3 

3 

•    • 
•4 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 

i 
i 

i 
i 

•    • 
*    • 
•    • 

i 

2 

•      • 

2 

•     • 

I85 
190 

I05 

12 

23 

4 

26 
26 

90 
67 
80 
103 

85 
71 

121 
109 
I63 
I87 
107 

99 
44 
no 

!3r 

30 
40 

54 
53 
37 

21 

93 
3i 

39 

62 

39 

189 
190 
I07 

12 
23 

4 
26 
26 

91 
69 

Si 

I05 

85 

72 

123 
no 
166 
190 

107 

99 
44 
no 

132 

31 
4i 

55 
53 
37 

21 

94 
33 

39 

64 

39 

3T7 
241 

*57 

'5 
32 

12 

32 
28 

244 

I65 
238 
266 
223 
199 
260 
286 
262 
283 
249 
276 

118 

257 
372 
52 
41 
9° 

IO2 

57 
36 
94 

84 
40 

64 
39 

Gregg's 
Grierson's 
Custer's 

Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  T. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Sixth. 
Third. 
Second. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 

Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Third. 
Third. 
Third. 
Third. 
Eighteenth. 
Sixth. 
Third. 
Second. 
Twelfth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
First. 
Sixth. 
Second. 
Ninth. 
Sixth. 
Ninth. 
Second. 
First. 
First. 
First. 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  N.  J.*"Hexamer's"      .. 
2d   N.  J.*  "Beam's"  ...        i 
3d    N.J.    "Woerner's".       .. 
4th  N.  J.  "Woodbury's"      .  . 
5th  N.J.    "Warren's"..       .. 

Infantry. 

Slocum's 
Slocum's 
Slocum's 
Slocum's 
Humphreys's 
Humphreys's 
Humphreys's 
Humphreys's 
Weitzel's 
Wright's 
Humphreys's 
French's 
Williams's 
Ricketts's 
Wright's 
Howe's 
Wadsworth's 
Brooks's 
French's 
Getty's 
Howe's 
Burns's 
French's 
Wadsworth's 
Wadsworth's 
Wadsworth's 

•7fj   New  Jersey  9 

4th  New  Jersey  *  ^ 

7th  New  Jersey  *  11 

8th  New  Jersey  *  o 

oth  New  Jersey  *  7 

2  ist  New  Jersey  t  i 

31 
46 

T9 
14 

35 

49 
20 

15 

24th  New  Jersey  t  T, 

2cjth  New  Jersey  t  ......         i 

26th  New  Jersey  t  i 

2  7th  New  Jersey  t  .  . 

28th  New  Jersey  t  .  . 

51 
i 

51 
i 

2gth  New  Jersey  t  .  . 

*Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.       tEnlisted  for  nine  months. 

New  Jersey. —  The  record  of  the  Jerseymen  in  the  war  shows  that  they  were  true  to  the  patriotic  memories  of 
Princeton  and  Monmouth.  The  Jersey  troops  became  conspicuous  early  in  the  war  by  reason  of  the  First  and 
Second  Jersey  Brigades ;  in  fact,  any  history  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  would  be  incomplete  and  deficient 
were  it  without  frequent  mention  of  those  gallant  commands.  The  First  Jersey  Brigade,  proper,  consisted  of 
the  ist,  2d,  3d,  and  4th  New  Jersey,  to  which  the  isth  was  added  in  1862  ;  the  loth,  23d,  and  4oth  were  also 
attached  at  various  times.  It  was  commanded  successively  by  Generals  Kearny,  Taylor,  Torbert,  Colonel  Brown 
(3d  N.  J.),  and  General  Penrose.  General  Taylor  was  killed  at  Bull  Run  Bridge,  while  in  command  of  the  brigade. 

The  Second  Jersey  Brigade  was  composed  originally  of  the  5th,  6th,  7th,  and  8th  Regiments,  to  which  the  i  ith 
was  subsequently  added.  Other  regiments  were  attached  to  the  brigade  at  different  times. 

The  Ninth  New  Jersey  was  a  regiment  which  reflected  credit  on  its  State,  and  made  a  brilliant  reputation  in 
the  Department  in  which  it  served.  It  fought  in  the  battles  along  the  North  Carolina  coast,  and  in  1864  was 
attached  to  the  Army  of  the  James.  Its  principal  losses  occurred  at  Roanoke  Island,  New  Berne,  Port 
Walthall,  Drewry's  Bluff,  Coid  Harbor,  and  Petersburg. 

The  Thirteenth  New  Jersey  is  noteworthy  on  account  of  the  remarkably  small  number  cf  deaths  from 


NEW  JERSEY  AND  PENNSYLVANIA  REGIMKNTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES   ETC.— CONTINUED 


OKOANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 
WOUNDS. 

D.KI 
ACCIDKf 

Officers 

)  OP    DlHI 
ITS,  IN  Pn 

1  11   M,  • 

\-i  . 

ISON.&C 

Total. 

Total 
Death.*. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
June,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Feb.,  '65 

April,  '61 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
'6~ 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

6 

72 

3 
24 

5 

78 

3 
25 

5 

•     • 

3 

2 
I 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

•    • 

85 
164 

132 

*3 
14 
10 

'7 
i 

85 
I67 

134 
14 
14 
IO 

'7 

i 

I63 
170 

159 
'9 

14 
42 

'9 
i 

i 

3 

29 

2 

32 

2 

Three-  Months'  Sennce  ('61) 

•     • 

•     * 

I 
2 
2 

3 
6 

3 

5 

2 

2 

•     • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

3 

•    • 

2 

3 
3 

2 

I 
I 

.  . 

2 
2 

1O4 

'93 

125 

257 
210 

86 

185 
126 

155 

1  80 

107 
220 
296 
103 
191 
128 
230 
1  06 

97 
114 

95 

i7 

5 

2 
2 

I°5 

195 

127 

260 

216 

89 
190 
128 

157 

I  80 

108 
220 
296 
103 
194 
128 
232 
109 

TOO 

116 

96 

18 

5 

2 

2 

2O  I 

253 
169 

358 
293 
I67 

292 

1  88 
229 
299 
142 
290 

395 
128 

299 

232 
292 
124 

I25 
200 

129 

21 

6 

Cavalry. 

9 
6 
i 

9 

i 

7 
8 

5 
6 

1  1 

2 

3 

2 

3 

5 
6 

5 

87 

52 
41 
89 

76 

7i 
94 

55 
66 

1  08 

32 
67 

97 

22 
IOO 
98 

55 
15 

22 
80 

33 

3 
i 

96 

58 
42 
98 

77 
78 

IO2 
60 

72 
II9 

34 

70 

99 

25 

'°5 

104 

60 

i5 
25 
84 
33 

3 
i 

2(1    Pennsylvania  1  ..... 

td    Pennsylvania!  

4th  Pennsylvania!  

cth  Pennsylvania!  

6th   Pennsylvania!  

T"5fli     Ppnnsvlvi  nil 

Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Oct.,  '63 
Feb..  '64 
Feb.,  '64 
Feb.,  '64 
June,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 

1  4th   Pennsylvania  

i  (»th   Pennsylvania  

1  6th   Pennsylvania  

1  7th   Pennsylvania  

1  8th   Pennsylvania  

ioth  Pennsylvania.  ..... 

2Oth   Pennsylvania.  ..... 

3 
4 

2ist    Pennsylvania.  ..... 

Ringgold  Battalion  
Anderson  Troop  

•    • 
•   * 

DIVISION 


Geary's 

Garrard's 

Veatch's 


Potter's 
Wheaton's 

Runyon's 
Runyon's 
Runyon's 
Runyon's 

Gregg's 

Gregg's 

Gregg's 

Gregg's 

Kautz's 

Merrill's 

Garrard's 

Gregg's 

McCook's 

Kautz's 

Averell's 

Gregg's 

Averell's 

Crook's 

Gregg's 

Pmford's 

Wilson's 

Knipe's 

Duffle's 

Gregg's 

Averell's 

Averell's 

Stanley's 


('OKI'S. 


Twentieth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Tenth. 

Ninth. 
Sixth. 

McDowell's. 
McDowell's. 
McDowell's. 
McDowell's. 

Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  J. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry',  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  J. 
Cavalry.W.Va 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,W.Va 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.M. 
Cavalry,\V.Va 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,W.Va 
Cavalry,W.Va 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 


•Hundred-days'  men.          tEnlisted  for  one  year.  JServed  through  the  war. 

disease  which  occurred  within  its  ranks.  The  regiments  which  marched  by  its  side  sustained  far  greater  losses 
from  this  cause.  And  the  Thirteenth  saw  an  unusual  amount  of  active  service,  too.  It  had  not  left  the  State  two 
weeks  before  it  joined  McClellan's  Army  on  the  Maryland  campaign,  and  was  hotly  engaged  at  Antielam.  It 
fought  through  the  Atlanta  campaign,  marched  through  Georgia  to  the  Sea,  and  then  fought  under  Sherman  in  the 
Carolinas.  In  the  latter  campaign  official  acknowledgement  was  made  of  the  signal  and  valuable  service  rendered 
by  the  Thirteenth  at  the  battle  of  Bentonville.  The  extraordinary  exemption  of  this  regiment  from  disease  was 
undoubtedly  due  to  the  superior  material  in  its  ranks ;  the  men  were  a  clean,  healthy,  intelligent  lot,  and  repre 
sented  the  best  element  in  the  Volunteer  service.  A  small  loss  by  disease  is  a  creditable  feature  in  the  record  of  a 
regiment,  as  well  as  a  large  loss  in  action. 

The  nine-months'  men  from  this  State  also  made  a  good  record  during  the  short  time  they  were  in  service. 
At  Fredericksburg  the  24th  New  Jersey  lost  136  in  killed  and  wounded  ;  aud  the  28th  New  Jersey  lost  193  on 
that  bloody  field.  The  vacant  numbers  in  the  New  Jersey  line  occurred  through  the  following  reasons  :  the  i6th 
regiment  became  the  ist  Cavalry;  the  32d  the  2d  Cavalry;  and  the  36th  ihe  3d  Cavalry;  the  i7th,  i8th, 
and  20th  regiments  failed  to  complete  their  organizations. 


484 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKISON,&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Feb.,  '62 

'£" 

Heavy  Artillery. 

5 

221 

!9 

3 
2 

•     •     • 

16 

!9 

2 

" 

J7 
16 
i 

226 
19 

3 

2 

•    •     • 

17 

21 

2 
I  I 

a 
18 

i? 

i 

5 
i 

•   * 
•   • 

i 

•   • 
•   • 

i 

•   • 

i 

*   • 

i 

•  • 
•  * 

*   • 
•   • 
•   • 

•   * 

•   • 

2 

3 
i 

i 

•    • 
*   • 
•   • 

385 
214 

46 

44 

•   •    • 

21 

17 
12 

18 

21 

13 

14 

18 

2 

16 

25 
1  1 

21 
I  I 

14 

9 

7 
3 
4 
9 

64 

71 

54 
60 
68 

73 

135 

68 

39° 

215 
46 

44 
i 

21 

17 
12 

19 

21 

J3 

14 
19 

2 

J7 

25 
1  1 

2  I 
II 
M 

9 

7 
3 
4 
9 

66 
74 

55 
61 

68 
73 

135 

68 

616 

234 

49 
46 

i 
38 
38 
14 
3° 
23 
31 

31 

20 

2 
17 

35 
15 

24 
25 
24 
9 
7 
3 
4 

10 

174 

J51 
127 

*39 
209 

183 
218 

226 

Eighteenth,  f 

Twenty-sec'd. 
Twenty-sec'd. 

First. 
First. 
Sixth. 
Sixth. 
Eighteenth. 
First. 
First. 
Fourth,  A.  P. 

Fourth,  A.  C. 
First. 
Ninth. 
Twelfth. 
Twelfth. 

Twenty-sec'd. 
Twenty-sec'd. 

Fifth. 
Fifth. 
First. 
First. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 

,    02 

Sept..  '64 
Sept.,  '64 

May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,   '6  1 
July,   '6  1 
Sept.,  '64 

Sept.,  '6  1 

Aug.,  '61 
Nov.,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Dec,  '63 
Aug.,  '62 

July,   '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
June,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 

Light  Artillery. 
ist   Pennsylvania  L.  A.— 
A—  *"Easton's"  
B  —  *"Cooper's"  
C—  "McCarthy's".. 
D*"MnnVV 

•   • 

i 

2 

*     • 

E      *"Miller's" 

F  —  *"Ricketts's"  

G      *"Kern's" 

I 
I 

H*"RradvV 

T      -  "r"arrprnnV 

Independent  Batteries. 
Penn.  Light  Artillery  — 
A      *"Schaffer's" 

B—  *"Muehler's"  ... 
C—  ""Thompson's"  . 
D     *"Dureh"s". 

2 

•     • 

I 

2 

2 

8 
4 

2 
12 
8 

10 

4 
3 
H 

10 

E      *"KnaD>£-" 

F—*"  Hampton's".  . 
G       "Younz's". 

H--  "J.  I.  Nevins's" 
I  -  -  "R.  J.  Nevins's" 
K"Kevstone"  . 

•    •    • 

•    •    • 

—  Penn.  S.  M.  ... 
Infantry. 
ist  Penn.  Reserves  

•     • 

6 
4 
3 

2 
14 

3 
3 

5 

I 
IO2 

73 
69 

76 
127 
107 
80 

153 

i 

108 

77 
72 

78 
141 

I  IO 

83 
158 

Crawford's 
Crawford's 
Meade's 
Meade's 
Crawford's 
Crawford's 
Crawford's 
Crawford's 

^d   Penn  Reserves  

4th  Penn  Reserves  

5th  Penn  Reserves  

*Served  through  the  war.       tPart  of  the  regiment  (the  2d  Penn.  Provisional  Heavy  Art'y~>  served  in  the  Ninth  Corps.      JEnlisted  for  one  year. 

Pennsylvania. —  The  percentage  of  killed  in  the  soldiers  of  the  Keystone  State,  as  based  upon  the  white 
troops,  is  greater  than  in  the  quota  of  any  other  Northern  State.  This  high  percentage  of  loss  in  battle  was 
largely  due  to  the  fact  that  nearly  all  the  Pennsylvania  troops  served  in  Virginia,  where  the  territory  was  better 
contested  and  the  war  more  prolonged.  Then,  again,  the  Pennsylvania  regiments  were  second  to  none.  The 
cavalry  of  the  State  were,  as  a  whole,  unsurpassed ;  they  saw  plenty  of  hard  fighting,  and  their  total  losses  in 
action  exceed  the  cavalry  losses  of  any  other  State.* 

A  peculiarity  in  the  numerical  designations  of  the  Pennsylvania  regiments  was  the  consecutive  numbering, 
irrespective  of  the  arm  of  the  service  to  which  they  belonged.  The  volunteer  regiments,  as  fast  as  they  were 
organized,  were  numbered  as  volunteers ;  but  at  the  same  time  some  of  them  were  given  other  numbers,  pertain 
ing  to  their  arm  of  the  service.  The  infantry  regiments  bore  numerical  designations  identical  with  their  volunteer 
numbers  ;  but  the  cavalry  and  artillery  were  numbered  as  such,  their  titles  being  synonymous  with  their  numbers 
in  the  volunteer  line.  The  cavalry  and  artillery  were  never  known  by  their  volunteer  numbers ;  hence,  the 

*Some  of  the  cavalry  regiments  of  other  States  failed  to  receive  their  horses ;  they  served  dismounted,  as  infantry,  and  were  cavalry  only 
in  name. 


PENNSYLVANIA  REGIMENTS. 


485 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


IM;...\M/.I  11 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 
WOUNDS. 

I)IK1>  OF  DlMKAME, 
AcCIDKNTH.IV  1'lllSOX.ttc 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

GOBI'S. 

Ofltoen 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Offioen 

En.  Men 

Total 

July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
May,  '61 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,'6i 
Feb.,  '62 
Dec.,  '61 
Mar.,  '62 
Dec.,  '61 
Sept.,'5i 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.  ,'6  1 
Sept.,  '61 
Sept.,'6i 
Oct.,  '6  1 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
9th  Penn.  Reserves  .... 
loth  Penn.  Reserves  .... 
nth  Penn.  Reserves  .... 
1  2th  Penn.  Reserves  .... 
1  3th  Penn.  Reserves  .... 

6 

7 
i  : 

i 
i  i 

12 

5 
6 

5 
6 

3 
'3 

M 

5 
1  1 

9 
8 

12 
I 

5 
5 

7 
7 

12 

6 
19 

*7 

'7 

2 
10 
12 

M 
I  I 

5 

2 

6 
9 

131 
153 

'85 
I  IO 

'51 

224 

I  IO 

'43 
67 

IS* 

99 
214 

165 

112 

MS 
184 

'56 
165 
43 

195 
io8 

2OI 
III 
149 

68 
218 

IS2 
169 

77 
61 

166 

147 

182 

98 

54 
46 
161 

137 
1  60 

196 
III 
162 
236 

»st 
149 

72 
157 

102 
227 
179 
117 
IS* 

193 
164 

177 

44 
200 

"3 

208 

118 
161 

74 

237 
169 
186 

79 

7i 
178 

161 

193 
103 

56 
52 
170 

i 

•    • 

i 
i 

2 

4 
3 

2 

•     • 

3 
i 

•    • 

2 

3 
3 

•    • 

4 

•    • 

2 

I 
2 

3 
i 

•    • 

4 
i 

•    • 

i 
3 

•    • 

3 
i 

2 

•     • 

I 

2 

2 

49 

47 

I  12 
69 

88 

i?7 

70 

71 
62 

124 
84 
252 
136 
170 
142 
168 
1  80 

137 
173 
193 

137 

268 

96 

217 
139 

100 

89 
i33 
i5° 

51 
107 

98 
69 
113 

85 
107 

192 

5° 

47 

H3 

70 
90 

181 

73t 
73 
62 

127 

85 

252 

138 
173 

M5 
168 

184 
137 

»75 
194 

139 
271 

97 
217 

M3 

101 

89 
'34 
'53 

51 

I  IO 

99 
71 

^3 
86 
109 
194 

,87 
207 

3°9 
181 

252 

4'7 
188 

222 

134 

284 
I87 

479 

3'7 

290 

301 
361 
348 

3'4 
219 

394 

252 

479 
215 
378 
217 

33« 
258 
320 
232 

122 
288 
260 
264 

216 

142 

161 

364 

Crawford's 
Crawford's 
Crawford's 
Crawford's 
Crawford's 
Robinson's 
Wright's 
Humphreys's 
Steimvehr's 
Geary's 
Geary's 
Potter's 
Williams's 
Dwight's 
Potter's 
Wright's 
Willcox's 
Willcox's 
Casey's 
Hancock's 
Thoburn's 
Ames's 
Wadsworth's 
Birney's 
Brooks's 
Getty's 
Griffin's 
Birney's 
Ricketts's 
Birney's 
Gibbon's 
Gibbon's 
Gibbon's 
Steinwehr's 
Schurz's 
Schurz's 
Turner's 

Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
First. 
Sixth. 
Third. 
Eleventh. 
Twelfth. 
Twelfth. 
Ninth. 
Twelfth. 
Nineteenth. 
Ninth. 
Sixth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Fourth. 
Second. 
Eighth. 
Tenth. 
First. 
Third. 
Eighteenth. 
Sixth. 
Fifth. 
Third. 
Sixth. 
Third. 
Second. 
Second. 
Second. 
Eleventh. 
Eleventh. 
Eleventh. 
Tenth. 

jSih  Pennsylvania  *  

46th  Pennsylvania  *  

48th  Pennsylvania  *  

*j                   j 

5  6th  Pennsylvania  *  

5  7th  Pennsylvania  *  

c8th  Pennsylvania  *  

6ist   Pennsylvania  *  

63*1    Pennsylvania  

68th  Pennsylvania  

•Served  through  the  war.  tlnsoription  on  regimental  monument  (at  Gettysburg)  claims  139  killed  and  86  deaths  from  disease. 

apparent  vacancies  and  lack  of  consecutive  numbers  in  the  list  of  Pennsylvania  regiments.  This  consecutive 
numbering  —  including,  as  it  did,  all  arms  of  the  service  —  had  the  effect  of  running  the  numbers  of  the  last 
infantry  regiments  beyond  those  furnished  by  any  other  State,  and  creating  an  impression  that  Pennsylvania 
furnished  more  regiments  than  any  other.  No  number  was  repeated  in  the  Pennsylvania  line,  while  in  other 
States  the  numerical  designations  of  the  regiments  were  repeated  by  each  arm  of  the  service. 
The  regimental  numbers  apparently  vacant,  with  their  synonymous  designations,  were  : 


Volunteer 
3Oth  Penn. 
3ist  Penn. 
32d  Penn. 
33d  Penn. 
34th  Penn. 
35th  Penn. 
36th  Penn. 
37th  Penn. 


Number. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 


Synonym. 

ist  Penn.  Reserves, 
ad    Penn.  Reserves. 

Reserves. 

Reserves. 

Reserves. 

Reserves, 
yth  Penn.  Reserves. 
8th  Penn.  Reserves. 


3d  Penn. 
4th  Penn. 
5th  Penn. 
6th  Penn. 


Volunteer  Number. 
38th  Penn.  Volunteers. 
39th  Penn.  Volunteers. 
4oth  Penn.  Volunteers. 
4ist  Penn.  Volunteers. 
42d  Penn.  Volunteers. 
43d  Penn.  Volunteers. 
44th  Penn.  Volunteers. 
59th  Penn.  Volunteers. 


Synonym. 

Qth  Penn.  Reserves, 
loth  Penn.  Reserves, 
i  ith  Penn. 
I2th  Penn. 
I3th  Penn. 

ist  Penn. 

1st  Penn. 


2d 


Reserves. 
Reserves. 
Reserves. 
Artillery. 
Cavalry. 
Penn.  Cavalry. 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 

DIED  OP  DISEASE, 

WOUNDS. 

ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 

ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Deaths. 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

Oct.,  '6  1 

77th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

5 

60 

65 

.  . 

254 

254 

3:9 

Stanley's 

Fourth. 

Oct.,  .'61 

78th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

2 

68 

70 

3 

194 

I97 

267 

Johnson's 

Fourteenth. 

Sept.,  '6  1 

79th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

4 

118 

122 

i 

145 

146 

268 

Rousseau's 

Fourteenth. 

Oct.,  '61 

8ist  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

18 

190 

208 

2 

96 

98 

306 

Barlow's 

Second. 

Aug.,  '6  1 

820!    Pennsylvania  *  .... 

5 

1  06 

III 

•     • 

67 

67 

178 

Wheaton's 

Sixth. 

Sept.,  '6  1 

83d    Pennsylvania*.  •  •  • 

1  1 

271 

282 

2 

iS1 

J53 

435 

Griffin's 

Fifth. 

Nov.,  '61 

6 

119 

125 

I 

98 

99 

224 

Humphreys's 

Third. 

Oct.,  '6  1 

7 

9o 

97 

4 

146 

i5° 

247 

Terry's 

Tenth. 

Sept.,  '6  1 

87th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

10 

80 

90 

•    • 

112 

112 

202 

Ricketts's 

Sixth. 

Sept.,  '6  1 

88th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

8 

IOI 

109 

•    • 

72 

72 

181 

Robinson's 

First. 

Nov.,  '6  1 

5 

98 

103 

i 

126 

127 

230 

Robinson's 

First. 

Nov.,  '6  1 

9  1  st  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

6 

no 

116 

2 

82 

84 

200 

Ayres's 

Fifth. 

Oct.,  '6  1 

93d    Pennsylvania*  .  •  .  • 

ii 

161 

172 

I 

TOI 

IO2 

274 

Getty's 

Sixth. 

Oct.,  '6  1 

95th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

ii 

171 

182 

I 

72 

73 

255 

Wright's 

Sixth. 

Oct.,  '6  1 

nfith  Ppnnsvlvanin  . 

6 

126 

132 

I 

86 

87 

219 

Brooks's 

Sixth. 

Oct.,  '6  1 

97th  Pennsylvania*.  •  .  . 

6 

130 

136 

2 

184 

186 

322 

Ames's 

Tenth. 

Nov.,  '6  1 

98th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

9 

112 

121 

I 

72 

73 

194 

Getty's 

Sixth. 

Aug.,  '6  1 

99th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

9 

H3 

122 

I 

I  12 

^3 

235 

Birney's 

Third. 

Aug.,  '6  1 

looth  Pennsylvania*.  .  .  . 

16 

208 

224 

2 

I83 

185 

409 

Stevenson's 

Ninth. 

Dec.,  '6  1 

loist  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

•    • 

39 

39 

I 

28l 

282 

321 

Casey's 

Fourth. 

Aug.,  '6  1 

i02d    Pennsylvania*.  .  .  . 

10 

171 

181 

I 

81 

82 

263 

Getty's 

Sixth. 

Sept.,  '6  1 

1  03d    Pennsylvania*.  •  .  . 

3 

5° 

53 

I 

352 

353 

406 

Casey's 

Fourth. 

Oct.,  '6  1 

iO4th  Pennsylvania*.  .  .  . 

2 

68 

70 

•      • 

"5 

"5 

185 

Casey's 

Fourth. 

Oct.,  "6  1 

io5th  Pennsylvania*.  .  .  . 

M 

231 

245 

.  . 

J39 

i39 

384 

Birney's 

Third. 

Oct.,  '6  1 

io6th  Pennsylvania*.  .  .  . 

9 

95 

104 

I 

92 

93 

197 

Gibbon's 

Second. 

Mar.,  '62 

iO7th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

2 

106 

108 

3 

140 

M3 

25  1 

Robinson's 

First. 

Mar.,  '62 

logth  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

* 

61 

64 

•    • 

71 

71 

135 

Geary's 

Twelfth. 

Aug.,  '6  1 

i  loth  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

7 

i  ii 

118 

•    • 

78 

78 

196 

Birney's 

Third. 

Dec.,  '61 

1  1  1  th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

7 

138 

J45 

4 

J55 

i59 

3°4 

Geary's 

Twelfth. 

Aug.,  '62 

1  1  4th  Pennsylvania  

7 

66 

73 

i 

37 

38 

in 

Birney's 

Third. 

Oct.,  '62 

1  1  ^th  Pennsylvania  

6 

32 

38 

2 

40 

42 

80 

Humphreys's 

Third. 

Aug.,  '62 

1  1  6th  Pennsylvania  

8 

137 

M5 

I 

88 

89 

234 

Hancock's 

Second. 

Aug.,  '62 

1  1  8th  Pennsylvania  

9 

132 

141 

I 

in 

112 

253 

Griffin's 

Fifth. 

Aug.,  '62 

1  1  gth  Pennsylvania  

9 

132 

141 

I 

71 

72 

213 

Wright's 

Sixth. 

Aug.,  '62 

i2ist  Pennsylvania  

5 

104 

109 

2 

64 

66 

J75 

Doubleday's 

First. 

Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 

16 

27 

16 
3° 

I 
I 

42 
4i 

43 

42 

59 

72 

Whipple's 
Humphreys's 

Third. 
Fifth. 

1  23d    Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 

3 

*Served  through  the  war.         tEnlisted  for  nine  months. 


Volunteer  Number. 

Synonym. 

6oth 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

3d 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

64th 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

4th 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

6sth 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

5th 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

70th 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

6th 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

8oth 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

7th 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

8gth 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

8th 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

92d 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

gth 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

io8th 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

nth 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

H2th 

Penn, 

Volunteers. 

2d 

Penn. 

Artillery 

H3th 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

I2th 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

H7th 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

I3th 

Penn. 

Cavalry. 

I52d 

Penn. 

Volunteers. 

3d 

Penn. 

Artillery 

Volunteer  Number. 
159th  Penn.  Volunteers. 
i6oth  Penn. 
i6ist  Penn. 

Penn. 

Penn. 

iSoth  Penn. 
iSist  Penn. 
i82d 


i62d 


Penn 
212th  Penn 


Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 
Penn.  Volunteers. 
Penn.  Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 

Volunteers. 


Synonym. 

I4th  Penn.  Cavalry. 
I5th  Penn.  Cavalry. 
i6th  Penn.  Cavalry. 
iyth  Penn.  Cavalry. 
i8th  Penn.  Cavalry, 
igth  Penn.  Cavalry. 
2Oth  Penn.  Cavalry. 
2ist  Penn.  Cavalry. 
22d  Penn.  Cavalry. 

5th  Penn.  Artillery. 

6th  Penn.  Artillery. 


Vacant  numbers  were  also  caused  by  the  failure  of  the  following  regiments  to  complete  their  organizations : 
the  loth  Cavalry;  4th  Artillery;  86th,  94th,  i2Oth,  i44th,  i  j6th,  is6th,  i64th,  i7oth,  and  iSgth  Infantry.  The 
66th  Regiment,  after  serving  about  seven  months,  was  disbanded  and  transferred  to  the  73d  and  ggth  Regiments. 


PENNSYLVANIA  REGIMENTS. 


487 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES.  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OKUANIKED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 
WOCNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE. 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PUIWON.&O 

Total 
Deaths. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total  . 

Offloen 

i  n  M.  • 

:•  •  . 

Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62. 
Sept  ,'62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
1  24th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 
1  25th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 
1  26th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 
1  2  jth  Pennsylvania  *.  .  .  . 
1  28th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 
1  29th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 
i3Oth  Pennsylvania  *.  .  .  . 
1  3  1  st   Pennsylvania  *  .... 
1321!    Pennsylvania  *.  .  .  . 
1  33d    Pennsylvania  *  .... 
1  34th  Pennsylvania  *.  .  .  . 

2 

1 

4 

2 

4 

2 

3 
4 

4 

«7 
48 

30 
«5 
31 
37 
56 
36 
70 
40 
38 

18 

50 
31 
'9 

33 

40 
60 

38 

73 
44 

42 

•    • 

i 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

i 

•    • 

i 

•    • 
•    • 

i 

•    • 
•    • 

i 

i 

5 
i 

3 

•    • 

2 

3 
3 
4 

•   • 

i 
i 

*   • 

•    » 

i 

•    • 
•    • 

i 

•   • 
*    • 

i 

•    • 

36 
39 
34 
16 
26 
42 

32 
44 
40 

33 
66 

37 
30 
58 
70 
86 
127 
76 
72 

15° 
214 

61 

183 
172 

94 

53 
28 

4 
in 

34 
45 
14 
1  1 

22 

24 
1  [ 

38 

36 
40 

34 
16 

26 
43 
32 

45 
40 

33 
67 

37 
3° 
59 
7l 

9i 

128 

79 
72 
IS2 
217 

64 
187 
172 

95 
54 
28 

4 

112 

34 

45 

'5 
1  1 

22 

25 
I  I 

38 

54 

90 
65 

35 
59 

83 
92 

83 
"3 

77 
109 

37 
56 

59 
167 

236 
326 
246 

227 

303 
422 

142 

397 

336 
207 

123 

77 
4 
254 
65 

45 
16 

i7 
24 

25 
1  1 

38 

1  36th  Pennsylvania  *.  •  .  . 

3 

23 

26 

6 

10 
10 

6 

7 
8 

18 

7 

12 

4 
4 

2 
I 

90 

i35 
1  88 

161 
148 

i43 

187 

7i 
198 
1  60 
1  08 
67 
48 

96 

»45 
198 

167 

«5S 

IS' 

205 

78 

210 
164 
112 
69 

49 

1  4oth  Pennsylvania  

i/                 j 
1  48th  Pennsylvania  ..... 

141;  tli  Pennsylvania  

i  ?oth  Pennsylvania  

15  ist   Pennsylvania  *  .... 
153(1    Pennsylvania  *  .... 

i^tjth  Pennsylvania  ..... 

5 

137 

31 

142 
31 

i 

6 
i 

i 
6 

2 

1  66th  Pennsylvania  *.  .  .  . 
1  6  7th  Pennsylvania  *.  .  .  . 

•  • 

i 

DIVISION. 


Williams's 

Williams's 

Humphreys's 

Howard's 

Williams's 

Humphreys's 

French's 

Humphreys's 

French's 

Humphreys's 

Humphreys's 

Doubleday's 

Gibbon's 

Wadsworth's 

Ricketts's 

Getty's 

Hancock's 

Hirney's 

Doubleday's 

Doubleday's 

Hancock's 

Geary's 

Barlow's 

Doubleday's 

Doubleday's 

Doubleday's 

Barlow's 

Griffin's 

Ayres's 

Prince's 

Corcoran 's 

Corcoran's 

Corcoran's 

Prince's 

Keyes's 

Prince's 


CORPS. 


Twelfth. 

Twelfth. 

Fifth. 

Second. 

Twelfth. 

Fifth. 

Second. 

Fifth. 

Second. 

Fifth. 

Fifth. 

First. 

First. 

First. 

Sixth. 

Sixth. 

Second. 

Third. 

First. 

First. 

Second. 

Twelfth. 

Second. 

First. 

First. 

First. 

Eleventh. 

Fifth. 

Fifth. 

Eighteenth. 

Seventh. 

Seventh. 

Seventh. 

Eighteenth. 

Fourth. 

Eighteenth. 


'Enlisted  for  nine  months. 

The  first  twenty-five  regiments  of  volunteers  from  this  State  served  in  1861,  at  the  commencement  of  the 
war,  but  were  enlisted  for  three  months  only ;  these  regiments  are  omitted  in  the  above  tabulation,  except  the 
nth  and  23d  Regiments,  which  reenlisted  for  three  years  and  retained  their  original  designation. 

In  addition  to  these  twenty-five  volunteer  regiments  of  three-months  men,  Pennsylvania  sent  to  the  Army,  in 
1863,  34  regiments  of 'militia  for  ninety  days'  service  ;  also,  about  5,000  more  emergency-men  in  separate  com 
panies  or  battalions.  Two  of  these  companies  served  three  years,  and  five  of  them  nine  months. 

The  deaths  in  the  first  twenty-five  volunteer  regiments,  and  in  the  thirty-four  militia  regiments,  in  1863,  and 
in  the  miscellaneous  companies,  and  in  all  other  commands  omitted  in  the  above  tabulated  list  of  Pennsylvania 
organizations, —  aggregated  1 1 2  from  disease  and  2  killed  in  action. 

Five  companies  of  Pennsylvania  Militia  were  the  first  volunteer  troops  of  the  war  that  arrived  at  Washington, 
they  having  marched  promptly  to  the  defense  of  the  National  Capital  at  the  first  note  of  alarm.  These  companies 
were  the  Ringgold  Light  Artillery,  of  Reading;  the  Logan  Guards,  of  Lewistown  ;  the  Washington  Aitillery  and 
National  Light  Infantry,  of  Pottsville  ;  and  the  Allen  Rifles,  of  Allentown.  They  entered  the  city  at  7  p.  M.,  on 


488 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Feb.,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
April,  '64 
April,  '64 
May,  '64 
Mar.,  '65 
July,  '64 
July,  '64 
Mar.,  '65 
July,  '64 
July,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Nov.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Aug.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Feb.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
April,  '65 

Infa  n  try  —  Con  tin  ued. 

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J3 

19 

43 
23 

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6 
89 

122 

17 

69 

66 
168 
161 
16 

IO 

2 

I? 

10 

6 

44 

52 
24 

i5 

33 

72 

J7 
29 

24 
7 

20 

44 

53 
18 

24 
1  1 

13 

J9 
J3 

21 

44 
24 

IO 

6 
91 

122 

T7 
70 

68 
168 
161 
16 

IO 

2 

I? 

10 

6 
44 

52 
24 

15 

33 

72 

17 

29 

25 

7 
20 

45 
53 
18 
24 
n 

J3 
19 

13 

2  I 

44 
24 

10 

6 

187 

235 

]7 
136 

192 
214 
202 
16 

IO 

2 

18 

IO 

6 
117 

84 

54 
16 

36 
146 

57 
3° 

79 
28 

39 
85 
97 
18 
24 
1  1 

Keyes's 

Fourth. 
Seventh. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Seventh. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Second. 
Second. 

Fifth. 
Eighteenth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 

Fifth. 
Twenty-  fo'rth 
Ninth. 

Tenth. 
Ninth. 
Tenth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Fifth. 
Ninth. 

~\  TI(\     Ppnnsvlvania  *. 

1  74th  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

Ferry's 
Prince's 
Ferry's 

T'TTth   Ppnnsvlvania  *. 

Keyes's 
Keyes's 
Barlow's 
Gibbon's 

1  7otn  Pennsylvania  *  .... 

1  8  7(1    Pennsylvania  ..... 

4 
3 

92 

no 

96 

"3 

66 
114 

43 
40 

66 
124 
46 
41 

Griffin's 
Brooks's 
Ayres's 
Ayres's 

10 

3 
i 

loist  Pennsylvania  ..... 

io2(l    Pennsylvania  t.  •  .  . 

in^rl     Pprmsvlvania  t. 

iQ4th  Pennsylvania  i  .  .  .  . 

1  95th  Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 
io6th  Pennsylvania  ..... 

•   • 

i 

i 

i  Q  7th  Pennsylvania  

i  g8th  Pennsylvania  f.  .  .  . 
1  99th  Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 

6 

2 

67 

3° 

3° 
i 

3 
70 

37 
i 

5T 

!9 

17 

37 
38 

73 
32 

30 
i 

3 
74 
40 
i 

54 

21 

r9 

40 

44 

Griffin's 
Foster's 
Hartranft's 

2oist  Pennsylvania  t  .  •  .  . 

2O2(1    Pennsylvania  t.  .  .  . 

203d    Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 
205  th  Pennsylvania  f  •  •  •  • 
2o6th  Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 
207th  Pennsylvania  \.  ... 
2o8th  Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 
2O9th  Pennsylvania  -f-  .  .  .  . 
2  roth  Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 
2  1  ith  Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 
2  1  3th  Pennsylvania  f  .  .  .  . 

4 
3 

•   • 

3 

2 
2 

3 
6 

Foster's 
Hartranft's 
Terry's 
Hartranft's 
Hartranft's 
Hartranft's 
Ayres's 
Hartranft's 

2  1  4th  Pennsylvania  t  •  •  .  . 

*Enlisted  for  nine  months.       tEnlisted  for  one  year.       ^Hundred-days'  men. 

the  1 8th  of  April.*  On  the  following  day,  the  26th  Pennsylvania  and  the  6th  Massachusetts  arrived  at 
Baltimore  en-route  for  the  Capital,  and  in  the  fight  with  the  mob  in  the  streets  of  that  city  the  26th  Pennsylvania 
lost  one  man  killed  and  several  wounded. 

The  nine-months  regiments  from  Pennsylvania  furnished  some  noteworthy  items  to  the  casualty  lists  of  the 
war.     For  instance  : 

Killed  and 
Wounded. 

184 


REGIMENT. 

I25th  Pennsylvania 
I3oth  Pennsylvania 
13151  Pennsylvania 
I32d  Pennsylvania 


BATTLE. 
Antietam 
Antietam 
Fredericksburg 
Antietam 


Killed  and 
Wounded. 


M5 

178 

175 
152 


REGIMENT. 

i33d    Pennsylvania 
i34th  Pennsylvania 
Pennsylvania 
Pennsylvania^ 


BATTLE. 

Fredericksburg 
Fredericksburg 
Gettysburg 
Fort  Fisher 


148 

233t 
191 


The  greatest  battle  of  the  war  was  fought  on  the  soil  of  Pennsylvania,  and  by  a  well-ordered  fortune  the  first 
volley  to  greet  the  invading  foe  flashed  from  the  rifles  of  a  Pennsylvania  regiment.  To  the  5  6th  Pennsylvania 
Infantry,  Colonel  J.  W.  Hofman  commanding,  belongs  the  historic  honor  of  firing  the  first  volley  on  that  field. 
The  skirmishers  of  Buford's  Cavalry  were  earlier  on  the  field,  but  were  only  holding  the  ground  until  the  infantry 

*IIist.  Penn.  Vols.:  S.  P.  Bates.       tNot  including  102,  missing  or  captured.       jEnlisted  for  one  year. 


DELAWARE  AND  MARYLAND  UKCMMKNTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUKD. 


OIUJAN-.ZKD 

KEGLMENT. 

KILLED  AND  l>u.i>  OF 

\VolX|>8. 

DIED  or  1  M-I  \->  . 

ACC1I)KNTS,1N  PlUHON.Ao 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

COIN'S. 

Ofltocn 

Kn.Men 

Total 

Officers 

i  'i  M.  ii 

Total. 

Jan.,  '63 
July,  '63 
Aug.,  '62 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
June,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
July,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
July,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Sept.,  '6  1 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 

May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '63 
July,  '63 
Sept.,  '64 

Cavalry. 

2 

2 

2 

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•     • 

3 
i 

2 
I 

•     • 
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I 

•     • 

I 

3 

2 

•     • 

4 

•    • 

•    • 
•    • 

i 

3 
4 
i 
6 
i 
i 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

47 
1  1 

6 
118 

1OI 

80 

79 
3 

10 
2 
10 
10 

130 

I  20 

13 

80 

24 

55 
7 

148 

i34 
130 

72 

9* 

107 

109 
70 
124 

22 
29 

49 
I  I 

6 

121 
IO2 
82 
80 

3 

10 

3 

IO 

1  1 
'33 

122 

13 

84 

24 

55 

7 

149 

»37 
'34 

73 

97 
1  08 

I  10 

70 
124 

22 
29 

51 
1  1 

6 

279 
20  1 

'35 

164 

3 

10 

3 

•3 
1  1 

20  1 
169 

'3 
95 
31 

66 
8 

267 
226 
225 
108 
161 
236 
189 
127 
126 

22 
29 

Russell's 

Sixth. 

Nineteenth. 

Second. 
Second. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 

Fifth. 

Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Nineteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Reserve  Art'y  . 

Fifth. 
Ninth. 
Twelfth. 
Fifth. 
Eighteenth. 
Sixth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 

Heavy  Artillery. 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  Delaware  —  "Nield's" 
Infantry. 

•    • 

12 

6 

7 
4 

.  .  . 
146 

93 
46 
80 

•   •    • 

,58 

99 
53 
84 

French's 
Hancock's 
Ayres's 
Ayres's 

2(1    Delaware  

^d    Delaware  *  

4th  Delaware  

?th  1  )elaware  t  

ith   I  )pl*i  \virp  *                        -•( 

8th  1  )elaware  *S  

3 

3 

Ayres's 

nth  Delaware  II  •  

Cavalry. 
i  st  Marvland*  

3 

2 

65 

45 

68 
47 

Gregg's 
Merritt's 

ist  Maryland,  P.  H.  B.*  . 
2(1    Maryland^!  

td    Maryland  

i  i 

7 

1  1 
i 

no 
84 
83 
32 
63 

120 

78 

54 

2 

1  1 

7 

1  1 

i 

118 
89 

91 
35 
64 
128 

79 

57 

2 

Gregg's 
Hunt's 

Light  Batteries. 
Maryland,  A.*  B.*  D  
Baltimore  Batten*  

•     • 

J 

Infantry. 
ist  Maryland  *  

8 

5 
8 

3 
i 

8 
i 

3 

Robinson's 
Sturgis's 
Williams's 
Robinson's 
Martindale's 
Ricketts's 
Robinson's 
Robinson's 

2(1    Maryland  *  

td    Maryland  *  

4th  Maryland  

?th  Maryland  *  •• 

8th  Maryland  

oth  Maryland  ^1  

i  oth  Maryland  ^f  .. 

1  1  th  Maryland  §  

1 

*Servc<l  through  the  war. 
t  Enlisted  for  nine  months 


J  Enlisted  for  thirty  days. 
§  Enlisted  for  one  year 


Enlisted  for  oni    hundred  day! 
1  Enlisted  for  six  months. 


columns  could  arrive  and  open  the  battle.     Cutler's  brigade  was  the  first  infantry  to  arrive,  and  General  Cutler 
states  officially  that  the  56th  was  the  first  regiment  of  his  brigade  to  open  fire.* 

Delaware. — Though  one  of  the  smallest  States  in  the  Union,  Delaware  furnished  more  men  and  money,  in 
proportion  to  its  military  population,  than  any  other  State. 

The  ist  Delaware  Cavalry  was  not  a  full  regiment,  but  a  battalion  of  seven  companies,  and  in  1864  it 
served,  dismounted,  in  the  Sixth  Corps.  The  Delaware  Heavy  Artillery  consisted  of  one  company  only  —  Ahl's 
Independent  Company.  The  State  furnished,  also,  an  infantry  company  —  Stirling's- — which-enlisted  in  August, 
1864,  for  one  year;  and  a  company  of  cavalry  —  Milligan's  —  which  enlisted  in  July,  1864,  for  thirty  days. 

Maryland. —  Over  40,000  Marylanders  followed  the  "old  line  bugle,  fife,  and  drum"  into  the  Union  ranks. 
Including  colored  troops,  the  State  furnished  46,638  men  for  the  Union  Armies,  and  paid  commutation  for  3,678 
more, — a  total  of  56,316. 

*llist.  Penn.  Vols.:  S.  P.  Bates. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS  . 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUSON,&C 

TOTAL 
DEATHS 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers  En.  Men 

Total. 

July,    '64 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 

July,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
'6~ 

/;//«  «  try  —  Co  n  tin  ued. 
r  -?th  IVTarvlnnd  *. 

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2 
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2 

52 

62 

85 
84 

73 
73 
4 

126 

"5 
136 

3° 
118 

172 

2OI 
14 

130 

I36 
156 

88 
167 

*54 
107 

144 
148 

I3I 
107 

156 

98 

7 
24 

3° 
16 

2 

52 
63 
86 

84 
74 
74 
4 

126 

"5 

136 

3° 
118 

i74 
203 

14 
131 

138 
158 
90 
169 

158 
1  08 
146 
148 

131 
108 

i57 
99 

7 
24 

31 
16 

2 

61 
73 
I31 
94 

83 
117 

4 

207 
196 
182 

3° 
189 

235 
236 

14 
164 

192 

241 

!5! 

177 

300 

207 
241 

215 
190 

169 

245 
!52 

7 

25 
40 

J7 

Twelfth. 
Eighth. 
Twelfth. 

Twelfth. 

Cavalry,W.Va 
Cavalry,  W.Va 
Cavalry,W.Va 

Cavalry,W.Va 

Eighth. 
Eighth. 
Eighth. 
Eighth. 
Second. 
Eighth. 
Eighth. 
Eighth. 
Eighth. 
Eighth. 
Eighth. 
Eighth. 

i  st  Maryland   E  S  

9 

10 

42 

9 
8 
42 

9 
10 

45 
to 

9 
43 

Williams's 
Thoburn's 
Williams.'s 

2d    Maryland,  E.  S.f 
ist  Maryland,  P.  H.  B.f 
2d    Maryland,  P.  H.  B.j 
3d    Maryland,  P.  H.  B.  . 

•    • 

3 
i 

i 

i  ; 

Greene's 

Patansro  Guards. 

Cavalry. 
ist  \Vest  Virginia^"  

10 

4 
6 

71 

77 
40 

81 
81 
46 

Averell's 
Averell's 
Averell's 

i(\    \Vfst  Virginia  . 

,  u- 

Aug.,  '63 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
June,  '62 

/ith  Wpst  Virginia  . 

3 

5 
5 

68 

56 
28 

7f 
61 

33 

Averell's 
Kelly's 

6th  West  Virginia!  

n\\\  \Vp^t"  Viro"inn4~ 

Light  Artillery. 
West  Virginia  (8  Go's).. 
Infantry. 

3 

3 
3 

4 

3° 

51 
80 

57 
8 

J33 
96 

93 
63 

56 

57 
81 

50 

33 

54 

83 
61 
8 
142 

99 

95 

67 

59 
61 

88 
53 

Sept.,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Mar.,  '62 
May,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '64 
Nov.,  '64 
Dec.,  '64 

Thoburn's 
Thoburn's 
Duval's 
Kelly's 
French's 
Duval's 
Thoburn's 
Thoburn's 
Thoburn's 
Duval's 
Duval's 
Thoburn's 

6th  West  Virginia!  

9 
3 

2 

4 
3 

4 

7 

--» 

j 

oth  \Vest  Virginia  • 

loth  West  Virginia  

1  2th  \Vest  Virginia  ...... 

i  ^th  \Vest  Virginia  

i4th  West  Virginia  
i  ^th  \Vest  Virginia  

T(ith  \Vps1~  Vircri  nil  . 

i 

9 
i 

i 

9 

i 

ist  West  Virginia  Vet'n  . 
2d   West  Virginia  Vet'n  . 

•    • 
•    * 

•       •••          •       •      •      C      0      0 

*Served  one  hundred  days.  tServed  through  the  war. 

The  Maryland  Brigade  belonged  to  the  Second  Division,  Fifth  Corps,  and  was  composed  of  the  ist,  4th,  7th, 
and  8th  Maryland  Infantry,  together  with  the  infantry  command  known  as  the  Purnell  (Md.)  Legion.  The  latter 
organization  had  served  previously  in  the  Twelfth  Corps;  and  the  brigade,  itself,  before  joining  the  Fifth  Corps, 
had  served  in  the  Eighth,  and  also  in  the  First  Corps.  The  6th  Maryland  had  also  served  in  this  brigade  for  a 
few  months.  The  principal  losses  of  the  Maryland  Brigade  occurred  while  on  Grant's  Virginia  campaigns  of 
1864-65,  during  which  it  particularly  distinguished  itself,  taking  an  active  part  in  all  the  battles  of  the  Fifth  Corps. 
Colonel  Dushane  (ist  Md.),  the  commander  of  the  brigade,  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  the  Weldon  Railroad, 
August  19,  1864. 

Different  regiments  bearing  the  same  number  appear  in  the  Maryland  line,  owing  to  the  ist  and  zd  Maryland 
Eastern  Shore  ;  and  the  ist,  2d,  and  3(1  Maryland,  Potomac  Home  Brigade.  The  designation  of  the  ist  Maryland, 
Potomac  Home  Brigade  (Infantry),  was  changed  to  i3th  Maryland  Infantry,  April  8,  1865.  There  was  a  cavalry 
regiment,  also,  known  as  the  ist  Maryland,  Potomac  Home  Brigade.  The  ist  Maryland  Infantry,  Potomac  Home 
Brigade,  was  attached  to  the  Twelfth  Corps  in  1863,  and  was  hotly  engaged  at  Gettysburg,  where  it  fought  with  the 
ist  Maryland,  C.  S.  A. 


OHIO  REGIMENTS. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


i  'K..AM/.I  i. 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 

WofNDH. 

DIED  or  Di»t  \-K 
ACCIUENTS.IN  PRISON,  Jtc 

Total 

DflltllM. 

DIVISION. 

COltl'H. 

Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  G. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.O. 
Cavalry,W.Va 
Cavalry,  A.  G. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 

Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Fourth. 
Twenty-  first. 
Twentieth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fourteenth. 
Twenty-first. 
Fourth. 
Third. 
Eleventh. 
Eleventh. 
Fifth. 
Fourth. 

I  Mlii-lT- 

Kn.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '6  1 
-  '63 
,'63 
,'63 
Nov.,  '63 
'6.1 

Cavalry. 
ist  Ohio*  

6 

7 

i 

5 
i 

5 

2 

3 
i 

3 

O 

45 

76 
58 

5° 
26 

52 
26 

53 
16 

39 
20 

5° 
61 

5' 
83 

59 

55 
27 

57 
28 

56 

'7 

42 

23 
5° 
65 

3 

5 
6 

i 

3 

4 

4 

i 

2 
I 
I 

2 

I 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

I 

3 
i 

•    • 

i 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

i 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

i 

•   * 

150 
179 
229 
169 
140 
177 
197 

153 

1  86 

158 
60 

I  12 

5' 

3 
16 

2 
IO 
16 

49 

164 
170 

i 

33 

28 

29 
28 
29 
28 
26 

22 

'5 
'4 
'5 
i? 

'53 

184 

235 
I70 

'43 
181 

201 
154 

1  88 

*59 
61 
114 

52 
3 
16 

2 
10 

16 
49 

165 
*73 

2 

33 

29 
29 

28 
29 
28 

27 

22 

'5 
14 

16 
J7 

204 
267 
294 
225 
I70 
238 
229 
2IO 
205 
201 
84 
164 
1I7 

3 
16 

3 

'5 

21 

5° 

171 

176 

2 
48 
40 
36 
36 
32 
36 

33 
32 
29 
20 
24 
»9 

Crook's 
Wilson's 
Garrard's 
Crook's 
Kilpatrick's 
Gregg's 
Stoneman's 
Averell's 
Kilpatrick's 
Kilpatrick's 

2(1   Ohio*  

3d   Ohio*  

4th  Ohio*  

5th  Ohio*  

6th  Ohio*  

7th  Ohio  

8th  Ohio*  

qth  Ohio  

loth  Ohio  

i  ith  Ohio  

Burbridge's 
Gregg's 

i  ith  (  )hio. 

4 

,    i>4 

Aug.,  '64 
Aug.,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
July,   '6  1 
July,   '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 

'62 

2cl   Ohio  Battalionf  .... 

4th  Ohio  Battalion  \  

5th  Ohio  Battalion*.  .  .  . 

i 

5 

5 
i 

6 

2 

i 

5 

5 
i 

6 
3 

3<1   Ohio  Company  .... 

4th  Ohio  Company  .... 

Mclaughlin's  Squadron  . 
Heavy  Artillery. 
ist  Ohio  

•    • 

July,   '63 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Sept.,  '5  1 
Sept.,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '61 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 

2(1   Ohio  

i 

Light  Artillery. 
ist  Ohio*  (F.  &  S  ).  .  . 

A  —  "Scovill's".  ..  . 

15 

I  I 

7 
8 

3 

7 
6 

10 

"3 

5 

7 

2 

'5 

1  1 

7 
8 

3 

8 

6 

IO 

'4 
6 
8 

2 

Newton's 
Palmer's 
Butterfield's 
Cox's 
Johnson's 
Palmer's 
Elliott's 
Whipple's 
Schurz's 
Schurz's 
Sykes's 
Stanley's 

B  —  "Standart's"  .  . 
C  —  "Gary's"  

•    • 

D  —  "CockerilPs".  . 
E  —"Ransom's"  .  . 
F  —"Pease's"  
G—  "Marshall's".. 
H  —  "Norton's"  .  .  . 

•    • 
•    • 

i 

I—  "Dilger's"  .... 
K—  "Heckman's". 
L—  "Robinson's"  . 
M  —  "Schultz's"  .  .  . 

i 
i 
i 

i 

'Served  through  the  war.         t Enlisted  for  sixty  days.        {Enlisted  for  six  months. 

West  Virginia. —  The  9th  West  Virginia  Infantry,  composed  largely  of  refugees,  was  prominently  engaged 
at  Cloyd's  Mountain,  where  it  led  a  successful  assault,  but  with  a  loss  of  45  killed  and  144  wounded.  In 
this  action  its  color-guard  entered  the  enemy's  works  in  advance  of  the  line,  every  one  of  them  falling, 
killed  or  wounded  ;  and,  after  the  fight,  twenty-one  men  lay  dead  around  the  flags,  twelve  of  whom  were 
Confederates. 

The  2d  West  Virginia  Infantry  was  changed  to  mounted  infantry  in  June,  1863,  and  in  January,  1864,  to  the 
5th  West  Virginia  Cavalry.  The  3d  Infantry  was  changed  to  mounted  infantry  in  November,  1863,  and  to  the 
6th  Cavalry  in  January,  1864.  The  8th  Infantry  was  changed  to  the  7th  Cavalry  in  January,  1864.  The  ist 
Veteran  Infantry  was  formed,  November  9,  1864,  by  consolidating  the  reenlisted  veterans  and  recruits  with  unex- 
pired  terms  belonging  to  the  5th  and  gth  Infantry;  and  the  2d  Veteran  Infantry  was  formed,  December  21,  1864, 
by  consolidating  the  veterans  and  recruits  of  the  ist  and  4th  Infantry.  The  4th  West  Virginia  Infantry  served, 
also,  in  Blair's  Division  of  the  Fifteenth  Corps,  and  in  the  assault  on  Vicksburg  —  May  i9th  and  22d  —  lost  156 
in  killed  and  wounded. 


492 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,   ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PISISON.&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

COEPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '62 
Oct.,  '61 
Mar.,  '62 
Oct.,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Septr,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
April,  '63 
July,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Feb.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 

Jan.,  '63 

Aug.,  '6i 
Aug.,  '6i 
June,  '6i 
June,  '6i 
I  une,  '6i 
June,  '6i 
June,  '6i 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  O.*"McMullen's".  . 
2d    O.*  "Chapman's"  .  . 
3d   O  *  "Williams's"  .  .  . 

I 

•     • 

6 

2 
I 

5 

5 
8 

i 
i 
i 

7 

2 
I 

6 

5 

9 
i 

i 
i 

•     » 

•    • 
*    • 

1 

•     • 
•    • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 

•     • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 

I 

*     • 

I 
I 
I 

»     • 

3 
3 

2 
2 
2 
I 

2 

T5 
45 
57 
26 

36 
34 
31 

22 

22 

18 

3° 
i? 

37 
3° 

45 

42 

2  I 

7 
i? 

8 

16 

6 

23 

22 

58 

130 

138 
78 

'55 
55 
56 

87 

72 

60 

IS 

45 

57 

27 

36 
34 
32 

22 
22 

18 

3° 
i? 

38 
3° 
45 
43 

21 

7 
18 

9 
i? 
6 

23 

22 

58 

130 
138 

81 
158 
57 
58 
89 

73 
62 

22 

47 
58 
33 
4i 
43 
33 
23 

23 
18 

5° 

20 

49 
38 
47 
44 
23 

9 

24 

9 
20 

6 
23 

22 
62 

251 
243 
172 

26l 
203 
144 

273 

205 

*53 

Cox's 

Hovey's 
Leggett's 
Osterhaus's 
Lau  man's 
T.J.  Wood's 
Lau  man's 
Blair's 
Williams's 
Gresham's 
Quinby's 
Steinwehr's 
Veatch's 
Gresham's 
Hovey's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
Steedman's 
Judah's 
Johnson's 

Ninth. 
Thirteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Twelfth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Eleventh. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Reserve  A  C'd 
Twenty-  third. 
Twentieth. 

Ninth,  A.  O. 

Seventh. 
Seventeenth. 

Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Second. 
Twelfth. 
Fourth. 
Twelfth. 
Second. 
Fourteenth. 

4th  O.*  "Hoffman's"  .  .  . 
5th  O.*  'Hickenlooper's  ' 
6th  O.*  "Bradley's"  
7th  O.*  "Burnap's"  
8th  O  *  "Margraff's"  .  .  . 

I 

•     • 

I 

•     • 

pth  O  *  "York's"  

loth  O     "White's"  

nth  O     "Sands's"  

20 

3 
1  1 

8 
i 
i 

2 
2 

5 

•   •  • 
2 

20 

3 
1  1 

8 

2 
I 

2 
2 

6 

•  •    • 

3 

1  2th  O  *  "Johnston's".  .  . 

i4th  O  *  "Burrows's"  .  .  . 

1  5th  O     "Spear's"  

1  6th  O.*  "Mitchell's"  ... 
1  7th  O     "Blount's"  

I 

1  8th  O     "Aleshire's"  .... 

1  9th  O     "Shields's"  .... 

20th  O.    "Smithwright's" 
2ist  O.    "Patterson's"  .  . 
22d    O     "Niel's"  

I 
I 

24th  O     "Hill's"  

25th  O  f  "Hadley's"  .... 

26th  O     "Yost's"  

Sharpshooters. 
ist  Ohio  Battalion  

4 

116 
96 

87 

95 

J37 

82 

174 

124 

85 

4 

121 

I05 
91 
103 

146 
86 
184 
332 

91 

Infantry. 
ist  Ohio  

5 
9 
4 
8 

9 
4 

10 

8 
6 

T.  J.  Wood's 
Johnson's 
Rousseau's 
French's 
Geary's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Geary's 
French's 
Baird's 

2d   Ohio  

3d   Ohio  

4th  Ohio*  

cth  Ohio*  

6th  Ohio  

7th  Ohio  

8th  Ohio  

9th  Ohio  

*Rcenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.       tComposed  of  men  detailed  from  the  2d  Ohio  Cavalry. 

Ohio. —  The  quota  due  from  the  State  of  Ohio,  under  the  various  calls  for  troops,  was  306,322  men.  The 
quota  was  not  only  promptly  filled,  but  several  thousand  additional  troops  were  furnished.  Ohio  sent  313,180 
men  to  the  war,  and  paid  commutation  on  6,479  more  ;  total,  319,659.  But  many  of  the  regiments  enlisted  for 
a  few  months  only,  and,  hence,  the  Ohio  enlistments,  when  reduced  to  a  three-years'  standard,  were  equivalent  to 
240,514  men. 

The  Roll  of  Honor  from  the  State  includes  35,475  men  who  died  in  the  service  :  of  these,  11,588  fell  in 
battle  ;  19,365  died  of  disease  ;  2,71 1  died  while  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy;  the  remainder  died  from  accidents, 
and  various  other  causes,  known  and  unknown. 

Missing  numbers  occur  in  the  list  of  Ohio  regiments  for  the  following  reasons  :  the  44th  Infantry  was 
changed  to  the  8th  Cavalry  ;  the  iO9th  Regiment  failed  to  complete  its  organization,  and  the  men  were  transferred 
to  the  1 1 3th  Ohio;  the  ii2th,  iigth,  and  isSth  Regiments,  also,  failed  to  perfect  their  organizations,  and  their 
recruits  were  assigned  to  other  regiments;  the  i3th  Light  Battery  did  not  complete  its  organization;  the  23d 
Battery  was  changed  to  Simmonds's  Kentucky  Battery,  it  having  been  formed  by  detaching  Company  E,  ist 


OHIO  REGIMENTS. 


193 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OmiANIZKD 

REGIMENT. 

Kiiii   >  AND  DIED  OF* 
WOUNDS. 

PlKII  or  DlHKAKK, 

ACCIDENTS,  IN  I'HI.-*ON,A<<, 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

<  >ili«-<T» 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,'6i 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '64 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,'6i 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
June,  '61 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
Sept.,'6i 
Sept.,'6i 
Sept,  '6  1 
Dec..  '6  r 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '6  1 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

3 
4 

3 

8 

5 
7 

2 

6 
4 

2 

7 

2 

6 

2 

5 
6 

7 
6 
6 

2 

6 
9 

2 

5 
7 

10 

5 
4 

9 

8 

2 

6 
8 

i 
4 
5 

10 

86 

5° 

93 
109 

141 
172 

63 

7l 

72 

J9 
104 

87 
166 

36 

»54 

62 

'51 
116 

80 
66 
114 
119 

77 

99 
130 

1  20 

75 
136 

102 

U2 
62 

96 

168 

58 
61 

58 
124 

89 

54 
96 
117 
146 
179 

65 

77 
76 

2  I 
I  I  I 
89 
172 
38 

'59 
68 

158 

122 

86 
68 
1  20 
128 

79 
104 

137 
130 

80 
140 
1  1  1 
140 
64 

IO2 
I76 

59 
65 
63 
'34 

2 

•     * 

2 
2 
I 
I 

4 

i 
i 

•    • 

6 
4 

2 
2 
I 
2 

3 

•     • 

I 

•     * 

I 

•     • 

I 

2 

3 

2 

•     • 

I 
2 

3 

i 

i 
3 

2 
I 

7 

77 
98 

77 

IO2 
I85 

135 
217 

'54 

107 

53 
162 

267 
218 
167 
130 
1  06 
119 
116 

122 

66 

15° 
149 

'53 
M3 
192 

13° 
126 

163 

94 
227 
129 
134 
'53 

<; 
189 

275 
149 

79 

98 

79 
104 

1  86 
136 

221 

'55 
108 

53 
1  68 
271 

220 
169 

UI 

1  08 

122 

116 

I23 

66 

'51 
149 

1.54 
MS 

'95 
130 

128 
163 

95 
229 

132 

'35 
'54 
181 
191 
276 
156 

1  68 
'52 

J75 
221 

332 

3'5 
2X6 

232 

184 

74 
279 

360 

392 
207 

290 
176 
280 
238 
209 

'34 

271 

277 

233 
249 

332 
260 
208 

3°3 
206 

369 
196 

237 
330 
240 
256 

339 
290 

Rousseau's 
Baird's 
Kanawrn. 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Brannan's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Osterhaus's 
Baird's 
Johnson's 
Craft's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Logan's 
Johnson's 
Kimball's 
Duval's 
Stanley's 
Barlow's 
Newton's 
Fuller's 
Kanawha 
Geary's 
Blair's 
Baird's 
Logan's 
Johnson's 
Duval's 
Baird's 
Duval's 
Blair's 
Baird's 
Veatch's 
Stanley's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Osterhaus's 
Veatch's 
Hascall's 
Hazen's 

Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Ninth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Provisional. 
Fourth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Eighth. 
Fourth. 
Eleventh. 
Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Ninth. 
Twelfth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Eighth. 
Fourteenth. 
Eighth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Thirteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fifteenth. 

nth  Ohio*  

1  3th  Ohio*  

1  4th  Ohio*  

i  sth  (  )hio*  . 

1  6th  Ohio  

1  7th  Ohio*  .  

i8th  Ohio  

1  8th  Ohio  (Veteran)  
1  9th  Ohio*  

2Oth  Ohio*  . 

2  T  cf   Ohio*  . 

2  ^i]     Ohio*  . 

2  7(1     Ohio*  . 

2qth  Ohio*  

26th  Ohio*  

2yth  Ohio*  

28th  Ohio*  

20th  Ohio*  

ioth  Ohio*  .  

list  Ohio*  . 

•?2(1   Ohio*  

nd   Ohio*. 

36th  Ohio*  

37th  Ohio*  

^8th  Ohio*  

7qth  Ohio*  

4ist  Ohio*  

420!    Ohiot  

did    Ohio*. 

46th  Ohio*  

*Ree'nlisted  and  served  through  the  war.     tColonel  James  A.  Garfield. 

Kentucky  Infantry  ;  the  ii7th  Regiment  was  changed  to  the  ist  Ohio  Heavy  Artillery  ;  the  12 7th  Ohio  was  a 
colored  regiment  whose  designation  was  changed  to  the  5th  United  States  Colored. 

In  addition  to  the  regiments  in  the  above  tabulation,  Ohio  sent  23  regiments  to  the  field  in  April,  1861,  to 
serve  three  months.  The  most  of  these  regiments,  which  volunteered  for  three  months  in  1 86 1,  reorganized 
immediately  after  their  return  and  enlisted  for  three  years,  retaining  their  old  volunteer  numbers.  While  in  the 
three-months'  service  these  regiments  were  engaged  in  active  and  arduous  campaigns,  and  did  considerable 
fighting,  the  three-months'  volunteers  from  Ohio  taking  the  most  prominent  part  in  the  successful  campaign 
which  wrested  West  Virginia  from  the  Confederate  grasp. 

A  noticeable  feature  of  the  Ohio  troops  was  the  State  National  Guard,  which  was  organized  in  1863,  pur 
suant  to  an  act  of  Legislature  passed  that  year,  to  meet  the  obvious  necessity  for  such  a  body  of  troops  in 
protecting  the  State  from  invasions  like  that  of  the  Morgan  Raid,  and  in  supplying  the  National  Government  with 
emergency-men  when  called  for.  The  Ohio  National  Guard  was  well  organized,  uniformed,  drilled,  and  completely 
equipped;  and,  in  the  spring  of  1864,  Ohio  sent  36,254  of  these  troops  —  42  regiments  —  to  the  field  for  100 


494 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,   ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Jan.,  '62 
Mar.,  '64 
April,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '61 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
47th  Ohio*  

2 

3 
14 
6 

4 

7 
4 
4 
7 
3 
4 
3 

2 
I 

3 

7 
1  1 

2 

6 
8 

5 
1  1 

2 

5 
5 
3 
4 
4 

2 

4 
9 

2 
2 

80 

54 
188 
70 
1  08 

94 

76 

83 
136 

55 
77 
85 
45 
9 

I  IO 

68 

IO2 

91 

1  08 
114 

96 

'31 

48 

84 
70 
66 

56 
167 

51 

I  IO 

82 
68 

7i 
54 
48 

58 

122 

82 

57 
202 

76 

I  1  2 
101 
80 

87 
H3 

58 

81 

88 

47 

10 

U3 
75 
"3 

93 
114 

122 

ior 
142 

5° 
89 

75 
69 

60 
171 

53 
114 

91 
70 

73 
54 

52 
62 

138 

I 

3 
i 

*    * 

i 

i 
6 
3 

•    • 
2 

4 

2 
I 

2 
•  * 
•  • 
2 

5 
i 

6 
i 
i 
i 

•   • 

2 

5 

2 
I 

2 
2 

5 
2 

2 
I 
2 

•     • 

I 

136 
I  2O 
160 

134 

233 

168 

190 

M3 
119 

156 
234 

215 
109 

30 
130 

9° 
129 

259 

'59 
129 

M3 

15° 

249 

98 
1  88 
132 
236 
149 

105 

IOI 

265 
208 
280 

91 
i  70 

1  60 
118 

137 

123 

161 
!34 
234 
169 
196 
146 
119 

158 
238 
217 
no 

32 
130 

90 

J31 
264 
1  60 

!35 
144 

I51 
250 

98 
190 

i37 
238 

J5° 
107 

103 
270 

2IO 
282 
92 
172 
1  60 
II9 

219 
1  80 

363 
2IO 

346 
270 
276 

233 

262 

216 

319 
305 

J57 
42 

243 
165 
244 

357 

274 

257 
245 

293 
300 

187 
265 
206 
298 
321 
160 
217 
361 
280 

355 
146 

224 

222 
257 

Blair's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Hascall's 
Stanley's 
Davis's 
Hazen's 
Blair's 
Steinwehr's 
Hovey's 
Blair's 
First 
T.  J.  Wood's 

Fifteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Eleventh. 
Thirteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fourth. 

Ninth. 
Eleventh. 
Tenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Twelfth. 
Tenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fifteenth. 
Eleventh. 
Fourteenth. 
Eleventh. 
Fifteenth. 
Seventh. 
Seventeenth. 
Twentieth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Eleventh. 

48th  Ohio  

Aoth  Ohio*. 

Sist    Ohin*  . 

c?d    Ohio*. 

CAth  Ohio*  . 

c  cth  Ohio*  . 

c6th  Ohio*  . 

57th  Ohio*  . 

58th  Ohio*  

cgth  Ohio*  .« 

6oth  Ohiot  

6oth  Ohio  

Willcox's 
Schurz's 
Terry's 
Veatch's 
Newton's 
Newton's 
Geary's 
Terry's 
Logan's 
Johnson's 
W.  S.  Smith's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Tuttle's 
Steinwehr's 
Johnson's 
Barlow's 
Steele's 
Third 
Logan's 
Ward's 
Quinby's 
Sweeny's 
Schurz's 

6ist  Ohio  

62d    Ohio*  

6  id    Ohio*. 

6Ath  Ohio*  . 

6  Cth  Ohio*  . 

66th  Ohio*  . 

67th  Ohio*  . 

68th  Ohio*  

6gth  Ohio*  

7oth  Ohio*  

7  ist  Ohio*  

72d    Ohio*  

73d    Ohio*  

74th  Ohio*  

7  cth  Ohio*  

76th  Ohio*  

77th  Ohio*  

78th  Ohio*  

8oth  Ohio*  

4 

4 
16 

8ist  Ohio*  

82d    Ohio*  

*Iteenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.    •    tEnlisted  for  one  year. 

days.  Part  of  them  garrisoned  the  fortifications  of  Washington,  and  thus  enabled  the  heavy  artillery  regiments 
hitherto  employed  on  that  duty  to  go  to  the  front  and  reenforce  General  Grant.  Part  of  the  Ohio  National 
Guard,  also,  went  to  the  front,  and  one  entire  division  of  the  Tenth  Corps  —  General  Orris  S.  Ferry's  —  was 
composed  of  these  regiments.  On  entering  the  LTnited  States  service  the  National  Guard  regiments  dropped 
their  former  numerical  designations,  and  were  numbered  to  conform  to  their  place  in  the  list  of  Ohio  Volunteers. 

In  addition  to  the  National  Guard,  the  State  organized  and  enrolled  an  efficient  force  of  militia.  In  1862, 
when  Cincinnati  was  threatened  by  an  invading  army,  16,000  "  Squirrel  Hunters  "  marched  to  its  defense. 

The  veterans  of  the  Ohio  volunteers  reenlisted  in  large  numbers ;  20,708  of  them  remained  in  the  field  after 
their  three  years'  enlistment  had  expired,  and  served  through  the  rest  of  the  war.  It  should  be  remembered  that 
the  volunteers  Who  enlisted  in  1862  were  not  eligible  for  the  reenlistments  just  referred  to  ;  that  only  those  who 
enlisted  in  1861  could  reenlist,  and  that,  owing  to  the  depletion  of  the  regiments  resulting  from  three  years  of 
fighting  and  hard  service,  these  20,708  reenlistments  must  have  embraced  a  very  large  proportion  of  the  volun 
teers  of  1 86 1,  who  were  remaining  in  the  field  at  the  close  of  their  three  years'  term. 


OHIO  RKGIMKNTS. 


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nuiiANirxD 

KEGIMEXT. 

KILLED  AND  l>u  i>  OP 
WODBM. 

DlKD  OF  DlSKAHR, 
ACCIDKNT8,  IN  l'KIHf>N,<£r 

Total 
Death*. 

DIVISION. 

COUPS. 

>  iflirrrs 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

Rn.Mi'ii 

Total. 

Aug.,  '62 
May,  '62 
May,  '62 
June,  '62 
June,  '62 
July,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  2 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
MOhio. 

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245 
170 

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192 

107 
144 

2I5 
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256 
218 
140 
247 
1  06 
130 
126 

21 

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42 
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158 
149 

270 

138 
88 

127 

275 
246 

*37 

92 

163 
'4 
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38 

5 
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250 
170 
90 

T93 
107 

J45 
217 

291 
161 
127 

258 
224 
141 
249 
109 

T34 
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76 
42 

JI3 
161 

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272 

142 

9r 

128 

281 
248 

137 
96 

219 

14 
IO 

38 

6 
80 
300 
252 

153 

244 

217 
199 
276 

339 
254 
247 
342 

317 

236 

262 
148 

183 
240 

52 

'33 

67 

230 

2I5 
269 

3" 

151 

185 
184 
300 

349 
230 

187 

A.  J.  Smith's 

Thirteenth. 

Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Kighth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fourth. 

Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fourteenth. 

Eleventh. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixth. 
Twenty-third. 
Fourteenth. 
Fifteenth. 

Fighth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixth. 
Fighth. 

84th  Ohio*  

Ssth  Ohio*. 

86th  Ohio*. 

8?th  Ohio*  . 

I 

... 
I 

88th  Ohio  

Sgth  Ohio  

3 

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93 

120 
84 

93 
95 
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39 

49 
107 

30 

57 

25 
117 

54 
119 

39 
9 
94 
56 
19 

101 

93 
9i 

Baird's 
Stanley's 
Duval's 
Baird's 
.  T.  J.  Wood's 
Johnson's 
Turtle's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
Newton's 
Davis's 
Stanley's 
Cox's 
Stanley's 

notfi  Ohio. 

r\  i  cf   Ohio. 

qrth  Ohio  

o6th  Ohio  

o7th  Ohio  

o8th  Ohio  

ooth  Ohio.  ••  

iooth  Ohio  

I  o  i  'st  (  )hio  . 

Cox's 
Cox's 

Baird's 

iocth  Ohio  

io6th  Ohio  

io7th  Ohio.  

Barlow's 
Davis's 
Ricketts's 
Hascall's 
Davis's 
Osterhaus's 

loSth  Ohio  

i  loth  Ohio.  

i  iJ.th  Ohio  

1  1  5th  Ohio  

1  1  6th  Ohio  

Thoburn's 
Hascall's 
Osterhaus's 
Davis's 
Ricketts's 
Thoburn's 

n8th  Ohio  

1  2Oth  Ohio  

1  2  1  st  Ohio  

i22<i    Ohio  

1  2  id    Ohio  

*Enlisted  for  three  months. 


The  66th  Ohio  was  among  the  first  to  accept  the  proposal  of  the  National  Government  for  a  rei:nlistment, 
and  was  the  first  Ohio  regiment  to  return  to  the  State  on  the  thirty  days'  "veteran  furlough  "  granted  to  all  the 
"veteran  volunteer"  regiments.  The  largest  number  of  reenlistments  —  534  —  occurred  in  the  39th  Ohio, 
Colonel  Edward  F.  Noyes.  The  next  highest  were  :' 


Regiment,  Rf  enlistments. 

63d    Ohio 455 

44th  Ohio  (8th  Cavalry) 453 

27th  Ohio 437 

43d    Ohio 436 

53d    Ohio 380 


Regiment.  Reenlistmcnts. 

1 7th  Ohio 366 

36th  Ohio 364 

38th  Ohio 360 

2d    Ohio  Cavalry 358 

6gth  Ohio 348 


Reg  in: en  t.  Reenlistments. 

I4th  Ohio 322 

7oth  Ohio 332 

74th  Ohio 321 

49th  Ohio 314 

7ist   Ohio 313 


In  some  of  these  regiments  nearly  every  effective  man  reenlisted,  and  these  rei'-nlistments,  together  with  the 
recruits,  enabled  many  of  the  veteran  regiments  to  preserve  their  organizations  through  the  war. 

Of  the  distinguished  generals  in  the  Union  Armies,  a  remarkably  large  number  came  from  Ohio.  Generals 
Sheridan,  Rosecrans,  Sherman,  Griffin,  Hunt,  McPherson,  Mitchel,  Gillmore,  McDowell,  Custer,  Weitzel, 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBISON,&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 

Oct.,  '62 
>/;,-. 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

7 
7 
9 

78 
104 

143 

85 
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114 
142 

63 

25 
22 

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8 

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32 

53 

10 

8 

22 

37 

38 

10 
10 
20 
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22 
10 

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144 
64 

25 
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3° 
66 

25 

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2 

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32 

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38 
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10 

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20 

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225 
296 
64 

25 

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31 
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39 

42 

12 
10 
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4 

20 

23 
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16 
14 

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T.  J.  Wood's 
Newton's 
Ricketts's 

Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Sixth. 

Ninth,  A.  O, 
Tenth. 
Eighth. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 

Twenty-sec'd. 
Eighth. 
Tenth. 

Tenth. 
Tenth. 
Eighth. 
Twenty-sec'd. 

Twentv-sec'd. 
Tenth.' 
Eighth. 
Twenty-sec'd. 
Twenty-sec'd. 

Eighth. 
Eighth. 

,   02 
Aug.,  '63 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 

Ferry's 

2 
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2 
I 
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Ferry's 

Ferry's 
Ferry's 

I35lu  v-'nju!  

De  Russy's 

T^Sth  Ohint  . 

Ferry's 

Ferry's 
Ferry's 

10 

10 

De  Russy's 

i/i8th  Ohioi. 

Ferry's 

i  /i  nth  Ohint  . 

4 

2 

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2 

T  cnth  Ohio*f  . 

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7  c  7th  Ohiot 

i6oth  Ohiof  

I 
I 

i 
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1  6  1  st  Ohiof  

T  f\-7(\     Ohiirr  . 

*Enlisted  for  six  months.       tEnlisted  for  one  hundred  days. 

Kautz,  William  S.  Smith,  Crook,  Stanley,  Brooks,  Leggett,  the  McCooks,  Fuller,  Steedman,  Force,  Banning, 
Ewing,  Cox,  Willich,  Chas.  R.  Woods,  Lytle,  Garrard,  Van  Derveer,  Beatty,  Tyler,  Harker,  Opdycke, 
Carroll,  and  other  noted  officers,  were  born  in  Ohio,  and  appointed  from  that  State,  either  to  West  Point  or  to 
some  volunteer  command.  General  McClellan's  first  service  in  the  war  was  as  the  Major-General  of  the  Ohio 
volunteers,  and  Generals  Grant  and  Buell  were  born  in  the  State. 

The  i02d  Ohio  lost  70  men  killed  by  the  explosion  of  the  steamer  Sultana,  on  the  Mississippi  River,  April 
27,  1865  ;  and  the  iisth  Ohio  lost  83  killed  in  the  same  accident. 

Ohio  regiments  had  the  honor  of  furnishing  the  twenty-two  soldiers  who  captured  a  locomotive  and  made 
the  famous  railroad  raid  along  the  line  of  the  Atlanta  &  Chattanooga  Railroad,  in  April,  1862.  It  was  a  daring 
deed,  and  without  an  equal  in  its  thrilling  story  of  danger,  intrepidity,  heroic  suffering,  and  death.*  The  men 
who  were  detailed  to  carry  out  this  wild  romance  were  chosen  from  the  2d,  2ist,  and  33d  Ohio  Infantry. 

The  2d  Ohio  Cavalry  was  the  leading  regiment,  in  point  of  loss,  in  the  mounted  service  of  the  State. 
General  Kautz  was  at  one  time  Colonel  of  this  regiment.  Its  service  was  a  varied  one,  fighting  in  the  Indian 

*Daring  and  Danger :  by  the  Rev.  William  Pittinger  (2d  Ohio). 


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OKUANIXEU 

KEGIMENT. 

KII  i  i.n  AND  DIED  or 
WorxiiH. 

I'll  i>  OF  1  >i  -i  v-i  . 
A(TII>KSTr*,IN  I'KIHON.itc 

TOTAL 
DEATHS 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers  En.  Men 

Total. 

May,  '64 
May,  '64 
Mav,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
April,  '65 
Aug.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
1  6  id    Ohio*  ••••••••••• 

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12 

108 

94 
1  06 

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82 

66 
80 
84 

27 
61 

57 
58 
35 
49 
52 
44 
48 
29 
26 
29 

37 
31 

25 
18 

2 

4 
6 

29 

18 

2 

39 

5 
8 

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20 

15 
12 

1  08 

95 
1  08 

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82 

66 
80 

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61 

59 
59 
35 
49 
53 

45 
48 

29 
26 
29 
38 
32 

25 
18 

2 

4 
6 

29 

18 

2 

39 
5 
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24 
32 

12 
1  08 
117 
124 
102 
84 

68 
80 

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33 
61 

83 
60 

35 
50 
54 
45 

49 
29 

27 
29 
38 

32 

25 
18 

2 

4 
6 

Ferry's 

Tenth. 
Twenty-sec'd. 

Twenty-sec  '(1. 

Twenly-sec'd. 
Eighth. 

Twentieth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twentieth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twentieth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twentieth. 
Twenty-  third. 

1  641)1  Ohio*  

165111  Ohio*  

1  66th  Ohio*  

1  6  7th  Ohio*  . 

1  68th  Ohio*  

I  I 

I  I 

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4 
'7 

Thoburn's 

i  7  ^d    Ohio*  

Rousseau's 
Ruger's 
S.  Realty's 
Rousseau's 
Carter's 
Ruger's 
Rousseau's 
Ruger's 
Couch's 
Rousseau's 
Couch's 

i  74th  Ohiof  

i 
I 

2  I 

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22 
I  6 

i  75th  Ohiof  

1  76th  Ohiof  

i  7  /th  Ohiot  

2 
2 

2 
2 

1  78th  Ohiof  

i  7Qth  Ohio"!"  

iSoth  Ohiof  

I 

5 
5 

6 

5 

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iSzd   Ohiot  

183(1    Ohiof  

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1  84th  Ohiot  

1  85th  Ohiot  

i86th  Ohiot  

I 
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1  8  7th  Ohiot  

1  88th  Ohiot  

iSgth  Ohioj  

I 

i 

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i  9  7(1    Ohiot  •• 

1  94th  Ohiot  --       --- 

i  o^th  Ohiot  

196th  Ohiot  

1  98th  Ohiot  

i 

*EulisU'd  for  one  hundred  days.  tEnlisted  for  one  year. 

Territory,  Arkansas,  Missouri,  and  East  Tennessee  until  April,  1864,  when  it  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 
Its  fallen  heroes,  buried  where  they  fell,  form  a  vidette-line  of  patriot  graves  from  the  Missouri  to  the  Chesapeake. 

The  9th  Ohio  was  composed  of  Germans,  and  was  known  as  the  First  German  or  "  Prussian"  Regiment.  At 
Chickamauga  this  regiment  lost  48  killed,  185  wounded,  and  16  missing  ;  total,  249,  out  of  about  500  engaged,  and 
the  heaviest  loss  but  one  of  any  regiment  on  the  field.  The  28th  and  37th  Ohio  were  also  German  Regiments. 

At  Chaplin  Hills,  six  color-bearers  of  the  Third  Ohio  were  shot  down  in  succession,  but  the  flag  was  not 
allowed  to  touch  the  ground,  so  promptly  did  each  successive  hero  grasp  its  falling  staff. 

The  22d  Ohio  was  organized  at  St.  Louis,  and  designated  the  i3th  Missouri  Volunteers  ;  but  as  it  was  com 
posed  mainly  of  Ohio  men,  it  was  transferred,  in  1862,  to  the  Ohio  line  by  order  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

The  75th  Ohio,  Eleventh  Corps,  was  transferred  to  South  Carolina  in  1863,  and  thence  to  Florida,  where  it 
served  as  mounted  infantry. 

The   nth  and  i2th  Ohio  served,  also,  in  the  Kanawha  Division  of  the  Ninth  Corps,  and  were  engaged  at 

South  Mountain  and  Antietam. 

M 


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ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Oct.,  '61 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '62 
,'62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  2 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Dec.,  '63 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '63 
April,  '65 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
June,  '6  1 

June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 

Cavalry. 
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56 
44 
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4 

2 

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3 

5 
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282 
122 

168 
148 

172 

251 

118 
104 
161 

61 
2.36 
204 

83 
64 

54 

54 
66 

21 
2O 

16 

10 

IO 

82 

87 

199 
326 

J43 
96 
274 
144 
250 
144 
214 

283 
I23 
I7I 
149 
177 

255 
I23 

108 

IO2 

62 
238 
208 
84 

66 

55 

55 
68 

22 
2O 

16 

IO 
IO 

83 

88 
199 

33° 
145 

IOI 

276 

MS 

253 
149 

217 

344 
179 

2I5 
180 

213 
288 
147 
117 
107 

75 
262 

233 
94 
80 

58 
58 
76 

32 

22 
2O 
IO 

J3 

M3 

165 
308 

449 
302 

216 

3*9 

205 

357 

221 
264 

Stoneman's 
Kilpatrick's 
Kilpatrick's 
Mitchell's 
Mitchell's 
Mitchell's 
Mitchell's 

Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.C. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.C. 

Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 

Sixteenth. 

Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 

Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Twenty-  third. 

2d    Kentucky*  ........ 

3d    Kentucky*  

4th  Kentucky*  

5th  Kentucky.  

6th  Kentucky  

7th  Kentucky  

8th   Kentnrkv+ 

I 

3 
i 

Stoneman's 
Stoneman's 

T  ?tli   TCp>nf"iir*1rvf" 

i  cth  Kentucky"}"  ••*  

i 

Asboth's 

T  n\\\  TCptitiirkv^ 

Light  Batteries. 
Ky  A      *"Stone's"  

Rousseau's 
Negley's 

•    •••••     •    •   •  • 

Kv  B        "Hewett's"  . 

Ky  C      t"Neville's"   .  .  . 

Kv   E     -  "Hawes's" 

Kv             -   "^immrynrteV 

•    • 

3 

60 

74 
103 
118 
149 

105 
40 

56 
96 

7° 
45 

3 

60 

77 
109 

119 
i57 
"5 

43 
60 

104 

72 
47 

Infantry. 

Stanley's 
Stanley's 
Newton's 
Brannan's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Osterhaus's 
Stanley's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Baird's 
Cox's 

3 
6 

i 
8 

10 

3 

4 
8 

2 
2 

A  th  Kentucky*  

^th  Kentucky  

6th  Kentucky  

7th  Kentucky*  

8th  Kentucky  

nth  Kentucky.  .  

*Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.       tEnlisted  for  one  year. 

Kentucky. —  Though  a  Border  State  and  repeatedly  overrun  with  contending  armies,  Kentucky  furnished 
79,025  men  in  defense  of  the  Union.  The  State  offered  no  bounties,  nor  did  it  enforce  a  draft ;  it  appealed 
solely  to  the  patriotism  of  its  people,  and  its  calls  for  volunteers  were  met  by  a  loyal,  prompt  response. 

It  furnished  51,743  white  troops,  314  sailors,  23,703  colored  troops,  and  paid  commutation  for  3,265  ;  in  all, 
79,025.  Reduced  to  a  basis  of  a  three-years'  enlistment,  these  troops  were  equal  to  70,832  men.  Over  ten 
thousand  loyal  Kentuckians  lost  their  lives  while  in  the  service ;  and,  of  the  white  troops,  2,478  were  killed  or 
mortally  wounded  in  battle. 

In  addition  to  the  volunteer  regiments,  the  State  organized  n  battalions  (3,772  men)  under  sanction  of  the 
War  Department  at  Washington,  in  July,  1863,  which  were  known  as  the  "  Kentucky  State  Forces,  "  and  which 
served  as  "  Home  Guards."  Sundry  other  militia  organizations,  numbering  8,704  men,  were  also  called  into 
service  and  assigned  to  similar  duty.  These  troops — 12,476111611  —  were  not  credited  on  the  State's  quota, 
although  they  rendered  valuable  service  to  the  General  Government  in  protecting  the  lines  of  communications, 
and  in  suppressing  the  guerrilla  bands  which  terrorized  the  exposed  portions  of  the  State. 


KENTUCKY  REGIMENTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIKD  OF 
WOUNDS. 

I>M    >  <>r  In-    \-  >  . 

AC('IDENTa,IN  I'llINON.i&f 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Jan.,   '62 
Jan.,   '62 
Jan.,   '62 
Ian.,   '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Feb.,  '64 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
Jan.,   '63 
July,    '63 
Oct.,  '63 
Oct.,  '63 
Oct.,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
Oct.,  '63 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64' 
Nov.,  '64 
Nov.,  '6  1 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

I 

8 

5 
9 

2 

7 

5 
i 

40 
5° 

49 

128 

5° 

128 

85 

42 

36 

57 
48 

84 
28 

27 
34 
36 

21 

41 
58 

54 
'37 
S2 
i35 
9° 
43 
36 
60 

5i 
89 

30 
29 

35 
37 
23 

5 
6 

5 

i 

5 

5 

i 

3 

3 

6 

3 

•    • 

3 

2 
I 

I 

•     • 

I 

•     • 

2 

•     • 
•     • 

3 

2 

I 

4 
i 
i 

•    •    • 
•  •    • 
•   •    • 

2 

193 

181 

142 

''3 
131 

158 
152 
152 
194 

152 

'45 

102 

174 
142 

181 

74 
7i 
42 

22 
64 

49 
98 

194 
91 

102- 

68 
96 

74 
48 
40 

28 

29 

8 

84 

198 
I87 

M7 
114 

136 
l63 

153 

155 
197 

158 
148 
IO2 
177 
144 
182 

75 
7i 
43 

22 

66 

49 

98 

197 

93 
103 

72 

97 

75 
48 

40 

28 

31 
8 

84 

239 

245 
2OI 

251 

1  88 
298 

243 

198 

233 
218 

199 
191 

207 

'73 
217 

112 

94 
43 

22 
69 

57 
1  06 

224 

IO2 

IJ3 

73 
104 

76 

59 
49 
29 
38. 
8 
117 

Cox's 

HascalPs 
Hascall's 
Johnson's 
Cox's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Haird's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
Hascall's 
Kim  ball's 
Osterhaus's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Cox's 
Couch's 
Hascall's 
Newton's 

Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fourteenth. 
Twenty-third. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Twenty-third. 
Fourth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fourth. 

i  tth  Kentucky  

T^ith   Kpntnrlc  v*  . 

1  8th  Kentucky*  

''Oth  Kentucky  

3 
3 

2 

2 
I 
I 

2 

22(1    Kentucky  

2-7(1    Kentucky*  

28th  Kentucky  

3oth  Kentuckyi'  

•?2(1    Kentuckyi  

34th  Kentucky  • 

3 

8 

8 
24 
9 

10 

i 

7 
i 

10 

8 
i 

7 

3 

8 

8 

27 

9 
10 

i 

7 

i 

it 

9 

i 

7 

t^th  Kenttickvr  • 

O  J                                                     J     1 

*J  i                                            J    \ 

3 

*J  s                                                J 

4Oth  Kentuckvl"  

45th  Kentuckyf  

4  7th  Kentucky!"  

48th  Kentuckyf  

49th  Kentucky"!"  

i 
i 

53d    Kentucky!"  

55th  Kentuckvf  

Patterson's  Ky.  Company: 
"State  Defense"  Reg'ts.  . 

i 

32 

33 

•     •      • 

•Keenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.         tEnlisted  for  one  year.       ^Enlisted  for  nine  months. 

Among  the  general  officers  appointed  from  Kentucky  were  :  Generals  Anderson  (of  Fort  Sumter  fame), 
Rousseau, Thos.  J.  Wood,  Crittenden,  Johnson,  Ward,  Whitaker,  Jackson  (killed  at  Chaplin  Hills),  Fry,  Burbridge, 
T.  T.  Garrard,  Croxton,  Long,  Sanders  (killed  at  Knoxville),  Watkins,  Shackleford,  Nelson,  Green  Clay  Smith, 
Hobson  and  others. 

That  the  Kentucky  regiments  did  their  share  of  the  fighting  is  well  attested  by  the  heroic  figures  opposite 
their  names  in  the  casualty  lists  of  the  Western  armies. 


liKi.IMENT. 

BATTLE. 

Killed  and 
Wounded. 

REGIMENT. 

BATTLE. 

Kill.'.!  and 
Wounded. 

3d    Kentucky 

Stone's  River 

133 

Qth  Kentucky 

Stone's  River 

112 

4th  Kentucky 

Chickamauga 

191 

joth  Kentucky 

Chickamauga 

166 

5th  Kentucky 

Stone's  River 

125 

nth  Kentucky 

Stone's  River 

IO2 

5th  Kentucky 

Chickamauga 

"5 

I5th  Kentucky 

Chaplin  Hills 

196 

6th  Kentucky 

Shiloh 

103 

I7th  Kentucky* 

Fort  Donelson 

I2Q 

6th  Kentucky 

Stone's  River 

"3 

i?th  Kentucky* 

Shiloh 

122 

6th  Kentucky 

Chickamauga 

118 

I7th  Kentucky 

Chickamauga 

126 

8th  Kentucky 

Stone's  River 

in 

i8th  Kentucky 

Richmond  (Ky) 

150 

*  Including  loss  of  25th  Kentucky. 


500 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '63 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 

July,  '6  1 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Jan.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Jan.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
July,  '62 
May,  '62 
May,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 

Cavalry. 

4 

4 
I 

3 

i 

4 
i 

9 
4 
i 

2 

32 
38 
62 

25 
40 

66 

47 
138 
28 
20 
1  1 
16 
M 

60 

3 

13 

10 

12 
II 
I 

6 

5 
6 

5 
6 

36 

42 

63 
28 

41 

7°t 

48 

M7f 
32 

21 

J3 
16 

i5 
67 

3 
14 
1  1 

12 
12 

2 

7 

5 
6 

6 

3 

3 
I 

5 
i 

2 

3 
i 

4 

i 

i 

2 

3 
i 

•    • 

i 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

i 

2 

•     • 

I 
I 

•     • 

2 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

148 

211 
I30 

193 

1  88 

2OI 

243 

250 

2O4 

157 
I  60 

154 

I25 
320 

31 
M 
18 

r5 

24 

15 

22 
IO 

55 

22 

18 

22 

19 

23 
12 

I  I 

IO 

31 

2  r 

24 

J51 

214 

131 

198 

189 
203 
246 

251 

204 
161 
161 

*55 

127 

323 

32 
H 
18 
16 

24 
J5 

22 
IO 

55 

22 

19 

24 

J9 

24 

13 

ii 

12 

31 

21 

24 

187 
256 
194 
226 
230 

273 

294 

398 
236 
182 
174 
171 
142 

39° 

35 
28 

29 
28 

36 
T7 
29 

15 

61 

27 
25 
24 
26 
28 

M 
1  1 

16 

42 

31 

25 

Bussey's 
McCook's 
Buford's 
McCook's 
Stoneman's 
Stoneman's 
Grierson's 
Kilpatrick's 
Knipe's 
Knipe's 
Hatch's 
Knipe's 
Knipe's 

Augur's 
E.  A.  Carr's 

Thirteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Sixteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Wilson's. 
Wilson's. 
Wilson's. 
Wilson's. 
Wilson's. 

Nineteenth. 

Thirteenth. 
Seventh. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Twenty-first. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Twentieth. 

Sixteenth. 
Twenty-third. 
Third,  A.  Va. 
Nineteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 

4th  Indiana  

cth  Indiana    . 

6th  Indiana  

8th  Indiana  *  

i  ith  Indiana  

i  'ith  Indiana  •• 

I 

7 

Heavy  Artillery. 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  Ind  *  "Klauss's"  .  .  . 

2d   Ind.*  "Rabb's"  
3d   Ind  *  "Ginn's"  

i 
i 

Mower's 
Sheridan's 
Stanley's 

4th  Ind  *  "Bush's"  

5th  Ind.    "Simonson's". 
6th  Ind.*  "Mueller's"  .  . 
7th  Ind.*  "Swallow's"  .  . 
8th  Ind.    "Estep's"  
9th  Ind.    "Thompson's" 
xoth  Ind.*  "Naylor's"  .  .  . 

i 
i 
i 

Baird's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Mower's 
Newton's 
Sheridan's 

nth  Ind.    'Sutermeister's' 
1  2th  Ind.*  "White's"    .  .  . 

•    • 

1  3th  Ind.*  "Nicklin's"  

7 
4 
i 

•   •    • 

4 

10 

9 
i 

7 
4 

i 

•    •  • 

4 
ii 

10 

i 

i4th  Ind  *  "Kidd's"  

Kimball's 
Cox's 

i5th  Ind.    "Stanton's"  .. 

1  6th  Ind.    "C.A.Naylor's";      .  . 
i  7th  Ind.    "Miner's"    .  .  . 

Reserve 
Reynolds's 
Baird's 
Reserve  Art'y 

1  8th  Ind.    "Lilly's"  

i 

i 

•    • 

igth  Ind.    "Harris's"  .  .  . 
20th  Ind,    "Noble's"  

*Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.          f  Part  of  this  loss  occurred  while  serving  as  infantry. 

General  McClernand  officially  congratulated  the  Governor  of  the  State  on  the  meritorious  part  taken  by 
Kentucky  in  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  and  added  his  "testimony  to  the  gallantry,  bravery,  and  good  conduct  of 
her  officers  and  men  in  all  that  bloody  struggle.  They  bore  themselves  with  the  unflinching  steadiness  of 
veterans,  both  under  galling  fires  of  artillery  and  musketry,  and  in  making  charges  upon  fortified  lines." 

The  losses  in  battle  of  the  Kentucky  regiments  were  more  severe  than  the  figures  indicate,  as  the  regiments 
were  small.  Nearly  every  regiment  took  the  field  before  its  ranks  attained  the  maximum  strength,  and  but  few 
recruits  were  forwarded.  The  60  regiments  contained,  in  all,  only  51,743  names  on  their  rolls. 

Vacant  numbers  occur  in  the  list  of  Kentucky  regiments  through  the  following  reasons  :  the  29th,  3ist,  36th, 
38th,  43d,  44th,  46th,  5oth,  and  5  ist  Regiments  were  incomplete  organizations,  and  their  recruits  were  transferred 
to  other  regiments.  The  4ist  and  42d  Regiments  were  thirty-days  men,  who  were  called  out  at  the  time  of 
Bragg's  invasion.  There  was  no  Battery  D  organized.  The  33d  Infantry  was  consolidated  with  the  26th 
Infantry  on  April  ist,  1864. 

The  4th,  4oth,  45th,  47th,  48th,  52d,  53d,  54th  and  55th  Regiments  served  as  mounted  infantry. 


INDIANA  REGIMENTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OKI.  \M/i  ;• 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  ur 

WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE, 

AtX'IUENTS.IN  I'HIKON.&C 

Total 
DeathH. 

DIVISION. 

COUPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Mcn 

Total. 

Sept.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Sept.,  '64 
June,  '6  1 

April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,'6i 
Aug.,  »6i 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '62 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
July,  '62 
June,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  i 
Aug.,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 

Light  Batteries  —  ContirfJ. 
2ist  Ind.    "Andrews's"  . 
22d    Ind.    "Denning's"  . 
23d    Ind     "Myers's"  .  .  . 

•     • 

4 

1 

2 

4 
2 
2 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

2 
2 

5 

2 

3 

.  . 

2 
2 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

I 
I 
I 

•     • 
•     • 

2 

3 
3 
3 

-•> 

4 

24 
I  I 

I? 

3' 
6 

12 

3 

2 

3 

2 
2 
I 
140 
III 

1  66 

220 
114 
I70 

24 

193 
146 

72 
76 

15 
212 

M3 

130 

116 

"3 
190 

M3 

204 

270 

265 

•3i 

240 

24 
I  I 

'7 

3i 
6 

i3 
3 

2 

3 

2 
2 
I 
142 

"3 
171 

222 
I19 

173 

24 

195 
148 

72 
76 

15 
212 

144 

131 

117 

I'3 

190 

J45 
207 

273 
268 

M3 

244 

28 

13 
'9 
31 
7 
'3 

3 
3 

7 

5 
6 

i 

267 
229 
258 

353 
1  86 

288 
24 
295 

255 

222 
I83 

16 
297 

237 
204 

316 
3'4 

343 
217 

295 
36, 

364 
302 

3°4 

Reynolds's 
Hascall's 
Cox's 
Hovey's 

Fourteenth. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Fourth. 
Twenty-third. 

Fourth. 
First. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Thirteenth. 

Fifteenth. 
Tenth. 
Second. 
Fourth. 

Thirteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Thirteenth. 
First. 
Third. 
Fourth. 
Seventeenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Twelfth. 
Fourth. 

24th  Ind     "Sims's"  

•>5th  Ind  *  "Sturm's".  .  .  . 

I 

I 

26th  Ind  f  "Wilder's".  .  . 

Hovey's 

Infantry. 

•?th  Tndi'im   t  . 

I 

4 

3 

4 

1 

4 

3 
4 

Xth  Indiana  t  . 

loth   Truliim   f  . 

9 
8 

7 
1  1 

3 

i 

116 
1  08 
80 
1  20 

64 
114 

i  25 
116 
87 

I31 

67 

i'5 

T.  J.  Wood's 
Wadsworth's 
E.  A.  Carr's 
Stanley's 
Baird's 
Hovey's 

8th  Indiana  t  

T  nth  Tnflinm    . 

iith  Truli  *im  "i"  . 

i  ">th   Truliitvi  *  . 

T  *>th   Iruliirn    . 

8 

3 
1  1 

4 

92 
104 

'39 
103 

i 

82 
90 
68 
194 
1  86 

i39 
68 

80 
Si 
96 

'59 

56 

IOO 

107 

15° 

107 

i 

«5 
93 
73 
199 

2OI 

153 

72 

88 
88 
96 
169 
60 

Osterhaus's 
Ames's 
French's 
Sheridan's 

i  ^th  Indiana  t  

1  4th  Indiana  

i  cth  Indiana  

1  6th  Indiana  

i 

5 
5 
15 
14 

4 
8 

A.  J.  Smith's 
Crook's 
E.  A.  Carr's 
Wadsworth's 
Birney's 
Newton's 
I^ogan's 
Hovey's 
Veatch's 
Andrews's 
Williams's 
Stanley's 

1  7th  Indiana  T  

1  8th  Indiana  "f  

loth  Indiana  

2Oth  Indiana  f  

22d   Indiana  t  

2  ^d   Indiana  t  

24th  Indiana  "f  

J 

27th  Indiana  

10 

4 

•Enlisted  for  one  year.         tKeenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.       {Three-months'  service,  1861. 

Indiana.  —  This  State  sent  five  regiments  of  volunteers  to  the  Mexican  War,  and  hence  it  was  deemed 
advisable,  for  historic   reasons,  to  commence  numbering  the  volunteers  of  the  last  war  at  the  sixth  regiment. 

Other  missing  numbers  in  the  list  of  regiments  are  accounted  for  by  the  following  synonymous  designations : 


Final  Designation. 
1st  Indiana  Heavy  Artillery 
1st  Indiana  Cavalry 
2d    Indiana  Cavalry 
3d   Indiana  Cavalry 
4th  Indiana  Cavalry 
5th  Indiana  Cavalry 
6th  Indiana  Cavalry 


Synonym. 

2ist  Indiana  Volunteers. 
28th  Indiana  Volunteers. 
4ist  Indiana  Volunteers. 
45th  Indiana  Volunteers. 
77th  Indiana  Volunteers, 
goth  Indiana  Volunteers. 
7ist  Indiana  Volunteers. 


Final  Designation. 

7th  Indiana  Cavalry 

8th  Indiana  Cavalry 

9th  Indiana  Cavalry 

loth  Indiana  Cavalry 

nth  Indiana  Cavalry 

I2th  Indiana  Cavalry 

I3th  Indiana  Cavalry 


39th 
I2ist 
I25th 
I26th 
I27th 
I3ist 


Synonym. 

Indiana  Volunteers. 
Indiana  Volunteers. 
Indiana  Volunteers. 
Indiana  Volunteers. 
Indiana  Volunteers. 
Indiana  Volunteers. 
Indiana  Volunteers. 


The  infantry  regiments  bore  designations  identical  with  their  volunteer  numl>ers. 

The  56th,  6ist,  62d,  Q2d,  94th,  95th,  g6th,  gSth,   i22d,  and  14151  Regiments  were  not  organized.     The 
regiments  from  the  iO2d  to  the  ii4th  were  composed  of  "  minute  men  "  who  served  about  ten  days  during  the 


502 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Nov.,  '61 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Jan.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
June,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
July,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
May,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 

/w/tf  «  try  —  Co  n  tin  ued. 
3Oth  Indiana  *  •  •  •  

4 

5 

7 
4 

2 

5 

I  T 

5 
9 

5 
5 

2 

4 
4 

2 

133 

I][S 

164 

I  12 

32 

82 

IO2 

80 
147 

143 

108 

4i 
76 
66 
80 
88 
40 

54 

55 
26 

98 

137 
120 

171 

116 

34 
87 

IJ3 

85 
156 
148 

IX3 

43 
80 

70 
82 
88 
4i 
57 
56 
28 
107 

I 

5 
i 

2 

5 

•   • 
2 
I 
j 

5 
i 

5 
9 
3 
4 
4 
3 

3 

6 

2 

4 

•    * 

2 

•     • 

2 
2 

3 

2 

4 
I 

2 

•     • 

3 

2 
2 

•     • 

274 

253 
96 

1  80 
204 
164 
I30 
140 

254 
206 
196 
2OO 
22O 
I9I 
250 

175 
192 

158 
2O2 

175 
248 

2 
222 

3 
170 

192 

229 

I65 
130 

216 

184 
194 

II  I 

248 
103 
130 
191 

275 
258 

97 
182 

209 
164 
132 
141 

255 

211 
I97 
205 
229 
I94 

254 
179 

195 

161 
208 
177 

252 

2 
224 

3 

172 

194 

229 
168 
132 
220 

'85 
196 
1  1  1 

25J 
105 
132 
191 

412 

378 
268 
298 

243 
251 

245 
226 

411 

359 
310 

248 

3°9 

264 

336 
267 
236 
218 
264 
205 

359 

2 
270 

J3 

275 
258 

266 
213 
188 

254 
250 

249 
15° 
33i 
203 

160 
241 

Stanley's 
Stanley's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Ward's 
Hovey's 
Stanley's 
Stanley's 
Johnson's 
Johnson's 
Newton's 
Johnson's 
Salomon's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Hovey's 
Hovey's 
Quinby's 
Osterhaus's 
Kimball's 
Beatty's 
Garrard's 
Gresham's 

Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Twentieth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Seventh. 
Fourth. 
Thirteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventeenth. 

Thirteenth. 

Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Seventeenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Sixteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Thirteenth. 
Twentieth. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Crittenden's. 

3  ist  Indiana  *  

/i  6th  Indiana  *  . 

48th  Indiana  *  

4oth  Indiana  *  

I 

3 
i 

2 

9 

coth  Indiana  *  

^  ist  Indiana  *  •• 

c  2d    Indiana  *  

^  ^d    Indiana  *  

5  4th  Indiana  i  

2 
I 

6 

4 
i 

2 

3 

44 
9 

97 
60 

36 
43 
53 
34 
62 

52 
35 
77 
96 

26 
47 

46 
10 
103 

64 

37 
45 
56 
34 
65 
53 

39 
80 

98 

28 

5° 

Osterhaus's 

£  ^th  Indiana  t  

cj  7th  Indiana  *  

Newton's 
Sheridan's 
Quinby's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
Cox's 
Cox's 
Sweeny's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
T.J.  Wood's 
Osterhaus's 
Butterfield's 
Garrard's 
T.  J.  Wood's 

58th  Indiana  *  

^oth  Indiana  *  

6oth  Indiana  

6"?d   Indiana  

6^th  Indiana  

66th  Indiana  

3 
i 

4 
3 

2 
2 

3 

6  yth  Indiana  

yoth  Indiana  §  

72d    Indiana  

y?d    Indiana  . 

*Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.        tEnlistcd  for  three  months.        JEnlisted  for  one  year.       §Colonel  Benjamin  Harrison. 

Morgan  invasion.  The  64th  was  intended  to  be  a  light  artillery  regiment,  but  it  was  riot  organized,  and  the 
companies  selected  for  it  served  as  independent  batteries. 

The  regiments  of  the  Indiana  Cavalry  did  not  sustain  all  their  losses  while  in  the  mounted  service.  The  8th 
Cavalry  served  originally  as  the  39th  Infantry,  and  part  of  its  losses  in  battle  occurred  while  in  the  infantry 
service.  It  fought  as  infantry  at  Shiloh  and  Stone's  River,  its  casualties  in  the  latter  action  amounting  to  30  killed, 
119  wounded,*  and  231  missing;  total,  380.  It  was  changed  to  mounted  infantry  in  April,  1863,  and  to  the  8th 
Cavalry  in  October,  1863.  The  6th  Cavalry  also  sustained  part  of  its  losses  before  it  joined  the  mounted  service, 
it  having  served  originally  as  the  7ist  Infantry,  during  which  it  fought  at  Richmond,  Ky.,  where  it  lost  29  killed, 
01*  wounded,  and  593  missing  and  captured. 

The  2ist  Infantry  was  changed  to  heavy  artillery  in  March,  1863.  Previous  to  that  time  it  had  sustained 
some  heavy  losses  while  acting  as  infantry,  its  casualties  at  the  battle  of  Baton  Rouge  aggregating  24  killed,  98* 
wounded,  and  4  missing;  total,  126. 

•"Including  the  mortally  wounded. 


INDIANA   KK<JIMKXTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OKUANIZED 

KEtilMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 

Woi'NDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUHON.&C 

Totnl 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

COKPS. 

Officers 

\  •    M.  N 

Total. 

Officer* 

Kn.Men 

Total. 

Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
July,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Nov.,  '63 
Nov.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
May,  '64 
Mav,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

5 
i 

86 
43 

91 
44 

2 

2 

•     » 
•     • 

2 
I 
I 

6 
3 

2 

3 
i 

2 

3 
3 

2 

3 
6 

5 

3 
i 

•    * 
•    • 
•    • 

i 
i 

i 

i 
i 

2 
I 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

I 

•     • 

181 

186 
2 

3 

M7 
171 

188 
170 

220 

145 
IQO 

I76 
IQO 

147 

188 
114 
250 
172 

147 

173 
169 

69 
64 

95 
86 

140 

131 

128 

112 

166 
146 

12 
17 

32 

28 

6 

n 

183 

1  88 

2 

3 
149 

172 
189 
176 
223 

'47 

J93 
177 
192 

150 
191 

116 

253 
178 

r52 
176 

170 
69 
64 

95 
87 
141 

132 
129 

"3 

1  68 

M7 

12 

17 
32 
28 

7 
i? 

274 
232 
2 

5 

202 
242 

245 
244 
284 

234 
235 
249 
283 
214 
252 
I36 
291 
232 

'97 
234 

220 
70 

<->5 
95 

9° 

168 

183 

T55 
144 

189 
185 

I  2 

17 
32 
28 

7 
i7 

Baird's 
Baird's 

Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 

Fourth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourth. 
Twentieth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twentieth. 
Twentieth. 
Twentieth. 
Twentieth. 
Twentieth. 
Twentieth. 

78th  Indiana  ~\  

i 

3 
6 

4 
3 

5 

5 

2 
2 
IO 

9 
6 

2 
I 

3 

i 

5° 
64 

52 
65 
56 
82 
40 
70 
81 

55 

55 
18 

37 
5i 
45 
56 

47 
i 

i 

2 

53 
70 

56 
68 
61 

87 
42 

72 

9i 
64 
61 

20 
38 

54 
45 
58 

5° 
i 

i 

T.  J.  Wood's 
Hascall's 
Stanley's 
Baird's 
Blair's 
Stanley's 
Butterfield's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Baird's 
Johnson's 
Mower's 
Hascall's 
Turtle's 
C.  R.Woods's 
Hazen's 
C.  R.  Woods's 
Baird's 
Third 
Third 
Third 
Third 
Cox's 
Hascall's 
Cox's 
Cox's 
Hascall's 
Hascall's 
Fourth 
Fourth 
Fourth 
Fourth 
Fourth 
Fourth 

<S  i  st    Indinvi   . 

86th  Indiani  

Syth  Indiina  

88th  Indiana  

o^d    Indiana  

97th  Indiana  

iooth  Indiana  

2 

3 

1  1  7th  Indiana  f  

1  1  8th  Indiana  \  

3 
26 

47 
24 

27 

'9 

36 

3 

27 

5i 
26 

3i 

21 
3« 

1  2oth  Indiana  

i 
4 

2 

4 

fy 

2 

I2oth  Indiana  ••••..... 

1301)1  Indiana  

1  1  id    Indiana  ^  . 

*J  J                                                O 

1  34th  Indiana  §  

1  35th  Indiana  §  

1  36th  Indiana  §  

*Enlisted  for  thirty  days.        +  Enlisted  for  sixty  days.       J  Enlisted  for  six  months.       $  Unlisted  for  one  hundred  days. 

The  largest  number  of  veteran  reenlistments  in  the  Indiana  Volunteers  occurred  in  the  following  regiments  : 


Regiment.  Reenlistments. 

1st  Indiana  Heavy  Artillery 503 

33d  Indiana 460 

34th  Indiana 439 

47th  Indiana 416 

8th  Indiana 386 

53d  Indiana 381 

29th  Indiana 372 


Regiment.  Reentistments. 

52d    Indiana 370 

iSth  Indiana 334 

22d    Indiana 331 

24th  Indiana 327 

8th  Indiana  Cavalry 305 

i  ith  Indiana 296 


Regiment.  Reenlistments. 

gth  Indiana 291 

lyth  Indiana 288 

3ist  Indiana 285 

25th  Indiana 284 

48th  Indiana •  284 

2oth  Indiana 281 

23d    Indiana 278 


5ist  Indiana 295 

The  i6th,  i7th,  25th,  39th,  5151.  65th,  7ist,  72d,  and  73d  Indiana  were  equipped  as  mounted  infantry 
during  part  of  their  service.  The  i7th  and  ?2d  Regiments,  and  the  i8th  Indiana  Battery,  formed  a  part  of 
Wilder's  "  Lightning  Brigade  "  of  mounted  infantry.  This  brigade  was  a  well-known  and  efficient  command. 

The  9th  Indiana  Battery  lost  29  men  killed  in  a  boiler  explosion  on  the  Steamer  Kclipse,  January  27,  1865, 
at  Paducah,  Ky. ;  the  gth  Cavalry  lost  78  men  on  the  Steamer  Sultana  ;  and  the  6gth  Infantry  lost  2  officers  and 
20  men  drowned  by  the  swamping  of  a  boat  in  Matagorda  Bay. 


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EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 
WOUNDS. 

DIKD  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBISON,&C 

TOTAL 
DEATHS 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

May,  '64 
June,  '64 
Nov.,  '64 
Nov.,  '64 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
April,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 

July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
Feb.,  '63 
May,  '63 
June,  '63 
Feb.,  '64 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

•     • 
•     • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

I 

•     • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

I 

3 
6 

i 

5 
8 

3 
i 

6 

3 

8 

4 
4 

•    • 

i 
i 
i 

8 
1  1 
in 
70 
92 

47 
70 

3i 

44 

34 
42 

35 
65 

49 

46 

40 
18 

*7 

26 

i73 
231 

166 

414 
328 
267 
174 
241 
262 

237 
192 

360 
190 

122 

228 

86 

8 
1  1 

112 
70 
92 

47 
70 

31 

44 
34 
43 

35 
66 

49 
46 

40 

T9 
i7 

26 
176 

237 
167 
419 

336 
270 

175 

247 

265 

245 
196 

364 
190 

123 

229 
87 

8 
u 
114 

72 
93 

47 
70 

31 

44 
36 
43 

35 
66 

49 
49 
4i 

!9 

17 

43 
234 

275 
199 

447 
401 

334 
250 

293 
290 

279 

234 
385 
215 

i37 

262 

94 

Fourth 
Fourth 
Cox's 
Rousseau's 

Twentieth. 
Twentieth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twentieth. 

Nineteenth. 
Cavalry. 
Sixteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Cavalry. 
Cavalry. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  T. 
Seventh. 
Sixteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Dept.  Ark. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Sixteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Dept.  Mo. 

2 
I 
I 

2 
2 
I 

i42cl    Indiana  t  •  .  

I 

T/t/ith    Tnrlnm   ~r 

T/iSth   Tnrliinn  +. 

2 

2 

TCT<;f    TnHifmfi  H~  . 

TC9c1     Tnriiann  ~r  . 

T  c  •?  d     Tnrhann  \  . 

3 
i 

3 
I 

i  e  c  th  Indiana  °f  

Cavalry. 

J7 

5° 
36 

31 

28 

60 

59 
68 

45 
24 

32 
38 

21 

23 
12 

30 

7 

17 

58 
38 

32 

28 

65 
64 

75 
46 

25 
34 
38 

21 

25 
14 

33 

7 

?d       llinnis  t  . 

8 

2 

I 

Arnold's 
Hatch's 
Washburn's 
Bussey's 
Hatch's 
Hatch's 
Buford's 
Grierson's 
E.  A.  Carr's 
Kimball's 
Arnold's 
Davidson's 
Stoneman's 
Dodge's 
Stoneman's 
Sanborn's 

•7(J    Illinois  i  

A  th  Illinois  t  . 

6th  Illinois  t  

5 

5 

7 
i 

i 

2 

7th  Illinois  t  

8th  Illinois  \  

oth  Illinois  1  

loth  Illinois  1  

i  ith  Illinois  t  

2 
2 

3 

1  6th  Illinois  

•-"Enlisted  for  one  hundred  days.  tEnlisted  for  one  year.  $Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war. 

Many  of  the  noted  generals  of  the  war  were  Indianians  :  Generals  Lew.  Wallace,  Hovey,  Jefferson  C.  Davis, 
Meredith,  Wagner,  Jos.  J.  Reynolds,  Kimball,  Foster,  Cruft,  Harrow,  Colgrove,  Miller,  Cameron,  Gresham, 
Coburn,  Hascall,  Harrison,  Veatch,  Manson,  Benton,  Scribner,  Wilder,  Grose,  and  others. 

The  age  and  height  of  118,254  Indiana  soldiers  (out  of  about  200,000  enlistments)  was  recorded,  with  the 
following  interesting  result : 


Height. 

No.  of  men. 

Height.          No.  of  men. 

Age. 

•  No.  of  men. 

Age. 

No.  of  men 

Under  5  tt. 

i  in 

501 

At       5  ft.  10  in. 

15,047 

Under  17 

years 

270 

At  26  years 

4,283 

At 

5ft. 

i  in 

263 

At       5  ft.  it  in. 

8,706 

At 

17 

years 

634 

At  27  years 

3,758 

At 

5ft. 

2  in 

971 

At       6  ft.  --  in. 

6,679 

At 

18 

years 

2i,935 

At  28  years 

3,929 

At 

5  ft. 

3  in 

•      2,503 

At       6  ft.     i  in. 

2,614 

At 

19 

years 

10,519 

At  29  years 

2,769 

At 

5  ft. 

4  in 

•      5,387 

At       6  ft.     2  in. 

i,357 

At 

20 

years 

9,435 

At  30  years 

3,001 

At 

5ft. 

5  in 

•      9,171 

At       6  ft.     3  in. 

406 

At 

21 

years 

9,705 

At  31  to  34  years 

8,361 

At 

5ft. 

6  in 

•    14,373 

Over  6  ft.     3  in. 

336 

At 

22 

years 

7,835 

At  35  years  and  over  14,127 

At 

5  ft. 

7  in 

•    15,328 

At 

23 

years 

6,789 

At 

5ft. 

8  in 

.    19,140 

Total  recorded, 

118,254 

At 

24 

years 

6,013 

Total  recorded 

,     118,254 

At 

5ft. 

9  in.    15,472 

At 

25 

years 

4,891 

ILLINOIS  REGIMENTS. 


503 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OiuiAMZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  1  M-I.  \-i  . 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON.  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

COKI*M. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

July,  '6i 
July,  '6 
Aug.,  '6 
Nov.,  '6 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
Jan.,    '62 
Feb.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 

May,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
June,  '62 

Nov.,  '6  1 
July,   '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Mar.,  '63; 
Oct.,  '63 

Light  Artillery. 

ist  Illinois  Light  Artillery 
A      *"\VoooTs"  ..... 

15 
9 

15 

7 
5 

7 

i 

6 

i 

15 
9 

15 

8 

5 
8 

i 

7 
i 

i 

•    • 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 

I 
I 

•    * 

I 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

I 
2 

•     • 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

•     * 

22 

'7 

'9 

28 

25 
24 
1  1 

27 

»3 
1  1 

10 
10 

16 

27 
18 

13 
10 

24 
25 
23 

IO 

9 
32 
16 

26 

9 
1  1 

22 
!3 

'5 
20 

'4 

22 

18 

19 

28 

25 
24 
.   I  I 

27 

13 
12 

I  I 
10 

'7 

27 
18 

'3 

10 

24 

25 
23 

IO 
10 

34 
16 

26 

9 
1  1 

22 
'3 

*5 

20 

14 

37 
27 
34 
36 
3° 
32 

12 

34 
14 

12 
II 
14 

22 

30 
22 

!9 

i  7 
29 

27 

25 
'5 

10 

38 

21 
.     26 

'9 
18 

23 
'3 
'9 
29 
14 

M.  L.  Smith's 
Blair's 
Johnson's 
Leggett's 
Tattle's 
W.  S.  Smith's 

Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 

Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 

Fourth. 

Thirteenth. 
Sixteenth. 

Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 

Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Twenty-third. 

Sixteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.C. 
Thirteenth. 
Seventh. 
Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-  third. 
Fourth. 

B       "Barrett's"  

C—  •"Houghtaling's" 
D—  •"McAllister's".  . 
E  —  •"Waterhouse's"  . 
F-      "Cheney's".... 
G     *"O'Leary's"  .  .  . 

•    • 

i 

•   • 

i 

H—  »"I)eGress's"... 
I      •"Bouton's"  . 

i 

M.  L.  Smith's 
M.  L.  Smith's 
First 

K        "Smith's"  . 

I       *"Rourke's"  . 

M     *"Spencer's"  .  .  . 

4 

5 
3 

3 
6 

6 

5 

2 

2 

4 

4 

5 
3 
4 
6 

7 

5 

2 

2 

5 

Sheridan's 
Hovey's 

2d  Illinois  Light   Artillery 
A—*"  Davidson's"  .  . 
B  —  »"Madison's"  ..  . 

•    • 

C  —  *"  Flood's"  

i 

D  —  "Dresser's"  .... 

W.  S.  Smith's 
Lauman's 
Gresham's 
Logan's 

E—  "Schwartz's"..  . 
F  —  »"Powell's"  

i 

G—  *"Sparrestrom's". 
H  —  *"Stenbeck's"..  . 

•    * 

I  —  *"Barnett's"  
K  —  *"Rodgers's"  ..  . 

i 

Davis's 
Lauman's 
Logan's 
Reserve  Art'y 

L  —  *"Bolton's"  

4 
5 

4 

5 

M    -  "Phillips's"  

Independent  Batteries. 
Illinois  '"Cogswell's"  .  .  . 

•    • 

Illinois  f'Stokes's'1  

10 

5 

i 

10 

7 
i 

Second 
A.  J.  Smith's 
First 
Ruger's 
White's 
T.  J.  Wood's 

Illinois  J"White's"   

2 

Illinois    "Vaughn's"  .... 

Illinois  §"Renwick's"  

Illinois     "Henshaw's"  

4 

7 

4 
9 

Illinois    "Bridges's"  '        2 
Illinois    "Colvin's"  

•Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.        tBoard  of  Trade  Battery.        ^Chicago  Mercantile  Battery.       JKlu'in  Battery. 

From  the  foregoing  it  will  be  seen  that  an  entire  division  of  stalwart  Indianians  could  have  been  formed,  in 
which  every  man  would  have  been  six  feet  or  more  in  height. 

Over  80,000  Indiana  soldiers,  however,  were  enlisted  without  preserving  any  record  of  their  age  and  height. 

These  figures  approximate  closely  the  ages  and  heights  of  the  American  volunteers  of  the  same  classes. 
Dr.  Gould,  however,  thinks  that  the  figures  show  "that  the  Indiana  men  are  the  tallest  of  all  natives  of  the  United 
States,  and  these  latter  the  tallest  of  all  civilized  countries."* 

Illinois. — This  State  sent  six  regiments  to  the  Mexican  war,  and  when  the  Illinois  Legislature  passed  the  law, 
in  April,  1861,  authorizing  the  acceptance  of  regiments,  it  was  provided  in  the  Act  that,  "in  token  of  respect  tc 
the  Illinois  regiments  in  Mexico,"  these  new  organizations  should  receive  numbers  commencing  with  the  7th. 

The  first  six  regiments  which  were  organi/.ed  under  this  Act —  7th  to  iath  Infantry,  inclusive  —  were  sworn  in 
for  three  months' service,  at  the  expiration  of  which  they  reorganized  and  enlisted  for  three  years.  Illinois  responded 
promptly  to  every  call  for  men,  and  was  one  of  the  few  States  which  furnished  troops  in  excess  of  its  qrota. 

•Retort  Adjutant-General  of  Indiana,  1WJ;  vol.  I,  p.  110. 


506 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON,&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

5 
3 
9 
4 
10 

4 

177 

J55 

2OI 
136 
285 
112 

I25 

161 
140 

"3 

72 

289 

I05 
192 

142 
103 

95 

84 

149 
196 

85 
184 

225 
220 
296 
170 

25  i 

121 
169 
128 
169 

April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
April,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
May.  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
June,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 

Infantry. 

•    • 
•     • 
*    • 
•     • 
•    • 
•     • 

3 

*    • 

i 

*    • 

i 
3 

2 

I 

5 

3 
i 

7 

4 
i 

2 
2 
2 
2 
I 
2 
2 
2 

3 

2 

3 

2 
I 

2 

5 
i 

i 

5 
3 
9 
4 
10 

4 
174 

155 
200 

136 
284 
109 
123 
160 

135 
no 

71 

282 

IOI 

191 
140 

IOI 

93 
82 

148 
194 

83 
182 

222 

218 

293 

168 

250 
119 
164 
127 
1  68 

5 
3 
9 
4 
10 

4 
266 
321 
417 
186 
471 
260 
192 
223 
227 
170 
146 

394 
169 

331 
272 

250 
149 

173 

232 
286 
188 
290 
300 

345 
471 

268 

3°9 
261 

267 
332 
233 

Sixteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Twentieth. 
Fourth. 
Eighth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Thirteenth. 

QfU   Illinois  * 

8 
6 

5 

2 

7 

5 
6 

81 
1  60 

211 
48 
179 

'43 
61 
62 
81 
54 
71 

99 
60 

132 
124 

J4S 

5« 
86 

80 
88 
96 

97 
70 

IT5 
166 

9° 
56 
129 

91 
i93 
60 

89 
166 
216 

5° 
186 

148 

67 
62 

87 
57 
74 

I05 

64 

139 

130 

i47 
54 
89 

83 
90 
103 
106 

75 
I25 

i75 
98 

58 
140 

98 
204 
64 

Dodge's 
Logan's 
Dodge's 
Davis's 
McArthur's 
Dodge's 
Steele's 
Lauman's 
Lau  man's 
Davis's 
McArthur's 
Kimball's      . 
Johnson's 
Logan's 
Davis's 
Newton's 
Thoburn's 
Johnson's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Harrow's 
Newton's 
Lauman's 
Logan's 
Logan's 
Logan's 
Gresham's 
E.  A.  Carr's 
Davis's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Newton's 
Andrews's 

8th  Illinois  t. 

T  cth  Illinois  +  . 

6 

3 

3 
6 

4 

7 
6 

2 

4 
3 
3 

2 

7 
9 

5 

10 

9 

8 

2 
I  I 

7 
1  1 

4 

i6th  Illinois  t  . 

i8th  Illinois  |  

9  1(\     Illinois  ~r  . 

24th  Illinois  T....  •  

2  cth  Illinois  T  

26th  Illinois  t  • 

28th  Illinois  f  

^oth  Illinois  t  

"?  i  st  Illinois  ")"»««••  

"?2cl    Illinois  "f.....  

T,  "?d    Illinois  "f.....  

^4th  Illinois  "i"  

3^th  Illinois  

36th  Illinois  t  

3  7th  Illinois  t  

*Enlisted  for  three  months.       tReenlisted  and  served  through  the  war. 

Of  the  generals  who  attained  prominence  in  the  war,  Illinois  is  credited  with  :  Grant,  Logan,  McClernand, 
Schofield,  Palmer,  Hurlbut,  Black,  Giles  A.  Smith,  Oglesby,  McArthur,  Grierson,  John  E.  Smith,  Eugene  A.  Carr, 
White,  Carlin,  Lawler,  Morgan,  E.  J.  Farnsworth,  Mulligan,  and  many  others. 

As  in  the  troops  from  other  States,  many  of  the  Illinois  regiments  had  distinctive  synonyms  by  which  they 
were  known  as  well  as  by  their  numerical  designations.  Among  these  were  : 


"  First  Scotch" 
"Second  Scotch" 
"First  Irish" 
"  Irish  Legion" 
"First  Hecker" 
"Second  Hecker" 
"  Normal  Regiment" 
"  Rock  River  Regiment" 
"  Fox  River  Regiment" 
"  Fremont  Rifles" 


I2th  Illinois. 
6sth  Illinois. 
23d  Illinois, 
goth  Illinois. 
24th  Illinois. 
82d  Illinois. 
33d  Illinois. 
34th  Illinois. 
36th  Illinois. 
37th  Illinois. 


'  Yates  Phalanx  " 
"  First  Douglass" 
"Northwestern  Rifles" 
"  Lead  Mine  Regiment  " 
"  Chicago  Legion  " 
"Canton  Rifles" 
"National  Guards" 
"  Lyon  Color  Guard  " 
"  Ninth  Missouri " 
"  Yates  Sharpshooters  " 


3gth  Illinois. 
42d  Illinois. 
44tTi  Illinois. 
45th  Illinois. 
5ist  Illinois. 
55th  Illinois. 
57th  Illinois. 
5Sth  Illinois. 
5Qth  Illinois. 
64th  Illinois. 


ILLINOIS  REGIMENTS. 


507 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OKUAMZED 

REGIMENT. 

KM.  i.i  >  AND  DIED  or 

Wot'NDH. 

DlKI)   l>l      I)I*KA>K, 

ACCIDENTS.  IN  I'RISON.&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

COW'S. 

Officer* 

En.  Men 

i.  •.,. 

<  iflii  .  :  - 

En.  Met) 

Total. 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Sept.,'6i 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
April,  '62 
Dec.,  '6  1 
May,  "62 
Dec.,  '6  1 
June,  '62 
June,  '62 
June,  '62 
July,  '62 
July,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
78th  Illinois*. 

7 

I  2 

6 
8 

!3 

8 
6 

9 

7 

10 
9 

2 

8 

I 

9 

2 

3 

8 

4 

2 

3 

107 
I29 
II9 
107 

168 

75 
129 

76 

74 
58 

"3 
72 

60 
1  06 

59 
80 

1  1 
148 

25 
65 
75 
105 
44 
34 
3 

5 
103 

3° 

73 

114 
141 

125 

"5 
181 

83 
'35 

85 
81 

63 
123 

79 
62 

"5 
61 

88 

12 

157 

27 

68 

83 
109 

46 

37 
3 

5 
109 

31 

79 

3 

2 

4 
3 

5 

2 
I 
2 

I 

3 
6 

5 

•   • 

i 

•  • 

2 
2 
2 

M 

4 
4 
4 
4 
4 
9 
4 

2 

I 
2 

•     • 
•     • 

I 

*     • 
•     • 

3 

•   • 

3 

177 
130 
117 
I07 
2OI 

161 

156 
136 

253 
184 

251 
170 

129 

134 
II9 

J37 
171 
127 

348 
108 

21  I 

II7 
225 
I83 

25  * 

'35 
*3i 
97 
146 

12 

25 
I  2 

19 

23 

145 

I67 

116 

1  80 
I32 
121 

no 

206 
I63 

'57 
138 

254 
187 

257 

'75 
129 

135 
119 

'39 

i73 
129 

362 

I  12 

215 
121 

229 
I87 
26O 

'39 
J33 
98 
148 

12 

25 
13 
!9 

23 

148 

167 

119 

294 

273 
246 

225 

387 
246 

292 
223 

335 
250 

380 

254 
191 
250 
1  80 
227 

185 
286 

389 
1  80 

298 
230 

275 
224 

263 
144 
242 
129 

227 

12 

25 

'3 
'9 

23 
234 
281 

202 

Stanley's 
Terry's 
C.  R.  Woods's 
I,auman's 
Newton's 
Kimball's 
Newton's 
Logan's 
Hurlbut's 
Tuttle's 
Hazen's 
Mower's 
Corse's 
Newton's 
Sweeny's 
I^auman's 
Kimball's 
Blair's 
Quinby's 
Corse's 
Mower's 
Stanley's 
Davis's 
Kimball's 
Kimball's 
J.  K.  Smith's 
Veatch's 
Cox's 
Dodge's 

Fourth. 
Tenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Sixteenth. 

Seventeenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 

4ist   Illinois  

42(1    Illinois*  •• 

4  id    Illinois  *•••••  

44th  Illinois  *  

\  c  th   I  Ilinnis  *  . 

46th  Illinois*. 

48th  Illinois*  

t;2cl    Illinois  *  

c  ^d    Illinois  *  

<\4th  Illinois  *  

c  ^th  Illinois  *  

56th  Illinois  *  

c  7th  Illinois  *  

581)1  Illinois*  

59th  Illinois  *  

6oth  Illinois  *  

6ist  Illinois  *  

62(1    Illinois  *  

6^d    Illinois  *  

64th  Illinois  *  

6 
i 

6 

66th  Illinois  *  

67th  Illinois  f  

68th  Illinois  t  

6oth  Illinois  f  

7oth  Illinois  t  

7  ist  Illinois  t  

7 

J 

5 

79 
109 

78 

86 
114 

83 

McArthur's 
Sheridan's 
Newton's 

7  td    Illinois  

tEnlisted  for  three  months. 


Highlanders" 
Birge's  Sharpshooters" 
First  Board  of  Trade  " 
Second  Board  of  Trade" 
Railroad  Regiment  " 
Excelsiors  " 


"  Wilder's  Mounted  Infantry" 
"Wilder's  Mounted  Infantry" 
"Wilder's  Mounted  Infantry" 
"  Brackett's  Regiment" 
"  German  Guides  " 


g2d    Illinois. 

98th  Illinois. 

I23d    Illinois. 

9th  Illinois  Cavalry. 

I3th  Illinois  Cavalry. 


•Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war. 

6$th  Illinois. 
66th  Illinois. 
72d  Illinois. 
88th  Illinois. 
8gth  Illinois. 
I24th  Illinois. 

Many  of  these  regiments  dropped  their  synonyms  before  the  war  closed,  and  were  known  only  by  their 
regular  title ;  and,  with  some,  the  synonym  was  never  used  except  on  the  printed  placards  of  the  recruiting 
officers. 

The  gth,  soth,  8oth,  87th,  ii2th.  and  n8th  Regiments  also  served  part  of  the  time  as  mounted  infantry. 

Only  one  vacancy  occurred  in  the  list  of  Illinois  regiments;  the  i2ist  failed  to  complete  its  organization. 
One  regiment,  known  as  the  "Mechanics- Fusileers"  or  56th  Illinois  Infantry,  organized  in  November,  1861, 
to  serve  three  years,  was  disbanded  within  four  months,  and  another  regiment,  subsequently  organized,  was  desig 
nated  as  the  56th  Regiment.  This  latter  regiment  lost  n  officers  and  195  men  by  the  burning  of  the  steamer 
"  General  Lyon,"  off  Cape  Hatteras,  March  31,  1865. 


508 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBISON.&O 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers  'En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept  ,'62 
Sept.,  '62 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

3 

i 

2 

9 
4 
6 

8 

4 

4 
4 
4 

3 
i 

5 

I  2 

2 

94 

51 
66 

95 

81 

52 
66 

98 

34 
1  20 

86 
73 

i5 
98 

121 

58 
12 

51 

147 

9 

77 
in 

28 

3° 
47 
73 
47 
51 
87 

I  IO 

49 

3 

27 

8 

97 

52 
68 
104 

85 
58 

74 

IO2 

38 
124 
90 
76 

16 

103 

i33 

60 

12 

52 
'51 
9 
84 
116 

3° 
3° 

51 
80 

5° 
51 

95 
116 

51 
3 
3° 
9 

5 

2 
I 

I 

•     • 

3 

•    * 

i 
i 

i 
i 

3 
4 
i 
i 

i 

2 
I 

4 
i 

i 

3 

5 

i 

•   • 

i 

•   • 

i 

2 

•     • 

7 

•    • 

3 

2 
2 

2 

I03 
205 

J37 
117 

211 

160 

292 

60 
82 
144 

J3! 

98 

219 

84 

172 

87 

I3I 

127 

142 
162 
204 
124 
200 
136 
1  20 

134 

118 

68 

J53 

76 

i37 
1  88 

122 

2O2 
92 
212 

166 

108 
207 
138 
117 

212 
I  6O 

395 
60 

8.3 
145 
i32 
99 

222 

88 

173 

88 

132 
129 

H3 
166 
205 

I25 
203 

141 

121 

134 

119 

68 

154 

78 

137 
195 

122 

205 

94 
214 
168 

205 

259 
206 
221 
297 

218 

369 
162 

121 

269 

222 

175 
238 

I9I 

306 
I48   ' 
144 

181 

294 

J75 

289 

241 

233 
171 

172 
214 
169 
119 
249 
194 
188 
198 

T52 
214 

94 

228 
250 

Stanley's 
Lau  man's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
Davis's 
Newton's 
Stanley's 
Logan's 
Schurz's 

Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Seventeenth. 
Eleventh. 

Fourth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Seventeenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fourth. 
Thirteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Twentieth. 
Twentieth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Twentieth. 
Sixteenth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Thirteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fifteenth. 

8oth  Illinois  . 

Stanley's 
Davis's 
Davis's 
Arnold's 
Stanley's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
W.  S.  Smith's 
Benton's 
Kilpatrick's 
Quinby's 
Andrews's 
McArthur's 
Stanley's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
Garrard's 
E.  A.  Can's 
Newton's 
Williams's 
Ward's 
Harrow's 
Carlin's 
Ward's 
Kimball's 
Ruger's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
Quinby's 
Davis's 
M.  L.  Smith's 

86th  Illinois  . 

8  7th  Illinois*. 

88th  Illinois  

Snth  Illinois  . 

r»  T  st    Illinois;  . 

Q  2(1    Illinois  "f"  

I 

4 

Q^d    Illinois  

7 

I 

Q7th  Illinois  

p8th  Illinois  f  

ooth  Illinois  

4 
7 
3 

looth  Illinois  

loist  Illinois  ••  

1020!    Illinois  

iotd    Illinois  

8 
6 

2 

iO4th  Illinois  

io?th  Illinois  

io6th  Illinois  

loyth  Illinois  

3 

i 

io8th  Illinois  

i  zoth  Illinois  

i 
7 

J3 

75 

H 

82 

1  1  ith  Illinois  

*Mounted  Infantry.       tMounted  Infantry,  Wilder's  Brigade.        ^Disbanded  April  10,  1863. 

The  igth  Illinois  lost  38  killed  and  91  wounded  in  an  accident  on  the  Ohio  &  Mississippi  R.  R.,  near 
Vincennes,  Ind.,  September  17,  1861.  The  97th  Illinois  lost  18  killed  and  67  wounded  in  a  railroad  accident  in 
Louisiana,  November  3,  1863. 

In  addition  to  the  Illinois  regiments  specially  mentioned  in  Chapter  X,  there  were  many  other  regiments 
from  this  State  which  had  records  equally  meritorious,  although  their  casualties  in  action  may  not  have  been  as 
numerous. 

The  41  st  Illinois,  Colonel  Isaac  C.  Pugh,  faced  the  musketry  of  many  hard-fought  fields,  its  "  Roll  of  Honor" 
showing  115  heroes  who  fell  in  battle,  out  of  a  total  enrollment  of  1,029, —  a  loss  of  over  n  per  cent.  Its  first 
experience  under  fire  was  at  Fort  Donelson,  where  it  fought  in  General  C.  F.  Smith's  Division,  sustaining  a 
loss  of  14  killed,  113  wounded,*  and  3  missing  ;  total,  130.  A  few  weeks  later  it  was  engaged  at  Shiloh,  it  being 
then  in  Hurlbut's  Division,  and  fought  at  the  "  hornet's  nest,"  where  it  lost  21  killed,  73  wounded,*  and  3  miss 
ing,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Tupper  being  among  the  killed.  While  at  Memphis,  in  March,  1863,  a  dispute  arose 
among  the  generals  as  to  which  was  the  best  drilled  regiment  in  the  Corps,  and  the  matter  was  settled  by  a  prize- 

*Including  the  mortally  wounded. 


ILLINOIS  REGIMENTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


<  IKHM/I  n 

REGIMENT. 

KlI.l.K 

OIlirtTr- 

>  AND    l> 
WorNDS 

En.  Men 

1   H    OF 

Total. 

HIM 
AcCIDKf 

Officer* 

1 
4 

4 

2 

1 

4 
i 

3 

4 

•    • 

i 

2 

3 

4 

i 

2 

4 
i  i 

•    • 
•    * 

i 

•    • 

2 
I 

•     * 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     * 

I 

•     • 
*     • 

I 

I 
I 

>OK  Din 
!TJ«.IN  I'll 

KM.  Men 

iAsE, 

I  w>\.  Ac 
Total 

Total 
Di'iitlis. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  2 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
June,  '64 
May,  '64 
May,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
June,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 

Jn/antry  —  Continued. 

4 
I 

2 
6 

7 

76 
25 

45 
58 

49 
1  1 

21 

22 
2O 

38 
82 

4° 

88 

6 

47 

80 
26 

47 
64 
56 
1  1 

24 
24 

20 
40 

85 
41 

97 
6 

49 

'53 
273 
'59 
147 
232 

11S 
182 

136 
261 

121 
133 

M7 
104 

192 
1  68 

34 
128 

153 

282 

12 

1  6 
20 

i? 

40 

31 

13 

16 

24 

21 

3° 
54 
69 
40 

37 

3i 
70 

3° 

154 

277 
l63 

149 

239 
1I9 

I83 

133 
265 
121 

134 
149 
107 
196 
169 

35 
130 

157 
293 

12 

16 

21 

'7 
42 

32 
13 
16 

24 

21 
3« 

55 
69 

40 
38 
31 

7i 
31 

234 

3°3 

2IO 
213 

295 
130 

207 

'57 

2«5 
161 

2  19 
190 
2O4 
2O2 

218 

35 
1  80 

'77 
294 

12 

16 

21 

>9 
44 
5° 

J3 
16 

29 

21 

3° 

55 
69 

40 
38 
34 
73 
31 

Cox's 
Blair's 
Tuttle's 
Stanley's 
Blair's 
Mower's 
Osterhaus's 
Veatch's 
M.  L.  Smith's 
Dodge's 
Garrard's 
Logan's 
Davis's 
Kimball's 
Blair's 

Twenty-  third. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fourth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.C. 
Seventeenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 

Twentieth. 
Thirteenth. 
Thirteenth. 

i  i6tli  J  Ilinois  

f  i  7th    1  Iliniiis   . 

i  i  Sth   Illinois  . 

\ 

2 

3 

i 

9 

i  '  \d    Illinois  *  

1  24th  Illinois  

1  2Cth  Illinois  

1  26th  Illinois  

1  77th  Illinois  .  .  .  .  t  

2 

i  ^Sth  Illinois  

T  ?nth   1  Ilinnrc 

5° 
18 

i 

5° 
20 

i 

Ward's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
A.  J.  Smith's 

i  ?oth  Illinois  

2 

i  'list   Illinois  

i  ~12(\    Illinois  "j"  •       •> 

I  I  id          IllllOIS   \  . 

j  2cth  Illinois  "f  .  . 

2 
2 

I? 

2 

2 

18 

i  7.6th  Illinois  T    

1  27th  Illinois  "r  . 

I 

138th  Illinois  t  

T  7nth    1  Ilinnis  t 

1401)1  Illinois  t  

5 

5 

\*  2cl    Illinois  "j"  •       ••       ... 

T/iiH     Illinois  T. 

i/i.ith  Illinois  t  . 

'  j  >th  Illinois  "f    •• 

i  ifith   1  llinois  *  . 

i47th  Illinois  *  

•j 

3 

2 

i48th  Illinois  \  

T>intn  Illinois  * 

•Mounted  Infantry,  Wilder's  Brigade.         t  Enlisted  for  one  hundred  days.         *Knli.st«-<l  for  one  year. 

drill,  in  the  presence  of  over  ten  thousand  citizens  and  soldiers,  and  with  three  United  States  Army  officers  as 
judges,  which  resulted  in  an  award  of  superiority  to  the  Forty-first.  During  the  siege  of  Jackson,  Miss.,  the 
regiment  participated  in  the  deadly  charge,  of  Pugh's  Brigade,  which  was  the  subject  of  so  much  criticism  and 
censure,  and  in  which  it  lost  27  killed,  135  wounded,*  and  40  missing,  —  a  total  of  202  out  of  338  present. 
Major  Long  was  mortally  wounded  in  this  affair.  When  General  McPherson  was  killed,  and  his  body  sent  home, 
the  4ist  was  selected  to  accompany  it  as  an  escort. 

The  96th  Illinois,  Colonel  Thomas  K.  Champion,  was  another  regiment  which  achieved  a  reputation  as  an 
efficient  and  reliable  command.  It  distinguished  itself  at  Chickamauga,  where  it  fought  in  Steedman's  Division 
of  General  Gordon  Granger's  Reserve  Corps,  holding  its  ground  sturdily  in  the  face  of  Longstreet's  veterans,  and 
retiring  from  the  field  only  when  darkness  had  terminated  the  conflict.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Clarke  was  killed  in 
this  battle,  the  total  loss  of  the  regiment  amounting  to  39  killed,  134  wounded,*  and  52  missing ;  total,  225. 

The  i  Sth  Illinois,  Colonel  Michael  K.  Lawlor,  was  hotly  engaged  at  Fort  Donelson,  fighting  under  McCler- 
nand,  and  losing  there  53  killed,  157  wounded,*  and  18  missing;  total,  228.  At  Shiloh  the  regiment  lost  three 

'Including  the  mortally  wounded. 


510 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 

WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBISON,&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Mei 

Total. 

Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
June,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '63 
June,  '64 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
April,  '63 
May,  '63 
Oct.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 

May,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Jan.,   '62 
Jan.,   '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
April,  '62 
June,  '62 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

•     • 
•     * 

I 

2 

•      • 

I 

6 

2 

4 

2 

3 

•    * 

2 
2 
2 

•     * 
•     • 
•     • 

•     • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 

I 
I 

•     • 

53 

51 
76 

36 

74 

71 
24 

2 
IO 

3 

244 
266 
380 
341 

222 

25I 
256 

290 

154 

240 

114 

28 

35 
34 
39 
33 
23 
4i 
42 
27 
14 
27 
15 

58 

51 
76 

37 
76 

7i 
24 

2 
10 

4 

250 

268 

384 

343 
225 

25J 
258 
292 

156 
240 
114 

28 

35 
34 
39 
33 
23 
42 
42 
27 

i5 

28 

15 

58 

51 
76 

37 
76 

71 
26 

2 
12 

4 

414 

342 
414 

394 
366 

386 
343 
334 
184 
271 
142 

40 

37 
37 
4i 
33 

33 
46 

47 
32 
18 

29 
18 

Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Sixteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry. 
Cavalry,  A.  G. 
Twenty-  third. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 

Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourth. 
Twenty-  third. 
Thirteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Twentieth. 

Twenty-  third. 
Twenty-third. 

•j 

*J  O 

1561!!  Illinois  *  

2 

2 

2 

2 

Alton  Battalion  

Cavalry. 

14 
4 
3 

3 
6 

7 
4 
i 

2 
2 

4 

i 
i 

•    • 

15° 

70 

27 
48 

135 

128 

81 

4i 
26 
29 
24 

ii 
i 

3 

2 

164 

74 
3° 

5* 
141 

J35 

85 

42 

28 

31 

28 

12 
2 

3 

2 

Kilpatrick's 
McCook's 
Hatch's 
Garrard's 
Kilpatrick's 
Kilpatrick's 
Kilpatrick's 
Johnson's 
Kilpatrick's 
Cox's 
Burbridge's 

Rousseau's 
Sweeny's 
Veatch's 
Brannan's 

8th  Michigan  

Light  Artillery. 
ist  Michigan  — 
A—  fLoomis's"  
B  —  f"Ross's"  

C  —  f'Robinson's"  .  . 
D  —  t"Church's"    ... 

E  —  f'Dennis's"  

F  —  f"Hale's"  

i 

•    • 

2 

•     • 

9 
4 
3 

5 

3 
i 

3 

IO 

4 
5 
5 
3 
i 

3 

Hascall's 
Osterhaus's 
Logan's 
Ward's 

G—  f'Lanphere's"  .  . 
H—  f'DeGolyer's".. 
I—  "Daniels's"  
K—  "Schuetz's"  

L—  "Thompson's"  . 
M  —  "Hilliar's"  

Fourth 
Fourth 

*Enlisted  for  one  year.         tReenlisted  and  served  through  the  war. 

color-bearers  killed  in  succession  ;  and  Major  Eaton,  who  was  in  command  of  the  regiment,  was  also  killed.  He 
had  resigned  ten  days  previous,  but,  having  remained  with  the  regiment,  he  entered  the  fight  with  the  men  and  led 
them  gallantly  until  he  fell  mortally  wounded. 

The  1 25th  Illinois  led  the  storming  column  of  McCook's  Brigade  in  the  grand  assault  on  Kenesaw  Mountain, 
June  27,  1864.  General  McCook  was  with  the  advance,  and  fell  mortally  wounded  on  the  enemy's  works,  having 
passed  the  abattis.  Colonel  Harmon,  of  the  i25th,  took  his  place  instantly,  and  while  urging  the  men  to  secure 
the  victory  so  nearly  won,  fell  with  a  bullet  through  his  heart.  The  regiment  lost  61,  all  of  whom  were  killed  or 
died  of  their  wounds,  in  this  assault,  besides  the  large  number  of  wounded  who  survived. 

-The  regiments  from  this  State,  with  one  exception,  enlisted  for  three  years,  and  they  were  kept 
at  an  effective  strength  by  repeated  accessions  of  recruits,  which  accounts  partly  for  the  large  "  Roll  of  Honor  " 
in  so  many  of  the  Michigan  regiments. 

Each  regiment  completed  its  organization,  leaving  no  missing  numbers  in  the  list.  The  6th  Infantry,  how 
ever,  was  changed  to  heavy  artillery,  July  28,  1863  ;  but  the  order  authorizing  this  change  specified  that  it  should 


MICHIGAN  REGIMENTS. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OKUANIKKD 

KEG1MENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 
\Voi:Ni)». 

•  DIED  or  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKIMIN.&I 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

,  Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

•   • 

Jan.,  '64 
Jan.,  '64 

Oct.,  '6  1 

July,  '63 
Sept.,  '64 

May,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
Oct.,  '64 
June,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '64 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '65 
Feb.,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 

Light  Batteries. 
1  3th  Mich.  "Riordan's"  . 
i  ith  IMirh     ''Heine's" 

•    • 

•   *    • 

•    •    • 

I 

•     • 

•     • 

*     • 
•    • 

•     • 

I 

4 

2 
I 
I 

•     • 

3 
6 

3 
3 

4 

2 
2 

•  • 

3 

2 

3 
4 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•   • 

3 
3 
4 
4 
3 

'3 
9 

35  i 

165 

5 

3 
149 

'43 
89 

163 
107 
141 
188 
498 
1  86 
223 
281 
223 
194 
96 
372 

3M 
184 
268 

M3 
154 

293 
160 

175 
291 

306 

257 
136 

'4 
9 

35  i 

'65 

5 

3 
150 
J47 

91 
164 

1  08 
141 
191 

5°4 
189 

226 

285 

225 

196 
96 

375 
316 

187 
272 

143 
154 

293 
1  60 

178 
294 
310 
261 
*39 

'4 
9 

364 

302 
6 

9 
337 
372 

249 
165 

297 
148 

454 

582 

397 
449 
3°9 

327 
308 

96 

428 
388 
246 

335 

39° 
289 

311 

255 
302 

377 
399 
334 
328 

Twenty-sec'd. 
Twenty-sec'd. 

Ninth. 

McDowell's. 
Fifth. 
Ninth. 
Third. 
Fourth. 
Fifth. 
Fourth. 
Third. 
Nineteenth. 
Second. 
Ninth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 

Sixteenth. 
Twenty-first. 
Fourteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifth. 
Ninth. 
Fourteenth. 
Twentieth. 
Ninth. 
Twentieth. 
Fourteenth. 
Twenty-third. 
First.  ' 

Engineers. 

I 

6 

•    • 

3 

J5 
1  1 

4 

12 

I31 

I 

3 
172 

214 

154 

i 
177 

7 
247 

76 
197 

212 
22 

95 
107 

!3 

'37 
i 

6 
187 

225 

158 
i 
189 

7 
263 

78 
208 

223 

24 

IO2 
112 

Sh  a  rpshooters. 

Willcox's 

Michigan  "Hall's".. 
Infantry. 

Heintzelman's 

Morell's 
Willcox's 
Birney's 
Beatty's 
Griffin's 
Beatty's 
Birney's 
Sherman's 
Gibbon's 
Willcox's 

12 

16 

2 
I  I 
I  I 

2 

7 
5 

8th  Michigan  j"  

oth  Michigan  t  

loth  Michigan  t  

Davis's 
Johnson's 

1  1  th  Michigan  

1  2th  Michigan  T  

i 

4 
i 

3 

12 

7 

52 

68 

58 
60 

235 

128 

18  ! 
88 
in 
80 
86 
70 
177 

53 
72 
59 
63 
247 

i35 
18 

95 
124 

83 
89 

73 
189 

Kimball's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Davis's 
M.  L.  Smith's 
Griffin's 
Willcox's 
Reynolds's 
Ward's 
Willcox's 
Sheridan's 
Davis's 
Ruger's 
Wadsworth's 

i  ith  Michigan  1"  

1  4th  Michigan  t  

i  ^th  Michigan  t  

1  6th  Michigan  t  

loth  Michigan  

7 
13 
3 
3 
3 

12 

2oth  Michigan  

2ist  Michigan  

2  '(1   Michigan  

230!   Michigan  

24th  Michigan  

•Three-months'  service,  1861 ;  engaged  at  First  Bull  Run.       tltee'nlisted  and  served  through  the  war.        JFirst  Heavy  Artillery. 

"retain,  until  otherwise  officially  designated,  its  infantry  number."  Its  principal  losses  in  battle  occurred  while 
serving  as  infantry  and  before  it  was  converted  to  heavy  artillery,  during  which  it  lost  at  Baton  Rouge  1 5  killed, 
44  wounded,  and  6  missing;  and,  at  Port  Hudson,  20  killed  and  129  wounded.  An  excessive  proportion  of  the 
wounded  died  of  their  injuries. 

Almost  the  entire  loss  in  battle  of  the  220!  Infantry  occurred  in  one  action,  at  Chickamauga,  after  which  it 
was  assigned  to  duty  as  a  provost-guard,  and,  at  times,  on  duty  as  engineers.  The  9th  Infantry  served  most  of 
its  time  as  the  Provost-guard  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  and  was  attached  to  General  Thomas's  Headquarters. 

The  best  known,  and  one  of  the  most  efficient  of  the  Michigan  regiments  in  the  West,  was  "  Innes's  "  First 
Michigan  Engineers,  which  was  composed  almost  entirely  of  mechanics  and  engineers.  Like  the  other  engineer 
commands,  it  was  a  large  regiment —  1,800  strong — containing  1 2  companies  of  150  men  each.  In  repairing  the 
damaged  railroads  along  the  lines  of  communications  these  men  built  bridges  and  trestles  whose  combined  length 
could  be  measured  by  the  mile,  and  erected  block-houses  by  the  score.  The  construction  of  some  of  these 
bridges,  their  size  and  height,  and  the  marvellous  quickness  with  which  they  were  rebuilt,  constituted  some  of  the 
most  wonderful  feats  of  military  engineering.  This  regiment  could  fight  also,  as  well  as  do  other  duty,  and  a 


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EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,   ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

L)IED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUSON,&C 

TOTAL 
DEATHS 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Oct.,  '64 
Aug.,  '64 
Dec.,  '64 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Dec.,  '6  1 

Sept.,  '64 

Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Jan.,  '62 
Jan.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
April,  '62 
April,  '62 
Dec.,  '63 

May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

I 

3 
10 

i 
i 

34 
"5 

2I5 

5 
5 

35 
118 

225 
6 
6 

2 

3 

3 
i 

i 
i 

7' 
4 
6 

2 
I 

•     • 

I 

•     • 
•     • 
•     • 
•     • 

•     * 

I 

*     • 

2 

3 

2 
I 

•      • 

2 

•      • 

141 

159 
204 

126 
65 

J7 

321 
284 
147 

77 

22 
I  2 
21 

22 

18 

22 

T9 

26 

6 

25 
16 

23 
M 

142 

77 
IJ3 

311 
132 

112 

J43 
219 

114 

M3 
162 

207 
127 
66 
18 

328 

288 

153 

79 
23 

12 

21 

22 

19 

22 

T9 
26 

6 

25 
16 

23 
M 

J43 

77 

"5 

3'4 
134 

IJ3 
J43 

221 
114 

I78 
280 

432 

133 

72 

18 

401 
312 

217 

83 
28 

12 

27 

25 
25 

29 
29 

28 

6 
28 
18 
34 
14 

300 

3i5 

282 

431 
329 

357 
424 
280 

191 

Hascall's 
Barlow's 
Willcox's 
Ruger's 

Twenty-  third. 
Second. 
Ninth. 
Twenty-  third. 

Cavalry,  A.  C. 

Twenty-sec'd. 

Thirteenth. 
Fourth,  A.  P. 
Twenty-first. 
Eighteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
McCook's. 

Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  W.Va 
Sixteenth. 
Nineteenth. 

Fourteenth. 
First. 
Twelfth. 
Nineteenth. 
Sixth. 
First. 
First. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventh,  A.  F. 

•?o1~H    TVTir*Hi  O"i  n^ 

Cavalry. 

6 

67 
24 
61 

4 

5 

•   •  • 

6 

3 

5 
6 

9 
i 

73 

24 

64 
4 

5 

•  •    • 

6 

3 
6 

7 

IO 

2 

McCook's 

3 

Herron's 
De  Russy's 

Osterhaus's 
Gordon's 
Van  Cleve's 
Brooks's 
Davis's 
Quinby's 
Kimball's 
Davis's 
Blunt's 
Kilpatrick's 
Averell's 
Corse's 

Heavy  Artillery. 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  Wis  t  "Foster's"  . 

2d   Wis.f  "Herzberg's"  . 
3d   Wis  f  "Drury's"  .  .  . 

•    • 

4th  Wis  f  "Vallee's"  .  .  . 

5th  Wis.f  "Pinney's".:  . 
6th  Wis.f  "Dillon's"  .  .  . 
7th  Wis  f  "Lee's"  

i 
i 
i 
i 

8th  Wis.f  "Carpenter's" 
gth  Wis  f  "Dodge's".  .  . 

loth  Wis  t  "Beebe's"  .  .  . 

3 

2 
IO 

•     *     • 

'51 

228 

158 
106 
1  80 
228 
271 

53 

77 

3 

2 
I  I 

•     •      • 

*57 

238 

167 

117 

195 

244 

281 

59 

77 

nth  WTis.    "Rourke's"  .  . 
1  2th  Wis.    "Zickerick's". 
1  3th  Wis.    "Griffith's"  .  . 
Infantry. 

•    • 

i 

•    • 

6 

IO 

9 
ii 

i5 
16 

IO 

6 

Baird's 
Wadsworth's 
Williams's 
Emory's 
Wright's 
Wadsworth's 
Wadsworth's 
Mower's 
Salomon's 

i(\    \Visrnrmin  t  . 

4th  \Visconsin  "f  

^th  ^Visconsin  t  

6th  Wisconsin  "f  

7th  ^Visconsm  "f  

8th  \Visconsin  t  

*Enlisted  for  one  year.  tReenlisted  and  served  through  the  war. 

detachment  under  Colonel  Innes  won  further  distinction  by  its  brilliant  and  successful  defense  of  the  army  trains 
which  were  attacked  by  Wheeler's  Cavalry  during  the  battle  of  Stone's  River.  General  Innes  having  been  mus 
tered  out  at  the  expiration  of  his  term,  he  was  succeeded  by  Colonel  John  B.  Yates. 

Many  of  the  Michigan  regiments  went  to  the  front  in  1861  with  Colonels  who  afterwards  were  numbered 
among  the  most  distinguished  generals  of  the  war.  On  the  roster  of  the  2d  Cavalry  are  the  names  of  "  Colonel " 
Gordon  Granger,  and  "  Colonel "  Philip  H.  Sheridan.  Generals  Russell  A.  Alger  and  Robert  H.  Minty  served  at 
one  time  as  Majors  in  this  same  regiment. 

Wisconsin. — The  4th  Wisconsin  Cavalry  will  be  found  in  the  list  of  infantry  regiments,  it  having  been  organ 
ized  as  the  4th  Infantry,  and  nearly  all  its  losses  in  action  having  been  sustained  while  in  that  arm  of  the  service. 
It  was  changed  to  cavalry  in  September,  1863,  prior  to  which  it  lost,  at  Port  Hudson,  49  killed,  117  wounded,* 
and  53  missing ;  and  at  Bisland,  5  killed  and  8  wounded.  General  Bailey,  who  built  the  famous  Red  River  dam, 
was  Colonel  of  this  regiment.  General  Halbert  E.  Paine  uas  its  first  colonel. 

"Including  the  mortally  wounded. 


\Visi  OXSIN 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OKUANIKED 

KEGLMEXT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  op   '       DIED  OP  DIHEAPE, 

\VoiTNI>».                      AC'CIDK.NTS.  IN  I'ltlHON.&C 

Total 
I)i»atliH. 

DIVISION. 

* 

CORPS. 

(    iflil'IT-i 

En.  Men 

Total. 

officers 

En.Mt'ii 

Total. 

Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Jan.,  '62 
Dec..  '6  1 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
July,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Dec.,  '63 
Mar.,  '64 
April,  '64 
April,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Oct.,  '64 
Nov.,  '64 
Feb.,  '6s 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

s 

6 
3 

91 
80 

93 

5 
116 

86 
141 

4i 
52 
41 

IOO 

117 

75 
40 

I03 

48 

176 

22 
I  2 
76 

/y 

23 
26 

3° 

96 

86 
96 

5 

122 

94 
M7 
4i 
56 
43 
I05 

122 

77 
4i 
1  1  1 

5i 

1  88 

22 
13 

77 

2 
23 

27 
33 

I 

4 
3 

•    • 

3 
i 

4 

•    • 

2 

3 
i 

3 
3 

5 
3 

7 

•    • 

5 
6 

3 

2 

3 
i 

2 

I 

3 
3 

2 

I 
I 

•      • 
•      • 

2 

I 

•     • 
•     • 

»47 

283 

224 

1  88 

'94 
241 
248 
228 
167 

"5 
M5 
1  80 

163 
262 

8? 
402 

77 
232 

221 
242 

65 

86 

253 
167 
18 
271 
182 
89 
56 

27 
18 

18 

58 
72 
57 
34 
20 

148 
287 
227 

1  88 

197 

242 

252 
228 
169 
118 
146 

'83 
1  66 

267 
90 

409 

77 

237 
227 

245 
67 

89 

254 
169 

*9 

274 

185 
9i 
56 
28 

'9 

18 
58 
74 
58 

34 
20 

244 

373 

;•; 

i93 
3'9 
336 

399 
269 

225 
161 

251 
3°5 
243 
308 

2OI 

460 
265 

259 
240 

322 
69 
112 
281 
2O2 

'9 
276 

342 
247 

IT3 

3' 

19 

18 

58 
75 
58 

34 
20 

Johnson's 
E.  A.  Carr's 
Leggett's 
Rousseau's 
McArthur's 
T.  J.  Wood's 
Leggett's 
McArthur's 
J.  E.  Smith's 
Hrooks's 
Herron's 
Johnson's 
Ward's 
A.  J.  Smith's 
Newton's 
Fuller's 
Schur/'s 
Salomon's 
Ross's 
Hovey's 

Fourteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Twentieth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fourth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Eighteenth. 

Fourteenth. 
Twentieth. 
Thirteenth. 
Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Eleventh. 
Seventh,  A.  F. 
Thirteenth. 
Thirteenth. 

Twentieth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 

Thirteenth. 
Second. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 

i  ith  Wisconsin  *  

6 
8 
6 

ifith   XVisi'onsin    . 

4 

2 

5 
5 

2 

I 

8 
3 

I  2 

j.ith  \Visconsm  

2;th  \Visconsin  

sAtli   \Visrnnsin   . 

2  ~tli  \Visfonsin   . 

1 
I 

Williams's 
Veatch's 
L  au  man's 

t2ii    Wisconsin  

I 

3 

'I'lA    \Visconsin  . 

x  it  li  \Visconsin  t  « 

OT 

2 

'5° 
'49 
56 
3 

2 

'57 
156 

57 
3 

Benton's 
Gibbon's 
Willcox's 
Willcox's 

O  J 

7 

7 

i 

\J 

o  / 

•jSth  Wisconsin  • 

o 

•jnth   \\  isronsin   * 

i 

*Reenlisttd  and  served  through  the  war.         tEnlisted  for  nine  months.       ^Enlisted  for  one  hundred  days.        JEnlisted  for  one  year. 

The  3d  Cavalry  was  attached  to  the  Army  of  the  Frontier,  and,  like  many  of  the  Western  cavalry  regiments, 
served  in  Missouri,  Arkansas,  and  in  the  Indian  Territory,  fighting  in  unheard-of  battles,  and  losing  its  men  in 
engagements  which  are  never  mentioned  in  history  and  which  were  never  lettered  on  the  battle-flags  of  the 
Republic.  One  of  the  principal  losses  of  the  3d  Cavalry  occurred  at  Baxter  Springs,  Cherokee  Nation,  October 
6,  1863,  where  one  company  (I)  attached  to  General  Blunt's  headquarters  was  attacked  by  Quant rell's  guerrillas 
and  forced  to  retreat  with  a  loss  of  33  killed  and  14  wounded.  The  quartermaster  was  killed,  and,  of  a  regi 
mental  band  which  accompanied  General  Blunt,  not  a  man  escaped,  the  enemy  giving  no  quarter.* 

The  ist  Cavalry,  also,  lost  17  killed,  38  wounded,  and  8  missing,  in  an  affair  at  L'Anguille  Ferry,  Ark., 
August  3,  1862,  the  Chaplain  of  the  First  being  among  the  killed. 

The  principal  losses  of  the  i2th  Battery  occurred  in  the  heroic  defense  of  Allatoona  Pass,  Lieutenant 
Amsden,  who  commanded  the  battery  in  this  fight,  falling  mortally  wounded.  The  Twelfth  was  the  only  artillery 
present  at  that  memorable  engagement. 

The  8th  Infantry,  or  "  Eagle  Regiment,"  became  widely  known  by  the  live  American  eagle  which  it  carried 

•Report  Adj.-Gen.  Wis.,  1K65,  p.  621. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PIUSON,&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Feb.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
Mar.,  '65 
April,  '65 
April,  '65 

Oct.,  '62 
Dec.,  '63 
Nov.,  '6  1 
July..    '63 

Sept.,  '64 

Nov.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '62 
Feb.,  '63 

April,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Oct.,   '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Mar.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Sept.,  '64 

July,   '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '61 
.Nov.,  '6  1 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
47th  Wisconsin  *  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 

•     • 
•     • 
«     • 

I 

•    • 
*     • 
•     • 

•     • 

3 

i 

•    • 

i 

2 

2 

4 
3 
4 
4 

•    • 
*    • 

3 
4 
i 

2 
2 

4 

5 

2 

39 
16 

54 

43 
16 

9 

8 

31 
56 
6 

21 

87 
29 

'9 
4 

97 
1  86 

275 
J75 

J75 
161 

138 

56 
224 
in 

21 

233 
2O7 

230 
I94 

I79 

39 

16 
54 

44 
16 

9 

8 

3T 
59 

7 

21 

87 
30 

*9 

4 

99 
1  88 

279 
178 
179 

165 
138 
56 

227 

IJ5 

22 

235 
209 

234 
199 

181 

39 
16 

54 

45 
16 

9 

8 

37 

63 
ii 

21 

87 

38 
25 

4 

286 
281 
296 

239 
269 

T77 
171 

83 
274 

J52 

25 

293 

269 

3i8 

254 
246 

Seventeenth. 
McCook's 

Second. 
Fourteenth. 

Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 

Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 

Seventh,  A.  F. 
Sixteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  T. 
Cavalry,  A.  T. 
Cavalry,  A.  C. 

I 

I 

Cavalry. 

2 

4 
4 

4 

6 

4 
4 

Brackett's  Battalion  

Heavy  Artillery. 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  Minn.  f  "Clayton's".  . 
2d    Minn.}  "Hotchkiss's" 

I 
I 

7 

5 

8 
6 

McArthur's 
Davis's 

Infantry. 
ist  Minnesota  i  

IO 

2 

177 

91 
i7 

58 
86 

12 

31 

26 

4i 

35 
3 

56 
59 
79 
51 
58 

187 

93 

i? 

61 

90 

I  2 

33 

27 
47 
37 
3 

58 
60 
84 

55 
65 

Gibbon's 
Baird's 
Asboth's 
J.  E.  Smith's 
McArthur's 
Garrard's 
McArlhur's 

2ci   Minnesota  t  

4th  Minnesota  "j"  

3 
4 

6th  Minnesota  

7th  Minnesota  

2 

I 

6 

2 

8th  Minnesota  

gth  Minnesota  

McArthur's 

McArthur's 

loth  Minnesota  

i  ith  Minnesota  *  

Cavalry. 

2 
I 

5 
4 

7 

E.  A.  Carr's 
Washburn's 
Washburn's 
Washburn's 
Kilpatrick's 

2cl   lowaf  

3d   lowaf  

5th  lowaf  

*Enlisted  for  one  year.       tReenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.       ^Recruited  and  served  through  the  war. 

through  the  war,  perched  conspicuously  on  a  staff  beside  the  colors.  The  principal  losses  of  this  regiment  were  : 
At  Corinth,  14  killed,  74  wounded,*  and  7  missing;  and,  at  Nashville,  7  killed  and  55  wounded.*  It  served, 
also,  at  Vicksburg  (then  in  the  3d  Div.,  i5th  A.  C.),  in  the  Red  River  campaign,  and  in  the  final  operations  of 
the  war  at  Fort  Blakely  and  Mobile.  During  the  latter  campaign  it  was  in  McArthur's  Division,  Sixteenth  Corps. 
The  1 4th  Infantry  was  also  one  of  Wisconsin's  fighting  regiments.  Among  its  casualties  were  :  At  Shiloh, 
16  killed,  74  wounded,*  and  3  missing;  at  Corinth  (McKean's  Division,  A.  of  T.),  27  killed,  50  wounded,*  and 
2  i  missing  ;  and,  at  Vicksburg  —  assault  of  May  22d  —  14  killed,  79  wounded,*  and  4  missing.  It  fought  under 
General  A.  J.  Smith  (i6th  A.  C.)  in  the  Red  River  campaign,  the  Tupelo  Expedition,  and  in  the  closing  battles  of 
the  war  around  Mobile. 

The  24th  Infantry,  or  "  Milwaukee  Regiment,"  was  engaged  in  considerable  hot  work,,  losing  during  its  term 

of  service  i  r  i  killed  and  mortally  wounded  out  of  a  total  enrollment  of  1.077,  or  over  ten  per  cent.     Its  principal 

losses  occurred  :  At  Stone's  River,  19  killed,  57  wounded,*   and  98   missing;  at  Chickamauga  — in  Sheridan's 

-  3  killed,  73  wounded,*  and  29  missing ;  at  Missionary  Ridge,  3  killed  and  26  wounded  ;*  and,  on  the 

*Including  the  mortally  wounded. 


IOWA  REGIMENTS. 


f>  If* 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,   ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

KILLED  AMI  l)m>  or 
REGIMENT. 

J)1K1)  OF  DlMV.ANE, 

A«riDENTH,iN  I'lusoN.&r 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

COWS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 
21 

29 

37 

>5 

10 

3 
3 

Total. 

oncers!  Ba.  Man 

Total. 

Feb.,  '63 
May,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
Nov.,  '63 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '63 

Mav,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
[ime,  '61 
"July,  '6  1 
July,  '6  1 
July,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Dec.,  '61 
Mar.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 

Cavalry  —  Continued. 

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22 

3« 
40 

'5 

10 

3 

3 

i 
i 

2 

3 
i 

•    • 

'• 
4 

•    • 

2 
2 
2 

4 
4 

2 

*     • 
O 

4 

i 
i 

3 

2 

I 
2 
2 
I 
I 
I 

3 

2 

4 

74 

93 
116 

176 

5° 
29 

34 
5 

8 
'59 

122 

2«5 
'3' 
126 
1  60 
170 
230 

134 

166 
260 
205 

138 

260 

2  19 
121 

!3* 

98 

'57 
168 

'35 
208 

21  2 
207 
2I3 

75 
94 
118 
179 

5' 
29 

34 

5 

8 
163 

122 

287 

'33 

128 

164 

174 
232 

'34 
1  68 

268 

•   g 

'39 
261 

222 
123 
132 

100 

'59 
169 

136 

209 

215 
209 

217 

97 

124 

158 

194 

61 

32 
37 

5 

28 
283 
249 
402 
250 
280 

3°5 
276 

386 

235 
259 
348 
328 
203 

38? 

323 
194 

167 
192 

173 
250 

250 
284 

343 
274 

293 

Cavalry,  A.C. 
Seventh. 

Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 

Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Seventh. 
Thirteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 

•7th   Inw;i  .                                                i 

8th  Iowa  

McCook's 
Cavalry 

Steele's 
Tuttle's 
K.  A.  Carr's 

Light  Butteries. 
ist  Iowa*  "Griffith's"  ... 

2d    Iowa*  "Spoor's"  
3d   Iowa*  "Wright's"  ... 

4th  Iowa    "Goode's"  ... 

Infantry. 
i  cf    Tnwnt  .                                        i 

'9 
1  08 

119 
109 
1  08 
144 

'34 
98 

142 

95 
86 

76 
114 

59 
118 

94 
66 

33 
86 

M 

77 
1  08 

69 
119 

63 

70 

20 
1  20 
127 

I!5 
"7 

'52 
141 

102 

154 
101 

9' 
80 

119 
64 
126 

101 

71 

35 

92 

'4 
81 

114 

75 
128 

65 
76 

2(1     Town.*  .                                   i  ~> 

Sweeny's 
Lau  man's 
Osterhaus's 
Quinby's 
Harrow's 
Corse's 
Tattle's 
Steele's 
Quinby's 
Gresham's 
Tuttle's 
McArthur's 
Mower's 
Gresham's 
Gresham's 
Crocker's 
Thayer's 
Andrews's 
Andrews's 
K.  A.  Carr's 
G  rover's 
E.  A.  Carr's 
Grover's 
Steele's 
Steele's 

i  tli  Town*  .                                        (\ 

6th  Iowa*  8 

8th  Iowa*  

nth  Town*  .                                     17 

i  ''th  Iowa*  

i  %th  Iowa*  ; 

lath  I  o  wa*  c 

i  '\\\  Iowa*  8 

1  6th  Iowa*  

i  7th  Town*  .                                      ; 

1  8th  Iowa  

i  oth  Iowa  6 

zoih  Iowa  i 

2  i  st  Iowa  

22(1    I  o  wa  6 

•y  T({   Iowa  6 

^  4  1  h  I  o  wa  o 

2cth  Iowa  2 

26th  Iowa.  6 

*Reenlisteu  and  served  through  the  war.        tThree-months'  regiment ;  fought  at  Wilson's  Creek. 

Atlanta  campaign.  1 1  2  killed  and  wounded.  While  on  the  latter  campaign  the  regiment  was  hotly  engaged  at 
Resaca,  and  at  Adairsville. 

The  2ist,  also,  lost  over  ten  per  cent,  in  killed  and  mortally  wounded,  it  having  carried  1,171  names  on  its 
rolls.  At  Chaplin  Hills  this  regiment  lost  38  killed,  103  wounded,*  and  56  missing;  and,  at  Resaca,  10  killed 
and  43  wounded.* 

The  9th  Wisconsin,  or  "  First  German,"  lost  at  Jenkins's  Ferry  13  killed  and  81  wounded  ;*  the  loth  Wisconsin, 
at  Chaplin  Hills,  37  killed,  109  wounded,*  and  4  missing,  out  of  16  officers  and  360  men  taken  into  action  ;  the 
i2th  Wisconsin,  at  Atlanta  (battle  of  July  2ist  and  22d),  42  killed,  147  wounded,*  and  20  missing;  the  i5th,f  or 
"Scandinavian  Regiment,"  at  Stone's  River,  15  killed  (including  the  Lieutenant-Colonel),  70  wounded,*  and  34 
missing,  and  at  Chickamauga,  13  killed  (including  Colonel  Heg),  53  wounded,*  and  45  missing;  the  aoth,  at 
Prairie  Grove,  50  killed,  154  wounded,*  and  13  missing;  the  22(1,  at  Resaca,  n  killed,  56  wounded,  and  i  miss 
ing  ;  the  29th,  at  Champion's  Hill,  19  killed,  92  wounded,*  and  2  missing,  and,  at  Port  Gibson,  10  killed  and  65 
wounded.  The  i  ith  Wisconsin  Battery  was  also  known  as  Battery  L,  ist  Illinois  Light  Artillery. 

•Including  the  mortally  wounded.        tThe  15th  Wisconsin  had  only  899  men  enrolled  ;  killed  91.  <  >r  10. 1  |»er  cent. 


516 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMBNT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,IN  PlSISON.&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total 

Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Nov.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
June,  '64 
May,  '64 
June,  '64 
June,  '64 
July,  '64 

Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Nov.,  '61 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
April,  '63 
Nov.,  '63 
Sept.,  '64 
Dec.,  '64 
Nov.,  '63 
Nov.,  '63 
Feb.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 

Infantry-  —  Confirmed. 

I 

6 
i 

8 

i 
6 

3 
i 

5 

i 

23 
76 

42 

65 

27 

IOI 

65 
1  1 

44 
64 

2 
2 

58 
19 

24 

82 

43 

73 
28 

107 
68 

12 

49 
65 

2 
2 
64 

J9 

2 

3 
i 

3 
3 

2 

I 
2 

3 
6 

3 

4 

2 
2 

I 

•      • 
•      • 

2 
I 
I 

6 
i 
6 
4 
3 
3 

5 
i 

•   * 
•   * 

i 
i 

2 

I 

I67 

186 
266 

241 
272 
213 

2I5 

244 

185 
232 
146 

311 
*34 
184 

J5 

21 

27 

57 
4 

179 
205 
172 
177 
36 

273 
228 

352 

295 
181 

226 

28 

34 
35 
31 
67 
88 

169 
189 
267 
244 

275 
215 

216 
246 
188 
238 
149 

3'5 

136 

186 
16 

21 

27 

57 
4 

181 
206 

J73 
183 

37 

279 

232 

355 
298 

186 

227 
28 

34 
36 
32 
69 
89 

193 

271 

310 

31? 

3°3 
322 

284 
258 

237 
3°3 
I51 
31? 
200 

205 
16 

2  I 
28 

57 
4 

234 

262 

213 

243 
42 

315 
291 

382 

352 
216 
263 

39 
36 
43 

45 
142 

107 

Mower's 
Grover's 
Salomon's 
Steele's 
C.  R.Woods's 
Mower's 
Salomon's 
Andrews's 
Mower's 
Salomon's 

Sixteenth. 
Nineteenth. 
Seventh. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventh. 

Sixteenth. 
Seventh. 

Seventh. 
Seventh. 
Seventh. 
Sixteenth. 

Thirteenth. 
Seventh. 
Seventh. 
Wilson's  C.  C. 
Seventh. 
Wilson's  C.  C. 
Cavalry  A.  F. 

Ov5U       -LUWcl.    • 

Herron's 
Corse's 
Salomon's 

6 

I 

i 

Cavalry. 

2 

3 
3 
4 

i 

2 

4 
i 

2 
2 
I 

51 
53 
37 
56 
4 
34 

55 
26 

52 
28 

35 
1  1 

2 

6 

12 

71 

18 

53 
56 
40 
60 

5 
36 

59 

27 

54 
30 
36 
1  1 

2 

7 
J3 

73 
18 

E.  A.  Carr's 
Cavalry 
Cavalry 
Cavalry 

i(\     Missouri"}"  . 

4th  Missouri"}"    

6th  Missouri"!"  

Osterhaus's 
Cavalry 
Cavalry 
Upton's 
Cavalry 
Hatch's 
Pleasanton's 

vth  Missouri"!"  

8th  Missouri  

i  oth  Missouri  

i  ith  Missouri  

1  2th  ^Missouri  

1  4th  Missouri.  .    .      ... 

i  ^th  Missouri*    

I 

1 
2 

ifith  TVTissnnri^ 

isl"   IVFissnnri    *>    1VT 

2d    Missouri,  S.  M  

*Enlisted  for  one  hundred  days.       tReenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.       ^Enlisted  to  serve  twenty  months. 

Minnesota. —  The  cavalry  from  this  State  served  in  Dakota  Territory,  where  an  active  war  was  carried  on 
with  the  Sioux  Indians  and  other  hostile  tribes. 

The  2d  Minnesota  Infantry  distinguished  itself  early  in  the  war  by  its  participation  in  the  battle  of  Mill 
Springs,  Ky.,  one  of  the  first  battles,  and  the  first  Union  victory,  in  the  West.  It  took  a  prominent  part  in  this 
engagement,  its  casualties  amounting  to  12  killed  and  33  wounded.*  At  Chickamauga  this  regiment  fought  in 
Vandever's  (3d)  Brigade,  Brannan's  (3d)  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps,  its  losses  on  that  field  aggregating  34 
killed,  107  wounded, f  and  51  missing;  total,  192. 

The  3d  Minnesota  served  mostly  in  Minnesota,  Missouri,  and  on  the  frontier.  The  4th  sustained  its  princi 
pal  losses  at  Vicksburg,  and  at  Allatoona  Pass. 

One  company  (B)  of  the  5th  Minnesota  lost  23  men  killed  in  a  fight  with  Indians  at  Red  Wood,  Minn., 
August  1 8,  1862.  This  regiment  fought  at  Corinth,  Vicksburg,  in  the  Red  River  campaign,  at  Tupelo,  and,  at 
Spanish  Fort,  in  the  Mobile  campaign  of  1865.  It  was  also  prominently  engaged  at  Nashville,  where  it  lost  14 
killed,  92  wounded,|  and  i  missing;  total,  107. 

*Offioial  Records,  Vol.  VII ;  but  the  Army  Register  of  U.  S.  Vols.  states  this  loss  at  10  killed  and  75  wounded, 
tincluding  the  mortally  wounded. 


MISSOURI  REGIMENTS. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED                     KECIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 
WOUHM. 

DIED  OF  DIMEAHE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PKIHON,&( 

Total 
DeatliM. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Offleen 

En.M»-n 

Total. 

<  Mlic-rrs 

Kn.Moi 

Total. 

Mar.,  '62 
May,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
Mar.,  '62 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Jan.,   '63 

June,  '6  1 
Sept.,'6i 
April,  '6  1 

May,  '62 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '62 

Aug.,  '6  1 

Sept.,  '61 
Sept.,  '61 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '61 
Dec.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 

Cavalry  —  Continued. 

7 

57 
34 

21 

'9 
48 

56 

77 
29 
i 
48 
4 
3 

5 
16 
i 

'5 

177 
46 

10 

4 
i 

•    •    • 

16 

3 
i 

i 

4 
6 

M 
85 
8-9 

7 
61 

36 

21 

'9 
50 
60 

80 

3i 
r 

51 
4 

3 
6 

16 

i 

'7 

i8if 

47 

10 

4 
i 

•    •    • 

16 

4 
i 
i 

4 
6 

H 

91 
92 

3 

i 

2 

1 
2 

•     • 

6 
i 
i 

•    • 

i 

•    * 
•    • 

•    • 
•    • 

i 

3 

5 

•   * 

i 

*  • 

i 
4 

•    • 
•    • 
•    • 
•    • 

i 

3 
3 

62 
102 

86 

47 

93 
104 

'52 
'3i 
76 

12 
109 

2 
2 
10 
2 

4 

38 

254 

I  26 

2 

6 

2 

5 
146 

25 

9 

8 

6 
1  1 

52 
94 
MS 

65 
I03 

88 
48 

95 
104 

'58 
132 

77 

12 
I  IO 

2 
2 
IO 

2 

4 
39 

257 
131 

2 

7 

2 

5 
M7 

29 

9 
8 

6 
1  1 

53 
97 
148 

72 
164 
124 
69 
114 
154 

218 

212 
1  08 

*3 

161 
6 

5 
16 

18 

5 
56 

438 
178 

12 
I  I 

3 

5 

163 
33 

10 

9 

IO 

i? 

77 
1  88 

240 

Fourth. 
Fifteenth. 

4 

2 

4th  Missouri  S.  M  

5th  Missouri  S.  M  
6th  Missouri  S.  M  
7th  Missouri  S.  M  
8th  Missouri  S  M  

•     • 

2 

4 
3 

2 

3 

ist  Missouri  Batt'n  S.  M. 
2<1   Missouri  Batt'n  S.  M  . 

Cass  Co.  Home  Guards  . 
Fremont  Body  Guard*  .  . 

I 

•     • 

Missouri  Marine  Brigade  . 
Light  Artillery. 
ist  Missouri  L.  Art'y  .  .  . 
2d    Missouri  L.  Art'y  .  .  . 
Backofs  Battalion  

2 

4 
I 

Light  Batteries. 

—   Missouri  "  Kowalds"  . 
Marine  Brigade  Battery.  . 
Engineers. 
ist  Missouri  "Bissell's".  . 

Infantry. 
ist  Missouri  U.  S.  R.  C.  . 
2d   Missouri  U.S.  R.C.. 
3d    Missouri  U.  S.  R.  C.  . 
4th  Missouri  U.  S.  R.  C.  . 
5th  Missouri  U.  S.  R.  C.  . 

•     * 

I 

•     • 
•     • 

6 
3 

Newton's 
Steele's 

*Zagonyi's  Battalion.       tTwo-thinls  of  this  loss  occurred  at  Wilson's  Creek  while  serving  as  an  infantry  regiment. 

The  6th,  7th,  gth,  and  loth  Regiments  served  on  the  frontier  in  the  Indian  war,  and  afterwards  fought  under 
General  A.  J.  Smith  —  Sixteenth  Corps  —  at  Tupelo,  Nashville,  and  Mobile.  The  loth  Minnesota  lost  at  Nash 
ville  i  7  killed  and  60  wounded.* 

The  8th  Minnesota  served  in  the  Indian  Territory,  after  which  it  was  stationed,  in  1864,  on  the  Nashville  & 
Chattanooga  Railroad,  where  it  had  a  sharp  fight  at  Murfreesboro,  December  7,  1864,  in  which  it  lost  14  killed 
and  75  wounded.* 

Iowa. —  The  3d  Iowa  Cavalry  met  its  severest  loss  at  Pea  Ridge,  the  casualties  in  the  five  companies 
engaged  there  amounting  to  24  killed,  17  wounded,  and  9  missing.  After  the  battle  it  was  found  that  some  of  the 
bodies  had  been  scalped,  supposed  to  have  been  done  by  Indians  who  had  joined  the  Confederate  ranks. 

The  6th  and  7th  Cavalry  served  most  of  their  time  in  the  Indian  Territory,  engaged  in  campaigns  against 
the  hostile  tribes.  Company  F  of  the  7th  Cavalry  had  a  fight  with  a  large  force  of  Indians  near  Julesburg,  and 
was  obliged  to  retreat,  leaving  14  of  their  detachment  dead  on  the  field.  The  bodies  of  these  men  were  horribly 
mutilated  by  the  savages. 

•Including  the  mortally  wounded. 


518 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  or 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  or  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PRISON.  &c 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Nov.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Nov.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '61 
June,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
May,  '61 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Oct.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Aug.,  '64 
Aug.,  '64 
Aug.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 
Sept.,  '64 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

2 
24 
80 

52 
78 

98 

98 

IO2 

4 
107 
62 

75 
68 

57 
40 

51 

I  12 

3 

35 
68 

10 

51 

20 

52 
8 
130 

TO 
I 

6 
1  1 
6  1 

4 

8 

10 

2 

25 
84 

56 

81 

1OI 

104 

112 

4 

"5 

68 

81 
70 

59 
43 

57 
118 

4 

37 

75 

12 

55 

20 

56 
10 

132 

10 
I 
6 
1  1 

65 
4 
8 
10 

I 

3 

2 
I 

2 

2 
2 

•     • 

I 

3 

•    • 

5 
4 
i 

3 

2 

•      • 

3 

i 

•    * 

6 

2 
2 

2 

5 

•    • 

i 

35 

32 

182 

128 
124 
228 
179 
94 

2 
106 
148 
164 
234 

173 

22O 

112 
183 

34 

*39 
291 

280 
228 
408 
229 

234 
64 

5* 

34 
128 

53 
168 

82 
18 
82 

I2O 
96 

*5 

35 
33 
185 
130 

125 
230 

181 
96 

2 
I07 

'51 
164 

239 

177 

221 

"5 

185 
34 

139 

294 

281 
228 
414 
231 
236 
64 
58 
36 
1.28 

53 

i?3 

82 

18 

83 
1  20 

96 
65 

37 
58 
269 
186 
206 

331 

285 

208 
6 

222 
219 

245 
3°9 
236 

264 
[72 

303 
38 
I76 

369 

293 
283 

434 
287 
246 
196 
68 

37 
*34 
64 
238 
86 
26 

93 
1  20 

IOO 

65 

Fifteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Seventeenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 

Fourth. 
Fifteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Sixteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Sixteenth. 

Seventeenth. 

Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifteenth. 
Thirteenth. 
Thirteenth. 

Sixteenth. 
Twenty-third 

Sixteenth. 

I 
4 
4 
3 
3 
6 
10 

Blair's 
Logan's 
Blair's 
Quinby's 
Turtle's 
Steele's 

8 
6 
6 

2 
2 

3 
6 
6 
i 

2 

7 

2 

4 

Newton's 
Steele's 
Veatch's 
Garrard's 
Baird's 
Mower's 
Prentiss's 
Quinby's 

o*7th    T\,TiQ^Mnri"t* 

•7Tth   TVTi^sniin  . 

C.  R.Woods's 
Steele's 
Steele's 
Steele's 
C.  R.  Woods's 
Salomon's 
Ross's 

ontli   AFm^niiri  . 

•?oth   Ali^onri  . 

7ist   Missouri  

^  3(1    Missouri  

4 

2 
2 

^  r\tli    ATi«Mi  i  n  ~*~ 

E.  A.  Carr's 

41  <t     IMTiQCinii  n  ^ 

\/){\      A/Ti^oii  1*1  ^ 

,1  'jf  1     'M'lQQon  n  "^ 

44th  Missouri!  

4 

Ruger's 

A  c  th   ATi^'sonri  * 

1  Ath   \Ti\<;miri\> 

/i  *7tli  IMi^ctniiriS 

48th  Missouri!  

49th  Missouri!  

4 

4 

E.  A.  Carr's 

^oth  Missouri!  .. 

*Reenlisted  and  served  through  the  war.        1  Mounted  Infantry.        ^Enlisted  for  one  year.        §Enlisted  for  six  months. 

The  37th  Iowa,  or  "  Graybeard  Regiment,"  was  a  remarkable  command.  It  was  organized  under  General 
Order  89,  State  of  Iowa,  August  25,  1862,  which  specified  that  the  regiment  should  be  "  composed  of  active  and 
vigorous  men,  over  /he  age  of  45,  and  be  assigned  to  garrison  duty.''  The  average  age  of  the  men  thus  recruited 
was  57  years.  The  rolls  of  the  3/th,  on  which  the  age  of  each  man  is  recorded,  show  that  3  of  the  recruits  were 
over  eighty,  7  were  over  seventy,  and  123  were  over  sixty  years  of  age.  They  enlisted  for  three  years,  and  the 
hardy  old  pioneers  performed  their  allotted  duty  as  well  as  any  regiment  could  have  done.  Had  occasion 
demanded  they  would  undoubtedly  have  gone  into  action  cheerfully  and  acquitted  themselves  honorably. 

Many  of  the  regiments  from  this  State  were  brigaded  by  themselves.  These  Iowa  Brigades  made  brilliant 
records  in  the  field,  and  secured  for  their  State  a  full  share  of  the  laurels  of  the  war.  Prominent  among  these 
was  "Hall's  Iowa  Brigade,"  of  the  Seventeenth  Corps,  composed  of  the  nth,  i3th,  1510,  and  i6th  Regiments. 
These  troops  were  brigaded  thus  in  April,  1862,  under  command  of  Colonel  Crocker  of  the  i3th  Iowa,  and 
served  together  until  mustered  out  in  July,  1865.  Crocker,  having  been  promoted  Brigadier,  was  succeeded 
by  Colonel  Hall  of  the  nth,  who  was  in  turn  succeeded,  in  August,  1864,  by  General  William  W.  Belknap, 
formerly  of  the  151!!.  Colonels  Reid  and  Chambers,  also,  commanded  the  brigade  at  times.  It  fought  in  all  the 


MISSOURI,  KANSAS  AND  TENNESSEE  REGIMENTS. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OlUiAMZED 

KILLED  AND  DIEU  up 
REGIMENT. 

DIED  or  DINKAPK, 

Ai  i  IHENTW.IN  i'UlNON,&< 

TOTAL 
DEATH* 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.Mfii 

Total. 

OfBoers  En.Mcn 

Total. 

Mar.,  '65 
Jan.,   '63 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
May,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 

June,  '6  1 
July,   '6  1 
Aug.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 
Aug.,  '62 
April,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
Nov.,  '63 

July,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '62 
Dec.,  '6  1 

May,  '6  1 
June,  '61 
Aug.,  '6  1 
April,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
Sept.,  '62 
July,  '64 

Mar.,  '62 
July,   '62 
Jan.,   '63 

Infantry  —  Continued. 

2 

1  1 

*5 

14 

7 
3 
4 

5 
23 
68 

62 

45 
81 

55 

52 
61 

51 

'9 
10 

2 

3 

2 

I  2O 

I  2 

94 
26 

10 

'9 

2 
I  I 

27 

'5 

8 

4 
4 
5 
25 
7i 

64 
47 
85 
58 

53 
61 

53 

21 
I  I 

2 

3 

2 

I27 
13 

97 
28 

I  2 
22 

•     • 

I 
2 

•     • 

2 

•  • 
•  • 

3 

5 

i 

2 

3 
i 

2 
2 
2 
2 
I 

I 

•      • 
•     * 

3 

i 

3 

4 

2 

I 

•     • 

3 

•   • 

4 

47 
161 

8 

30 

16 

M 

2 

8 

91 
1  06 

116 
219 
140 
114 
140 

I  10 

114 

77 
98 

23 
18 

1  8 

122 

3 
144 

114 

121 
1  06 

4 

293 
208 

532 

47 
162 

8 

32 
•16 
16 

2 

8 

94 
1  1  1 

"7 

221 

'43 

"5 
142 

I  12 

116 
79 
99 

24 
18 

1  8 

I25 
4 

147 
118 

123 
107 
4 

296 
208 
536 

49 
173 

35 
47 
24 

20 

6 

13 
119 

182 

181 
268 
228 

173 
»95 
H3 
169 

100 
I  10 

26 

21 

2O 

252 

I/ 
244 
146 

'35 
1  29 

4 

356 
224 

546 

Seventh. 

Seventh. 
Sixteenth. 

Seventh. 

Seventeenth. 

Fourth. 
Sixteenth. 
Seventh. 

Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Wilson's  C.  C. 
Wilson's  C.  C. 

i      *^ 

Missouri  Marine  Brigade. 
Henton  Co.  Regiment...        2 
I*i\vrence  Co.  Regiment.;        i 
Stone  Co.  Regiment  ....         i 
Greene  Co.  Regiment  ...         i 

Missouri  Home  Guards.  .        3 
Cavalry. 

Thayer's 

6th  Kansas!  

Thayer's 
Washburn's 

rth  Kansas!  T. 

Blunt's 

Thayer's 

1  4th  Kansas  2 

i  >th  Kansas  2 

1  6th  Kansas  i 

Light  Batteries. 
ist  Kan   "Allen's"  

Blunt's 

2d    Kan.  "Smith's"  

3d    Kan  "Hopkins's".  .  . 

Blunt's 

McArthur's 

Infantry. 

8th  Kansas*  -i 

T.  J.  Wood's 
Garrard's 
Thayer's 
Blunt's 

Cavalry. 
ist  Tennessee  

56 

M 

8 

60 
I  6 
10 

McCook's 
Knipe's 
Johnson's 

2d   Tennessee  2 

?d   Tennessee  2 

'Enlisted  for  one  year.         tEnlisted  for  six  months.         JReenlisttd  and  served  through  the  war.          $  Enlisted  for  one  hundred  days. 

battles  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  in  the  Vicksburg  and  Atlanta  campaigns,  marched  with  Sherman  to  the 
Sea  and  through  the  Carolinas,  and  took  part  in  the  final  grand  review  at  Washington.  The  321!  Illinois  was 
attached  to  this  brigade,  in  November,  1864. 

"  Williamson's  Iowa  Brigade,"  of  the  Fifteenth  Corps,  was  composed  of  the  4th,  gth,  25th,  26th,  3Oth,  and 
3 ist  Regiments,  and  was  a  splendid  command.  It  was  organized  in  December,  1862,  with  General  Thayer  in 
command,  who  was  succeeded  soon  after  the  Vicksburg  campaign  by  Colonel  James  A.  Williamson  of  the  4th 
Iowa.  General  Williamson  having  been  mustered  out  in  February,  1865,  he  was  succeeded  by  Colonel  George 
A.  Stone  of  the  25th,  who  commanded  the  brigade  on  the  campaign  through  the  Carolinas. 

At  Shiloh,  an  Iowa  Brigade  composed  of  the  2d,  yth,  i2th,  and  i4th  Regiments  fought  under  command  of 
General  Tuttle,  then  Colonel  of  the  2(1  Iowa;  and,  in  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  an  Iowa  Brigade — 8th,  1 2th,  and 
35th  Regiments  —  under  command  of  General  Matthies,  was  attached  to  the  Fifteenth  Corps. 

Three  Iowa  regiments  —  the  22d,  24th,  and  28th  —  served  in  Virginia  during  the  Shenandoah  campaign  of 
1864.  They  belonged,  previously,  to  the  Thirteenth  Corps,  but  were  transferred  to  the  Nineteenth  just  before 
that  Corps  embarked  at  New  Orleans  for  Virginia. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OP 

WOUNDS. 

DIED  OP  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PBISON,&C 

Total 
Deaths 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.Men 

Total. 

Feb.,  '63 
July,   '62 
Aug.,  '62 
Aug.,  '62 
June,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 

Oct.,  '63 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Sept.,  '6  1 
Feb.,  '62 
Feb.,  '62 
April,  '62 
May,  '63 

Aug.,  '6  1 
Oct.,  '6  1 

Cavalry  —  Continued. 
4th  Tennessee  • 

I 

I 
2 

24 
68 

33 
8 

37 

24 

28 

3° 

49 
24 

54 
40 

43 

48 

M3 
117 

73 
73 
30 

59 
60 

5° 

75 
5« 

39 

87 

87 

34 
88 

39 

25 
69 

35 

8 

38 
25 
33 

33 

49 
27 

57 
4i 
44 
5° 

'53 
I25 

82 
78 

32 
62 
67 

52 

81 

55 
41 
93 
94 

36 
96 

4i 

4 
I 

9 
i 

T 
I 
2 

3 

2 

4 

•    • 

i 

•    • 

i 
i 

2 

2 

3 

3 
i 

2 
I 

•      • 

I 

3 
4 
i 

3 
i 

•    * 

205 

175 

352 
328 
241 

181 

L9I 

78 

334 
609 

168 

204 

J57 
226 

128 
I23 

91 
92 

I05 
108 

9° 
106 

116 
118 

67 
119 

J45 

85 
58 
48 

209 
I76 
36l 

329 
242 

182 
193 

81 

336 
613 

168 

205 

157 

227 

129 
I25 

93 

95 
108 

109 

92 
107 

116 
119 

70 
123 
146 

88 

59 
48 

234 

245 
396 

337 
280 

207 
226 

114 

385 
640 

225 
246 

2OI 

277 

282 
250 

175 

173 
I4O 

171 

J59 
J59 

197 

i74 
in 

216 

240 

124 

155 

89 

Knipe's 
Gillem's 
Knipe's 

Wilson's  C.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Wilson's  C.  C. 

i 

Cavalry,  A.  O. 
Wilson's  C.  C. 
Wilson's  C.  C. 

Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 
Twenty-third. 

Third. 
Third. 

Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Cavalry,  A.  C. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 
Cavalry,  A.  P. 

Thirteenth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 

cth  Tennessee  

(jtfi  Tennessee  

8th  Tennessee  

I 
I 

5 
3 

Gillem's 
Hatch's 
Hatch's 

loth  Tennessee  

1  2th  Tennessee  

Mounted  Infantry. 
2d   Tennessee  *  •  

Infantry. 
ist  Tennessee  

Negley's 
Negley's 
Hascall's 
Cox's 
Hascall's 
Cox's 

Birney's 
Birney's 

Torbert's 
Torbert's 

2d   Tennessee  

3 

3 
i 
i 

2 
10 

8 

9 

5 

2 

3 

7 

2 

6 

5 

2 

6 

7 

2 

8 

2 

6th  Tennessee  

Sharpshooters. 
ist  United  Statesf  

2<i   United  Statest  

Cavalry. 
ist  United  States  

3d   United  States  

4th  United  States  

Garrard's 
Torbert's 
Buford's 

5th  United  States  

6th  United  States  

Artillery. 
ist  United  States  

2d   United  States  

3d   United  States  

4th  United  States  

5th  United  States  

Infantry. 
ist  United  States  

E.  A.  Carr's 
Ayres's 
Ayres's 

2d   United  States  

3d   United  States  

*Enlisted  for  one  year. 

The  heroic  part  taken  by  Iowa  in  the  war  may  be  b 
Regiment.             Battle.                       K.         W.        M.    Total. 
2d    Iowa         Fort  Donelson            33         164         .  .          197 
3d    Iowa         Shiloh                           23         I34         3O         ^7 
5th  Iowa         luka                              37         I7g           T         217 
6th  Iowa         Shiloh                           52           94         37         183 
7th  Iowa         Belmont                       51         127         49         227 
gth  Iowa         Pea  Ridge                   38         176           4         218 
roth  Iowa         Champion's  Hill        36         131                     167 
nth  Iowa         Shiloh                           33         Z6o           i         194 

tBerdan's  Sharpshooters. 

etter  appreciated  by  a  study  of  the  following  figures  : 

Regiment.             Battle.                        K.         W.        M.    Total. 
i6th  Iowa         Shiloh                            17         101         13         131 
igth  Iowa         Prairie  Grove             45         145           3         193 
22d    Iowa         Vicksburg                    27         118         19         164 
23d    Iowa         Big  Black                    13           88         .  .         101 
24th  Iowa         Champion's  Hill        35         120         34         189 
26th  Iowa         Arkansas  Post            18           99         ..          117 
32d    Iowa         Pleasant  Hill              35         117         56         208 
3gth  Iowa         Allatoona                     40           52         78         170 

There  were  only  three  missing  numbers  in  the  Iowa  line.     The  4 ist  was  a  battalion  which  was  transferred  to 
the  7th  Iowa  Cavalry.     The  42d  and  43d  Regiments  failed  to  complete  their  organizations. 

-The  losses  of  the  Missouri  regiments  were  severe  in  proportion  to  their  numerical  strength. 
The  regiments  were  small  and  received  but  few  recruits.  It  could  not  have  well  been  otherwise.  Throughout 
the  war  the  State  was  one  vast  battle-ground,  and  was  continually  overrun  with  contending  armies.  In  addition 


REGULAR  AND  COLORED  REGIMENTS. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


OlUiAMZKI) 

REGIMENT. 

KM  i  MI  AMI  1>IEI>  or 

Wotnrm. 

I'll  ii  ..r  l)l*KAf)E, 
ACY1I>ENTN,IN  1  '1:1-.  .s   ,v  , 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION. 

CORPS. 

OAoen 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

I'ol  il 

Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
Oct.,  '64 

Aug.,  '63 

May,  '63 
June,  '63 
July,   '63 
Aug.,  '63 
Aug.,  '63! 
Sept.,  '63 
Sept.,  '63 
Nov.,  '63 
July,   '63 
Nov.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63J 
Dec.,  '63 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
4th  United  States  

• 

2 
2 

2 
2 

58 
18 

29 

5° 

15 

60 
20 

31 

52 
16 

I 
2 
I 

3 

4 

2 

3 

2 

3 

7 

2 

I 
2 
2 

6 

2 

I 
I 
I 

4 

i 
1  1 
i 

2 

5 

i 

•   * 
2 

*      • 
•      • 

I 
I 

3 

6l 

35 
43 
56 

47 
1  8 

49 
86 
190 

121 
206 
228 
179 
100 

246 

124 

1  60 

366 

J5' 
697 

IJ3 

'35 
i  *6 

1  66 
132 

3°  7 
132 

266 
242 
265 
242 
144 

I  12 

62 

37 
44 
59 

5i 
20 

52 
88 

'93 
128 

208 
229 

iSi 
102 
252 
126 

161 

367 
*52 

701 

114 
146 
187 
168 

J37 

308 

132 
268 
242 
265 

243 
145 
n5 

122 

57 

75 
1  1  1 

67 
20 

M8 
213 

3'9 
1  86 

374 

3<>3 
280 

203 
470 
184 

1  80 
404 
187 

829 

185 

»73 
292 

249 

224 

393 

25  i 

3'5 

284 

355 

217 
'45 

Ayres's 

Fifth. 

Fifth. 
Fifth. 

Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifth. 
Fifteenth. 
Fifth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fifth. 
Fourteenth. 
Fourteenth. 

Eighteenth. 
Cavalry,  A.  O. 

Eighteenth. 

Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 
Tenth. 
Provisional. 
Provisional. 
Ninth. 
Eighteenth. 

*/ 

6th  United  States  
7th  United  States  

Ayres's 
Ayres's 

8th  United  States  

3 

8 

8 

3 
8 

3 
7 
9 
9 
3 

2 

4 

83 
117 

118 

55 
'58 

«3« 

92 

92 

209 

55 

'7 

33 

35 

124 

6? 
24 

102 

77 

79 

84 

^5 
46 

38 
86 

47 
70 

28 

86 

I25 
126 

58 
1  66 

'34 
99 

101 

218 
58 

'9 
37 

35 

128* 

7i 

27 

105 
81 

87 

85 
119 

47 
42t 
9°t 
5° 
72 
3° 

Ayres's 
Ayres's 
Ayres's 
Blair's 
Ayres's 
Rousseau's 
Rousseau's 
Ayres's 
Rousseau's 
Rousseau's 

Paine's 

nth  United  States  
1  2th  United  States  

1  4th  United  States  

1  5th  United  States  

i  yth  United  States  

i8th  United  States  

1  9th  United  States  

Cavalry. 
2d   U.  S.  Colored  

3d   U.  S.  Colored  

5th  U.  S.  Colored  

Burbridge's 

Heavy  Artillery. 
5th  U.  S.  Colored  

4 

4 
3 
3 
4 
8 
i 

4 
i 

4 
4 
3 

2 
2 

Infantry. 

Paine's 

2d   U  S  Colored  

4th  U.  S.  Colored  .      . 
5th  U  S  Colored  

Paine's 
Paine's 
Paine's 
Hawley's 
Hawley's 
Hawley's 
Steedman's 
Steedman's 
Ferrero's 
Hinks's 
}Edw.  Hatch's 

6th  U   S  Colored  

7th  U  S  Colored  

8th  U  S  Colored  

9th  U  S  Colored  

1  2th  U  S  Colored  ..... 

1  3th  U  S  Colored  

1  9th  U  S  Colored  

22d   U  S  Colored  

26th  U   S   Colored  

•Loss  occurred  at  Milliken's  Bend.  tLoss  occurred  at  Nashville.  J"  Coast  Division." 

to  the  troops  furnished  the  Union  Army,  the  State  was  obliged  to  raise  regiments  to  protect  its  own  territory  from 
the  partisan  bands  which  continually  invaded  it  long  after  the  main  armies  of  the  Confederacy  had  abandoned 
the  field. 

With  this  purpose  in  view  the  regiments  known  as  the  Missouri  State  Militia  were  organized.  These  troops 
were  mostly  mounted  men,  and  were  enlisted  "  to  serve  during  the  war,  in  Missouri"  They  were  efficient, 
reliable  commands,  and  the  frequent  engagements  in  which  they  participated  is  evidenced  by  the  large  number  of 
their  men  who  were  killed  in  action. 

In  addition  to  the  State  Militia,  some  regiments  were  organized  which  were  designated  the  United  States 
Reserve  Corps,  and  were  enlisted  for  three  months*  after  which  they  were  rei'-nlisted  "  to  serve  during  the  war,  in 
Missouri." 

The  State  furnished  109,1 1 1  men,  exclusive  of  a  large  force  of  militia  which  was  in  active  service  during  most 
of  the  period  of  the  war,  and  whose  pay  and  expenses  were  borne  by  the  State.  In  view  of  the  terrible  disad 
vantages  under  which  it  was  compelled  to  labor,  Missouri  made  a  loyal  and  gallant  record,  —  one  which  will 
compare  favorably  with  her  sister  States,  and  which  entitles  her  to  a  place  of  honor  in  the  history  of  the  war. 


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LIST  OF  REGIMENTS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES,  ETC.— CONTINUED. 


ORGANIZED 

REGIMENT. 

KILLED  AND  DIED  OF 
WOUNDS. 

DIED  OF  DISEASE, 
ACCIDENTS,  IN  PUISON.&C 

Total 
Deaths. 

DIVISION.                    COKPS. 

Officers 

En.  Men 

Total. 

Officers  En.  Men 

Total. 

Nov.,  '63 
Dec.,  '63 
April,  '64 
Mar.,  '64 
April,  '64 
Mar.,  '64 
June,  '63 
Oct.,  '63 
Jan.,  '64 
Mar.,  '64 
Mar.,  '64 
May,  '63 
May,  '63 
Aug.,  '63 
June,  '63 
Jan.,  '64 
Sept.,  '62 
Dec.,  '62 
Aug.,  '63 

Infantry  —  Continued. 
23d   U   S   Colored  

4 
3 

3 
3 

2 

4 

82 

45 
43 

43 

48 

35 
49 

49 

42 

38 
48 

3° 
59 

21 

37 

86 

47 
46 

46 

51 
37 
53 
49 
43 
38 
5[ 

31 
62* 

25 
38 

I 
I 

2 
I 

•      * 

I 

I 

2 

3 

•    * 

3 
i 

2 
2 
6 
I 
I 

^5 
164 

188 
177 
123 

"3 

'51 
169 

192 

239 
188 

398 
464 
647 
316 

749 
*73 
165 

21  I 

166  • 

I65 

1  88 
179 
124 

"3 

T52 
170 

194 
242 
188 
401 

465 
649 

3'« 

755 
J74 
1  66 

211 

252 
21  2 

2  34 

225 

175 

15° 

205 

2  19 

237 
280 

239 
432 

527 
674 

356 

755 
220 

354 

245 

Ferrero's 
Ferrero's 
Ferrero's 
Ferrero's 
Ferrero's 
Edw.  Hatch's 
Edw.  Hatch's 
Paine's 
Paine's 
Ferrero's 
Ferrero's 
Hawkins's 

Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 

Eighteenth. 
Eighteenth. 
Ninth. 
Ninth. 

Seventh. 
Sixteenth. 

Nineteenth. 
Seventh. 
Seventh. 

a8th  U   S   Colored  

29th  U.  S.  Colored  .... 
30th  U  S   Colored  

3ist  U  S   Colored  

3->d   U  S  Colored  

35th  U  S  Colored  

36th  U  S  Colored  

38th  U  S  Colored  

i 

39th  U  S   Colored  

4"?d   U  S   Colored  

3 
i 

3 
4 

i 

47th  U  S   Colored  

Aoth  U   S   Colored 

56th  U  S   Colored     .  . 

6ist  U  S  Colored  

65th  U  S  Colored  

73d  U.  S.  Colored  f  4 
79th  U.  S.  Colored  \  .  .  .  .        5 
83d   U.  S.  Colored  §  2 

! 

42 

183 

32 

46 
188 
34 

Augur's 
Thayer's 
Thayer's 

*Loss  occurred  at  Milliken's  Bend.        t First  Louisiana  Native  Guard.         JFirst  Kansas  Colored.        §Second  Kansas  Colored. 

The  ist  Missouri  Light  Artillery  was  originally  an  infantry  regiment  —  Colonel  Frank  P,  Blair's  —  which 
enlisted  for  three  months  and  fought  at  Camp  Jackson,  Boonville,  and  Wilson's  Creek.  In  the  latter  engagement 
it  lost  76  killed,  208  wounded,*  and  n  missing;  total,  295.  But  few  regiments  in  the  war  sustained  a  heavier 
loss  in  any  one  battle.  After  its  three  months'  enlistment  had  expired  it  returned  to  St.  Louis,  where  it  reorgan 
ized  as  a  light  artillery  regiment,  and  enlisted  for  three  years. 

The  County  Regiments  —  Benton,  Lawrence,  Stone,  Greene,  Cole,  and  Ozark  Counties  —  enlisted  for  three 
months  only ;  but  it  was  three  months  of  active  service,  and  included  some  hard  fighting. 

The  7th  Missouri  Infantry  won  special  distinction  in  the  siege  of  Vicksburg  by  its  gallantry  in  the  desperate 
assault  of  May  22d,  planting  its  colors  on  the  enemy's  works  and  losing  six  color-bearers  killed  in  quick  succession. 

The  39th  Missouri  lost  2  officers  and  120  men  killed  in  a  massacre  at  Centralia,  Mo.,  September  27,  1864. 
Major  Johnson  of  the  39th,  with  a  detachment  of  147  men  from  his  regiment,  attacked  a  large  force  of  guerrillas 
under  the  command  of  the  Confederate  partisan,  Anderson.  Johnson  and  his  men  were  surrounded  after  the 
first  volley,  and,  no  quarter  being  shown,  but  few  escaped  alive.  Major  Johnson  was  among  the  killed. 

The  designation  of  the  9th  Missouri  Infantry,  which  was  organized  in  St.  Louis,  was  changed  to  the  59th  Illinois, 
as  most  of  the  men  belonged  in  that  State ;  and,  for  a  similar  reason,  the  i3th  Missouri  became  the  22d  Ohio. 

Kansas. —  In  addition  to  the  regiments  mentioned  in  the  above  list,  Kansas  organized  three  others,  which 
were  composed  of  Indians,  and  were  designated  the  Kansas  Indian  Home-Guard.  These  regiments  were  organ 
ized  during  the  spring  and  summer  of  1862,  and  served  until  the  war  had  ended.  They  fought  in  the  numerous 
battles  in  the  Indian  Territory,  and  were  also  engaged  in  some  of  the  battles  in  Arkansas  and  Missouri, —  at 
Prairie  Grove,  and  at  Newtonia.  These  regiments  were  recruited  mostly  from  the  Creeks  and  Cherokees. 

The  ist  Kansas  lost  at  Wilson's  Creek  77  killed,  187  wounded,*  and  20  missing;  total,  284. 

The  principal  losses  of  the  8th  Kansas  were  :  At  Chickamauga,  30  killed,  165  wounded,*  and  25  missing;  at 
Missionary  Ridge,  3  killed  and  24  wounded  ;*  and  at  Nashville,  8  killed  and  32  wounded.*  At  Chickamauga  the 
regiment  was  in  Davis's  Division  of  McCook's  (2Oth)  Corps,  but  shortly  after  that  battle  it  was  assigned  to 
Thos.  J.  Wood's  Division  of  the  Fourth  Corps. 

The  number  of  troops  furnished  by  Kansas  was  largely  in  excess  of  its  quota,  and  was  equal  to  72  per  cent, 
of  its  military  population  (white  males  from  1 8  to  45  years  of  age),  as  enumerated  in  the  census  of  1860. 

"•including  the  mortally  wounded. 


RKGULAR  AND  COLORED  RKGIMKNTS.  523 

Tennessee. —  Although  this  State  joined  the  Southern  Confederacy,  it  furnished  thirty  regiments  to  the  Union 
Army,  organized  from  refugees  and  volunteers  who  enlisted  without  the  inducement  of  bounty,  many  of  whom 
had  to  nm  the  gauntlet  of  Confederate  videttes,  or  avoid  them  by  crossing  the  cold  and  desolate  peaks  of  the 
Cumberland. 

The  total  number  of  Union  soldiers  from  Tennessee  was  31,092,  not  including  blacks.  Averaged  on  the 
basis  of  a  three  years'  enlistment,  they  were  equal  to  26,394  men.  The  regiments  were  small,  and  were  main 
tained  with  difficulty  at  an  effective  strength. 

In  addition  to  these  31,092  enlistments,  20,133  colored  soldiers  were  recruited  in  this  State.  Of  the  31,092 
white  troops.  6,777  l°st  their  lives  while  in  the  service.  A  part,  only,  of  the  Tennessee  Union  regiments  are 
given  in  the  above  list,  the  ones  selected  being  those  which  were  most  prominent  by  reason  of  their  losses  in 
action  or  otherwise. 

Of  the  deaths  from  disease  in  the  2(1  Tennessee  Infantry,  382  occurred  in  Confederate  prisons.  The  7th 
Cavalry  lost  193  from  the  same  cause.  The  2d  Cavalry  lost  260  men  killed  in  the  explosion  of  the  steamer 
Sultana,  near  Memphis. 

Regular  Army — The  Regular  Army,  prior  to  the  war,  contained  nineteen  regiments  in  all:  five  cavalry 
regiments  (two  of  dragoons,  two  of  cavalry,  and  one  of  mounted  rifles),  four  artillery,  and  ten  infantry.  By 
authority  of  the  President's  proclamation  of  May  3,  1861  — approved  by  Congress  July  2ist  —  an  addition  was 
made  of  one  cavalry,  one  artillery,  and  nine  infantry  regiments. 

It  was  further  ordered  that  the  nine  new  infantry  regiments  should  contain  two,  but  not  more  than  three, 
battalions  of  eight  companies  each.  This  contemplated  strength,  however,  was  not  attained.  Some  of  them 
succeeded  in  organizing  two  battalions,  but  all  the  infantry  regiments  are  now  ten-company  commands. 

The  old  regiments  were  small  (maximum  of  ten  companies),  and  all  the  regiments  became  so  depleted  by 
losses  and  lack  of  recruits,  that,  in  1863,  they  only  numbered  from  two  to  eight  companies  each.  Any  comparison 
of  their  losses  with  those  of  volunteer  commands  should  be  accompanied  by  a  statement  of  effective  strength. 

At  Stone's  River,  the  "Regular  Brigade,"  of  Rousseau's  Division,  Fourteenth  Corps,  made  a  brilliant  record, 
and  earned  a  reputation  as  a  most  efficient  and  reliable  command.  The  brigade  was  composed  of  the  isth,  i6th, 
1 8th,  and  igth  Infantry,  and  Battery  H  of  the  5th.  Artillery.  The  i8th  Infantry  had  two  battalions  ;  the  others, 
one  each.  The  brigade  took  1,566  officers  and  men  into  action,  and  sustained  a  loss  of  94  killed,  489  wounded,* 
and  47  missing  ;  total,  630.  The  i6th  Infantry  lost  166  out  of  308  engaged,  or  over  53  per  cent. 

At  Gettysburg  the  two  Regular  brigades  of  Ayres's  Division  included  ten  regiments,  but  they  contained,  in  all, 
only  fifty-seven  small  companies.  Out  of  1,985  present  in  action,  they  lost  829  in  killed,  wounded  and  missing  ; 
and,  in  Burbank's  Brigade,  out  of  80  officers  present,  40  were  killed  or  wounded. 

Heavy  losses  were  also  sustained  at  Gaines's  Mill  by  the  2d,  i2th,  and  i4th  Infantry ;  at  Manassas,  by  the 
1 4th  ;  and  at  Spotsylvania,  by  the  i  ith. 

The  9th  Infantry  was  stationed  on  the  Pacific  Coast  during  the  entire  war.  The  5th  Infantry  served  in  New 
Mexico.  A  part  of  the  8th  Infantry  was  present  at  Cedar  Mountain,  where  it  fought  in  Augur's  Division,  Banks's 
Corps  ;  and  some  of  the  companies  served  as  a  provost-guard  at  General  McClellan's  Headquarters.  The 
principal  loss  of  the  3d  Cavalry  occurred  at  Valverde,  N.  M.,  and  at  Cherokee  Station,  Ala. 

Colored  Troops. — There  were  166  regiments  of  colored  troops  organized  during  the  war.  Their  total  losses 
in  battle  amounted  to  2,751  men  killed  or  mortally  wounded,  not  including  the  deaths  among  the  officers,  who 
were  whites. 

The  colored  regiments  in  the  above  list  were  the  ones  which  sustained  the  heaviest  losses  in  battle,  and 
together  with  the  54th  Massachusetts,  55th  Massachusetts,  and  291)1  Connecticut,  represent  over  three-fourths  of 
the  entire  loss  in  action  of  this  class  of  troops. 

The  regiments  of  Ferrero's  Division  sustained  almost  all  their  losses  at  the  Mine  Explosion  and  in  the  trenches 
before  Petersburg.  This  division  was  also  engaged  at  the  Boydton  Road,  but  with  slight  loss.  The  casualties  in 
Paine's  (formerly  Hinks's)  Division  occurred  in  the  first  assault  on  Petersburg,  June  15,  1864,  at  Chaffin's  Farm, 
and  at  the  Darbytown  Road  (Fair  Oaks,  1864).  The  principal  loss  in  Hawley's  Division  occurred  at  Deep 
Bottom,  and  Chaffin's  Farm  (Fort  Gilmer). 

•Including  the  mortally  wounded. 


524 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAK. 


The  most  of  those  killed  in  the  73d  fell  in  the  assault  on  Port  Hudson  ;  and  the  killed  in  the  2d  Infantry, 
at  Natural  Bridge,  Va.  Eleven  officers  of  the  latter  regiment,  including  the  Colonel  and  Chaplain,  died  of 
disease  at  Key  West,  Fla.,  in  the  summer  of  1864. 

There  is  no  satisfactory  explanation  for  the  surprising  mortality  in  the  5th  Colored  Heavy  Artillery,  and  65th 
Colored  Infantry.  The  former  regiment  was  recruited  in  Louisiana  and  Mississippi,  and  was  stationed  along  the 
Mississippi  river  at  various  points  between  Memphis  and  Port  Hudson.  The  most  of  the  deaths  were  caused  by 
fevers;  and  at  one  time  the  regiment  suffered  from  small  pox.  It  was  organized  at  Vicksburg  in  August,  1863, 
and  was  mustered  out  May  20,  1866.  Its  original  designation  was  the  gth  Louisiana  Vols ,  A.  D. 

The  65th  Colored  Infantry  was  also  stationed  along  the  Mississippi.  It  was  recruited  in  Missouri,  and 
organized  at  Benton  Barracks,  Mo.,  in  December,  1863,  as  the  2nd  Missouri  Vols.,  A.  D.  Over  100  men  died  at 
the  Barracks  before  the  regiment  took  the  field,  the  men  having  been  enlisted  by  the  Provost- Marshals  through 
out  the  State  and  forwarded  to  this  Post  during  an  inclement  seas'on, —  thinly  clad,  and  many  of  them  hatless, 
shoeless,  and  without  food.  Many  suffered  amputation  of  frozen  feet  or  hands,  and  the  diseases  engendered  by 
this  exposure  resulted  in  a  terrible  and  unprecedented  mortality. 

Miscellaneous  Regiments. — In  addition  to  the  lists  in  the  preceding  pages,  there  were  several  regiments 
from  the  Territories  and  Southern  States.  The  deaths  in  these  commands  are  embraced  in  the  losses  credited 
their  respective  States  and  Territories,  in  the  table  given  in  the  succeeding  chapter.  Some  of  these  regiments 
suffered  severely  in  action;  notably,  the  ist  Colorado,  which  lost  32  killed  and  76  wounded  at  Apache  Canon; 
the  ist  Louisiana  (white),  which  lost  123  killed  and  wounded  at  Port  Hudson;  and  the  ist  Arkansas  Cavalry, 
which  lost  over  100  men  killed  in  the  guerrilla  fighting  on  the  Arkansas  Frontier. 

The  remarkably  large  number  of  deaths  from  disease  in  some  regiments  includes  the  deaths  in  Confederate 
prisons,  in  which  case  the  latter  should  be  deducted  in  order  to  prevent  an  erroneous  impression  regarding  the 
death  rate  of  the  regiment. 

The  following  named  regiments  sustained  unusually  heavy  losses  by  deaths  in  Confederate  prisons : 


Died  in 
REGIMENT.  Prison. 

ist  Maine  Cavalry 145 

ist  Vermont  Cavalry 149 

ist  Vermont  Heavy  Artillery 167 

ist  Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery 102 

2d    Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery 173 

27th  Massachusetts  Infantry 116 

39th  Massachusetts  Infantry 102 

58th  Massachusetts  Infantry 89 

I4th  Connecticut  Infantry   78 

i6th  Connecticut  Infantry   154 

2d    New  York  Cavalry 91 

5th  New  York  Cavalry 99 

I2th  New  York  Cavalry 80 

22d    New  York  Cavalry 83 

4th  New  York  Heavy  Artillery 97 

7th  New  York  Heavy  Artillery 204 

8th  New  York  Heavy  Artillery 102 

i4th  New  York  Heavy  Artillery 84 

3gth  New  York  Infantry 94 

52d    New  York  Infantry 103 

8sth  New  York  Infantry 222 

mth  New  York  Infantry 74 

I40th  New  York  Infantry 

I4&th  New  York  Infantry gr 

I54th  New  York  Infantry 90 

4th  Pennsylvania  Cavalry 120 

5th  Pennsylvania  Cavalry 76 

I3th  Pennsylvania  Cavalry 122 

I4th  Pennsylvania  Cavalry 148 

i8th  Pennsylvania  Cavalry 130 


Died  in 
REGIMENT.  Prison. 

2d    Pennsylvania  Heavy  Artillery ...  92 

7th  Pennsylvania  Reserves 73 

45th  Pennsylvania  Infantry 98 

loist  Pennsylvania  Infantry 158 

io3d    Pennsylvania  Infantry 181 

I45th  Pennsylvania  Infantry 98 

igoth  Pennsylvania  Infantry '.  126 

igist  Pennsylvania  Infantry 125 

gth  Maryland  Infantry 114 

45th  Ohio  Infantry 134 

8gth  Ohio  Infantry 108 

looth  Ohio  Infantry 84 

5th  Indiana  Cavalry 68 

ist  Kentucky  Cavalry 115 

nth  Kentucky  Cavalry 141 

I2th  Kentucky  Cavalry 64 

4th  Kentucky  Mounted  Infantry 88 

i6th  Illinois  Cavalry 157 

5th  Michigan  Cavalry 76 

6th  Michigan  Cavalry 98 

7th  Michigan  Cavalry 83 

8th  Michigan  Cavalry 91 

22d    Michigan  Infantry 122 

3&th  Wisconsin  Infantry 102 

gth  Minnesota  Infantry 122 

3d    Tennessee  Cavalry 70 

6th  Tennessee  Cavalry 78 

7th  Tennessee  Cavalry   193 

2d    Tennessee  Infantry 382 

I2th  United  States  Infantry 77 


CHAPTER  XIII. 


AGGREGATE  OF  DEATHS  IN  THE  UNION  ARMIES  BY  STATES- -TOTAL  ENLIST 
MENT  BY  STATES  — PERCENTAGES  OP  MILITARY  POPULATION  FURNISHED, 
AND  PERCENTAGES  OF  LOSS  — STRENGTH  OF  THE  ARMY  AT  VARIOUS 
DATES  — CASUALTIES  IN  THE  NAVY. 

'HPHE  statistics  in  this  chapter,  with  the  exception  of  the  percentages,  are  compiled  largely 
from  the  recent  official  publications  of  the  War  Department.     They  show  not  only  the 
aggregate  mortuary  loss  of  the  Union  Armies  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  but  show  the 
losses  sustained  by  each  State,  together  with  the  various  causes  of  death. 

The  tables  are  based  upon  the  statistics  prepared  in  the  War  Department  at  Washington, 
in  1885,  by  order  of  General  Richard  C.  Drum,  Adjutant -General  United  States  Army,  the 
work  being  done  under  the  supervision  of  Mr.  Joseph  W.  Kirkley,  the  statistician  of  that 
department.  This  work  of  the  War  Department  was  one  of  immense  magnitude  ;  but  it  was 
done  conscientiously  and  intelligently,  and  the  extracts  given  here  may  be  considered  not 
only  as  official,  but  final. 

The  period  during  \vhich  these  deaths  occurred  embraces,  in  the  Regular  Army,  the  time 
between.  April  15,  1801,  and  August  1,  1805 ;  but,  in  the  volunteers,  it  covers  the  time  from 
the  date  of  muster-in  to  the  date  of  final  muster-out  of  each  organization.  Soldiers  who  died 
after  they  had  been  discharged  or  mustered  out  are  not  counted,  except  those  who  were  pris 
oners  of  war  at  the  time  of  their  death.  Most  of  the  volunteer  regiments  were  mustered  out 
in  the  summer  of  1505  ;  some  remained  in  service  until  January,  1800,  and  a  few  were  not 
discharged  until  1807. 

In  presenting  here  these  important  statistics,  the  figures  have  been  arranged  in  tables  so 
as  to  bring  out  clearly  their  important  features  ;  and,  to  these  have  been  added  various 
columns  of  percentages  which  may  be  of  interest  in  connection  with  the  matter. 

In  Table  A,  Column  IV,  the  official  figures  for  the  enlistment,  reduced  to  a  three  years' 
standard,  are  used  as  a  basis  in  calculating  the  percentage  of  loss  in  the  various  States.  As 
has  already  been  explained,  the  terms  of  enlistment  varied  in  length,  and,  although  the  bulk 
of  the  army  was  enlisted  for  a  three  years'  term  of  service,  many  of  the  regiments  were 
mustered  in  to  serve  for  three  months,  six  months,  nine  months,  one  year,  or  two  years.  In 
some  of  the  calls  for  troops  made  by  the  President  these  different  terms  were,  at  one  time 
or  another,  sj>ecified  in  the  proclamation.  Of  the  2,778, 304  separate  enlistments,  there  were 
2,030,700  who  enlisted  for  three  years,  including  the  veteran  reenlistments  ;  301,752  who 
enlisted  for  one  year ;  44,400  for  two  years;  1,042  for  four  years  ;  87,588  for  nine  months; 
108,410  for  three  months;  20,439  for  six  months;  85,507  for  one  hundred  days;  2,045  for 
sixty  days ;  373  for  eight  months  ;  and  42  for  four  months.  There  were  also  several  New 
York  militia  regiments  which  served  for  thirty  days  in  various  emergencies,  and  bodies  of 
"minute  men"  from  other  States,  of  which  no  account  was  made.  Reduced  to  a  basis  of 
a  three  years'  term,  these  various  enlistments  were  equal  to  2,320,108  men  recruited  for 
three  years'  service. 

(525) 


526 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TABLE  A. 

TOTAL  DEATHS  AND  PERCENTAGES  BY  STATES. 


STATES. 

Killed  or  mor 
tally  wound 
ed. 

Deaths  from  al 
other  causes 

TOTAL  DEATHS. 

Troops   furnished  ; 
three  years  stand 
ard.* 

Per  cent, 
of 
killed. 

Per  cent, 
of  other 
deaths. 

Per  cent, 
of  total 
deaths. 

I. 

3,^4 

i,9°3 
1,809 

6,115 
460 

i,947 

19,085 

2,578 
15,265 

383 
909 

1,247 
11,588 
2,478 

7,243 
9,894 

3,3!  7 
4,448 

3,802 
626 
3,540 
737 
4i 

153 

1  08 

73 

II. 

6,214 

2,979 

3,415 

7,827 

86  1 

3407 

27,449 

3,J76 
17,918 

49Y 

2,°73 
2,770 

23,887 
8,296 
19,429 
24,940 
10,568 
10,305 
8,499 

J,958 
9,46i 
J,893 

249 
1  70 

465 
204 

III. 

9,39s 
4,882 

5,224 
13,942 
1,321 

5,354 
46,534 
5,754 
33,l83 
882 
2,982 

4,oi7 
35,475 
10,774 
26,672 

34,834 
13,885 

!4,753 
12,301 

2,584 
13,001 

2,630 
290 

323 

573 

277 

IV. 

49,635 
29,150 

26,355 
98,803 

13,688 

45,l8i 
334,784 
44,39s 

214,427 
7,888 

24,954 
27,5l8 
225,669 

43,55° 
^o,1?? 
210,043 

78,035 
76,218 

73,865 
18,554 
68,1  18 

16,624 

6,546 
3,697 
'5,725 
4,432 

V. 

6.4 
6-5 

6.8 

6.2 

3-3 
4-3 

5-7 
5-8 

7-1 

4.8 

3-6 
4-5 

5-1 

5-7 
4.8 

4-7 
4.2 

5-8 

5-1 
3-4 
S-2 
4.4 
0.6 
4.1 
0.7 
1.6 

VI. 

12.5 

TO.  2 
12.9 

7-9 
6-3 

7-5 
8.1 

7-1 
8-3 
6-3 
8-3 

IO.O 

10.6 
19.0 
12.9 
ii.  8 

13-5 
13-5 

"•5 

10.5 

13.8 
11.4 
3-8 
4.6 
2.9 
4.6 

VII. 

18.9 

16.7 

19.8 

14.  1 

9.6 
ii.  8 
13.8 
12.9 

15-4 
1  1  .  i 
11.9 

i4-5 

I5-7 

24.7 

17.7 
16.5 

17.7 

J9-3 
16.6 

!3-9 
19.0 

15.8 
4.4 
8.7 
3-6 

6.2 

Pennsylvania  •  

Delaware  •  

]Vlaryland  

\Vest  Virginia  

Ohio  

Kentucky  

Missouri  

Alichl2[an  

Minnesota  

District  of  Columbia  

*Number  left  after  deducting  sailors,  colored  troops,  and  commutations,  the  deaths  credited  here  to'each  State  having  occurred  wholly  in 
the  white  troops.  The  loss  in  the  colored  troops  is  itemized  here  by  itself.  For  the  number  of  colored  soldiers  furnished  by  each  State,  see 
Table  "D." 

The  report  of  the  Provost-Marshal-General  shows  the  combined  strength  of  the  Union 
Armies,  at  different  periods  before  and  during  the  war,  to  have  been  : 


Date-  Present. 

Jan.    1,  1861 14,663 

July    1,  1861.  183,588 

Jan.    1,  1862.  527,204 

Mch.31,  1862.  533^984 

Jan.    1,  1863.  698,802 

Jan.     1,  1864.  611,250 

Mch.31, 1865.  657,747 

May    1,  1865.  797^807 


Absent. 

1,704 

3,163 

48,713 

103,142 

219,389 

249,487 

322,339 

202,709 


Aggregate. 

*16,367 

186,751 
575,917 
637,126 
918,191 
860,737 
980,086 
1,000,516 


It  would  be  impossible  to  state  the  number  of  individuals  who  served  in  the  war,  as  so 
many  of  the  men,  after  serving  a  short  term,  enlisted  for  a  second,  and  often  for  a  third, 
time.  Then,  again,  nearly  all  of  the  three  years'  regiments  that  volunteered  in  1861  reenlisted 
m  January,  1864,  for  another  three  years'  term  of  service.  There  were  136,000  of  these  vet- 
erans  who  reenlisted  and  were  counted  twice  in  the  number  of  troops  (2,036,700)  reported  as 


^Regular  Army. 


LOSSES  SUSTAINED  BY  EACH  STATE. 


TABLE  A.  -CONTINUED. 

TOTAL  DEATHS  AND  PERCENTAGES  BY  STATES. 


STATES. 

Killed  <»r  mor 
tally  wound 
ed. 

Deaths  fnunull 
other  causes. 

TOTAL  DKATIIS. 

Troops  furnished  : 
three  years  stand 
urd. 

IVr  i-i-ni. 
of 
killed. 

I'er  cent, 
of  other 

di-.illi- 

IVr  cent, 
of  tot  al 
deaths. 

{Continued.} 

I. 

35 
1  1 

2 
2 

II. 
204 

34 
3i 

4 

22 
6,033 
1,408 

731 

295 

3*7 
197 

129 

75 
32 

'5 
911 

33.953 
',645 

I05 
289? 

231 

'54 
216 

3.5  '5 

III. 

239 

45 

33 
6 

22 

6,777 
r.7'3 

945 

345 
360 

2'5 
141 

78 
42 

15 
1,018 

36,847* 
1,672 
106 

552 
243 

239 
232 

5.798 

IV. 

2,175 

J.773 
i,  080 

206 

964 
26,394 
7,836 

4,654 
1,6  1  1 

3-156 
1,290 
1,632 

545 

V. 

1.6 

0.6 

0.  I 
I  .0 

•    •  •  • 

2.8 

3-9 

4.6 

3-i 
1.4 

1.4 
0.7 

°-5 

VI. 

9-3 
1.9 

2.9 

2.O 
2.  2 
22.8 
17.9 

'5-7 
18.3 

IO.O 

15-2 

7-9 
13.8 

VII. 

10.9 

2-5 

3-° 
3-° 

2.2 
25.6 
21.8 
20.3 
21  .4 
I  I  .4 

16.6 

8.6 

'4-3 

•    •  •    • 
•    •    •   • 

28.8 
20.5 
2.7 
0.9 
21.4 

2.8 

*    •    •   • 
•    •    •   • 

8.6 

D-ikota. 

Wsshincrton  'i'crntorv  

744 

3°5 
214 

5° 
43 
18 

I  2 

3 

10 

•Vl'll  VllTl'l  . 

T* 

Vircnnii   . 

107 
2,894 

27 
i 
263 

I  2 

85 

16 

2,*83 

3.53°          3-° 
178,975           1.6 

.... 

25.8 
18.9 
2.7 
0.9 

I  I  .2 

2.7 

Unitf"<l  ^t•lt**^  mi  "~\  rn<H<v  it*lrs"i* 

10.2 
0.  I 

United  States  Volunteer  Infantryt.  .  . 
Generals  and  Staff  

MiscdUmcous   Hands   &o.  

3-4 

S-2 

Totals  

1  10,070 

249.4S8 

359.528 

2.M3.855          5-' 

i  i  .6  i     16.7 

*Not  including  loss  in  th«  three  Massachusetts  colored  rudiments,  which  ware  organized  and  officered  exclusively  by  that  State  ;  their 
enrollment  and  loss  is  included  with  that  of  the  white  troops  from  Massachusetts. 

tThe  number  of  men  in  the  Regular  Army  was  about  07.000;  in  the  Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  60,508;  Hancock's  Veteran  Corps,  10.H3.S ; 
Ui.ited  States  Sharpshooters  (Berdan's  two  regiments!,  2,570;  other  organizations  of  white  volunteers,  about  8,500.  All  these  (except  about 
20,000  Regulars  who  were  in  service  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war)  are  included  in  the  number  of  men  furnished  by  the  various  States,  but  the 
•net  share  furnished  by  each  State  is  not  known.  For  this  reason,  the  actual  percentage  of  loss  by  each  State  is  somewhat  larger  than  the 
apparent  one. 

}  Includes  35  deaths  in  the  Engineer  Battalion. 

enlisted  for  three  years,  Many  of  the  three-years'  men  who  were  discharged  for  physical 
disability  or  other  reasjns,  enlisted  again  in  other  regiments  before  the  war  had  closed,  and 
thus  were  counted  twice.  Over  300,000  men  enlisted  just  before  the  close  of  the  war,  few 
of  whom,  if  any,  participated  in  any  active  service.  It  is  doubtful  if  there  were  2,000,000 
individual-  actually  in  service  during  the  war. 

The  smaller  percentage  of  killed  belonging  to  some  States  does  not  necessarily  imply  any 
lack  of  fighting  qualities,  but  rather  that  the  troops  from  such  States  were  more  largely 
assigned  to  post  or  garrison  duty,  and  that  a  smaller  proportion  of  their  contingent  was 
engaged  at  the  front.  Still,  in  the  heavy  percentage  of  deaths  in  battle  credited  to  Vermont 
and  New  Hampshire,  one  cannot  help- but  trace  a  connection  with  the  hard  and  continuous 
fighting  which  1VH  to  the  lot  of  the  Vermont  Brigade,  and  the  Fifth  New  Hampshire. 

The  number  of  officers  and  men  in  the  Regular  Army  among  whom  the  casualties 
occurred — as  stated  in  Table  A -- is  placed  officially  at  (57,000,  and  the  percentage  of  deaths 
is  based  on  that  number.  But  this  number  includes  enlistments  after  the  fighting  had  ceased, 


528 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


TABLE  B. 

TOTAL  DEATHS  FROM  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  AND  OTHER  CAUSES. 


STATES. 


DIED  OF 
DISEASE. 


Died  of 

Disease  in 

Confederate 

Prisons. 


Deaths  from 
Accidents 

and 
Drowning. 


Deaths  from 

all  other 

causes  except 

Battles. 


Per  cent. 

from 
Disease. 


Per  cent. 

from 

Disease 

in  prison: 


Per  cent. 

from 
Accidents 

and 
Drowning. 


Per  cent. 

from 

all  other 

causes. 


I. 


Maine [ 

New  Hampshire 2,427 

Vermont 2,597 

Massachusetts 5,53° 

Rhode  Island 648 

Connecticut   2,542 

New  York J9,835 

New  Jersey 2,415 

Pennsylvania 1 1,782 

Delaware 356 

Maryland   1,160 

West  Virginia 1,878 

Ohio 19,365 

Kentucky 6,383 

Indiana !6,633 

Illinois 21,065 

Missouri   9,243 

Michigan 8,269 

Wisconsin 7,464 

Minnesota J,677 

Iowa 8,498 

Kansas   1,638 

District  of  Columbia 150 

Colorado 1 20 

California 344 

New  Mexico 144 


II. 

541 

294 

486 

1,483 
84 

526 
4,710 

419 
4,119 

75 
647 

617 

2,356 
860 

1,152 
1,721 

225 

1,268 

604 

159 

5*5 
36 
44 


III. 

118 
76 
70 

257 
69 

101 

914 

134 
636 

21 
98 

ISO 

1,168 

454 
791 

1,028 

487 

339 

212 

43 
227 

104 

IO 

25 
62 

T9 


IV. 

298 
182 

262 

557 
60 

238 
1,990 

208 
1,381 

47 
1  68 

I25 

998 

599 

853 

1,126 

613 

429 
219 

79 

221 
H5 

45 

25 

59 


V.* 

10.5 

8.3 

9.8 
5-6 

4-7 
5-6 

5-9 

5-4 
5-5 

4-5 
4.6 

6.8 

8.6 

14.6 

1  1  .  i 

IO.O 

ii.  8 
10.8 

10.  I 

9.0 

12.5 

9.9 

2-3 
3-2 

2.  2 

3-3 


VI. 


I  .  I 


1  .0 
1.8 
1.4 
0.6 

1  .2 

1.4 

0.9 

1.9 

0.9 

•7      f\ 

Z  .  »-' 

2  .  2 
I  .  I 
I.9 

0.8 
0.8 


0.8 
0.9 

0.7 

0.2 

0.7 


VII. 

O.2 

°-3 
o-3 
o-3 

°-5 

O.2 


0.4 

°-5 

o-5 

i  .  i 

°-5 
o-S 

0.6 
0.4 

0-3 

O.  2 
0-3 

0.6 

O.  T 

0.7 

0-3 

0.4 


VIII. 

0.6 
0.6 
i  .o 
0.6 
0.4 


0.6 
0.6 
0.7 

0.4 
1.4 


0.8 
0.6 

0.4 

o-3 
0.7 

0.7 


7 


0 

0.4 

0.9 


*The  percentages  in  this  table  (also,  in  Table  A)  are  based  on  figures  in  Column  IV,  Table  A. 

and,  though  correct  as  to  the  percentage  of  deaths  from  disease,  the-  actual  percentage  of 
killed  was  much  higher  than  indicated  by  the  figures  given.  At  no  time  during  the  period  of 
active  hostilities  did  the  Eegular  Army  number,  present  and  absent,  over  26,000  officers  and 
men.  Its  actual  strength  at  various  dates  was  as  follows  : 


.      Date. 

January  1,  1861. 
July  1,  1861. 
January  1,  1862. 
March  31,  1862. 
January  1,  1863. 
January  1,  1864. 
January  1,  1865. 
March  31,  1865. 


Present. 

14,663 
14,108 
19,871 
19,585 
19,169 
17,237 
14,661 
13,880 


Absent. 

1,704 
2,314 

2,554 
3,723 
6,294 
7,399 

7,358 

7,789 


Aggregate. 

16,367 
16,422 
22,425 
23,308 
25,463 
24,636 
22,019 


21,669 

As  there  were  only  thirty  regiments  in  the  Regular  Army,  it  becomes  apparent  that  their 
average  numerical  strength  must  have  been  small,  and  that  their  losses  in  action  were  severe 
in  proportion  to  their  numbers. 

The  deaths  from  all  causes,  aside  from  battle  —  Column  II,  Table  A--are  subdivided  in 
Table  B  so  as  to  show  the  loss  from  disease,  by  itself  ;  also,  the  additional  loss  from  disease 


LOSSES  SUSTAINED  BY  EACH  STATE. 


529 


TABLE  B.— CONTINUED. 

TOTAL  DEA'lHS  FROM  DISEASE,  ACCIDENTS,  AND  OTHER  CAUSES. 


STATES. 

DIED  or 
DISKASE. 

Died  of 
Disoii.se  In 
Confederate 
Ptitons. 

Dcntlis  from 
Accidents 
and 
Drowning. 

Deaths  from 
all  other 
•  .iiiM-s  except 
Battles. 

IVr  cent, 
from 
Disease. 

Per  cent, 
from 
Disease 
in  prison. 

Per  cent, 
from 
Accident* 
and 
Drowning. 

Per  cent, 
from 
all  other 
causes. 

(  Continued.) 

I. 

29 
21 

'59 

4 

I  2 
4,086 
1,254 

216 

228 
189 
624 
66 

IOI 

13 
16 

775 
29,658 

1,424 
82 
247 
202 
142 
200 

2>552 

II. 

III. 

i 

7 
23 

IV. 
I 

6 

2  I 

V. 

2-7 

I  .  2 

7-3 

2.0 
I  .  2 

'5-5 
16.0 

6.8 
14.1 
14.6 

'3-5 

12  .  I 
6.2 

VI. 

VII. 

O.  I 

0.4 

I  .0 

°-5 
1.4 

°-3 

O.  I 

°-3 

VIII. 

O.  I 

°-3 

I  .0 

•     *    •    • 

°-5 
1.6 

'•5 
'•5 

2-5 

0.6 

I  .  2 

1.4 

i-3 

•   *  •  • 

•    •   •  • 

3-6 

2.0 
O.  I 

0.4 
O.  2 

•     •    •    • 
•     •     •    • 

o-3 

•     •    •    • 
•     •    *    • 
•     •    •    • 
•    •    •  » 

4-3 

O.  I 

1.6 
1.4 

i 

Washington  Territory'  

5 
375 
25 
3 

5 

5 
422 

I2T 

49 
40 

8 

56 

8 

21 
2 
I 
126 
3,621 
90 

9 
1  1 

18 
i 

13 
226 

Tennessee  

1,15° 
8 

49 

22 

North  Carolina.  

Florida  

Louisiana  

'5 

36 
i 
6 

o-3 

•    •  •    • 
•    •  •  • 

0.7 

O.2 

°-3 

Mississippi   

I 

Georgia  •  

Virginia  . 

13 

2 
IO 
576 
13* 

14 

6 
1  1 

IO 

197 

Indian  Nations  

21.9 

16.6 
2.4 
0.8 
9.6 

2-3 

•    *  *  • 

•    •  •  • 
•   •  •  • 
»    •   •    • 

1  .0 

•    •   •  • 

o«3 

°-3 

O.2 
0.  I 
0.2 
O.2 

98* 

Veteran  Reserves  

Hancock's  (Jorps  

United  States  Sharpshooters  . 
U.  S.  Volunteer  Infantry  .... 

flpDprnl*;  nnH  ^tTfTi; 

25 

I 

2 

540 

Miscellaneous,  Bands,  &c.  ... 

3.8        0.8 

°-3 

Totals  

199,720 

24,866 

9>°58 

i5>8l4 

9-3 

I  .  2 

0.4 

0.7 

*The  total  deaths  amon^r  colored  soldiers  while  prisoners  amounted  to  2!H.    Of  these,  98  died  of  disease;    84  of  wounds  received  In 
battle ;  25  were  killed  after  capture ;  11  died  from  sundry  known  causes  ;  and  1-J3  from  causes  not  stated  on  the  rolls. 

which  occurred  in  Confederate  prisons.  The  total  deaths  among  the  prisoners  were  20,41)8, 
divided  as  follows  :  from  disease,  24,8G»>  ;  died  of  wounds  received  in  battle,  2,072  ;  accidents, 
7  ;  drowned,  7  ;  killed  after  capture,  104 ;  executed  by  the  enemy,  (54  ;  sunstroke,  20  ;  causes 
known  but  unclassified,  311) ;  cause  not  stated,  2,039.  With  the  exception  of  the  loss  from 
disease,  the  deaths  among  prisoners  are  included  in  the  various  classifications  of  Tables  B  and 
C.  The  loss  among  prisoners  from  "cause  not  stated"  (2,039  deaths)  was  probably  due,  for 
the  most  part,  to  disease,  and  might  with  good  reason  be  added  to  the  24,86f>  deaths  from 
disease.  Most  of  the  deaths  from  wounds  and  executions,  among  prisoners, — together  with 
some  from  other  causes  —  occurred  while  in  the  enemy's  hands,  but  before  arriving  at  the 
prison  pens.  The  total  deaths  among  prisoners  (29,408)  include  all  who  died  while  in  the 
enemy's  hands  —  whether  in  prison,  or  on  their  way  there,  or  in  the  field  hospitals,  or  while 
lying  disabled  within  the  enemy's  lines. 

Since  the  publication  by  the  War  Department,  in  1885,  of  its  exhibit  of  deaths  during 
the  late  war,  additional  information  has  been  acquired  which  has  increased  the  number  of 
deaths  among  the  prisoners  until  the  aggregate  has  reached  a  total  of  30,156. 

Of  the  9,058  deaths  from  accidents-  -Table  B,  Column  III-  -4,944  were  from  drowning. 
With  the  latter  are  included  over  one  thousand  who  lost  their  lives  in  the  explosion  and 
sinking  of  the  steamboat  Sultana  on  the  Mississippi  River  ;  also,  those  who  were  lost  at  sea 
by  the  sinking  of  the  steamer  General  Lyon. 

84 


530 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 
TABLE  C. 

CLASSIFICATION  OF  DEATHS  FROM  MINOR  CAUSES  (Table  B,  Column  IV}. 


STATES. 

Murdered. 

Killed 
after 
Capture. 

Committed 
Suicide. 

Military 
Executions 

Executed 
by  the 
Enemy. 

Died  from 
Sunstroke. 

Causes 
known 
but  not 
classified. 

*  Causes 
not 
stated. 

I. 

13 

4 

3 
8 
i 

3 
34 
i 

I? 

8 

7 
23 
M 

21 

45 
42 

IO 

7 

i 

5 
8 

II. 

III. 

5 
3 

IO 

9 
i 

12 
69 

6 

34 
i 

4 
6 

34 
8 
ii 

33 
3° 

10 

M 

3 

8 

3 
4 
i 

8 
4 

IV. 

5 
17 
4 
J3 

2 
24 

35 
9 

23 
i 

10 

2 

6 

12 

8 

7 
6 

2 

I 

V. 

VI. 

16 

8 

12 

18 

3 
9 

57 
6 

27 

i 
i 

VII. 

17 

18 

23 

95 

8 

35 

365 
48 

1  20 
ii 

48 

31 
118 

1  68 

78 

I31 
119 

73 
27 
J9 

51 
28 

6 

10 
21 

7 

VIII. 
242 

132 

2O2 
414 

45 

155 

1,427 

138 

1,156 
30 

96 

78 

771 

391 
707 
878 

396 

325 
1  60 

55 
139 

58 

34 
8 
16 
M 

8 

3 

4 

i 

i 

9 

2 
I 
I 
I 

Ohio 

J3 

2 

7 
18 

1  1 

2 

24 

2 
20 

13 

8 

7 

IO 

i 

12 
I 
I 

I 

3 
1  1 

3 

2 

4 

(~*nlnrnrln  „ 

2 
IO 

13 

i 

2 

4 
3 

f^lifoTTm 

"N"pw  TVTpYir*r* 

*Cause  not  definitely  stated  on  the  muster-out  rolls  ;  was  undoubtedly  due  to  disease  almost  entirely. 

Iii  Table  B,  Column  I,  it  is  shown  that  199,^20  died  from  disease  alone,  in  camps,  hos 
pitals,  or  at  home.  An  interesting  question  arises  here  as  to  what  proportion  of  this  loss  was 
due  to  army  life.  What  is  the  normal  death  rate  ?  How  many  of  these  men  would  have 
died  had  they  remained  at  home  ?  The  tables  in  use  by  the  actuaries  of  the  life  insurance 
companies  show  that  of  a  thousand  healthy  men  at  the  age  of  twenty-three  —  selected  risks 
-  eight  will  die  within  a  year.  Assuming  the  average  strength  of  the  army  to  have  been 
1,000,000  men  for  four*  years,  and  the  average  age  to  have  been  twenty- three,  it  appears  that 
32,000  of  these  deaths  would  have  occurred  in  time  of  peace,  and  that  the  excess  was  due 
solely  to  the  fatal  vicissitudes  of  a  soldier's  life. 

In  Table  C,  a  subdivision  is  made  of  the  number  represented  by  Column  IV,  Table  B. 
The  2,034  deaths  in  Column  VII,  Table  C  — Causes  known  but  not  classified -- include  those 
'  resulting  from  quarrels,  riots,  and  the  like,  and  which  are  not  definitely  reported  as  murder  ; 
from  being  shot  for  insubordination,  or  by  provost-guards  or  sentinels  in  attempting  to  escape, 
or  pass  the  lines  ;  from  exhaustion  or  exposure  ;  killed  while  depredating  upon  the  property 
of  citizens  ;  and  all  other  causes  not  embraced  in  the  preceding  columns,  "f 

After  accounting  for  all  known  causes  of  death,  there  still  remain  -  -  Table  C,  Column  VIII 
- 12. 1 21  cases  of  cause  unknown.  In  these  cases  the  name  of  the  dead  soldier  is  borne  on  the 

*The  period  during  which  the  loss  from  disease  occurred  was  much  longer  than  the  period  of  the  fighting.    Many  of  the  volunteer 
regiments  were  in  service  until  1660. 
tMr.  Kirkley. 


DEATHS  FROM  MINOR  CAUSES. 


TABLE  C.— CONTINUED. 

CLASSIFICATION  OF  DEATHS  FROM  MINOR  CAUSES  (Table  B,  Column  7P). 


STATES. 

Murdered. 

Killed 
after 
Capture 

Committed 
Suicide. 

Military 
Executions 

Executed 

by  tho 
Knemy. 

Died  from 
Sunstroke. 

Causes 
known 
but  not 

cluMsllird. 

*Caus*>s 
not 
stated. 

(  Continued?) 

I. 

II. 

III. 

IV. 

V. 

VI. 

VII. 

VIII. 

I 

I 

6 

1 

I  ^ 

T 

Tf>nnpsst"p  . 

?  A 

i 

"11 

*4 

2A 

_ 

2 

I  1 

74 
f  t 

3*4 
en 

Z4 

I 

1  6 

16 

*6 

5v 

2  1 

•4 

l8 

2 

J° 

I 

T 

i  a 

7O 

Mississippi  

j 

ly 

6^ 

TcJC&S  •  •  

] 

1 

J 

i  r> 

8 

2 

I 

I  I 

i 

j 

2 

III 

Colored  Troops  

1  06 

2C 

i  •• 

52 

1 

1  2 

86 

*^  106 

Veteran    Reserves  

j  5 

^D 

1  6 
i  i 

* 

T 

6* 

A  1 

O»JWU 
I  I 

Hancock's  (Jorps  

1  D 
[ 

I 

4  / 

I 

2 

8 

United  States  Volunteer  Infantry  *•  . 

I 

2 

6 

T 

Miscellaneous  Brigade  Bands  &c.  .  . 

1 

I  2 

16 

I 

2  "* 

6 

6^ 

1  06 

' 

uo 

Totals  

520 

i  n  i 

-2  n  i 

•7^1  1 

6  A 

7  I  "2 

2  (")•?  1 

I  2   I  2  I 

•*" 

it»4 

Jv  l 

£\i  j 

U4 

JM 

•'j*Jo4 

•"Penitent  Rebels;"  six  regiments,  organized  from  the  prison-camps    at  Point  Ix>okoiit,  Rock  Island,  Alton,  Camp  Douglas,  and 
Columbus,  and  composed  of  Confederate  prisoners  who  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  and  enlisted  in  the  United  States  service. 

muster-out  roll,  or  "final  statement,"  with  the  marginal  remark,  "Died;"  but  with  no 
further  statement  to  show  the  cause  of  his  death.  Undoubtedly,  the  most  of  these  men,  or 
nearly  all,  died  from  disease  ;  and  although  they  cannot  be  so  included  in  any  statistical 
exhibit,  they  should  be  borne  in  mind  as  a  probable  addition  to  the  number  of  deaths  from 
that  cause. 

Many  will  deem  it  strange  that,  with  over  2,300,000  three-year  enlistments,  the  total 
strength  of  the  army,  present  and  absent,  never  reached  half  that  number.  This  can  be 
partly  explained  by  the  large  number  discharged  for  physical  disability  incurred  in  the  ser 
vice.  Over  250,000  men  were  honorably  discharged  for  disabilities  arising  from  wounds  or 
diseases  which  unfitted  them  for  further  service. 

Another  serious  cause  of  depletion  was  the  remarkably  large  miml)er  of  desertions.  The 
reported  desertions  during  the  war  numl>ered  268,530.  The  Provost  Marshal  General  esti 
mated  that  25  per  cent,  of  these  were  wrongly  reported  ;  that  these  men  were  absent  uninten 
tionally  or  unavoidably, — and  placed  the  number  of  actual  desertions  at  201,397.*  Of  this 
number,  76,526  were  arrested  and  sent  to  their  regiments. 

The  desertions  were  most  frequent  in  the  Regular  Army,  16,365  men  having  deserted 
from  that  arm  of  the  service  during  the  war,  a  loss  of  over  24  per  cent. ,  while  in  the  volunteer 

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TABLE  D. 

NUMBER  OF  WHITE  TROOPS,  SAILORS,  COLORED  TROOPS,  AND  INDIANS  FURNISHED  BY  THE  STATES. 


STATES,  TERRITORIES,  ETC. 

White  Troops. 

Sailors  and 
Marines. 

Colored 
Troops. 

Indian 
Nations. 

Aggregate. 

*Total  Deaths, 
all  causes. 

I. 

2,576 
8,289 

I5,725 

4,9°3 

5^937 
206 

11,236 
11,912 
1,290 

II. 

III. 

IV. 

V. 

2,576 
8,289 

!5,725 
4,9°3 
55>864 
206 
12,284 

16,534 
1,290 

VI. 

345 
i»7x3 

573 
323 
5.354 
6 
882 
290 

215 
i5 
34,834 
26,672 
13,001 
2,630 
10,774 

945 
9,398 
2,982 

13,942 

14,753 
2,584 
78 
13.885 

239 

33 

4,882 

2,163 

1,764 

94 
J,353 

954 
3,269 

255,057 
193,748 

75>797 
18,069 

5J>743 

5,224 

64,973 

33,995 
122,781 

85,479 
23>9I3 

545 
100,616 

3,*57 
i,  080 

32,930 

2,224 
1,078 

5 

1,811 

!,537 
440 

2,080 
23'7°3 

259,092 

196,363 
76,242 

20,149 
75,76o 

5,224 
70,107 
46,638 
146,730 

87,364 
24,020 

545 
109,11  1 

3,J57 
i,  080 

33,937 

3'4 

5>°3° 
3,925 
J9,983 
498 
3 

104 
8,718 
3,966 

1,387 
104 

IVTissonri  . 

!5T 

8,344 

^pliri  t;ln 

M  p  vn  r  1  a  . 

New  Hampshire  

882 

I25 

*Includes  deaths  in  the  army  only ;  the  deaths  in  the  navy —  among  sailors  and  marines  —  are  not  included  in  any  of  these  tables.  The 
deaths  credited  here  to  each  State  occurred  in  the  white  troops ;  the  total  of  deaths  among  the  colored  soldiers  is  stated  opposite  the  item 
"Colored  troops." 

service  the  average  rate  was  6  per  cent.  In  the  Kansas  troops  the  desertions  exceeded  11  per 
cent,  of  the  enrollment,  the  percentage  being  the  highest  of  any  State. 

In  addition  to  the  deserters,  there  were  thousands  of  other  absentees.  In  March,  1863, 
the  returns  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  showed  that  2,922  officers  and  81^964  enlisted  men 
were  absent,  the  majority  of  whom  were  absent  without  any  known  cause  ;  and  in  Decem 
ber,  1862,  a  return  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  showed  that  with  76,725  present  there 
were  46,677  absent. 

Desertions  were  frequent  among  the  drafted  men,  for  their  service  was  compulsory  ;  but 
there  were  not  many  of  this  class  in  the  ranks.  The  Union  Army  was  essentially  a  volunteer 
army.  True,  a  conscription  act  was  enforced ;  but  its  provisions  for  exemption  were  so 
lenient  that  the  number  of  drafted  men  actually  held  to  service  was  only  52,068,  a  small  num 
ber  as  compared  with  the  total  enlistment.  In  addition  to  the  drafted  men  held  to  service, 
there  were  75,429  conscripts  who  sent  substitutes.  These  substitutes  have  generally  been 
classed  as  mercenaries  ;  but  they  were  men  who  went  to  the  war  without  compulsion, 
and  if  they  received  money  for  the  act  it  should  be  remembered  that  all  the  volunteers  who 
enlisted  during  the  latter  part  of  the  war  received  large  bounties. 

Besides  the  substitutes  just  mentioned,  there  were  42,581  men  who  enlisted  as  substi 
tutes  for  men  who,  although  not  drafted,  were  enrolled  under  the  Conscription  Act  and  were 
liable  to  future  drafts,  but  who  secured  exemption  therefrom  by  sending  men  to  the  field  in 


NUMBER  OF  TROOPS  FROM  EACH  STATE.  533 

TABLE  D.— CONTINUED. 

NUMBER  OF  WHITE  TROOPS,  SAILORS,  COLORED  TROOPS,  AND  INDIANS  FURNISHED  BY  THE  STATES. 


STATES,  TERRITORIES.  ETC. 

White  Troops. 

Sailors  and 
Marine*. 

Colored 
Troop*. 

Indian 
Nations. 

Ajwejfate. 

Total  Death*, 

all  rilllMM. 

(Continued.) 

^f*\v  T<»rsfMr  . 

I. 

67,500 
6,561 
409,561 

3.156 
304,814 
1,810 

315.0*7 

'9.521 
31,092 

1.965 
32.549 

II. 

8.129 

III. 

1,185 

IV. 

V. 

76,814 
6,561 
448,850 

3.  '56 
3'3>i8o 
1,8  10 

337.936 
23.236 
31,092 

'.965 
33.288 

VI. 

5.754 
277 

46,534 
360 

35»475 
45 
33.'83 
i,321 
6,777 
141 

5.224 
42 

22 
4,017 
12,301 

1,018 

t36,847 
1,672 

106 
SS2 
243 
239 
232 
5.79s 

^C\V  Mexico  

V«>\v  Vorlc 

35.  '64 

4,125 

North  C'aroliua  

........ 

Ohio   , 

3»274 

5>°92 

OtvfTon   . 

Pennsylvania  

>4-3°7 
1,878 

8,612 
1,837 

Rhode  Island  

IVnilt'SSP**     . 



fW 

1  t'YIS  . 

Vermont     

6  19 

120 

\Vashmcrton  'Territory  

964 

31.872 
91,029 

964 
32,068 

91.327 
3.530 
99.337 

\Vest  Vinnnia  

196 
165 

\\  isronsin  

'33 

I  n  t  1  1  'i  n    ^C  T  1  1  /  ^  11  c 

3.53° 

99.337* 

U.  S.  Vet.  Vols.  (  Hancock's  Corps)  . 

w    ^  M  'i  T*I  i<  M  t  \f\\  f  *  r^    *i  11  (  I    1^  n  0*1  n  f^^T*^ 

(ienenk  ind  Stiffs  fVnls  \ 

Totals  

2,494,592 

101,207  J 

178.975 

3.530 

2,778,304 

359.528 

•  Colored  troops  reeruiUHl  in  the  Southern  States. 

t  Includes  all  the  deaths  in  the  178,975  Colored  Troops. 


JThere  were  31.347  more  who  were  not  credited  to  the  states,  as  sailors. 


their  place.  There  were,  also,  86,724  drafted  men  who  received  exemption  upon  the  payment 
of  $300.00  each,  in  commutation.  The  best  result  of  the  Conscription  Act  was  the  stimulus 
which  it  gave  to  volunteering,  rather  than  the  number  of  men  directly  obtained  by  its 
enforcement. 

In  Table  F  is  given  a  comparative  statement  of  troops  furnished  by  each  State,  in  pro 
portion  to  its  population.  The  military  population  —  those  between  the  ages  of  18  and  45  —  as 
stated  in  the  census  of  I860,  is  used  as  a  basis  for  calculating  the  different  percentages. 
The  increase  of  the  military  population  in  1861-62  was  greater,  proportionately,  in  the 
north-western  States  ;  and,  hence,  if  the  percentage  of  men  furnished  were  to  be  figured  on 
a  census  of  1861-62,  their  ratios  would  be  decreased  more  than  those  of  the  Atlantic  States.  It 
should  be  understood,  also,  that  the  military  population  was  proportionately  larger  in  the 
new  States  of  the  West  than  in  the  older  States  from  whence  so  many  of  these  people 
emigrated.  For  instance  :  in  Maine,  the  white  males  between  the  ages  of  18  and  45  formed 
19.5  percent,  of  the  whole  population  ;  in  New  York,  20.8  ;  in  Kansas,  29.7  ;  and  in  California, 
47.1, — the  proportion  increasing  with  the  western  immigration. 

From  the  statistics  in  Table  F  it  appears  that  the  States  of  Delaware  and  Indiana  were 
preeminently  loyal,  contributing  more  largely  in  proportion  to  their  military  population  than 
any  of  their  sister  Stairs.  Some  of  the  States,  notably  Connecticut,  Kansas,  Khode  Island, 
Massachusetts,  Ohio,  and  Illinois,  furnished  more  men  than  the  quotas  demanded  from  them 


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TABLE  E. 

NUMBER  OF  ENLISTMENTS  REDUCED  TO  A  THREE  YEARS'  STANDARD. 


STATES  AND  TERRITORIES. 

Quotas. 

*Men 
Furnished. 

tPald 

Commutation. 

Aggregate. 

*Total  reduced 
to  a  three  years 
standard. 

i. 

73,587 

35,897 
32,074 

i39,095 
18,898 

44,797 

507,148 

92,820 

385,369 
J3,935 
70,965 
34,463 

*3,973 
306,322 

199,788 
244,496 

95,oo7 
109,080 

26,326 

79,521 
122,496 
100,782 

II. 

70,107 

33,937 
33,288 
146,730 
23,236 

.55,864 
448,850 
76,814 

337,936 
12,284 
46,638 
32,068 

16,534 
313,180 

196,363 
259,092 

87,364 

9*,327 
24,020 

76,242 
109,11  1 
75,76o 

III. 

2,007 
692 

i,974 
5,3i8 

463 

i^S 

18,197 

4,196 
28,171 
1,386 
3,678 

IV. 

72,114 
34,629 
35,262 

152,048 

23,699 

57,379 
467,047 

81,010 
366,107 
13,670 

5°,3l6 
32,068 
16,872 

319,659 
i97»M7 

259,M7 

89,372 
96,424 

25,052 

76,309 
109,11  1 

79,025 

V. 

56,776 
30,849 

29,068 

124,104 
17,866 

50,623 
392,270 

57,908 

265,517 
10,322 

41,275 
27,714 

11,506 
240,514 
153,576 

214,133 
80,111 
79,260 

19,693 
68,630 

86,530 
70,832 

338 
6,479 

784 

55 
2,008 

5,°97 
1,032 

67 

Ohio  .                                                              

3,265 

*  Includes  men  furnished  to  the  Navy  :  Table  D,  Column  II. 

t  Showing  the  number  of  drafted  men  in  each  State  who  paid  $300.00  each  in  commutation,  and  were  not  held  to  service. 

by  the  National  Government.  In  justice  to  the  States  which  did  not  fill  the  quotas  asked  for, 
it  should  be  stated  that  they  either  took  exception  to  the  figures  upon  which  their  quotas 
were  based  ;  or,  that  they  claimed  that  they  had  furnished  men  which  were  not  credited  to 
them,  or  had  been  credited  to  other  States. 

The  quotas  demanded  of  the  States  in  1861  and  1862  were  computed  on  a  basis  of  the 
entire  population,  instead  of  the  military  class,  and,  consequently,  bore  harder  on  some  of  the 
Eastern  States  than  on  the  newly-settled  Western  States,  which  had  a  larger  military  popula 
tion,  proportionately,  to  draw  from.  Subsequent  levies,  however,  were  based  on  a  military 
enrollment  made  in  each  Congressional  District  by  the  officials  of  the  Provost-Marshal- 
General. 

But  the  results  obtained  in  Table  F  require  modification  in  order  that  the  statement  may 
be  complete  and  fair.  The  figures  for  the  number  of  men  furnished  include  the  long  and 
short  enlistments,  and  favor  certain  States  whose  troops  contained  a  larger  proportion  of  three 
months'  men  or  regiments  with  other  short  terms  of  enlistment.  Some  States,  also,  fur 
nished  money  in  commutation  for  soldiers,  and  in  statistics  like  those  of  Table  F  it  may  be 
deemed  that  money  was  not  a  complete  offset  for  men.  Then,  again,  the  military  popula 
tion,  as  enumerated  in  the  census  of  1860,  embraced  white  males  only,  while  the  troops  cred 
ited  in  Table  F  to  the  various  States  include  the  colored  soldiers  from  those  States  ;  and 
although  these  colored  troops  were,  in  some  States,  a  serious  drain  upon  -  the  agricultural 
resources  of  the  community,  they  formed  no  part  of  the  military  population  in  question,  and 
might  be  considered  as  unfairly  influencing  the  comparative  percentages. 


NUMBER  OF  ENLISTMENTS. 


586 


TABLE  E.— CONTINUED. 

NUMBER  OF  ENLISTMENTS  REDUCED  TO  A  THREE  YEARS'  STANDARD. 


STATES  AND  TERRITORIES. 

Quotas. 

Men 

Furnished. 

Paid 
Commutation 

Aggregate. 

Total    rodiic-^1 
U>  u  three  years 
standard. 

(Continued.) 

I. 

12,931 
1,560 
780 
1,560 

II. 

20,149 
31,092 
8,289 

3.156 

i5»72S 
i,  080 

1,810 
964 

3.157 

4,9°3 
206 

6,561 

2.576 
1,290 

5.224 
545 
'>965 
•3,53° 
*99>337 

III. 

2 

IV. 

20,151 
31,092 
8,289 
3,156 

'5.725 
i,  080 
t,8io 
964 

3»»57 

4.903 
206 

6,561 

2,576 
1,290 

5,224 

545 
'.965 
3.53° 
*99.337 

V. 

18,706 
26,394 

7,836 

3>I56 
'5,7*5 

i  .<  -    0 

',773 
964 
2,i75 
3,697 
206 

4,432 
1,61  1 
1,290 

4,654 

545 
1,632 

3.53° 
97,685 

Arl^'in^a^   . 

Nni*th  (  '.irolim  . 

•     • 

WacHinorfnn    '  IVrritorv. 

T  niifciflfui  . 

\1  m^issinni  . 

1'pY.IS. 

Tniliin   Nftrinn. 

Totals  

2,763.670 

2,778,304 

86,724 

2,865,028 

2,326,168 

*  Organized  under  the  direct  authority  of  the  General  Government,  and  not  credited  to  any  State.  They  were  recruited  as  follows  :  in 
Alabama,  4,969;  Arkansas.  5,52ii;  Colorado,  95;  Florida,  1,044;  Georgia,  3,486;  Louisiana,  24,05:.';  Mississippi,  17,869;  North  Carolina,  5,035;  South 
Carolina,  5,462;  Tennessee,  30,133;  Texas,  47;  Virginia,  5,723;  at  large,  5,896;  total,  99,337. 

To  forestall  discussion  on  such  points,  and  to  arrive  accurately  at  the  percentage  of  its 
able-bodied  whites  which  each  State  sent  to  the  war,  it  becomes  necessary  to  base  a  percent 
age  on  the  white  troops  alone  (including  sailors),  and,  further,  to  reduce  their  number  to  the 
common  standard  of  a  three  years'  enlistment ;  also,  to  throw  out  the  item  of  commutation. 
Having  done  this,  the  following  result  is  obtained  : 


*  White  troops, 

States.  j  yrs'  standard. 

Connecticut _ .  _ 47, 344 

Delaware  ..  7,982 

Illinois  .  212.267 

Indiana...  151,255 

Iowa  .  68,123 

Kansas  .  16,624 

Kentucky.  43,864 

Maine  ..  54,665 

Maryland  .  28,870 

Massachusetts .   114, 820^: 

Michigan  .  76,716 


\Per  cent,  of 

military  popula 
tion,  i860. 

50.1 

43.6 
56.6 
57.0 
48.8 
59.4 
24.2 
44.7 
28.1 
44.4 
46.7 


*  White  troops. 
States.  3  yrs'  standard. 

Minnesota 18, 557 

Missouri  .  78,186 

New  Hampshire.  30,032 

New  Jersey •. .  52,527 

New  York.  369,948 

Ohio.  228,943 

Pennsylvania  .  228,734 

Rhode  Island.  15,566 

Vermont 26,974 

Wisconsin  .  73,998 


^Per  cent,  of 
military  popula 
tion,  1860. 

45.0 
33.5 
47.2 
39.7 
46.1 
49.8 
41.2 
43.8 
44.5 
46.4 


By  this  test  some  of  the  States  —  Delaware,  for  instance,— are  accorded  a  much  lower 


'Figures  obtained  by  combining  Column  IV,  Table  A,  and  Column  II,  Table  1). 

tFor  military  population  of  «-a. -h  state,  see  Column  IV,  Table  F. 

JXot  including  the  three  regiments  of  colored  troops  —  3,966  men  —  which  are  credited  to  Massachusetts  in  Column  IV,  Table  A. 


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TABLE  F. 

PERCENTAGE  OF  MILITARY  POPULATION  FURNISHED  BY  STATES. 


STATES. 

Number  of 
Men 
Furnished. 

Number  who 
paid 
Commutation. 

Total.* 

Census,   1860. 
Number  between 
ages  18  to  45  incl. 

Per  cent. 
Furnished  . 

i. 

55=864 
12,284 
259,092 

i96>363 
76,242 

20,149 
75.760 
70,107 
46,638 
146,730 

87,364 
24,020 

109,1  1  1 

33.937 
76,814 
448,850 

313>l8° 
337.936 
23,236 
33,288 
91.327 

II. 

i,5*5 

1,386 

55 
784 

67 

2 
3,265 
2,007 

3,678 
5,318 
2,OO8 
1,032 

III. 

57,379 
13,670 

259,147 

I97,I47 

76,309 
20,151 

79,025 
72,114 

5°,3l6 
152,048 

89,372 

25,052 
109,1  1  1 

34,629 
81,010 
467,047 

3^9,659 
366,107 

23,699 
35,262 

96,424 

IV. 

94,411 

18,273 
375,026 
265,295 

i39,3l6 
27,976 
180,589 
122,238 
102,715 
258,419 
164,007 
41,226 
232,781 
63,610 
132,219 
796,881 

459-534 

555,  T72 

35,502 
60,580 

159,335 

V. 
60.7 

74.8 

69.1 

74-3 

54-7 
72.0 

43-7 

58-9 
48.9 

58.8 

54-4 
60.  7 

46.8 

54-4 

61  .2 
58.6 

69-5 
65-9 
66.7 
58.2 
60.5 

692 
4,196 
18,197 

6,479 
28,171 

463 
i,974 
5,°97 

Ohio                                                                      

2,538,292 
240,012 

86,386 
338 

2,624,678 
240,35° 

4,285,105 

6l  .2 

Total  

2,778,304 

86,724 

2,865,028 

*Table  E,  Column  IV.  (official  publication  ;  Ad.  Gen.  office,  Washington,  Nov.  9,  1880). 

percentage  ;  and,  yet,  Delaware  is  entitled  to  credit  for  the  money,  the  colored  troops,  and 
short-term  regiments  which  she  so  promptly  and  liberally  furnished.  Kentucky  is  credited 
in  this  table  with  a  low  percentage,  but  it  should  be  remembered  that  this  State  furnished 
23, 703  colored  troops,  which  do  not  enter  into  tins  calculation.  Maryland  and  Missouri  also 
supplied  the  army  with  a  large  contingent  for  the  same  arm  of  the  service. 

The  percentages  of  men  supplied,  large  as  they  are,  fail  to  do  full  justice  to  the  States, 
because  the  military  ages  included  many  who  were  exempt  from  service  on  account  of 
physical  defects  or  infirmities  ;  and  hence  the  actual  proportion  of  able-bodied  men  furnished 
would  in  each  case  be  correspondingly  larger  than  the  one  stated. 

Although  the  Border  States  are  credited  with  a  lower  percentage,  their  record  is  a  highly 
meritorious  one.  While  the  more  Northern  States  were  confronted  with  the  questions  of  a 
war,  the  border  States  had  to  deal  with  the  additional  and  more  serious  ones  arising  from  a 
civil  war  ;  a  strife  in  which  brother  would  be  arrayed  against  brother,  neighbor  against 
neighbor,  and  which  would  be  characterized  by  all  the  terrible  and  distracting  scenes 
engendered  by  such  a  contest.  They  were  slave-holding  States,  but  they  resisted  all  importu 
nities  to  join  the  Confederacy,  and  remained  loyal  to  the  Union,  although  they  knew  full 
well  that  such  action  would  transfer  the  war  to  their  own  fields.  Missouri  knew  that  by 
remaining  in  the  Union  her  counties  would  be  overrun  by  guerrilla  bands  and  predatory  inva 
sions  ;  Kentucky  sturdily  refused  all  overtures  from  the  Confederacy,  although  it  was  plain 


('  \si  U/PIKS  IN  TIII,  NAVY.  537 

that  the  State  would  thus  become  once  more  "  the  dark  and  bloody  battle  ground  "  of  history  ; 
Maryland  remained  steadfast,  and  her  fields  resounded  with  the  tread  of  armies  and  the  roar 
of  battle  :  and,  in  West  Virginia,  loyal  regiments  were  formed  of  refugees  who  had  left  their 
homes,  their  fields,  and  barns  in  the  hands  of  a  ruthless  enemy.  It  meant  something  to  be 
loyal  on  the  Border. 

And,  yet,  these  States  responded  promptly  to  the  calls  of  the  National  Government  for 
troops,  one  of  them  surpassing  all  others  in  its  lavish  supply  of  men  and  money,  while  the  others 
filled  their  quotas  and  did  it  without  a  bounty  or  a  draft.  The  slave-holding  States  of 
Delaware,  Maryland,  West  Virginia,  District  of  Columbia,  Kentucky,  and  Missouri,  not  only 
remained  true  to  the  old  flag,  but  furnished  301,002  men  for  the  loyal  support  of  ail  Admin 
istration  that  received  scarcely  a  vote  within  all  their  borders. 

CASUALTIES  IN  THE  NAVY. 

The  number  of  men  in  the  naval  service  during  the  war  was  132,554,  of  whom  7,000 
were  already  in  the  service  at  the  outbreak  of  hostilities.  There  were  1,804  killed  and 
mortally  wounded  in  battle.  This  includes  342  who  were  scalded  to  death,  while  in  action, 
by  escaping  steam  from  boilers  which  had  been  pierced  by  the  enemy's  shot ;  also,  308  men 
drowned  inaction.  The  latter  were  men  who  went  down  with  their  ships, —  their  flag  fly 
ing,  and  their  guns  firing  defiantly  from  port-holes  level  with  the  waves.  In  addition  to  the 
1,804  who  lost  their  lives  in  battle,  there  were  2,226  wounded  who  survived  their  injuries. 

The  deaths  in  the  navy  from  disease  and  accidents  numbered  3,000.  This  includes  71 
deaths  from  accidents  ;  265  from  accidental  drowning  ;  37  scalded  ;  and  1)5  deaths  in  Confed 
erate  prisons.  Unlike  the  army,  the  mortality  from  disease  was,  apparently,  not  in  excess  of 
the  normal  death  rate  of  civil  life. 

Subjoined  will  be  found  a  tabulation  of  the  principal  naval  losses  in  action  during  the 
war.  If  some  of  the  casualties  appear  trivial,  let  it  be  remembered  that  on  most  of  the 
vessels  named  the  crews  were  small ;  and  that  the  loss  of  life,  in  proportion  to  the  number 
engaged,  was  as  serious  as  at  Trafalgar  or  the  Nile. 

The  losses  in  many  cases  include  men  who  were  scalded  to  death,  and  men  who  were 
drowned  ;  but  losses  from  such  causes  belong  properly  with  the  casualties,  as  much  so  as 
wounds  from  shot  or  shell.  They  were  among  the  dire  probabilities  in  every  action, — deadly 
and  terrible  dangers  which  had  to  be  confronted  as  well  as  the  guns  of  the  enemy.  The 
changes  in  the  methods  of  naval  warfare,  first  introduced  in  the  American  War,  brought 
a  class  of  casualties  hitherto  unknown  in  naval  combats.  Our  sailors  fought  in  previous 
wai-s  without  the  terrible  danger  from  exploding  boilers  and  escaping  steam  ;  and  when  their 
slowly-sinking  wooden  ships  went  down  in  action,  there  were  opportunities  for  escape  far 
different  from  any  offered  on  an  iron-clad  sent  rushing  to  the  bottom  by  the  explosion  of  a 
modern  torpedo.  In  the  action  at  St.  Charles,  the  gunboat  Mound  City  lost  150  men,  killed 
or  wounded,  out  of  a  crew  of  175,  but  3  officers  and  22  men  escaping  uninjured  ;  S2  were 
killed  by  gunshot  wounds,  or  scalded*  to  death,  and  43  others  were  drowned,  or  shot  while 
struggling  in  the  water.  When  the  iron-clad  Tecumseh  led  the  column  of  monitors  across 
the  torpedo  line  at  Mobile,  f  it  moved  as  a  forlorn  hope  which  would  not  have  been  necessary 
in  the  naval  combats  of  previous  wars.  In  all  that  grand  drama  of  heroism  incidental  to 
the  Civil  Wai-.  tln>  Navy  played  no  secondary  part. 

*  During  tin-  c-Mi:.iir'-mi-nt  -i  u  pound  shell  entered  a  casement,  killing  three  men  on  its  flight  and  then  exploding  the  steam-drum. 

t  As  the  TecmnM-h.  T.  A  < 'i -IVI-M.  commander,  went  into  action  at  Mobile  Bay,  it  struck  a  torpedo  and  sank  Instantly.  The  vessel 
"went  down  head  foremost,  h.-r  -.,-rew  plainly  visible  in  the  air  for  a  moment  to  the  enemy,  that  waited  for  her.  not  two  hundred  yards  off,  on 
the  other  side  of  the  fatal  line.  It  wa<  then  that  Craven  did  one  of  those  deeds  that  should  he  always  linked  with  the  doer's  name,  as  Sidney's 
is  with  the  cup  of  cold  water.  Th«-  pilot  and  he  instinctively  made  for  the  narrow  opening  leading  to  the  turret  bolow.  Craven  drew  back  ; 
'  After  you,  pilot,'  he  said.  There  was  110  afterward  for  him ;  the  pilot  was  saved,  but  he  went  down  with  his  ship."— [Navy  in  the  Civil  War; 
Mahan. 


538 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LOSSES   IN    THE    UNITED    STATES    NAVY,    1861-65. 


(I 

a 

. . 
. . 


Date. 
1861 

Sept.  14 

Nov.  7 

"   7 
1862 
Feb.'   2 

2 
8 

15 
15 
15 
15 

Mch.  8 

"   8 

"   14 

April  24 

"  24 

"  24 

"  24 

"  24 

May  15 

June  6 

17 

"  28 

July  15 

"  15 

"  15 

"  15 

"  15 

"  15 

"  15 

Oct.  3 

Dec.  27 

1863. 

Jan.  1 

"  10 
"  10 

"  11 

"  30 

Feb.  24 

Mch.  14 

"  14 

"  14 

"  14 

"  14 


Vessel. 

Colorado 

Fleet 

Tyler 

Essex 

Cincinnati 

Fleet 

St.  Louis 

Louisville 

Pittsburg 

Carondelet 

Cumberland 

Congress 

Fleet 

Fleet 

Iroquois* 

Richmond* 

• 

Winona* 

Pinola* 

Galena 

Flotilla 

Mound  City 

Fleet 

Carondelet 

Tyler 

Hartford 

Wissahickon 

Winona 

Sciota 

Richmond 

Commodore  Perry 

Benton 

Fleet 

Louisville 

De  Kalb 

Hatteras 

Isaac  Smith 

Indianola 

Hartford 

Richmond 

Genesee 

Monongahela 

Mississippi 


Commander. 

Russell 

Dupont 

Walke 

Porter  (W.  D.) 

Stembel 

Goldsborough 

Paulding 

Dove 

Thompson 

Walke 

Morris 

Smith 

Rowan 

Farragut 

De  Camp 

Alden 

Nichols 

Crosby 

Rodgers 

Davis 

Kilty 

Farragut 

Walke 

Gwin 

Wainwright 

De  Camp 

Nichols 

Lowry 

Alden 

Flusser 

Gwin 

Renshaw 

Owen 

Walker 

Blake 

Conover 

Brown 

Palmer 

Alden 

Macomb 

McKinstry 

Smith 


Battle. 

Pensacola 
Port  Royal 
Belmont 

Fort  Henry 
Fort  Henry 
Roanoke  Island 
Fort  Donelsoii 
Fort  Donelsoii 
Fort  Donelsoii 
Fort  Donelson 
Hampton  Roads 
Hampton  Roads 
New  Berne 
New  Orleans 
New  Orleans 
New  Orleans 
New  Orleans 
New  Orleans 
Drewry's  Bluff 
Memphis 
White  River 
Vicksburg 
Vicksburgf 
Vicksburgf 
Vicksburgf 
Vicksburgf 
Vicksburgf 
Vicksburgf 
Vicksburgf 
Black  water 
Drumgold's  Bluff 

Galveston 
Arkansas  Post  ) 
Arkansas  Post  ) 
Alabama 
John's  Island 
New  Carthage 
Port  Hudson 
Port  Hudson  ) 
Port  Hudson  ) 
Port  Hudson 
Port  Hudson 


Killed.    Wounded.  Missing.  Aggregate 


3 
8 
1 

7 
1 
6 
2 
4 


2 

37 
8 
2 
3 
3 
13 


15 
4 
8 
3 
1 
1 


2 


2 


2 
8 
1 
1 
„ 

6 

25 


9 
23 

2 

20 
7 

17 
8 
5 
2 

31 


11 

147 

24 

4 

5 
8 

11 
3 

30 

10 

16 

6 

4 

2 

2 

2 

11 
8 


25 


5 

17 


2 


12 

21 
39 


7 


12 

31 

3 

32 
8 

23 

10 

9 

2 

35 

121 

129 

13 

184 

32 

6 

8 

11 

24 

3 

125 

45 

14 

24 

9 

5 

3 

2 

2 

13 
10 

150 
31 

7 

25 
9 
4 

15 

27 


"Included,  also,  in  the  loss  of  the  fleet. 


1  Kam,  Arkansas.  ^Includes  some  missing  ones  ;  the  vessel  was  blown  up. 


LOSSES  ix  THE  UNITED  STATES  NAVY. 


Date. 

Vessel. 

Connnander. 

Battle. 

Killed.    I 

Vounded.   i 

Missing.  Aggrega 

1868. 

Mch.  19 

Hartford 

Palmer 

Grand  Gulf  ( 

• 

2 

6 

8 

44     19 

Albatross 

Hart 

Grand  Gulf  ) 

44     11 

Chillicothe 

Foster 

Fort  Peml>ertoM 

2 

11 

13 

44     16 

Chillicothe 

Foster 

Fort  Pemberton 

4 

16 

20 

44     16 

Do  Kalb 

Walker 

Fort  Pemberton 

8 

3 

6 

April  16 

Fleet 

Porter 

Vicksburg 

_  _. 

13 

13 

44     29 

Benton 

Greer 

Grand  Gulf 

9 

19 

28 

44     29 

Tuscunibia 

Shirk 

Grand  Gulf 

6 

24 

30 

"     29 

Pittsburg 

Hoel 

Grand  Gulf 

6 

13 

19 

44     29 

Lafayette 

Walke 

Grand  Gulf 

1 

1 

May     4: 

Albatross 

Hart 

Fort  De  Russy 

2 

4 

6 

44     27 

Cincinnati* 

Bache 

Vicksburg 

5 

14 

15           34 

July     7 

Monongahela 

Read 

Mississippi 

2 

4 

6 

Sept.     7 

Clifton 

Crocker 

Sabine  Pass 

10 

9 

19 

7 

Sachem 

Johnson 

Sabine  Pass 

7 

t 

7 

1864. 

Feb.     1 

Underwriter 

Westervelt 

Neuse  River 

9 

20 

19           48 

April  26 

Cricket 

Gorringe 

Red  River 

12 

19 

*31 

"     26 

Himlmaii 

Pearce 

Red  River 

3 

5 

8 

44     26 

Juliet 

Shaw 

Red  River 

15 

May  13 

Covington 

Lord 

Red  River 

.  _ 

_  _ 

44 

44     31 

Water  Witch 

Peridergrast 

Ogeechee  River 

2 

12 

14 

June  19 

Kearsarge 

Winslow 

Cherbourg 

1 

2 

3 

44     24 

Queen  City 

Goudy 

White  River 

2 

8 

10 

l';     24 

Tyler 

Bache 

White  River  \ 

44     24 

•/ 

Naumkeag 

Rogers 

White  River  (. 

3 

15 

I* 

44     24 

Fawn 

Grove 

White  River  ) 

Aug.    5 

Hartford§ 

Drayton 

Mobile  Bay 

25 

28 

53 

"       5 

Brooklyn 

wf 

Alden 

Mobile  Bay 

11 

43 

54 

44       5 

Lackawanna 

Marchand 

Mobile  Bay 

4 

35 

;u> 

5 

Oneida 

Mullany 

Mobile  Bay 

8 

30 

38 

5 

Monongahela 

Strong 

Mobile  Bay 

— 

6 

6 

44       5 

Metacomet 

Jouett 

Mobile  Bay 

1 

2 

3 

44       5 

Ossipee 

Le  Roy 

Mobile  Bay 

1 

7 

8 

44       5 

Richmond 

Jenkins 

Mobile  Bay 

_  . 

2 

2 

'•       5 

Galena 

Wells 

Mobile  Bay 

— 

1 

1 

44       5 

Octorara 

Greene 

Mobile  Bay 

1 

10 

11 

"       5 

Kennel>ec 

McCann 

Mobile  Bay 

1 

6 

7 

44       5 

Teciimsehl 

Craven 

Mobile  Bay 

_  _ 

.  - 

79 

1865. 

Jan.   15 

Fleet 

Porter 

Fort  Fisher 

74 

289 

20      1383 

Mch.  29 

Osage** 

Gamble 

Mobile  Bay 

3 

- 

11 

April  - 

Rodolph* 

Dyer 

Mobile  Bay 

4 

11 

15 

ii 

Launch* 

Mobile  Bay 

3 

3 

(i 

Althea** 

Boyle 

•/ 

Mobile  Bay 

2 

2 

4 

« 

Sciota** 

Magune 

Mobile  Bay 

4 

6 

10 

« 

Ida** 

Kent 

Mobile  Bay 

2 

3 

5 

*Sunk  in  action.          t  Wounded  not  stated.          t  More  than  half  the  orew.          $  Furnujut's  flagship.          I  Blown  up  by  torped< 

5This  loss  occurred  in  the  column  of  sailors  who  landtxl  uud  made  an  assault  in  connection  with  that  of  the  land  forces. 
**Sunk  by  a  torpedo. 


CHAPTER  XIV. 


THE  GREATEST  BATTLES  OP  THE  WAR  -  -  LIST  OF  VICTORIES  AND  DEFEATS  - 
CHRONOLOGICAL  LIST  OF  BATTLES  WITH  LOSS  IN  EACH,  UNION  AND  CON 
FEDERATE. 

ETTYSBURG  was  the  greatest  battle  of  the  war ;  Antietam  was  the  bloodiest.  The 
largest  army  was  assembled  -  -  by  the  Confederates,  at  the  Seven  Days  ;  by  the  Union 
ists,  at  the  Wilderness. 

Gettysburg  may  be  considered  as  the  greatest  battle  for  various  reasons.  The  strategic 
issues  involved  were  the  most  important ;  it  was  the  turning  point  in  the  fortunes  of  the 
Confederates  ;  the  contending  armies  were  not  only  large,  but  were  at  their  best  in  point  of 
discipline  and  experience  ;  while  the  loss  of  life  exceeded  that  of  any  other  battle  field  of  the 

war. 

Antietam  was  the  bloodiest  battle.  More  men  were  killed  on  that  one  day  than  on  any 
other  one  day  of  the  war.  There  were  greater  battles,  with  greater  loss  of  life,  but  they 
were  not  fought  out  in  one  day  as  at  Antietam.  At  Gettysburg,  Chancellorsville  and  Spotsyl- 
vania,  the  fighting  covered  three  days  or  more  ;  at  the  Wilderness,  Cold  Harbor,  Shiloh, 
Stone's  River,  Chickamauga  and  Atlanta  the  losses  were  divided  between  two  days  of  fight 
ing  ;  but,  at  Antietam,  the  bloody  work  commenced  at  sunrise,  and  by  four  o'clock  that 
afternoon  it  was  over. 

At  the  Seven  Days  battle,  Lee's  army  numbered  94,138*  effective  men  actually  engaged, 
exclusive  of  non-combatants.  There  were  present,  194  regiments  and  16  battalions  of 
infantry  ;  8  regiments  and  6  battalions  of  cavalry  ;  and  59  batteries  of  light  artillery,— equiv 
alent,  in  all,  to  220  regiments.  The  casualty  lists  show  that  each  of  these  commands  was 
engaged,  and  they  specify  the  loss  in  each.  It  was  a  grand  army,  composed  of  the  flower  of 
Southern  manhood,  and  Lee  never  led  its  like  again. 

At  the  Wilderness,  Gen.  Grant's  army,  including  the  Ninth  Corps,  numbered  118,T69f 
effective  men  and  310  pieces  of  artillery.  It  included  236  regiments  and  3  battalions  of 
infantry  ;  35  regiments  of  cavalry  ;  and  64  batteries  of  light  artillery.  They  were  veteran 
regiments,  whose  riven  banners  had  waved  amid  the  smoke  of  many  hard  fought  fields. 

But  these  figures  represent  the  fighting  men  only,  and  the  armies  of  Lee  and  Grant,  as  a 
whole,  were  really  larger  than  these  figures  indicate.  On  April  30,  1864,  there  were  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  19,095  men  on  "extra  or  daily  duty,"  and  931  more  in  arrest,  all  of 
whom  were  present  with  Grant's  army  at  the  Wilderness,  in  addition  to  the  number  who 

*  Some  historians  have  accepted  a  Confederate  official  "estimate"  which  puts  Lee's  effective  strength  at  80,702.  But  this  will  not  do. 
There  were  too  many  infantry  commands,  unquestionably  present  and  engaged,  to  warrant  any  such  figures.  The  Confederate  official  reports 
of  brigade  and  regimental  commanders,  for  the  Seven  Days, —  including  Gen.  I).  II.  Hill's  statement  of  the  strength  of  his  division. ---state,  in 
the  majority  of  cases,  the  number  of  men  taken  info  action  by  tho  brigade  or  regiment.  From  these  reports  it  appears  that  105  infantry  regi 
ments  took  45,317  men  into  action,  an  average  of  431  men  to  a  regiment.  Again,  Gen.  Longstreet,  in  an  official  communication.  June  23,  1802, 
gives  the  number  "  present "  in  each  of  his  Virginia  regiments  and  batteries,  from  which  statement  it  appears  that  23  regiments  averaged  440 
men  present,  with  one  battalion  which  numbered  213  present,  and  that  17  batteries  averaged  71  men  per  battery. 

t  On  April  30,  1804,  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  reported  90,438  "  present  for  duty  equipped;  "  and  Burnside  reported,  in  addition,  19,&31  mon  in 
the  Ninth  Corps,  which  at  that  time  constituted  a  separate  command,  although  attached  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  This  does  not  include 
the  Army  of  the  James,  which,  under  command  of  Gen,  Butler,  was  attacking  Richmond  at  the  same  time,  from  the  south  side 

(540) 


GREATEST  BATTLES  OF  THE  WAR. 


541 


were  " present  for  duty  equipped."  The  Army  of  the  Potomac,  according  to  the  morning 
report  of  April  30,  1864,  had  an  "aggregate  present"  of  127,471,  not  including  the  Ninth 
Corps.* 

As  regards  the  loss  in  the  Union  armies,  the  greatest  hattles  of  the  war  were  : 


Date. 

July  1-3,  1863. 
May  8-18,  1864. 
May  5-7,  1864. 
Sept.  17,  1862. 
May  1-3,  1863. 
Sept.  19-20,  1863. 
June  1-4,  1864. 
Dec.  11-14,  1862. 
Aug.  28-30,  1862. 
April  6-7,  1862. 
Dec.  31,  1862. 
June  15-19,1864. 


Battle.  Killed. 

Gettysburg 3,070 

Spotsylvania  .  2,725 

Wilderness..  2,246 

Antietam  f. . .  2, 108 

Chancellors ville  .  1,606 

Chickamauga  .  1,656 

Cold  Harbor.  1,844 

Fredericksburg  1,284 

Manassas* . .     1 , 747 

Shiloh....  1,754 

Stone's  River§.  1,730 

Petersburg  (Assault)  .  1,688 


Wounded. 

Missing. 

Aggregate. 

14,497 

5,434 

23,001 

13,416 

2,258 

18,399 

12,037 

3,383 

17,666 

9,549 

753 

12,410 

9,762 

5,919 

17,287 

9,749 

4,774 

16,179 

9,077 

1,816 

12,737 

9,600 

1,769 

12,653 

8,452 

4,263 

14,462 

8,408 

2,885 

13,047 

7,802 

3,717 

13,249 

8,513 

1,185 

11,386 

As  before,  the  missing  includes  the  captured  ;  but  the  number  missing  at  Fredericks- 
burg  and  Cold  Harbor  may  be  fairly  added  to  the  killed  and  wounded,  as  it  represents  men 
who  fell  in  an  unsuccessful  assault. 

In  connection  with  these  matters  the  question  naturally  arises,-- Which  were  victories, 
and  which  were  defeats  ? 

To  answer  fairly  and  without  prejudice  would  only  invite  bitter  and  senseless  criticism 
from  both  sides.  It  is  too  soon  to  attempt  any  discussion  of  this  much  vexed  topic.  Still, 
there  are  certain  conceded  facts  relative  to  this  matter  which  one  might  venture  to  recall  to 
mind.  They  may  be  premised  with  the  military  axioms, —  that  when  an  army  retains  pos 
session  of  the  battle  field  and  buries  its  enemy's  dead,  it  certainly  cannot  be  considered  as  a 
defeated  army  ;  and  that  when  an  army  abandons  the  field,  either  slowly  or  in  rout,  and 
leaves  its  dead  and  wounded  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  it  certainly  should  not  claim  a  victory. 

In  the  following  named  battles  the  Union  armies  remained  in  undisturbed  possession  of 
the  field,  the  enemy  leaving  many  of  their  wounded  and  most  of  their  dead  unburied: 


Rich  Mountain,  W.  Va. 
Williamsburg,  Va. 
Crampton's  Gap,  Md. 
Mill  Springs,  Ky. 
Fort  Donelson,  Tenn. 
Shiloh,  Tenn. 
Pea  Ridge,  Ark. 
Roanoke  Island.  N.  C. 
New  Berne,  N.  C. 
Carter's  Farm,  Va. 
Prairie  Grove,  Ark. 
Nashville,  Tenn. 


Antietam,  Md. 
South  Mountain,  Md. 
Kernstown,  Va. 
Baton  Rouge,  La. 
luka,  Miss. 
Corinth,  Miss. 
Chaplin  Hills,  Ky. 
Resaca,  Ga. 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  July  21-22. 
Piedmont,  Va. 
Bentonville,  N.  C. 


Gettysburg,  Pa. 
Magnolia  Hills,  Miss. 
Raymond,  Miss. 
Champion's  Hill,  Miss. 
Stone's  River,  Tenn. 
Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn. 
Fort  Stevens,  D.  C. 
Opequon,  Va. 
Cedar  Creek,  Va. 
Five  Forks,  Va. 
Sailor's  Creek,  Va. 


•The  Virginia  Campaign  of  '64  and  '65  :  Humphreys  ;  pp.  408-411.     *  Including  Chantilly,  Rappahannoek.  Rrixtne  Station,  and  Hull  Kun  Bridge, 
t  Not  including  South  Mountain  or  Crampton'a  Gap.  $  Including  Knob  Gap,  and  losses  on  January  1st  and  ad,  1863. 


542  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

The  Union  armies  were  successful,  also,  in  the  following  assaults.    They  were  the  attack 
ing  party,  and  carried  the  forts,  or  intrenched  positions,  by  storm. 

Fort  Harrison,  Va.  Marye's  Heights,  Va.  (1863)  Rappahannock  Station,  Ya. 

Fort  McAllister,  Ga.  Lookout  Mountain,  Tenn.  Jonesboro,  Ga. 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  0.  Cloyd's  Mountain,  W.  Va.  Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va. 

Fort  Blakely,  Ala.  Utoy  Creek,  Ga. 

In  the  following  battles  the  Confederates  remained  in  undisturbed  possession  of  the  field, 
the  Union  armies  leaving  its  unburied  dead  and  many  of  its  wounded  in  their  hands  : 

First  Bull  Run,  Va.  Seven  Days,  Va.  Wilderness,  Va. 

Ball's  Bluff,  Va.  Manassas,  Va.  Spotsylvania,  Va. 

Belmont,  Mo.  Cedar  Mountain,  Va.  Drewry's  Bluff,  Va. 

Front  Royal,  Va.  Richmond,  Ky.  Monocacy,  Md. 

Port  Republic,  Va.  Fredericksburg,  Va.  Brice's  Cross  Roads,  Md. 

Wilson's  Creek,  Mo.  Chancellorsville,  Va.  Island  Ford,  Va. 

Pocotaligo,  S.  C.  Winchester,  Va.  (1863).  Deep  Bottom,  Va. 

Maryland  Heights,  Md.  Chickamauga,  Ga.  Ream's  Station,  Va. 

Shepherdstown,  Va.  Olustee,  Fla,  Hatcher's  Run,  Va. 

New  Market,  Va.  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  La. 

In  the  following  assaults  the  Confederates  successfully  repulsed  the  attacks  of  the  enemy: 

Chickasaw  Bluffs,  Miss.  Vicksburg,  Miss.  (May  19).  Cold  Harbor,  Va. 

Secessionville,  S.  C.  Vicksburg,  Miss.  (May  22).  Petersburg,  Va.  (June  17-18). 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.  Port  Hudson,  La.  (May  27).  Petersburg  Mine,  Va. 

Keiiesaw  Mountain,  Ga.  Port  Hudson,  La.  (June  14). 

In  the  following  assaults,  or  sorties,  the  Confederates  were  the  attacking  party,  and  were 
repulsed  : 

Helena,  Ark.  Wauhatchie,  Tenn.  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Ga. 

Fort  Sanders,  Tenn.  Allatoona  Pass,  Ga.  Ezra  Chapel,  Ga. 

Franklin,  Tenn.  Fort  Stedman,  Va. 

Other  instances  on  each  side  could  be  mentioned,  but  they  would  Invite  discussion  and 
are  better  omitted. 

There  were  112  battles  in  the  war,  in  which  one  side  or  the  other  lost  over  500  in  killed 
and  wounded.  In  all,  there  were  1,882  general  engagements,  battles,  skirmishes,  or  affairs  in 
which  at  least  one  regiment  was  engaged. 

With  this  chapter  is  given  a  chronological  list  of  the  battles  and  minor  engagements, 
showing  the  loss  in  each.  The  figures  are  compiled  from  the  battle  reports  and  revised  casu 
alty  lists  in  the  "Official  Records  of  the  Union  and  Confederate  Armies,"  published,  or  in 
process  of  publication,  by  the  War  Department  at  Washington. 

The  figures  in  the  table  of  Confederate  losses  are  the  ones  officially  reported  by  the  Con 
federate  generals  in  command,  or  by  their  surgeon-general,  to  whom,  in  many  instances,  that 
duty  seems  to  have  been  entrusted.  There  are  no  official  Confederate  casualty  reports  for  the 
latter  part  of  the  war,  and  so  there  is  no  statement  of  loss  for  several  battles.  Estimates 
might  be  quoted,  but  such  figures  are  not  within  the  province  of  this  work. 


BATTLES  AND  LOSSES. 


543 


LOSSES,   BY  BATTLES.- -UNION  ARMIES. 


Date. 

Engagements. 

Killed. 

woutuua,  tnava- 

iny  mortally  ir'<J. 

Ltaxurea  ana 

Mtutiny. 

Aggregate. 

1861. 

June        10 

Big  Bethel,  Va... 

18 

53 

5 

76 

July          5 

Carthage,  Mo... 

13 

31 

_  _ 

44 

July         11 

Rich  Mountain,  W.  Va  . 

12 

49 

_  — 

61 

July         is 

Blackburn's  Ford,  Va.  . 

19 

38 

26 

83 

July        21 

First  Bull  Run,  Va.. 

470 

1,071 

1,793 

3,334 

August    10 

Wilson's  Creek,  Mo  .  .  . 

223 

721 

291 

1,235 

Sept.         10 

Carnifex  Ferry,  W.  Va. 

17 

141 

_  . 

158 

October     3 

Greenbrier  River,  W.  Va. 

8 

35 

—  — 

43 

October  21 

Ball's  Bluff,  Va.  

49 

i;,s 

714 

921 

Nov.          7 

Belmont,  Mo  

80 

322 

99 

501 

Dec.          13 

Camp  Alleghanv,  W.  Va  .  .  . 

20 

107 

10 

137 

Dec.          20 

Dranesville,  Va  

7 

61 

.. 

68 

1862. 

Jan.          19 

Mill  Springs,  Ky  

39 

207 

-  _ 

246 

Feb.            8 

Roanoke  Island,  N.  C  .  . 

37 

214 

13 

264 

Feb.          15 

Fort  Donelson,  Tenn  .  . 

500 

2,108 

224 

2,832 

March  1-14 

New  Madrid,  Mo  

8 

21 

3 

32 

March    6-8 

Pea  Ridge,  Mo  

203 

980 

201 

1,384 

March      14 

New  Berne,  N.  C  . 

90 

380 

1 

471 

March      23 

Kernstown,  Va  .  . 

118 

450 

22 

590 

April     6,  7 

Shiloh,  Tenn. 

1,754 

8,408 

2,885 

13,047 

April        19 

Camden,  N.  C.  (South  Mills)  . 

13 

101 

13 

127 

May           9 

Farmington,  Miss.  ..   

16 

148 

14 

178 

May           5 

Williamsburg,  Va. 

456 

1,410 

373 

2,239 

May             7 

West  Point,  Va. 

48 

110 

28 

186 

May           8 

McDowell,  Va  . 

26 

227 

3 

256 

May  16.  17 

Princeton,  W.  Va 

23 

69 

21 

113 

«/ 

May         17 

Russell  House,  Miss  .  . 

10 

31 

_  - 

41 

May          23 

Lewisburg,  W.  Va 

13 

53 

7 

73 

May    23-25 

Front  Royal  and  Winchester, 

Va        .   62 

L'l:', 

1,714 

2,019 

May         27 

Hanover  Court  House,  Va 

62 

223 

70 

355 

May          31 

Fair  Oaks,  Va.  (Seven  Pines)  . 

790 

3,594 

647 

5,031 

June 

Cross  Keys,  Va... 

114 

443 

127 

684 

June         9 

Port  Republic,  Va. 

67 

393 

558 

1,018 

June        16 

Secession  ville,  S.  C 

107 

487 

89 

t;s:; 

June        25 

Oak  Grove,         ]     £  „_    9 

67 

504 

55 

626 

June        26 

Mechanicsville, 

49 

207 

105 

361 

June        27 

n     •          »      -nr-n                      ;    -  oo  o       *n 

Games  s  Mill. 

CG 

slM 

3,107 

2,836 

6,837 

June 

Gelding's  Farm,        £  '•"%  ^ 

37 

227 

104 

368 

June        29f 

Savage  Station,        a  -g|.|    - 

80 

412 

1,098 

1,590 

June        30+ 

Glendale,                   5  |||     ° 

210 

1,513 

1,130 

2,853 

July           1 

Malvern  Hill, 

397 

2,092 

725 

3,214 

July           7 

Bayou  Cache,  Ark. 

6 

57 

63 

'Includes  loss  at  Gannett 's  Furm  on  the  previons  day, 
tlncludes  loss  at  Peach  Orchard  (or  Allen's  Farm)  on  same  day. 
{Includes  loss  at  White  Oak  Swamp,  and  Charles  City  Cross  Roads. 


544 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Date. 

Engagements. 

Killed. 

ing  mortally  w'd. 

Missing. 

Aggregate. 

1862 

July         13 

Murf  reesboro,  Tenn  

19 

120 

46 

*185 

Aug.          5 

Baton  Rouge,  La  

84 

266 

33 

383 

Aug.          9 

Cedar  Mountain,  Va  

314 

1,445 

622 

2,381 

Aug.  16-31f 

Maiiassas,  Va  

1,747 

8,452 

4,263 

14,462 

Aug.         30 

Richmond,  Ky  

206 

844 

4,303 

5,353 

Sept.  10,  11 

Fayetteville,  W.  Va. 

25 

95 

190 

310 

Sept.  12-15 

Harper's  Ferry,  Va  

44 

173 

12,520 

12,737 

Sept.         14 

Crampton's  Gap,  Md  

113 

418 

2 

533 

Sept.         14 

South  Mountain,  Md  

325 

1,403 

85 

1,813 

Sept.  14-16 

Munfordville,    Ky  

15 

57 

4,076 

4,148 

Sept.         17 

Antietam,  Md  

2,108 

9,549 

753 

12,410 

Sept.         19 

luka,  Miss  

141 

613 

36 

790 

Sept.  19,20 

Shepherdstowii  Ford,  Va  

71 

161 

131 

363 

Oct.       3,  4 

Corinth,  Miss.  . 

355 

1,841 

324 

2,520 

Oct.            5 

Hatchie  Bridge,  Miss  

46 

493 

31 

570 

Oct.            8 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky. 

845 

2,851 

515 

4,211 

Oct.        8,  9 

Lawrenceburg,  Ky.  (Dog  Walk)  . 

8 

20 

13 

41 

Oct.           22 

Pocotaligo,  S.  C  

43 

294 

3 

340 

Oct.          27 

Georgia  Landing,  La  

18 

74 

5 

97 

Dec.           5 

Coffee  ville,  Miss  

10 

63 

41 

114 

Dec.           7 

Hartsville,  Tenn  

58 

204 

1,834 

2,096 

Dec.           7 

Prairie  Grove,  Ark  

175 

813 

263 

1,251 

Dec.    12-17 

Kinston  ;   Goldsborough,  N.  C  _  .  _ 

92 

487 

12 

591 

Dec.          13 

Fredericksburg,  Va  

1,284 

9,600 

1,769 

12,653 

Dec.    2R,  2  1) 

Chickasaw  Bluffs,  Miss.  - 

208 

1,005 

563 

1,776 

Dec.          30 

Parker's  Cross  Roads,  Tenn  

27 

140 

70 

237 

Dec.          31 

^Stone's  River,  Tenn  

1,730 

7,802 

3,717 

13,249 

1863. 

Jan.       7,  8 

Springfield,   Mo._ 

14 

146 

5 

165 

Jan.          11 

Hartsville,   Mo 

7 

64 

2 

73 

Jan.          11 

Arkansas  Post,  Ark  _  . 

134 

898 

29 

1,061 

Jan.          30 

Deserted  House,  Va_. 

23 

108 

12 

143 

Feb.            3 

Fort  Donelsori,  Tenn  .  _ 

14 

54 

10 

78 

March    4,  5 

Thompson's  Station,  Tenn  .  - 

48 

247 

1,151 

1,446 

March      17 

Kelly's  Ford,  Va_ 

9 

35 

40 

84 

April        13 

Fort  Bisland,  La__ 

40 

184 

— 

224 

April         14 

Irish  Bend,  La  .  _ 

49 

274 

30 

353 

April  11-30 

Siege  of  Suffolk,  Va  .  _ 

41 

223 

2 

266 

May            1 

§Magnolia  Hills,  Miss  . 

131 

719 

25 

875 

May        1-4 

||  Chancellorsville,  Va  .  _ 

1,606 

9,762 

5,919 

17,287 

May          12 

Raymond,  Miss- 

66 

339 

37 

442 

May          14 

Jackson,  Miss 

42 

251 

7 

300 

May          16 

Champion's  Hill,   Miss  .  . 

410 

1,844 

187 

2,441 

*  Not  including  men  surrendered  in  the  capitulation. 

t  Includes  Bristoe  Station,  Groveton,  Gainesville,  Chantilly  and  the  Rappahannock. 

}  Includes  loss  at  Knob  Gap,  Dec.  26th  ;  and  at  Jefferson  Dec.  30th  ;  also,  losses  Jan.  1,  2,  1863. 

§  Port  Gibson,  Miss. 

[  Includes  loss  atMarye's  Heights  and  Salem  Church,  viz.:  493  killed,  2,710  wounded,  1,497  missing.     Also,  loss  at  Fitzhugh's  Crossing. 


BATTLES  AND  Loss  is 


545 


Date. 

Engagemen  (s* 

Killed. 

Wounded.  iiK  hill 
ing  mortally  ir'd. 

t'ii]it'ir><l  and 
MMng. 

Aggrtgatt. 

1863 

May         17 

Black  River  Bridge,  Miss  

39 

•j::7 

3 

279 

Mav         19 

Assault  on  Vicksburg,  Miss  . 

157 

777 

- 

942 

May         22 

Assault  on  Vicksburg,  Miss. 

502 

2,550 

147 

3,199 

May         23  ) 
July           4  J 

Vicksburg  Trenches,  Miss  . 

147 

613 

9 

769 

May         21 

Plain's  Store,  La  

15 

71 

14 

100 

May         27 

Assault  on  Port  Hudson,  La 

293 

1,545 

157 

1,995 

June         14 

Assault  on  Port  Hudson,  La.  .  . 

203 

1,401 

162 

1,766 

May         26  ) 

i  ,  r             .  i 

Port  Hudson  Trenches,  La. 

211 

390 

601 

J  uly           9  ) 

June          5 

Franklin's  Crossing,  Va  . 

9 

48 

—  - 

57 

June       6-8 

Milliken's  Bend,  La  

118 

310 

-  _ 

428 

June          9 

*Beverly  Ford,  Va  .  .  . 

81 

403 

382 

B66 

June   13-15 

Winchester,  Va. 

95 

348 

4,000 

4,443 

June         17 

*Aldie,  Va  

50 

131 

124 

305 

June         19 

*Middleburg,  Va.. 

16 

46 

37 

99 

June         21 

*Upperville,  Va  .  . 

12 

130 

67 

209 

June         21 

La  Fourche  Crossing,  La  . 

8 

40 

-  - 

48 

June         22 

Hill's  Plantation,  Miss 

10 

9 

28 

47 

June        24 

Hoover's  Gap,  Tenn... 

27 

177 

2 

206 

June         25 

Liberty  Gap,  Tenn  _  

42 

232 

1 

275 

June         27 

fShelbyville,  Tenn  . 

15 

64 

10 

89 

July      2-26 

Morgan's  Raid,  Ky  

19 

47 

- 

74 

July           4 

Helena,  Ark  

57 

146 

36 

239 

July      9-16 

Jackson,  Miss  

129 

762 

231 

1,1  2L> 

June         30 

*Hanover,  Pa  

19 

73 

123 

215 

July        1-3 

Gettysburg,  Pa  

3,070 

14,497 

5,434 

23,001 

July           6 

*Hagerstown.  Md 

19 

50 

194 

263 

July            6 

*Williamsport,  Md_. 

14 

37 

69 

120 

July       7-9 

*Boonsborough,  Md  . 

8 

54 

18 

80 

July         11 

*Hagerstown,  Md  

5 

31 

13 

49 

July         12 

Funkstown,  Md  

14 

77 

6 

97 

July         14 

*Falling  Waters,  Md  

31 

58 

32 

121 

July         16 

*Shepherdstown,  Va  

8 

72 

24 

104 

July          11 

Assault  on  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C  

49 

123 

167 

339 

July         18 

Assault  on  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C... 

246 

880 

389 

1,515 

July 

Siege  of  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C... 

71 

L>7> 

9 

358 

July          13 

Donaldsonville,  La. 

56 

223 

IMJ 

465 

July          21 

*Manassas  Gap,  Va  . 

9 

12 

8 

29 

July         23 

Wapping  Heights,  Va. 

20 

83 

_  _ 

103 

Aug.           1 

*Brandy  Station,  Va  - 

21 

104 

20 

145 

Aug.  26,  27 

*  White  Sulphur  Springs,  Va  . 

26 

125 

67 

218 

Sept.  19,  20 

Chickamauga,  Ga  

1,656 

9,749 

4,774 

16,179 

Sept.        29 

Morganzia,  La  

16 

45 

453 

514 

Oct.          14 

Bristoe  Station,  Va  .  _ 

50 

:;:;:, 

161 

546 

Oct.           20 

Philadelphia,  Tenn.  .  . 

7 

25 

447 

479 

*  Cavalry  engagement.        t  Includes  losses  at  (Juy's  Gap  and  Mitldleton. 


35 


546 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Date. 

Engagement. 

Killed. 

Wounded,  inclitd- 
inq  mortally  w^d. 

Captured  and 
Missing. 

Aggregate. 

1863 

Oct          27 

Wauhatchie,  Tenn  

75 

300 

8 

383 

Nov.           3 

Grand  Coteau,  La  . 

25 

129 

562 

716 

Nov.           6 

Droop  Mountain,  W.  Va  . 

30 

88 

1 

119 

Nov.           7 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va  .  . 

83 

328 

6 

417 

Nov.           7 

Kelly's  Ford,  Va.__ 

6 

39 

45 

Nov.         16 

Campbell's  Station,  Tenn  

31 

211 

74 

316 

Nov. 

Siege  of  Knoxville,  Tenn_ 

92 

393 

202 

687 

Nov.    23-25 

*Chattanooga,  Tenn  

687 

4,346 

349 

5,382 

Nov.         27 

Ringgold  ;  Graysville,  Ga 

65 

367 

432 

Nov.    26-30 

Mine  Run  Campaign,  Va_ 

173 

1,099 

381 

1,653 

Dec.            2 

Walker's  Ford,  W.  Va__. 

9 

43 

12 

64 

Dec.          14 

Bean's  Station,  Tenn.  .  - 

16 

51 

48 

115 

Dec.         29 

Mossy  Creek,  Term  .  . 

18 

86 

5 

109 

1864 

Feb.        1-3 

Bachelor's  Creek,  N.  C_. 

9 

15 

302 

326 

Feb.            6 

Mortoii's  Ford,  Ara_- 

10 

208 

42 

260 

Feb.          20 

Olustee,  Fla.- 

203 

1,152 

506 

1,861 

Feb.          27 

Buzzard's  Roost,  Ga._ 

17 

272 

— 

289 

March        5 

Yazoo  City,  Miss  

21 

89 

21 

131 

April          3 

Okolona,  Ark  

16 

74 

90 

April          8 

Sabine  Cross  Roads,  La  ) 

258 

1,487 

1,772 

3,517 

April          9 

Pleasant  Hill.  La    } 

April  17-20 

Plymouth,  N.  C  - 

20 

80 

1,500 

1,600 

April        23 

Cane  River,  La  _  .    

40 

160 

200 

April        25 

Marks's  Mills,  Ark  .  . 

100 

250 

100 

450 

April        30 

Jenkins's  Ferry,  Ark  

64 

378 

86 

528 

May           1 

Alexandria,  La  

23 

67 

21 

111 

May      5-31 

f  Atlanta  Campaign,  Ga  1,  N  J  • 

\    £(    1,458 

1-        O 

7,436 

405 

9,299 

June     1-30 

^Atlanta  Campaign,  Ga     -*  £  • 

5,740 

665 

7,530 

July     1-31 

§Atlanta  Campaign,  Ga   -  1  ^  , 

yd      —  '              ' 

5,915 

2,694 

9,719 

Aug.     1-31 

I  Atlanta  Campaign,  Ga    ^  |  • 

453 

2,318 

466 

3,237 

Sept.          1 

T  Atlanta  Campaign,  Ga    ~  j|  -j 

:      H  [       277 

1,433 

212 

1,902 

May       5-7 

Wilderness,  Va  

2,246 

12,037 

3,383 

17,666 

May      8-21 

**Spotsylvania,  Va  _  . 

2,725 

13,416 

2,258 

18,399 

May       6,  7 

Walthall  ;  Chester  Station,  V 

a__             48 

256 

70 

374 

May     9,  10 

Arrowfield  Church,  Va. 

36 

188 

19 

243 

May    12-16 

Drewry's  Bluff,  Va  _  . 

390 

2,380 

1,390 

4,160 

May   18-20 

Ware  Bottom  Church,  Va 

103 

796 

49 

948 

May   21-31 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va 

18 

89 

21 

128 

*Or,  Missionary  Ridge;  Includes  Orchard  Knob,  Nov.  23  (loss  about  200) ;  and  Lookout  Mountain,  Nov.  24  (500). 

+  Includes  Rocky  Face  Ridge,  May  5-9  (loss  about  900) ;  Resaca,  May  13-15  (3,000) ;  New  Hope  Church,  May  25  (1,000) ;  Pickett's  Mills,  May 
27  (1.900) ;  Dallas.  May  28-31  (1,800) ;  Adairsville,  Cassville,  Rome  Cross  Roads,  etc. 

*  Includes  Dallas,  June  1-4(900);  Pine  Mountain,  June  14-19(1,100);  Gulp's  House,  June  22(700)  ;  Kenesaw  Mountain,  June  20-30  (1,200); 
Assault  on  Kenesaw,  June  27  (3,000) ;  Lattimore's  Mill ;  Powder  Springs,  etc. 

§  Includes  Nickajack  Creek,  July  2-5  (450) ;  Chattahoochie,  July  G-10  (850) ;  Peach  Tree  Creek,  July  20  (2,200) ;  Atlanta,  July  21, 22(4,200) ; 
Ezra  Chapel,  July  28  (850) ;  and  others. 

I!  Includes  Utoy  Creek,  Aug.  5,  6  (800) ;  and  Siege  of  Atlanta. 

T  Jonesboro  and  Lovejoy's  Station. 

**  Includes  Alsop's  Farm,  May  8  (loss  about  1,800) ;  Po  River,  Laurel  Hill,  and  Upton's  Charge,  May  10  (5,000);  Hancock's  Assault,  the 
'Angle,"  and  general  attack  of  May  12(8,500);  Spotsylvania,  May  18  (800);  Fredericksburg  Pike,  May  19  (1,400);  Todd's  Tavern;  Corbin's 
Bridge  ;  Ny  River ;  Guinea  Station  etc. 


BATTLES  AND  LOSSES. 


:>47 


Date. 

Bngagemfntt, 

Killtd.      , 

Wounded,  inriud- 
Ing  tnort<tU\i  to'd. 

Captiirfd  and 
ifittiny. 

Jggregatt. 

1864 

May     7-16 

*Kautz's  Cavalry  Raid,  Va  

14 

60 

31 

105 

May     9,  10 

Cloyd's  Mountain,  W.  Va  

108 

508 

72 

688 

May         11 

*  Yellow  Tavern,  Va  

35 

142 

82 

259 

May         12 

*Meadow  Bridges,  Va  

15 

12S 

27 

170 

May         15 

Newmarket,  Va  

93 

tvj 

256 

831 

May         18 

Bayou  Glaize,  La  

54 

261 

6 

321 

May   23-27 

North   Anna,  Va  

186 

942 

165 

1,293 

May   28-31 

Totopotomoy,  Va  

101 

518 

52 

671 

May    25-30 

^Sheridan's  Cavalry,  Va  

110 

450 

96 

656 

June          1 

Bethesda  Church,  Va  

194 

824 

348 

1,366 

June      2-4 

fCold  Harbor,  Va  

1,844 

9,077 

1,816 

12,737 

June     1-14 

Bermuda  Hundred,  Va.  

25 

134 

98 

257 

June          5 

Piedmont,  Va  

130 

650 

780 

June        10 

B  rice's  Cross  Roads,  Miss  

223 

394 

1,623 

2,240 

June  17,  18 

Lynchburg,  Va  

'103 

564 

271 

938 

June  11,  12 

*Trevilian  Station,  Va  

102 

470 

435 

1,007 

June        21 

*White  House,  Va  

10 

51 

22 

83 

June        24 

*St.  Mary's  Church,  Va  

29 

188 

122 

339 

June  15-19 

Petersburg  Assault,  Va  

1,688 

8,513 

1,185 

11,386 

June        22 

:{:  Jerusalem  Road,  Va.  

142 

654 

2,166 

2,962 

June  22-29 

•Wilson's  Raid,  Va  

71 

262 

1,119 

1,452 

June  20-30 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va  

112 

506 

151 

769 

July           2 

Fort  Johnson,  S.  C.  

19 

97 

135 

251 

July       5-7 

John's  Island,  S.  C  

16 

82 

12 

110 

July           9 

Monocacy,  Md  

123 

603 

568 

1,294 

July         12 

Fort  Stevens,  D.  C.. 

54 

319 

—  — 

373 

July         13 

Tupelo,  Miss  

59 

435 

16 

528 

July         18 

Island  Ford,  Va  

65 

301 

56 

422 

July         20 

Carter's  Farm,  Va  

37 

175 

30 

242 

July         24 

Winchester,  Va  

134 

678 

391 

1,203 

July    26-29 

Strawberry  Plains,  Va        

62 

340 

86 

488 

July         30 

Petersburg  Mine,  Va.  

504 

1,881 

1,413 

3,798 

July      1-3.1 

Petersburg  Trenches,  Va  

340 

1,587 

145 

2,081 

Aug.         11 

•White  Post,  Va._  

30 

70 

200 

300 

Aug.   14-16 

Deep  Bottom,  Va  

327 

1,851 

721 

2,899 

Aug.   18-20 

Weldon  Railroad,  Va  

251 

1,148 

2,879 

4,278 

Aug.         24 

Halltown,  Va  _  

9 

37 

16 

62 

Aug.         25 

Ream's  Station,  Va  

140 

529 

2,073 

2,742 

Aug.         25 

•Smithfield,   Va.  

20 

61 

100 

181 

Aug.         26 

Halltown,  Va.  

30 

141 

_  _ 

171 

Aug.         29 

•Smithfield,  Va  

10 

90 

_  „ 

100 

Aug.     1-31 

§Siege  of  Petersburg  

158 

623 

296 

1,077 

Sept.           3 

Berrvville,  Va  

30 

182 

100 

312 

Sept.         19 

Opequon,  Va.. 

697 

3,983 

338 

5,018 

•Cavalry  engagements. 

t  Includes  assault  of  Sixth  and  Eighteenth  Corps,  June  1 ;  also,  losses  of  the  Fifth  and  Ninth  Corps  at  Bethesda  Church  on  June  2d  and 
subsequently  :  also.  Cavalry  Corps  at  Cold  Harbor.  May  31  and  June  1 ;  also,  loss  in  the  trenches  at  Cold  Harbor,  June  4-14. 
JKnown,  also,  as  Weldon  Railroad,  and  WilHams's  Farm.          Jlncludes  operations  ou  tho  north  side  of  the  James. 


548 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Date. 

Engagements. 

Killed. 

ing  mortally  w^d. 

Missing. 

Aggregate. 

1864. 

Sept.        22 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va  

52 

457 

19 

528 

Sept.        26 

*Fort   Davidson,  Mo.  

28 

56 

100 

184 

Sept.        28 

Chaffin's  Farm,  Va  

383 

2,299 

645 

3,327 

Sept.        30 

fPoplar  Spring  Church,  Va  -  

187 

900 

1,802 

2,889 

Sept.     1-30 

^Petersburg  Trenches,  Va  

74 

304 

424 

802 

Oct.            2 

*Saltville,  Va  

54 

190 

104 

348 

Oct.            5 

Allatoona  Pass,  Ga  

142 

352 

212 

706 

Oct.            7 

Darbytowii  Road,  Va  

49 

253 

156 

458 

Oct.            9 

*Tom's  Brook  ;  Woodstock,  Va  .  . 

9 

67 

76 

Oct.          13 

*Strasburg,  Va  --. 

30 

144 

40 

214 

Oct.          13 

Darbytown  Road,  Va  _ 

36 

358 

43 

437 

Oct.          19 

Cedar  Creek,  Va  

644 

3,430 

1,591 

5,665 

Oct.          21 

*Little  Blue,  Mo  

18 

83 

14 

115 

Oct.          22 

^Independence,  Mo  

14 

58 

11 

83 

Oct.          26 

*Decatur,  Ala  

10 

45 

100 

155 

Oct.          27 

§Boydton  Road,  Va  

166 

1,028 

564 

1,758 

Oct.          27 

Darbytowii  Road  ;  Fair  Oaks,  Va_ 

118 

787 

698 

1,603 

Oct.      1-31 

^Petersburg  Trenches,  Va  

159 

520 

633 

1,312 

Nov.         22 

*Rood'sHill,  Va  

18 

52 

10 

80 

Nov.         22 

Griswoldville,  Ga  

10 

52 



62 

Nov.         30 

Honey  Hill,  S.  C  

91 

631 

26 

T48 

Nov.         30 

Franklin,  Term  

189 

1,033 

1,104 

2,326 

Nov.     1-30 

^Siege  of  Petersburg  

57 

258 

108 

423 

Dec.           5 

Murfreesboro,  Term  

30 

175 

.  _ 

205 

Dec.        6-9 

Deveaux's  Neck,  S.  C  

39 

390 

200 

629 

Dec.         13 

Fort  McAllister,  Ga  

24 

110 

_  - 

134 

Dec.    15,16 

Nashville,  Tenii  

387 

2,558 

112 

3,057 

Dec.         18 

Marion,  Va  

18 

58 

_  _ 

76 

Dec.         28 

*Egypt  Station,  Miss  

23 

88 

7 

118 

Dec.      1-31 

JSiege  of  Petersburg,  Va.  

66 

278 

269 

613 

1865. 

Jan.          15 

Fort  Fisher,  N.  C  

184 

749 

22 

955 

Jan.      1-31 

tSiege  of  Petersburg,  Va  

51 

269 

81 

401 

Feb.        3-9 

Rivers's  Bridge,  S.  C  

18 

70 

4 

92 

Feb.        5-7 

§Dabney's  Mills,  Va  .._   

171 

1,181 

187 

1,539 

Feb.          10 

James's  Island.  S.  C     .       . 

20 

76 

—  — 

96 

Feb.          11 

Sugar  Loaf  Battery,  N.  C 

14 

114 

.-  - 

128 

Feb.          20 

Town  Creek,  N.  C 

30 

154 

-  - 

184 

Feb.      1-28 

^Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va  

43 

257 

72 

372 

March       6 

National  Bridge,  Fla 

22 

46 

13 

81 

March  8-10 

Wilcox's  Bridge,  N.  C 

64 

319 

953 

1,336 

March      10 

Monroe's  Cross  Roads,  N.  C.   _ 

19 

61 

103 

183 

March      16 

Averasboro,  N.  C 

93 

531 

54 

678 

March      19 

Bentonville,  N.  C 

191 

1,168 

287 

1,646 

March      25 

Fort  Stedman,  Va._ 

72 

450 

522 

1,044 

March      25 

Petersburg,  Va_ 

103 

864 

209 

1,176 

"Cavalry  engagements. 

^Includes  operations  on  the  north  side  of  the  James. 


tKnown,  also,  as  Peebles's  Farm,  and  Pegram's  Farm. 
§Known,  also,  as  Hatcher's  Bun. 


BATTLES  AND  LOSSES. 


Date. 

1865. 

March  29 

March  31 
March  1-31 

March  31 

April  1 

April  2 

April  2 

April  3 

April  5 

April  6 

April  7 
April 

April  9 

April  16 


Engagements. 

Gravelly  Run,  Va 

White  Oak  Road,  Va 

Siege  of  Petersburg,  Va  - 
*Dimvi(Ulie  C.  H.,Va. 
Five  Forks,  Va. 
*Solmu,  Ala 

Fall  of  Petersburg,  Va  . 
*Namozin  Church,  Va. 
*Amelia  Springs,  Va  . . 
Sailor's  Creek,  Va... 

Farmville,  Va 

Spanish  Fort,  Ala 
Fort  Blakely,  Ala  . 
*Columbus  ;  West  Point,  Ga. 


Killed, 

55 

177 
:.s 
67 

124 
42 

296 
10 
20 

166 
58 

100 

113 
13 


}V<»uxt< <(.  Incliid- 
i>/  mortally  w'4. 


306 

1,134 

272 

354 

706 

270 

2,565 

85 

96 

1,OU 

504 

695 

516 

53 


(.\iiii 'i rill  and 
Musing. 

22 

556 
98 

54 

7 
500 


9 


383 

1,867 

428 

421 

884 

319 

3,361 

95 

116 

1,180 

571 

795 

62!  • 

66 


CONFEDERATE  LOSSES  IN  PARTICULAR  ENGAGEMENTS. 


1861. 


July 

21 

First  Bull  Run,  Va. 

387 

1,582 

13 

1,982 

Aug. 

10 

Wilson's   Creek,  Mo... 

265 

800 

30 

1,095 

Oct. 

3 

Greenbrier   River,  W.  Va. 

6 

33 

13 

52 

Oct. 

21 

Ball's  Bluff,  Va  . 

36 

117 

2 

155 

Nov. 

7 

Behnont,  Mo  

105 

419 

117 

641 

UGC. 

13 

Camp  Alleghany,  W.  Va  . 

20 

96 

28 

144 

Dec. 
1  ^<» 

20 

9 

Dranesville,  Va  .  . 

43 

143 

8 

194 

J.OU 

Jan. 

19 

Mill  Springs,  Ky. 

125 

309 

95 

529 

Feb. 

8 

Roanoke  Island,  N.  C  . 

23 

58 

2,527 

2,608 

Feb.    14-16 

Fort  Donelson,  Term  . 

f466 

1,534 

\  13,  829 

15,829 

March 

14 

New  Berne,  N.  C._ 

64 

101 

413 

578 

March 

23 

Kernstown,  Va  

80 

375 

263 

718 

April 

6,7 

Shiloh,  Tenn. 

1,723 

8,012 

959 

10,694 

April 

W 

Camden,  N.  C__. 

6 

19 

3 

28 

May 

5 

AVilliamsburg,  Va.. 

288 

975 

297 

1,560 

May 

7 

AVest  Point,  Va.. 

8 

40 



48 

May 

8 

McDowell,  Va.  . 

75 

423 

_  _ 

498 

May   2; 

*-25 

Front  Royal  ;  Winchester,  Va  

39 

172 

3 

214 

May 

27 

Hanover  C.  H.,  Va. 

73 

192 

_  _ 

265 

May 

31 

Fair  Oaks,  Va... 

980 

4,749 

405 

6,134 

June 

6 

Harrisonburg,   Va  . 

17 

50 

3 

70 

June 

S 

Cross  Keys,  Va  

56 

392 

47 

495 

June 

9 

Port  Republic,  Va_. 

78 

533 

4 

615 

June 

16 

Secessinnville,   S.  C  

r>2 

144 

8 

204 

•Cavalry  engagements. 


tGen. 


N  Kt  port  :  Official  Records,  Vol.  VII,  p.  891. 


JMay  include  some  of  the  wounded. 


550 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Date. 

Engagements.  (Confederate  Losses.} 

Killed. 

ing  mortally  w'd. 

Missing. 

Aggregate. 

1862. 

June        25  ) 
July           1  j 

*Seven  Days'  Battle,  Va  

3,478 

16,261 

875 

20,614 

Aug.           5 

Baton  Eouge,  La  

84 

313 

56 

453 

Aug.           9 

Cedar   Mountain,  Va  

223 

1,060 

31 

1,314 

Aug.         30 

Kichmond,  Ky  

78 

372 

1 

451 

Aug.         21  ) 
Sept.           2  j 

fManassas,  Va  

1,481 

7,627 

89 

9,197 

Sept.        10 

Fayetteville,  W.  Va. 

16 

32 

48 

Sept.  12-20 

JMaryland   Campaign,  Md  

1,886 

9,348 

1,367 

12,601 

Sept.  14-17 

Munfordville,  Ky  

40 

211 

251 

Sept.        19 

luka,  Miss....  

86 

408 

199 

693 

Oct.        3-5 

§Corinth,  Miss  

505 

2,150 

2,183 

4,838 

Oct.            8 

Chaplin  Hills,  Ky. 

510 

2,635 

251 

3,396 

Oct.          22 

Pocotaligo,  S.   C  

21 

124 

18 

163 

Dec.           5 

Coffee  ville,  Miss  

7 

43 

10 

60 

Dec.           7 

Hartsville,  Tenn  

21 

104 

14 

139 

Dec.           7 

Prairie  Grove,  Ark  _   

164 

817 

— 

981 

Dec.    12-17 

Kinston,    Whitehall,    and    Golds- 

borough,  N.  C  

71 

268 

400 

739 

Dec.         13 

Fredericksburg,  Va  

596 

4,068 

651 

5,315 

Dec.    26-29 

Chickasaw  Bluffs,  Miss  

57 

120 

10 

187 

Dec.          31 

Stone's  River,  Tenn  

1,294 

7,945 

1,027 

10,266 

1863. 

Jan.      2-11 

Springfield  ;  Hartsville,  Mo  

32 

201 

29 

262 

Jan.          30 

Deserted  House,  Va  .  _  '.  

8 

31 

_  _ 

39 

March       5 

Thompson's  Station,  Tenn  

56 

289 

12 

357 

May           1 

Magnolia  Hills,  Miss  

68 

380 

384 

832 

May       1-4 

Chancellorsville,  Va  

1,665 

9,081 

2,018 

12,764 

May         12 

Raymond,  Miss  

73 

251 

190 

514 

May         16 

Champion's  Hill,  Miss  

380 

1,018 

2,441 

3,839 

June          6 

Milliken's  Bend,  La  

101 

285 

266 

652 

June          9 

Beverly  Ford,  Va  

51 

250 

132 

1433 

June  10-24 

Middleburg  ;  Upperville,  Va  

65 

279 

166 

510 

June         1  3 

Winchester,  Va  __ 

47 

219 

3 

269 

June         30 

Hanover,  Pa  

9 

50 

58 

117 

July       1-3 

Gettysburg,  Pa  

2,592 

12,706 

||5,150 

20,448 

July           4 

Helena,  Ark  

173 

645 

772 

1,590 

July           6 

Hagerstown  ;  Williamsport,  Md._ 

8 

65 

181 

254 

July     9-16 

Jackson,  Miss  

71 

504 

765 

1,340 

July         12 

Funkstown  ;  Boonsborough,   Md  _ 

26 

130 

60 

216 

*Approximate  division  of  loss  :  June  25,  Oak  Grove,  441 ;  June  26,  Mechanicsville,  1,365 ;  June  27,  Gaines's  Mill,  8,751 ;  June  28,  Garnett1  s 
Farm,  and  Golding's  Farm,  461 ;  June  29,  Savage  Station  and  Peach  Orchard,  626  ;  June  30,  White  Oak  Swamp  and  Glendale  (or  Charles  City 
Cross  Roads),  3,615 ;  July  1,  Mai vern  Hill  and  Malvern  Cliff,  5,353;  total,  20,614.— Official  Records,  Vol.  XI,  Part  II,  pp.  973-984:  Confederate 
Reports. 

tlncludes  Rappahannock  and  Chantilly ;  compiled  from  official  reports  of  Longstreet,  Jackson  and  Stuart. 

^Includes  Harper's  Ferry,  Crampton's  Gap,  South  Mountain,  Antietam,  and  Shepherdstowu;  complied  from  official  reports  of  Longstreet, 
Jackson,  and  I).  II.  Hill. 

§Includes  loss  at  Hatchie  River,  October  5th. 

•[Not  including  90  killed,  wounded,  and  missing  in  White's  Battalion. 

llThe  records  on  file  at  Washington  bear  the  names  of  12,2i"  wounded  ani  unwounded  Confederates  captured  at  Gettysburg. 


CONFEDERATE  LOSSES. 


551 


Date. 

Engagements.  (Confederate  Losses.)                    JCillcJ. 

Wottndetl,  Inctml- 
iny  mortally  w'd. 

'  iipturti  and 
Miwing. 

ASS™. 

fate. 

1863. 

May       21 

Plain's  Store,  La. 

12 

36 

48 

May        25  ) 

T      1                          k    ( 

Port   Hudson,  La. 

176 

447 

623 

July          9  j 

7 

July        10 

Morris  Island,  S.  C.  . 

40 

124 

127 

291 

July        11 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.  . 

6 

6 

12 

July        18 

Fort  Wagner,  S.  C.  . 

36 

140 

5 

181 

July        19) 

Cl 

Charleston  Harbor,  S.  C.  . 

75 

404 

27 

506 

Sept.         b  ) 

Aug.  26  -27 

Rocky  Gap,  Va. 

20 

129 

13 

162 

Sept.  19-20 

*Chickamauga,  Ga.. 

2,312 

14,674 

1,468 

18, 

454 

Oct.    10-21 

fCavalry  Affairs,  Va.  . 

74 

477 

89 

640 

Oct.         14 

Bristoe  Station,  Va.. 

136 

797 

445 

1, 

378 

Oct.         27 

Wauhatchie,    Tenn  . 

33 

306 

58 

:;'.»: 

Nov.         6 

Droop  Mountain,  Va.. 

.  .  .  .  . 

.... 

275 

Nov.         7 

Kelly's  Ford,  Va. 

.  .  —         





359 

Nov.         7 

Rappahannock  Station,  Va 

...  —         —  . 



.  — 

1, 

674 

Nov.  23-25 

^Missionary  Ridge,  Tenn  .  . 

361 

2,160 

4,146 

6, 

667 

Nov.  26-30 

Mine  Run  Campaign,  Vn.  . 

110 

570 

65 

745 

Nov.  14-30 

Knoxville,  Tenn. 

198 

850 

248 

1, 

296 

Nov.        29 

§Fort  Sanders,  Tenn. 

129 

458 

226 

813 

1864. 

Feb.        20 

Olustee,  Fla. 

93 

847 

6 

946 

April       25 

Marks's  Mills,  Ark. 

41 

108 

144 

293 

April      30 

Jenkins's  Ferry,  Ark.  . 

86 

356 

1 

443 

May    7-20 

Rocky  Face  Ridge  ;  Resaca. 

444 

2,828 

II 

3, 

272 

May        20  \ 
J  une         4  ) 

New  Hope  Church  ;  Dallas.    .\ 

309 

' 

1,921 

I 

2, 

230 

/ 

i. 

T  1  1  n  c±                A    i 

_ 
i 

J  UlltJ              T  ( 
T     i                      j    r 

Kenesaw  Mountain  . 

'.                                                    J  />  O 

•xOO 

3,480 

I 

3, 

948 

July         4  j 

•<. 

: 

July    4-31 

Peach  Tree  Creek  ;  Atlanta  .    £ 

1,341 

7,500 

1 

8, 

S4I 

July        31  ) 
Sept.         1  ) 

. 

Utoy  Creek  ;  Jonesboro.- 

482 

3,223 

I 

3, 

705 

May    6-31 

Cavalry  Engagements  . 

73 

341 

1 

414 

May        15 

New  Market,  Va  - 

34 

4S4 

13 

531 

June  10-11 

Brice's  Cross  Roads,  Miss.  . 

96 

396 

_  _  .  _ 

492 

July    1-11 

Johns  Island  ;  James  Island, 

S.  C.             33 

92 



125 

July  13-15 

Tupelo,   Miss  . 

210 

1,049 

49 

1, 

308 

Sept.       19 

Opequon,  Va. 

226 

1,567 

1,818 

T3, 

611 

Sept.       22 

Fisher's  Hill,  Va.  . 

30 

210 

995 

Ti, 

235 

Oct.           5 

Allatoona  Pass,  Ga.. 

127 

456 

290 

873 

Oct.         19 

Cedar  C~eek,  Va.  . 

320 

1,540 

1,050 

., 

910 

1865. 

'  March    16 

Averasboro,  N.  C 

108 

540 

217 

865 

March     19 

Bentonville,  N.  C 

239 

1,694 

673 

2, 

(106 

*  With  the  exception  of  Scott's  Hru::i'le  tin-  <  avulry  losses  are  not  included, 
t  Hampton's  and  Fitz  Lee's  Cavalry,  at  Culpepcr,  Buckland  Mills  and  other  places. 
t  Including  Lookout  Mountain. 

§  Included,  also,  in  losses  November  14-'»,  1863— Knoxrille. 

I  As  stated  by  Dr.  Foard,  Medical  Director  of  Johnston's  (and  Hood's)  Army,  and  does  not  include  the,  missing.    Sherman's  Army  captured 
li,963  Confederates  during  the  Atlanta  campaign,  which  should  be  added  to  the  above  losses. 
5  Not  including  the  loss  in  the  cavalry,  which  was  reported  as  slight. 
*» General  Early  reported  his  loss  at  Cedar  Creek  at  1,800  killed  and  wounded,  and  "something  over  1,000  prisoners." 


CHAPTER  XV. 


CONFEDERATE  LOSSES— STRENGTH  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  ARMIES— CASUAL 
TIES  IN  CONFEDERATE  REGIMENTS— LIST  OF  CONFEDERATE  GENERALS 
KILLED— LOSSES  IN  THE  CONFEDERATE  NAVY. 

>~pHE  eleven  States  of  the  Southern  Confederacy  had,  in  1860,  a  military  population  of 
-^  1,064,193  with  which  to  confront  the  4,559,872  of  the  sains  class,  belonging  to  the  other 
States  and  Territories.  This  number  was  largely  supplemented  during  each  successive  year 
of  the  war  by  those  who  attained  their  eighteenth  year  of  age,  at  which  time  they  became 
liable  to  military  duty.* 

The  phrase  "  military  population,"  as  used  in  the  Eighth  Census,  represented  the  white 
males  between  the  ages  of  18  and  45,  and  included  all  who  were  unfit  for  military  duty  on 
account  of  physical  or  mental  infirmities.  These  exempts — which  include,  also,  all  cases  of 
minor  defects — constitute,  in  every  country,  one-fifth  of  the  military  population,  f  But  the 
Confederate  recruiting  officers  did  not  insist  on  any  high  standard  of  physical  requirements. 
Their  need  was  too  pressing  ;  and  they  accepted  all  recruits  or  conscripts  except  those  whose 
disabilities  manifestly  incapacitated  them  for  military  service. 

The  Confederate  States,  however,  could  send  to  the  war  a  far  greater  proportion  of  their 
military  population  than  the  Northern  States,  as  they  possessed  a  large  agricultural  population 
of  blacks  who  were  exempt  from  military  service.  The  aggregate  enrollment  of  the  Confed 
erate  Armies  during  the  whole  war,  according  to  their  best  authorities,  numbered  over 
600,000  effective  men  ;  of  whom  not  over  400,000  were  enrolled  at  any  time.:}:  These  eleven 
States  furnished,  also,  86,009  men  to  the  Union  Armies,  receiving  in  return  over  19,000  men 
from  the  Border. 

Many  will  hold,  and  with  good  reasons,  that  600,000  is  too  low  an  estimate  for  the  total 
number  that  served  in  the  Confederate  Armies.  Their  military  population  and  sweeping 
conscription  acts  indicate  more.  The  number  of  regiments  which  served  continously  during 
the  war  indicate  more. 

A  compilation  made  from  the  official  rosters  of  the  Confederate  Armies  as  they  stood  at 
various  battles,  and  at  various  dates  covering  the  entire  period  of  the  war,  shows  that  the 
different  States  kept  the  following  number  of  regimental  organizations  in  almost  continuous 
service  in  the  field  : 

*During  the  four  years  immediately  following  the  census  of  1800,  the  military  population  of  the  eleven  Southern  States  was  increased 
over  200, 000  by  the  youths  who  attained  their  eighteenth  year.  At  the  same  time,  the  military  population  of  the  other  States  and  Territories 
was  incr  eased  over  900,000  from  the  same  source.  The  loss  from  those  who  passed  their  forty-fifth  year  was  only  half  of  the  number  gained 
from  those  arriving  at  18  years,  while  such  of  the  former  as  were  already  in  the  Army,  were  still  held  to  service. 

tThe  large  number  of  persons  who  are  unfit  for  military  duty  is  shown  in  the  following  figures  : 

Army.  Period.  Number  Examined.  Number  Rejected.  Per  Cent.  Rejected. 

United  States   1864-65  225,639  Recruits.  50,008  22.1 

United  States 1864-65  79,968  Substitutes.  21,125  26.4 

United  States 1863-65  605,045  Conscripts.  155,730  25.7 

British..  1842-52  171,276  Recruits.  57,381  33.5 

French..  ]a31-43  2,097,876  Recruits.  680,560  32.4 

^Southern  Historical  Society  Papers  :  Vol.  vii,  page  288  ;  an  estimate  by  Dr.  Joseph  Jones,  and  approved  by  Adjutant-General  S.  Cooper, 
in  which  the  "  available  force  "  is  put  at  600,000. 

(552) 


STRENGTH  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  ARMIES.  553 

ALABAMA  —  55  regiments,  and  11  battalions  of  infantry  ;  5  regiments  of  cavalry  ;  3  regiments 

of  partisan  rangers  ;  and  16  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
ARKANSAS  —  35  regiments,  and  12  battalions  of  infantry;  6  regiments,  and  2  battalions  of 

cavalry  ;  and  15  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
FLORIDA  -  - 10  regiments,   and   2  battalions  of  infantry  ;    2  regiments,  and  1   battalion  of 

cavalry  ;  and  6  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
GEORGIA  —  68  regiments,  and   17  battalions  of  infantry;  11  regiments,  and  2  battalions  of 

cavalry  ;  1  regiment,  and  1  battalion  of  partisan  rangers  ;  2  battalions  of  heavy  artillery  ; 

and  28  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
LOUISIANA  -  -  34  regiments,  and  10  battalions  of  infantry  ;   2  regiments,  and  1  battalion  of 

cavalry  ;  1  regiment  of  partisan  rangers  ;  2  regiments  of  heavy  artillery  ;  and  26  batteries 

of  light  artillery. 
MISSISSIPPI  —  49  regiments,  and  6  battalions  of  infantry;  7  regiments,  and  4  battalions  of 

cavalry  ;  2  regiments  of  partisan  rangers  ;  and  20  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
NORTH  CAROLINA --69  regiments,  and  4  battalions  of  infantry  ;  1  regiment,  and  5  battalions 

of  cavalry  ;  2  battalions  of  heavy  artillery  ;  and  9  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
SOUTH  CAROLINA  -  -  33  regiments,  and  2  battalions  of  infantry  ;  7  regiments  and  L  battalion 

of  cavalry  ;  1  regiment,  and  1  battalion  of  heavy  artillery  ;  and  28  batteries  of  light 

artillery. 
TENNESSEE  —  61  regiments,  and  2  battalions  of  infantry;  21  regiments,  and  11  battalions  of 

cavalry;  1  regiment,  and  1  battalion  of  heavy  artillery  ;  and  32  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
TEXAS  —  22  regiments,  and  5  battalions  of  infantry  ;  28  regiments,  and  4  battalions  of 

cavalry  ;*  and  16  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
VIRGINIA -- 65  regiments,  and  10  battalions  of  infantry;  22  regiments,  and  11  battalions  of 

cavalry  ;  1  regiment  of  partisan  rangers  ;  1   regiment  of  artillery  ;  and  53f  batteries  of 

light  artillery. 
BORDER  STATES  —  21  regiments,  and  4  battalions  of  infantry  ;  9  regiments,  and  5  battalions 

of  cavalry  ;  and  1 1  batteries  of  light  artillery. 
C.  S.  REGULARS  -  -  7  regiments  of  infantry  ;  6  regiments  of    cavalry  ;    and  one  battery  of 

light  artillery. 
AGGREGATE  —  529  regiments,  and  85  battalions  of  infantry  ;  127  regiments  and  47  battalions 

of  cavalry  ;  8  regiments  and  1  battalion  of  partisan  rangers  •  5  regiments  and  6  battalions 

of  heavy  artillery  ;  and  261  batteries  of  light  artillery. 

In  all,  equivalent  to  764  regiments  of  10  companies  each. 

These  were  all  troops  of  the  line,  and  they  served  during  the  whole,  or  the  greater  part  of 
the  war.  The  number  does  not  include  regiments  which  served  a  short  time  only  ;  neither 
does  it  include  disbanded  or  consolidated  regiments  ;  nor  State  militia,  Junior  Reserves,  Senior 
1 1» -serves.  Homo  Guards,  L<»-.-il  Defense  regiments,  and  separate  companies.  And,  yet,  these 
miscellaneous  organizations  rendered  effective  service  at  times,  and  took  the  place  of  regular 
troops.  The  Petersburg  intrenchments  on  June  15,  1864,  were  held  successfully  by  militia 
men  during  the  first  assault,  until  the  arrival  of  Lee's  army.  Partisan  bands  like  Moseby's 
and  John  Morgan's  kept  ten  times  their  number  of  Union  cavalry  employed  in  protecting  the 
territory  in  which  they  operated,  or  in  watching  their  movements. 

The  question  arises,  next,  as  to  the  average  enrollment  of  the  Confederate  regiments. 
That  known,  the  strength  of  their  armies  could  be  soon  computed.  The  rolls  of  the  North 
Carolina  regiments  have  been  printed  and, —  with  the  eight  regiments  of  Junior  and  Senior 
Reserves  not  included  in  the  foregoing  list,—  show  a  total  enrollment  of  125,000  men.  These 
rolls,  incomplete  as  they  necessarily  are,  show  that  twenty-two  of  the  North  Carolina  regi- 

•Some  of  these  regiments  were  not  mounted.  tThere  were  87  Virginia  batteries  in  action  at  Gettysburg. 


554: 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ments  numbered  over  1,500  men,  each  ;  and  some  of  them  over  1,800.  The  Confederacy 
organized  but  few  new  regiments  after  1862  ;  the  recruits  and  conscripts  were  assigned  to  the 
old  regiments  to  keep  them  up  to  an  effective  strength. 

The  total  loss  of  the  Confederate  Armies  in  killed  and  mortally  wounded  will  never  be 
definitely  known,  and  can  be  stated  only  in  round  numbers.  A  summing  up  of  the  casualties 
at  each  battle  and  minor  engagement — using  official  reports  only,  and  in  their  absence 
accepting  Confederate  estimates  —  indicates  that  94,000  men  were  killed  or  mortally  wounded 
on  the  Confederate  side  during  the  war. 

In  the  report  for  1S65-6,  made  by  General  James  B.  Fry,  United  States  Provost  Marshal- 
General,  there  is  a  tabulation  of  Confederate  losses  as  compiled  from  the  muster-rolls  on  file 
in  the  Bureau  of  Confederate  Archives.  The  returns  are  incomplete,  and  nearly  all  the 
Alabama  rolls  are  missing.  Still  the  figures  are  worth  noting,  as  they  show  that  at  least 
74,524  were  killed  or  died  of  wounds  ;  and,  that  59,297  died  of  disease.  From  Gen.  Fry's 
tabulation  the  following  abstract  is  made  : 

DEATHS  IN  CONFEDERATE  ARMIES. 


STATE. 

KILLED. 

DIED  OF  WOUNDS. 

DlKD   OP   DISEASE. 

Officers. 

En.  Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

En.  Men. 

Total. 

Officers. 

En.  Men. 

Total. 

Virginia  

266 
677 
360 

172 

47 
M 

122 
70 
28 
IO4 

99 

35 
92 

5,062 

13,845 
8,827 

5,38l 
746 

533 
5,685 

2,548 
1,320 

2,061 
2,016 

972 
1,867 

5,328 

14,522 
9,187 

5,553 
793 
SS2 
5,807 
2,618 

i,348 
2,165 

2,115 
1,007 

r»959 

2OO 

33° 

257 
140 

16 

9 

75 
42 

J3 
27 

49 

27 

61 

2>3I9 

4,821 

3,478 

!,579 

49° 
181 

2,576 
826 
1,228 
888 
825  . 
441 
672 

2,5*9 

5,'S1 
3,735 

i>7i9 

506 

190 
2,651 
868 
1,241 

9^5 
874 
468 

733 

1  68 

54i 

79 
107 

i? 

8 

103 

32 
10 

74 

72 

25 
58 

6,779 
20,061 
4,681 

3>595 
1,030 

716 
6,704 

3.027 
1,250 

3,7o8 
3,353 
1,015 
2,084 

6,947 
20,602 

4,760 

3'7°2 
1,047 

724 
6,807 

3,059 
1,260 

3,782 

3,425 
1,040 

2,142 

South  Carolina  

Florida  

Mississippi  

Louisiana  

Texas  

Regular  C   S  Army  

Korder  States  

Totals  

2,086 

50,868 

52,954 

1,246 

20,324 

21,57° 

1,294 

58,003 

59,297 

If  the  Confederate  rolls  could  have  been  completed,  and  then  revised, — as  has  been  done 
with  the  rolls  of  the  Union  regiments, — the  number  of  killed  as  shown  above  (74,524)  would 
be  largely  increased.  As  it  is,  the  extent  of  such  increase  must  remain  a  matter  of  con 
jecture.  The  Union  rolls  were  examined  at  the  same  time  ,  and  a  similar  tabulation  of  the 
number  killed  appears,  also,  in  General  Fry's  report.  But  this  latter  number  was  increased 
15,000  by  a  subsequent  revision  based  upon  the  papers  known  as  "  final  statements."  and  upon 
newly-acquired  information  received  through  affidavits  filed  at  the  Pension  Bureau. 

To  understand  the  full  meaning  of  these  figures  one  must  keep  in  mind  the  sparse  popu 
lation  of  these  States.     Their  military  population  in  1801  was  : 
Alabama  99,967  |  Louisiana..  83,456 


Arkansas 65, 231 

Florida 15,739 

Georgia 111,005 


Mississippi 70, 295 

North  Carolina.  115,369 

South  Carolina.  55,046 


Tennessee 159, 353 

Texas  ..  92,145 

Virginia  .  196,587 

*Total.  1,064,193 


Of  this  number,   Tennessee  furnished  31,0i>2  to  the  Union  Armies  ;  and  the   western 
counties  of  Virginia  -  -  afterwards  set  apart  as  West  Virginia --furnished  31,872  men. 

*In  all  countries— except  newly-settled  territories— the  males  included  in  the  military  ages,  of  18  to  45,  constitute  one-fifth  of  the  entire 
population. 


CONFEDERATE  LOSSES.  555 

From  the  preceding  figures  it  appeal's  that  South  Carolina  lost  in  killed  over  23  per  cent. 
of  her  entire  military  population  ;  and  that  North  Carolina  lost  over  17  per  cent.  Add  to  this 
the  loss  by  disease,  and  the  maimed  or  crippled  for  life,  and  the  result  becomes  extraordinary 
ill  its  heroic  aspect. 

The  Confederate  Armies  lost,  in  the  aggregate,  nearly  10  per  cent,  in  killed  or  mortally 
wounded.  The  average  loss  in  the  Union  Armies  was  5  per  cent.*  But  in  the  latter  there  were 
over  300  regiments  which  were  not  in  action,  with  as  many  more  which  were  under  fire  but  a 
few  times.  A  large  part  of  the  Union  Armies  was  used  in  protecting  communications, 
guarding  lines  of  supplies,  in  garrison  duty,  and  as  armies  of  occupation.  The  Confederate 
regiments  were  all  at  the  front,  and,  although  repeatedly  filled  up  with  recruits,  were  held 
there  until  many  of  them  were  worn  out  by  the  constant  attrition. 

For  these  reasons  it  is  evident  that  although  the  Confederate  Armies  were  much  smaller, 
their  losses  were  not  necessarily  smaller  in  proportion.  Their  generals  displayed  a  wonderful 
ability  in  always  confronting  the  enemy  with  an  equal  force  at  the  point  of  contact.  What 
mattered  Hooker's  extra  thousands  at  Chancellorsville  ?  In  two  corps  not  a  shot  was  fired. 
What  if  Meade  did  have  20,000  more  men  at  Gettysburg  than  Lee  ?  The  Sixth  Corps  lay  in 
reserve.  But  in  these  battles,  as  in  others,  every  Confederate  regiment  was  put  in  and  not 
relieved  until  they  had  lost  killed  and  wounded  men  by  the  score. 

The  aggregate  of  killed  and  mortally  wounded  in  the  Confederate  Armies  during  the  war 
was  16,000  less  than  in  the  Union  Armies ;  or,  adding  the  usual  proportion  of  wounded,  a 
difference  of  about  60,000,  killed  and  wounded,  in  favor  of  the  Confederates.  Up  to  1864  the 
aggregate  of  losses  on  each  side  was  substantially  the  same.  There  was  a  small  percentage 
in  favor  of  the  Confederates  up  to  that  time  ;  but,  if  their  casualty  lists  could  be  subjected  to 
the  same  revision  as  that  recently  applied  to  the  nominal  casualty  lists  of  the  Union  Armies, 
it  is  probable  that  their  official  returns  as  thus  corrected  would  show  an  increase  which  would 
largely  offset  the  difference  prior  to  1864.  The  excess  of  16,000  killed,  in  the  Union  aggregate 
-or,  its  equivalent  of  60,000  in  killed  and  wounded  —  occurred  almost  wholly  in  the 
campaigns  of  1864-5. 

The  severity  of  the  losses  among  the  Confederates,  and  the  heroic  persistency  with  which 
they  would  stand  before  the  enemy's  musketry,  becomes  apparent  in  studying  the  official 
returns  of  various  regiments. 

At  Gettysburg,  the  26th  North  Carolina,  of  Pettigrew's  Brigade,  Heth's  Division,  went 
into  action  with  an  effective  strength  which  is  stated  in  the  regimental  official  report  as 
"over  800  men."  They  sustained  a  loss,  according  to  Surgeon-General  Guild's  report,  of  86 
killed  and  502  wounded  ;  total,  588.  In  addition  there  were  about  120  missing,  nearly  all  of 
whom  must  have  been  wounded  or  killed  ;  but,  as  they  fell  into  the  enemy's  hands,  they  were 
not  included  in  the  hospital  report.  This  loss  occurred  mostly  in  the  first  day's  fight,  where 
the  regiment  encountered  the  151st  Pennsylvaniaf  and  Cooper's  Battery,  of  Rowley's  Brigade, 
Doubleday's  Division.  The  Quartermaster  of  the  26th,  who  made  the  official  report  on  July 
4th,  states  that  there  were  only  216  left  for  duty  after  the  fight  on  the  1st  inst.  The  regiment 
then  participated  in  Pickett's  charge,  on  the  third  day  of  the  battle,  in  which  it  attacked  the 
position  held  by  Smyth's  Brigade,  Hays's  Division,  Second  Corps.  On  the  following  day  it 
mustered  only  80  men  for  duty,  the  missing  ones  having  fallen  in  the  final  and  unsuccessful 
charge.  In  the  battle  of  the  first  day,  Captain  Tuttle's  company  went  into  action  with  3 
officers  and  84  men  ;  all  of  the  officers  and  83  of  the  men  were  killed  or  wounded.  On  the 
same  day,  and  in  the  same  brigade  (Pettigrew's),  Company  C,  of  the  Eleventh  North  Caro 
lina,  lost  2  officers  killed,  and  34,  out  of  38,  men  killed  or  wounded ;  Captain  Bird,  of  this 
company,  with  the  four  remaining  men,  participated  in  the  charge  on  the  3d  of  July,  and  of 

•In  some  brigades  it  rau  from  15  to  30  per  cent.  +The  151st  Penn.  lost  885  at  Gettysburg,  killed,  wounded,  and  missing. 


556  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

these  the  flag-bearer  was  shot,  and  the  captain  brought  out  the  flag  himself.*  This  loss  of 
the  26th  North  Carolina,  at  Gettysburg,  was  the  severest  regimental  loss  during  the  war. 

The  next  instance,  in  point  of  numerical  loss,  is  that  of  the  6th  Alabama  —  Colonel  John 
B.  Gordon  —  at  Fair  Oaks.  This  regiment  was  then  in  Rodes's  Brigade  of  D.  H.  Hill's  Divi 
sion,  which  in  this  fight  was  pitted  against  Naglee's  Brigade  of  Casey's  Division.  The  regi 
ment  lost  91  killed,  277  wounded,  and  5  missing  ;  total,  373,  out  of  about  632  engaged. 

In  the  same  battle,  and  in  D.  H.  Hill's  Division  also,  the  Fourth  North  Carolina,  of  G. 
B.  Anderson's  Brigade,  sustained  a  loss  of  77  killed,  286  wounded,  and  6  missing  ;  total,  369, 
out  of  678  engaged. 

At  Gaines's  Mill  the  First  South  Carolina  Rifles,  Gregg's  Brigade,  A.  P.  Hill's  Division, 
charged  a  battery  which  was  supported  by  the  Duryee  Zouaves.  The  Rifles  lost  in  this  affair, 
81  killed,  234  wounded,  and  4  missing  ;  total,  3113,  out  of  537  engaged. 

At  Stone's  River  the  Eighth  Tennessee,  of  Donelson's  Brigade,  Cheatham's  Division,  lost 
41  killed  and  265  wounded  ;  total,  306,  out  of  4-U  engaged.  The  8th  sustained  the  principal 
part  of  this  loss  while  engaged  with  some  troops  of  Sheridan's  Division,  and  in  a  successful 
charge  on  Houghtaliiig's  Battery,  in  which  they  captured  several  pieces  of  artillery  from  that 
and  other  batteries. 

The  severest  losses  are  not  always  the  largest  numerically.  To  understand  the  extent  of 
a  regimental  loss  in  any  particular  battle,  one  must  know  the  number  of  men  taken  into 
action  by  the  regiment.  Many  of  the  Confederate  Colonels  were  intelligent  and  thoughtful 
enough  in  making  their  battle  reports,  to  mention  in  connection  with  the  casualties,  the 
number  of  men  engaged,  without  which  all  such  statements  convey  no  definite  idea.  By 
doing  so  they  have,  in  many  instances,  secured  for  their  regiments  an  honored  place  in 
history  which  otherwise  would  have  been  lost. 

The  following  table  of  percentages  was  compiled  from  the  official  reports  of  Confederate 
regimental  commandants  : 

REMARKABLE    PERCENTAGES    OF    LOSS    IN     CONFEDERATE    REGIMENTS  AT 

PARTICULAR   ENGAGEMENTS. 


Regiment. 

1st  Texas 

Battle. 

Antietam 

Division. 

Hood's 

Present. 

226 

Killed. 

45 

f  Wounded. 

141 

Missing.  Per  cent. 
82  3 

21st  Georgia  

Manassas 

Swell's 

242 

38 

146 

76  0 

26th  North  Carolina. 
6th  Mississippi  

Gettysburg 
Shiloh 

Heth's 
Hardee's 

820 
425 

86 
61 

502 
239 

4.                   h--l     /- 

1       n.7 

70  5 

8th  Tennessee  

Stone's  River 

Cheatham's 

444 

41 

265 

68  2 

10th  Tennessee  . 

Chickamauga 

Johnson's 

328 

44 

180 

68  0 

Palmetto  Sharpshooters 
17th  South  Carolina. 
23d    South  Carolina. 
44th  Georgia  .  . 

Glendale 
Manassas 
Manassas 
Mechanicsville 

Longstreet's 
Evans's 
Evans's 
D   H   Hill's 

375 
284 
225- 
514 

39 

25 
27 
71 

215 
164 
122 

67/7 
1          66.9 
66.2 

1st  Ala.  Battalion  
2d    N.  C.  Battalion 
16th  Mississippi 

Chickamauga 
Gettysburg 
Antietam 

Preston's 
Rodes's 

260 
240 

99ft 

24 

§29 

97 

144 
124 

64.6 
63.7 

p.o  -i 

27th  North  Carolina.  .  . 
5th  Georgia  . 

Antietam 
Chickamauga 

Walker's 
Cheath  n  m  's 

325 
317 

31 

97 

iJ  ( 
168 

uo.  1 
61.2 

9               fi1    1 

2d    Tennessee  

Chickamauga 

264 

13 

145 

-i              DJ..1 

1          60  '^ 

15th  and  37th  Term.. 

Chickamauga 

Stewart's 

202 

15 

-L:tc» 

102 

4          59.9 

From  the  magazine    •'  Our  Living  and  our  Dead."  tlncludinjr  the  mortally  wounded. 

;l«  addition  to  the  f>8ft  killed  and  wounded,  this  resriment  lost  120  missing,  many  of  whom  were  killed 
§Gen.  Ewell,  m  his  official  report,  states  that  the  3d  N.  C.  Battalion  lost  200  killed  and  wounded  out  of  240  present. 


PERCENTAGES  OF  Loss  IN  CONFEDERATE  REGIMENTS. 


r>r>7 


Regiment. 

Battle. 

Division. 

Present. 

Killed. 

*  Wounded. 

Missing. 

Per  Ct. 

6th  Alabama  

Seven  Pines 

D.  H.  Hill's 

632 

91 

277 

5 

59.0 

16th  Alabama  . 

Chickamauga 

Clebu  rue's 

414 

25 

218 

_  _ 

58.6 

15th  Virginia  .  . 

Antietam 

McLaws's 

128 

11 

64 

-  - 

58.5 

6th  and  9th  Tennessee  . 

Chickamauga 

Cheatham's 

335 

26 

168 



57.9 

18th  Georgia 

Antietam 

Hood's 

176 

13 

72 

16 

57.3 

1st  S.  C.  Rifles  . 

Gaines's  Mill 

A.  P.  Hill's 

537 

-  1 

225 

-  - 

56.9 

10th  Georgia 

Antietam 

McLaws's 

148 

15 

69 

56.7 

18th  North  Carolina  . 

Seven  Days 

A.  P.  Hill's 

396 

45 

179 



56.5 

3d    Alabama  .  . 

Malvern  Hill 

D.  H.  Hill's 

354 

37 

163 

_  _ 

56.4 

18th  Alabama  .  . 

Chickamauga 

Stewart's 

527 

41 

256 

-  . 

56.3 

17th  Virginia  ... 

Antietam 

Pickett's 

55 

to 

24 

.  . 

56.3 

7th  North  Carolina  

Seven  Days 

A.  P.  Hill's 

450 

35 

218 

56.2 

12th  Tennessee  . 

Stone's  River 

Cheatham's 

292 

18 

137 

9 

56.1 

22d    Alabama  

Chickamauga 

Hindman's 

371 

44 

161 

-  - 

55.2 

9th  Georgia 

Gettysburg 

Hood's 

340 

27 

162 

— 

55.0 

16th  Tennessee  .  . 

Stone's  River 

Cheatham's 

377 

36 

155 

16 

54.9 

4th  North  Carolina. 

Seven  Pines 

D.  H.  Hill's 

678 

77 

286 

6 

54.4 

27th  Tennessee  . 

Shiloh 

Hardee's 

350 

27 

115 

48 

54.2 

23d    Tennessee  

Chickamauga 

Buckner's 

181 

8 

77 

13 

54.1 

12th  South  Carolina. 

Manassas 

A.  P.  Hill's 

270 

23 

121 

2 

54.0 

4th  Virginia  .  . 

Manassas 

Jackson's 

ISO 

18 

79 

_  . 

53.8 

4th  Texas  

Antietam 

Hood's 

200 

10 

97 

_  _. 

53.5 

27th  Tennessee  .  . 

Chaplin  Hills 

Cleburne's 

210 

16 

84 

12 

53.3 

1st  South  Carolina. 

Manassasf 

A.  P.  Hill's 

283 

25 

126 

.,  _ 

53.3 

49th  Virginia  

Fair  Oaks 

D.  H.  Hill's 

424 

32 

170 

22 

52.8 

29th  Mississippi  .  

Chickamauga 

Liddell's 

368 

38 

156 

52.7 

12th  Alabama  

Fair  Oaks 

D.  H.  Hill's 

408 

59 

156 

_  _ 

52.6 

7th  South  Carolina  

Antietam 

McLaws's 

268 

23 

117 

.. 

52.2 

58th  Alabama  

Chickamauga 

Stewart's 

288 

25 

124 

_  _ 

51.7 

7th  Texas  .  .  . 

Raymond 

John  Gregg's 

306 

22 

136 

51.6 

6th  South  Carolina. 

Fair  Oaks 

D,  H.  Hill's 

521 

88 

181 

— 

51.6 

15th  Georgia  

Gettysburg 

Hood's 

335 

19 

152 

— 

51.0 

llth  Alabama  

Glendale 

Longstreet's 

357 

49 

121 

11 

-50.7 

17th  Georgia  

Manassas 

Hood's 

200 

10 

91 

50.5 

37th  Georgia 

Chickamauga 

Stewart's 

391 

19 

168 

/T 

50.1 

3d    North  Carolina  

Gettysburg 

Johnson's 

312 

29 

127 

% 

50.0 

63d    Tennessee  

Chickamauga 

Preston's 

402 

16 

184 

49.7 

41st  Alabama  

Chickamauga 

Breckenridge's 

325 

27 

120 

11 

48.6 

4th  Virginia  .  . 

Chancellorsville 

Trimble's 

355 

14 

155 

3 

48.4 

32d    Tennessee  

Chickamauga 

Stewart's 

341 

9 

156 

. 

is.:; 

20th  Tennessee  

Chickamauga 

Stewart's 

183 

- 

80 

48.0 

1  st  Maryland    

Gettysburg 

Johnson's 

400 

§52 

§140 

.  . 

48.0 

8th  Mississippi  

Stone's  River 

Breckenridge's 

282 

20 

113 

47.1 

44th  Georgia  .  .  . 

Malvern  Hill 

D.  H.  Hill's 

142 

9 

40 

16 

45.7 

32d    Virginia  .  . 

Antietam 

McLaws's 

I5S 

15 

57 

45.5 

*  Including  the  mortally  wounded.  +  Including  Ox  Hill  (ChantUly). 

1  There  werv  51  missing,  also,  who  are  not  included,  most  of  whom  were  killed  or  wounded. 

$  From  inscription  on  monument  at  Gettysburg;  but  Surgeou-Ueueral  Guild  (,C.  S.  A.)  reported  their  loss  officially,  at  the  time,  as  25 
killed  and  1 19  wounded. 


558 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Division. 

Cleburne's 
McLaws's 
Breckenridge's 
A.  P.  Hill's 


Regiment.  Battle. 

1st  Arkansas  .         -  -  -  Chickamauga 

18th  Mississippi  .  Antietam 

9th  Kentucky  . .  Chickamauga 

14th  South  Carolina.-.  Gaines's  Mill 

33d   North  Carolina,  Chancellorsville  A.  P.  Hill's 

5th  Alabama  ..  Malvern  Hill        D.  H   Hill's 

Hampton  Legion. ..  Fair  Oaks  Hood's 

26th  Alabama  .  Malvern  Hill        D.  H.  HiU's 

But  the  foregoing  were  only  a  few  of  the  many  instances  of  heavy  percentages  of  loss. 
They  represent  only  the  few  cases  in  which  the  official  reports  happened  to  mention  the 
number  of  effectives  taken  into  action,  and  which,  again,  happened  to  appear  before  the 
order  was  issued,  forbidding  any  further  mention  in  official  reports  of  the  strength  in  action. 

Equally  surprising  percentages  are  found  in  the  brigade  reports  :— 

BRIGADE  LOSSES. 


. 

Present. 

Killed. 

Wounded. 

Missing. 

Per  cent. 

430 

13 

180 

i 

45.1 

186 

10 

73 

_  _ 

44.6 

230 

11 

89 

2 

44.3 

500 

18 

197 

_  _ 

43.0 

480 

32 

167 

-    _  _ 

41.4 

225 

26 

66 

_  _ 

40.8 

350 

21 

120 

-  — 

40.2 

218 

10 

76 

40.0 

Brigade.  Battle. 

Garnett's  (Va. ) Gettysburg- 
Perry's  (Fla.) Gettysburg 

Wofford's  (Texas)-    . ...  Antietam 

Anderson's  (S.  C. ) fSeven  Days 

Pryor's fSeven  Days 

Wilcox's  (Ala. )  . .  fSeven  Days 

Benning's  (Ga.) Chickamauga 

Bate's Chickamauga 

Ramseur's  (N.  C. ) Chancellorsville 

Featherston's  (Miss.)  _ .  fSeven  Days 

Lane's  (N .  C . ) Gettysburg 

Donelson's  (Terni.) Stone's  River 

Gregg's  Chickamauga 

Clayton's  (Ala.) Chickamauga 

Semmes's  -  -  Antietam 

Daniels's  (N.  C.)---   --  Gettysburg 

Rodes's  (Ala.) .  Malvern  Hill 


Division.  Present. 

Pickett's  1,427 

Anderson's  700 

Hood's  854 

Longstreet's  1,250 

Longstreet's  1,400 

Longstreet's  1,850 

Hood's  900 

Stewart's  1,187 

D.  H.  Hill's  1,509 

Longstreet's  1,350 

Fender's  1,355 

Cheatham's  1,529} 
B.  R.  Johnson's  1,352 

Stewart's  1,446 

McLaws's  709 

Rodes's  2,100 

D.  H.  Hill's  1,027 


Killed. 

78 

Wounded. 

324 

Missing. 

539* 

Percent. 

65.9 

33 

217 

205 

65.0 

69 

417 

62 

64.1 

136 

638 

13 

62.9 

170 

681 

11 

61.5 

229 

806 

20 

57.0 

88 

412 

10 

56.6 

66 

541 

_  _ 

51.1 

154 

526 

108 

52.2 

115 

542 

9 

49.3 

41 

348 

ii71 

48.7 

108 

575 

17 

45.7 

109 

474 

18 

44.4 

86 

535 

13 

44.4 

53 

255 

6 

44.2 

165 

635 

116 

43.6 

81 

344 

41.3 

These  terrible  losses  were  not  confined  to  regiments  and  brigades  ;  in  some  divisions  the 
men  were  cut  down  equally  fast  throughout  the  entire  ranks  of  the  command.  During  the 
Seven  Days'  Battle,  Longstreet's  Division  lost  in  the  actions  at  Gaines's  Mill  and  Glendale  766 
killed,  3,435  wounded  and  237  missing  ;  total,  4,438,— out  of  8,831  engaged,  or,  50.2  per  cent. 

Nor  was  this  an  uncommon  loss.  The  official  reports  of  Confederate  Division-Generals, 
though  lacking  the  figures  necessary  for  a  statement  of  an  exact  percentage,  often  indicate 
plainly  a  division-loss  in  killed  and  wounded  of  over  forty  per  cent. 

Through  four  years  of  desperate  war  and  its  score  of  battles  these  excessive  percentages 
divided  and  subdivided  the  ranks,  until  the  end  came  and  with  it  a  division  which  was  merely 
a  thing  of  shreds  and  patches. 

'The official  report  for  Garnett's  brigade  says  :  "It  is  feared  from  the  information  received  that  the  majority  of  those  reported  missing  are 
either  killed  or  wounded." 

tThis  loss  occurred  in  the  two  actions  at  Gaines's  Mill  and  Glendale. 

^General  Donelson  stated  the  number  in  his  official  report  at  "  about  1,400  men." 


CONFEDERATE  LOSSES.  559 

If  each  regiment  in  the  preceding  list  had  fought  in  no  other  hattle  than  the  one  men 
tioned  in  connection  with  it,  the  record  would  still  be  a  heroic  one  ;  but  the  battle  mentioned 
was  one  of  a  score  of  bloody  contests,  in  each  of  which  the  gallant  command  was  decimated, 
In  fact,  any  regiment  in  the  American  War  considered  itself  fortunate  if  it  could  come  out  of 
a  battle  with  no  greater  loss  than  decimation. 

But,  in  May,  1863,  General  Lee  issued  an  order  which  has  an  important  l>earing  on  the 
subject  of  regimental  casualties  in  the  Confederate  Army  : 

HEADQUARTERS  ARMY  OF  NORTHERN  VIRGINIA. 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  No.  63.  MAY  14,  1863. 

The  practice  which  prevails  in  the  Army  of  including  in  the  list  of  casualties  those  cases  of  slight  injuries  which  do 
not  incapacitate  the  recipients  for  duty,  is  calculated  to  mislead  our  friends,  and  encourage  our  enemies,  by  giving  false 
impressions  as  to  the  extent  of  our  losses. 

The  loss  sustained  by  a  brigade  or  regiment  is  by  no  means  an  indication  of  the  service  performed  or  perils  encoun 
tered,  as  experience  shows  that  those  who  attack  most  rapidly,  vigorously,  and  effectually  generally  suffer  the  least.  It 
is,  therefore,  ordered  that  in  future  the  reports  of  the  wounded  shall  only  include  those  whose  injuries,  in  the  opinion  of 
the  medical  officers,  render  them  unfit  for  duty.  It  has  also  been  observed  that  the  published  reports  of  casualties  are  in 
some  instances  accompanied  by  a  statement  of  the  number  of  men  taken  into  action.  The  commanding  general  deems 
it  unnecessary  to  do  more  than  direct  the  attention  of  officers  to  the  impropriety  of  thus  furnishing  the  enemy  with  the 
means  of  computing  our  strength,  in  order  to  insure  the  immediate  suppression  of  this  pernicious  and  useless  custom. 

By  command  of  General  Lee.  W.  H.  TAYLOR,  Assistant  Adjutant-General. 

If  this  order  was  observed,  it  is  evident  that  all  subsequent  casualty  lists  are  of  little 
value  for  statistical  purposes  ;  and,  if  enforced,  that  many  a  gallant  regiment  has  been  deprived 
of  the  laurels  to  which  its  heroic  record  would  have  entitled  it. 

The  effect  of  this  order  is  manifest  in  the  tone  of  the  official  reports  made  by  the  regi 
mental  commandants  at  the  next  battle.  '  For  instance  : 

I  herewith  respectfully  submit  a  detailed  statement  of  casualties,  giving  names  and  description  of  wounds  in  full, 
from  which  I  have  omitted  all  slight  wounds  which,  though  sufficient  to  disable  a  man  for  a  day  or  two,  will  not  prevent 
his  taking  part  in  the  next  battle, —  say  a  week  or  ten  days  from  the  time  the  hurt  was  received.  [Official  report  of 
Ninth  Georgia,  for  Gettysburg.] 

Below  I  submit  a  list  of  killed,  wounded,  and  missing.  The  wounded  include  only  those  disabled  indefinitely.  Quite 
a  number  were  temporarily  disabled  by  slight  wounds,  but  resumed  their  duties  in  a  few  days  ;  hence  I  make  no  mention 
of  them  in  this  report.  [Official  report  of  Colonel  V.  H.  Manning,  Third  Arkansas  ;  for  Gettysburg.]* 

This  order  lays  too  much  stress  upon  the  hackneyed  assertion  that  losses  are  by  no  means 
an  indication  of  the  service  performed  or  perils  encountered.  Such  statements  have,  indeed, 
proved  true  in  a  few  particular  instances  ;  but,  in  only  a  few.  They  were  exceptions  which 
only  proved  the  rule.  A  study  of  regimental  actions  shows  clearly  that  the  battalions  which 
faced  musketry  the  steadiest,  longest,  and  ofteuest  were  the  ones  whose  aggregate  loss  during 
the  war  was  the  greatest.  Fighting  regiments  leave  a  bloody  wake  behind  them  ;  retreating 
regiments  lose  few  men.  At  Chancellors ville,  the  heaviest  losses  were  in  the  corps  that  stood; 
not  in  the  one  that  broke. 

In  the  following  table  is  given  the  leading  regiments,  in  point  of  loss,  at  various  battles. 
The  list  is  incomplete,  as  there  are  few  Confederate  official  reports  for  the  latter  part  of  the 
war.  Still  the  record  is  one  which  will  ever  redound  to  the  credit  of  American  manhood,  and 
to  the  glory  of  the  American  soldier. 

•The  originals  are  not  italicised. 


560 


KEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


LIST  OF  BATTLES  SHOWING   CONFEDERATE   EEGIMENTS  WHICH   SUSTAINED 

THE  GREATEST  LOSS  IN  EACH. 


Regiment. 

FIRST  BULL  RUN,  VA. 

July  21,  1862. 

8th  Georgia       .   _. 

Brigade. 

Bartow's 

Division. 

Johnston's 

Killed. 

41 

*  Wounded.     Missing. 

159 

Total. 

200 

4th  Alabama 

Bee's 

Johnston's 

40 

157 

197 

7th  Georgia  . 

Bartow's 

Johnston's 

19 

134 

153 

33d    Virginia     . 

Jackson's 

Johnston's 

45 

101 

146 

27th  Virginia  

Jackson's 

Johnston's 

19 

122 

141 

4th  Virginia 

Jackson's 

Johnston's 

31 

100 

131 

Hampton  Legion. 

Beauregard's 

19 

100              2 

121 

WILSON'S  CREEK,  Mo. 

August  10,  1861. 

3d    Arkansas  _ 

Pearce's 

25 

84              1 

110 

3d    Missouri  S.  G  

Graves's 

Rains's 

22 

49              3 

74 

BALL'S  BLUFF,  VA. 

Oct.  31.  1861. 

18th  Mississippi 

Evans's 

22 

63 

85 

BELMONT,  Mo. 

Nov.  7,  1861. 

13th  Tennessee  _ 

Pillow's 

27 

73            49 

149 

CAMP  ALLEGHANY,  VA. 

Dec.  13,  1861. 

12th  Georgia  _ 

E.  Johnson's 

6 

37              4 

47 

DRANESVILLE,  VA. 

Dec.  20,  1861. 

10th  Alabama  

Stuart's 

15 

45              6 

66 

6th  South  Carolina  

Stuart's 

18 

45 

63 

MILL  SPRINGS,  KY. 

Jan.  1     1862. 

15th  Mississippi 

Zollicoffer's 

4-4- 

1  ^3               9Q 

99fi 

20th  Tennessee 

Zollicoffer's 

Crittend  n' 

KO                        -|  Q 

44\j 
110 

25th  Tennessee 

Zollicoffer's 

C  'tt     d     ' 

10 

98               17 

-LJLw 

FORT  DONELSON,  TENN. 

Feb.  15,  1862. 

8th  Kentucky  . 

Simoiiton's 

Pillow'^ 

97 

79 

QQ 

26th  Tennessee 

Baldwin's 

"Rn  pirn  PV'Q 

&  i 

i  —  '              _  _ 

OK 

yy 

3d    Tennessee 

Brown's 

19 

Oe>                          

w 

26th  Mississippi 

Baldwin's 

ia 

ft1 

NEW  BERNE,  N.  C. 

March  14,  1862. 

33d    North  Carolina  

Branch's 

32 

28           144 

ol 
204 

26th  North  Carolina 

Branch's 

5 

10             72 

87 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded 


GREATEST  CONFEDERATE  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 

561 

Regiment. 

Brigade. 

Division. 

Killed. 

*  Wounded. 

Missing. 

Total. 

KERNSTOWN,  VA. 

March  23,  1801 

37th  Virginia  

Fulkerson's 

Jackson's 

12 

62 

39 

113 

42d    Virginia  

Burke's 

Jackson's 

11 

50 

9 

70 

33d    Virginia  

Garnett's 

Jackson's 

18 

27 

14 

59 

5th  Virginia  

Garnett's 

Jackson's 

9 

48 

4 

61 

SHILOH,  TENN. 

April  6,  /,  1868. 

4th  Tennessee  

Stewart's 

Clark's 

36 

183 

219 

4th  Kentucky  

Trabue's 

Breckenridge's 

30 

I-:', 

.. 

213 

4th  Louisiana  .  .  . 

Gibson's 

Ruggles's 

24 

163 

22 

209 

154th  Tennessee  . 

B.  R.  Jobnson's 

Cheatham's 

25 

163 

1] 

199 

27th  Tennessee  . 

Wood's 

Hardee's 

27 

105 

I- 

180 

33d    Tennessse 

Stewart's 

Clark's 

20 

103 

17 

140 

9th  Arkansas  - 

Bowen's 

Breckenridge's 

17 

115 

132 

Crescent  Reg't  (La.) 

Pond's 

Ruggles's 

23 

84 

20 

127 

18th  Alabama  

J.  K.  Jackson's 

Withers's 

20 

80 

20 

120 

13th  Arkansas  

Stewart's 

Clark's 

25 

72 

3 

100 

WlLLIAMSBURG,  VA. 

May  5.  1862. 

24th  Virginia  

Early's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

30 

93 

66 

189 

llth  Virginia  

A.  P.  Hill's 

Longstreet's 

26 

105 

3 

134 

19th  Mississippi  .  .  . 

Wilcox's 

Longstreet's 

15 

85 

__  — 

100 

7th  Virginia  

A.  P.  Hill's 

Longstreet's 

13 

64 

_  _ 

77 

9th  Alabama    

Wilcox's 

Longstreet's 

10 

45 

6 

61 

MCDOWELL,  VA. 

May  8,  1862. 

12th  Georgia  

E.  Johnson's 

35 

140 

.. 

175 

25th  Virginia.  . 

E.  Johnson's 

7 

65 

72 

58th  Virginia  

--- 

E.  Johnson's 

11 

39 

•   • 

50 

FRONT  ROYAL,  VA. 

May  23-25,  1862. 

21st  North  Carolina  ..... 

Trimble's 

Ewell's 

21 

59 

80 

6th  Louisiana  

Taylor's 

Swell's 

5 

42 

8 

50 

FAIR  OAKS,  VA. 

May  31—  June  1,  1862. 

6th  Alabama  

Rodes's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

91 

277 

5 

373 

4th  North  Carolina  

G.  B.  Anderson's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

77 

286 

6 

369 

6th  South  Carolina  

Jenkins's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

88 

164 

17 

269 

49th  Virginia  

G.  B.  Anderson's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

32 

170 

22 

224 

12th  Alabama  _  

Rodes's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

59 

149 

__  — 

208 

5th  Alabama  

Rodes's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

29 

181 

-.  _> 

210 

2d    Florida  

Garland's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

37 

152 

9 

198 

12th  Mississippi  

Rodes's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

41 

152 

— 

193 

23d    North  Carolina 

Garland's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

18 

145 

6 

169 

27th  Georgia  . 

G.  B.  Anderson's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

16 

129 

9 

154 

'Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 

562 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.                                          Brigade.  Division. 

FAIR  OAKS,  VA.  —  Continued. 

38th  Virginia  _____  Garland's  D.  H.  Hill's 

Hampton  Legion.  Whiting's  Smith's 

28th  Georgia  ...  .  .  G.  B.  Anderson's    D.  H.  Hill's 

24th  Virginia  ____  .....  -  -  -  Garland's  D.  H.  Hill's 

HARRISONBURG,  VA. 

June  6,  1862. 

58th  Virginia  _______  .....  Stewart's  EwelTs 

CROSS  KEYS,  VA. 

June  8,  1862. 

15th  Alabama  ___________  Trimble's  Swell's 

16th  Mississippi  _________  Trimble's  Ewell's 

PORT  REPUBLIC,  VA. 

June  9,  1862. 

7th  Louisiana  __________  Taylor's  Swell's 

5th  Virginia  ____________  Winder's  Jackson's 

31st  Virginia  _____  Elzey's  Ewell's 

52d    Virginia  _____   ______  Stewart's  Ewell's 

6th  Louisiana  __________  Taylor's  Ewell's 

44th  Virginia.  .  .....  _____  Stewart's  Ewell's 


SECESSIONVILLE,  S.  C. 

June  16,  1862. 

1st  S.  0.  Artillery  ______     Evans's 

1st  S.  C.  Battalion  f  ____     Evans's 


Killed.     *  Wounded.     Missing.      Total. 

14 


OAK  GROVE,  VA. 

June  25,  1862. 

1  st  Louisiana Wright's 

22d    Georgia Wright's 

48th  North  Carolina Ransom's 

• 

MECHANICSVILLE,  VA. 

June  26,  1862. 

44th  Georgia Ripley's 

1st  North  Carolina Ripley's 


GAINES'S  MILL,  VA. 

June  27, 1862. 

1st  S.  C.  Rifles.... 
20th  North  Carolina 

4th  Texas 

14th  South  Carolina 

38th  Georgia 

31st  Georgia 

8th  Alabama 

llth  Mississippi 

llth  Alabama 

6th  Georgia  . 


Gregg's 

Garland's 

Hood's 

Gregg's 

Lawton's 

Lawton's 

Wilcox's 

Law's 

Wilcox's 

Colquitt's 


Huger's 
Huger's 
Holmes's 


D.  H.  HiU's 
D.  H.  Hill's 


A.  P.  HiU's 
D.  H.  HiU's 

Whiting's 
A.  P.  HiU's 
Jackson's 
Jackson's 
Longstreet's 
Whiting's 
Longstreet's 
D.  H.  Hill's 


16 
21 

24 
12 


11 


9 

6 


8 
4 
15 
12 
11 
14 


15 
10 


22 
10 
18 


71 

36 


81 
70 
44 
18 
54 
29 
31 
18 
27 
22 


117 

120 

95 
86 


39 


37 

28 


115 

89 
79 
65 
55 
35 


39 
30 


109 

77 
70 


264 
105 


234 
202 
208 
190 
118 
141 
132 
142 
130 
131 


20 
4 


1 

2 


4 

2 


4 
1 


3 
3 


147 
141 
119 

107 


53 


51 
34 


123 
113 

98 
77 
66 
49 


55 

42 


135 

89 
88 


335 
142 


319 
272 
253 
208 
172 
170 
163 
163 
157 
156 


*Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


tCharleston  Battalion. 


GREATKST  ('<>M  i  I>KRATK  LOSSES  IN  BATTLKS. 


Regiment. 

Brigtuk. 

Division. 

Killed. 

*  Wounded. 

.Missing. 

Total 

GAINES'S  MILL,  VA.—  Continued. 

1st  South  Carolina  . 

Gregg's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

20 

125 

145 

18th  Georgia 

Hood's 

Whiting's 

14 

128 

3 

145 

9th  Alabama  . 

\Vilcox's 

Longst  reefs 

34 

96 

4 

134 

4th  Alabama 

Law's 

Whiting's 

22 

108 

2 

132 

10th  Alabama 

Wilcox's 

Longst  reefs 

24 

105 

129 

18th  Virginia, 

Pickett's 

Longstreefs 

14 

99 

5 

118 

13th  Virginia. 

Elzey's 

Ewell's 

27 

84 

-- 

111 

GABNETT'S  FARM,  VA.—  GOIJHNC'S  KARM.  VA. 

June  27,  28,  1862. 

2d    Georgia  . 

Toombs's 

Jones's 

14 

106 

120 

8th  Georgia  .  .  . 

Anderson's 

Jones's 

24 

57 

11 

92 

7th  Georgia  . 

Anderson's 

Jones's 

12 

66 

78 

SAVAGE  STATION,  VA. 

June  29,  18<>2. 

3d    South  Carolina  . 

Kershaw's 

McLaws's 

23 

108 

4 

135 

Tth  South  Carolina  . 

Kershaw's 

McLaws's 

13 

64 

5 

82 

10th  Georgia  

Semmes's 

McLaws's 

10 

47 

57 

GLENDALE,  VA. 

June  30,  1802. 

Palmetto  Sharpshooters. 

Anderson's 

Longstreefs 

39 

215 

254 

llth  Alabama  .  . 

Wilcox's 

Longstreefs 

49 

121 

11 

181 

9th  Alabama  .  . 

Wilcox's 

Longstreefs 

31 

95 

4 

130 

17th  Virginia.. 

Kemper's 

Longstreefs 

17 

23 

73 

113 

7th  Virginia..  . 

K°mper's 

Longstreefs 

14 

66 

31 

111 

14th  Alabama  f- 

Pryoi's 

Longstreefs 

71 

253 

11 

335 

19th  Mississippi' 

Featherston's 

Longstreefs 

58 

264 

3 

325 

14th  Louisiana  '!•_ 

Pryor's 

Longstreefs 

51 

192 

243 

12th  Mississippi*. 

Featherston's 

Longstreefs 

34 

186 

5 

225 

MALVERX  HILL,  VA. 

July  1,  1862. 

3d   Alabama  

Rodes's 

D.  H.  Hill's 

37 

163 

200 

2d   Louisiana  .  .  . 

Cobb's 

Magruder's 

30 

152 

182 

3d   Georgia  ... 

Wright's 

Huger's 

25 

110 

22 

157 

21st  Mississippi 

Barksdale's 

Magruder's 

32 

119 

151 

loth  Alabama  f. 

Trimble's 

Ewell's 

35 

115 

150 

13th  Mississippi  

Barksdale's 

Magiiider's 

28 

107 

.. 

135 

18th  Mississippi  .  . 

Barksdale's 

Magruder's 

16 

116 

.. 

132 

15th  North  Carolina  . 

Cobb's 

Magruder's 

21 

110 

131 

25th  North  Carolina  . 

Ransom's 

Holmes's 

22 

106 

5 

133 

35th  North  Carolina  . 

Ransom's 

Holmes's 

18 

91 

18 

127 

4'.Hh  North  Carolina 

Ransom's 

Holmes's 

14 

75 

16 

105 

57th  Virginia  

Armistead's 

Huger's 

13 

s:{ 

17 

113 

•Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


tlnclndes  loss  at  Guines'8  Mill. 


17 
12 


95 
35 


8 


564  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Regiment.  Brigade.  Division.                       Killed.     *  Wounded.     Missing.      Total. 

SEVEN  DAYS,  VA. 

June  25— July  1,  1862. 

7th  North  Carolina Branch's  A.  P.  Hill's 

18th  North  Carolina  . . .  Branch's  A.  P.  Hill's 

12th  North  Carolina Garland's  D.  H.  Hill's 

60th  Virginia...               ..  Field's  A.  P.  Hill's 

40th  Virginia Field's  A.  P.  Hill's 

2d    S.  C.  Rifles ...  Anderson's  Longstreet's 

28th  North  Carolina Branch's  A.  P.  Hill's 

37th  North  Carolina Branch's  A.  P.  Hill's 

2d    Florida Pryor's  Longstreet's 

CEDAR  MOUNTAIN,  VA. 

August  9,  1862.     , 

21st  Virginia Jones's  Jackson's 

42d    Virginia Jones's  Jackson's 

37th  Virginia Taliaf erro's  Jackson's 

47th  Virginia Taliaferro's  Jackson's 

48th  Alabama Taliaferro's  Jackson's 

MANASSAS,  VA. 

August  28— Sept.  1,  1862. 

5th  Texas Woff ord's  Hood's 

llth  Georgia Anderson's  Jones's 

17th  South  Carolina  ._  Evans's  Anderson's 

21st  Georgia  . .  Trimble's  Swell's 

13th  South  Carolina  .  Gregg's  A.  P.  HiU's 

12th  South  Carolina  ..  Gregg's  A.  P.  Hill's 

Holcombe  Legion  Evans's  Anderson's 

1st  South  Carolina  . .  Gregg's  A.  P.  Hill's 

1 8th  Georgia  ...  Woff  ord's  Hood's 

23d    South  Carolina  . . .  Evans's  Anderson's 

1st  S.  C.  Rifles...  Gregg's  A.  P.  Hill's 

20th  Georgia  . . .  Toombs's  Jones's 

9th  Georgia  . . .  Anderson's  Jones's 

26th  Georgia  . .. .  Lawton's  Ewell's 

60th  Georgia Lawton's  Swell's 

6th  South  Carolina  .  Jenkins's  Pickett's 

15th  Alabama...  Trimble's  Swell's 

2d    Louisiana Starke's  Jackson's 

RICHMOND,  KY. 

August  30,  1862. 

2d    Tennessee.         B.  J.  Hill's  Cleburne's 

1 3th  Tennessee  .  Preston  Smith's      Cleburne's 


35 
45 
51 
31 

30 
33 
19 

27 
23 


37 
36 
12 
12 
12 


15 

20 
25 
38 
31 
25 
24 
25 
19 
27 
24 
19 
12 
37 
22 
13 
21 
25 


218 
179 
160 
173 
150 
108 
130 
111 
114 


85 
71 
76 
76 
61 


224 
178 
163 
146 
142 
131 
131 
126 
133 
122 
122 
113 
116 
87 
101 
102 
91 
86 


1 
1 


253 
224 
212 
204 
180 
149 
149 
138 
137 


122 
107 

88 
88 
73 


240 
198 
189 
184 
173 
156 
155 
151 
152 
149 
146 
132 
128 
124 
123 
115 
112 
111 


112 

48 


MARYLAND  HEIGHTS,  MD. 

Sept.  13,  1862. 

7th  South  Carolina  . 


Kershaw's 


McLaws's 


13 


100 


113 


'Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


GREATEST  Cos FEDERATE  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES.  565 

Regiment.  Brigade.                               Division.  Killed.  *  Wounded.     Missing.     Total. 

CRAMPTOX'S  GAP,  MD. 

>.-!>t    14,  1H02. 

l«th  Georgia  .  Cobb's  McLaws's  24  56  107          187 

24th  Georgia  .  Cobb's  McLaws's  12  59  55          120 

15th  North  Carolina  ._  Cobb's  McLaws's  11  48  124          183 

ANTIETAM,  MD. 

Sept.  17,  i  "'''•-' 

3d    North  Carolina Garland's  D.  II.  Hill's  46  207  ..        f253 

13th  Georgia  Lawton's  Swell's  48  169  2          219 

48th  North  Carolina  .  Walker's  Walker's  31  186  ..           217 

27th  North  Carolina  .  Walker's  Walker's  31  168  199 

13th  North  Carolina .  G.  B.  Anderson's    D.  H.  Hill's  41  149  flDO 

1st  Texas  .  WTofford's  Hood's  45  141  186 

3d    Arkansas Walker's  Walker's  27  155  182 

30th  Virginia. Walker's  Walker's  39  121  160 

1st  North  Carolina  .  Garland's  D.  H.  Hill's  18  142  flOO 

15th  North  Carolina  .  Cobb's  McLaws's  16  143  J159 

24th  Georgia.                   ..  Cobb's  McLaws's  13  145  $158 

2d    Mississippi  Law's  Hood's  27  127  154 

4th  Georgia.  Kipley's  D.  H.  Hill's  22  119  fl41 

7th  South  Carolina  ...  Kershaw's  McLaws's  23  117  140 

16th  Mississippi .  Featherston's  Anderson's  27  loo  127 

50th  Georgia  .  Dray  ton's  Jones's  29  97  12(5 

6th  North  Carolina  . .  Law's  Hood's  10  115  125 

15th  South  Carolina  ..  Dray  ton's  Jones's  26  84  110 

61st  Georgia  .  Lawton's  Ewell's  16  91  7          114 

4th  Texas...  WTofford's  Hood's  10  97  107 

27th  Georgia  ..  Colquitt's  D.  H.  Hill's  15  89  flo4 

8th  Louisiana  ..  Hays's  Ewell's  10  93  103 

2d    South  Carolina Kershaw's  McLaws's  17  77  94 

17th  Mississippi Barksdale's  McLaws's  9  77  2 

10th  Georgia Semmes's  McLaws's  16  67  83 

18th  Mississippi.  Barksdale's  McLaws's  11  69  80 

19th  Georgia.  Colquitt's  D.  H.  Hill's  13  76  t$« 

9th  Louisiana  . . .  Starke's  Jackson's  25  57  . .            82 

49th  North  Carolina Ransom's  Walker's  16  61  ..            77 

MUNFORDVILLE,    K\r. 

Sept.  14-17,  1862. 

10th  Mississippi Chalmers's  Withers's  13  95  ..          10s 

IUKA,  Miss. 

Sept.  19,  1863. 

3d   Texas  (dism't'd  cav'y)  Hebert's  Little's  22  74  96 

1st  Texas  Legion Hebert's  Little's  18  80  1            99 

40th  Mississippi Hebert's  Little's  10  39  21            70 

SHKPHERDSTOWN,  VA. 

Sept.  20,  1W2. 

14th  South  Carolina Gregg's  A.  P.  Hill's  10  45  55 


•Includes  the  mortally  wounded.        tlm-ludes  loss  at  South  Mountain  on  the  14th.        ;includcs  loss  at  Crampton's  Gap  on  the  14th. 


5G6 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Brigade. 

CORINTH,  Miss.f 

Oct  3-5,  1862, 

6th  Texas Phif er's 

35th  Mississippi Moore's 

Oth  Missouri Green's 

2d    Missouri Gates's 

43d    Mississippi -  Green's 

21st  Arkansas Cabell's 

Jones's  Ark.  Battalion . . .  Cabell's 

37th  Missisippi  .- -- 

CHAPLIN  HILLS,  KY. 

Oct.  8,  1862. 

16th  Tennessee Donelson's 

1st  Tennessee Maney's 

9th  Tennessee . .  Maney's 

41st  Georgia Maney's 

27th  Tennessee Maney's 

31st  Tennessee Stewart's 

6th  Tennessee Maney's 

5th  Tennessee Stewart's 

POCOTALIGO,  S.  C. 

Oct    22,  1862. 

7th  S.  C.  Battalion Walker's 

llth  South  Carolina Walker's 

Nelson's  Battalion Walker's 

FREDERICKSBURG,  VA. 

Dec.  13,  1862. 

57th  North  Carolina Law's 

48th  North  Carolina Cooke's 

1st  S.  C.  Rifles Gregg's 

14th  Georgia Thomas's 

3d    South  Carolina Kershaw's 

1 5th  North  Carolina Cooke's 

61st  Georgia Lawton's 

38th  Geoi'gia Lawton's 

37th  North  Carolina Lane's 

18th  North  Carolina Lane's 

35th  Georgia Thomas's 

25th  North  Carolina Ransom's 

7th  North  Carolina Lane's 

31st  Georgia Lawton's 

1st  South  Carolina  . .  Gregg's 

Phillips's  Legion Cobb's 

28th-  North  Carolina  . .  Lane's 

19th  Georgia Archer's 

16th  North  Carolina  .  Pender's 


Division. 

Maury's 

Maury's 

Hebert's 

Hebert's 

Hebert's 

Maury's 

Maury's 

Hebert's 


Cheatham's 
Cheatham's 
Cheatham's 
Cheatham's 
Cheatham's 
Cheatham's 
Cheatham's 
Cheatham's 


Killed.     *  Wounded.     Missing.      Total. 


Hood's 

Ransom's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

A,  P.  Hill's 

McLaws's 

Ransom's 

Swell's 

Ewell's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

Ransom's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

Ewell's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

McLaws's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

A.  P.  Hill's 

A.  P.  Hill's 


55 

32 
31 
19 
13 

27 
36 
19 


41 
49 
32 
23 
16 
17 
16 
14 


3 
4 
4 


17 

21 
22 
15 
10 
17 
10 
17 
13 
10 
13 

5 

15 
15 
13 
16 
15 

6 


63 
110 
130 

122 
56 
41 
43 

62 


151 
129 
114 
125 

81 
78 
64 
64 


22 
15 
17 


161 

149 

110 

104 

93 

83 
91 
76 
77 
79 
75 
81 
63 
58 
56 
49 
39 
48 


30 

347 

53 

21 

156 

58 

11 


7 
1 
8 
3 

11 
5 

11 
12 


2 


148 

489 

214 

162 

225 

126 

90 

81 


199 
179 
154 
151 

108 

100 

91 

90 


25 
21 
21 


224 

178 

170 

132 

119 

103 

100 

101 

93 

90 

89 

88 

86 

78 

73 

6.9 

65 

54 

54 


'Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


t  Includes  loss  at  Hatchie  Bridge,  October  5th. 


GREATEST  CONFI:I>I:K ATE  LOSSES  ix  BATTU  - 


567 


Regiment, 

CHICKASAW  BLUFFS,  Miss. 

Dee  sw-ao,  I8tw. 

Georgia  .                         Barton's 
Louisiana  . 
31st  Georgia 

STONE'S  RIVER,  TENN. 

Dec  31,  180-,'— Jan.  1,  18«3. 

8th  Tennessee  .  Donelson's 

29th  Mississippi  Walthall's 

30th  Mississippi Walthall's 

13th  Louisiana.  .  )  A  , 

20th  Louisiana )  Adarass 

l«)th  Louisiana.                -  I    A          > 
iT.th  Louisiana J  Adams  s 

»itli  Arkansas  .  .  /   T  . ,,  „, 

7th  Arkansas |  Lldde11  s 

4th  Florida.  Preston's 

17th  Tennessee  .  Johnson's 

16th  Alabama.  Wood's 
41st  Mississippi          _ ,  „        Chalmers's 

Sth  Arkansas.  Liddell's 

12th  Tennessee  .  Smith's 

44th  Tennessee  .  Johnson's 

5th  Arkansas  ..     Liddell's 

18th  Tennessee  . .  Pillow's 

8th  Mississippi  Jackson's 

19th  Tennessee  . . .  Stewart's 

9th  Texas  . . .  Smith's 

24th  Alahama  . .  Anderson's 

41st  Alabama  . .  Hanson's 

29th  Tennessee  .  Smith's 

32d    Alabama  . .  Adams's 

2d   Arkansas..  Liddell's 

2d   Arkansas  Rifles.  McNair's 

10th  South  Carolina  . .  Anderson's 
10th  Texas  Cav'y(dismt'd)     Ector's 

ARKANSAS  POST,  ARK. 

Jan.  11,  1863. 

24th  Texas...  

6th  Texas. 


THOMPSON'S  STATION,  TENN. 

March  5,  1863. 

1st  Texas  Legion 

4th  Mississippi 


Division. 

Stevenson's 

Ijee's 

Lee's 


Cheatham's 

Withers's 

Withers's 

Breckenridge's 

Breckenridge's 

Cleburne's 

Breckenridge's 

Cleburne's 

Cleburne's 

Withers's 

Cleburne's 

Cheatham's 

Cleburne's 

Cleburne's 

Breckenridge's 


Killed.     *  Wounded.     Missing.      Total. 


Cheatham's 

Cheatham's 

Withers's 

Breckenridge's 

Cheatham's 

Breck  en  ridge's 

Cleburne's 

McCown's 

Withers's 

McCown's 


CHANCELLORS  v  i  U.K,  VA. 

May  1-3,  1868. 

37th  North  Carolina        _.     Lane's 
2d    North  Carolina        ..     L'.miseur's 

•Includes  the  mortally  wouudttl. 


A.  P.  Hill's 
D.  H.  Hill's 


10 


9 


41 
34 
63 

46 

41 

29 

34 
17 
24 
25 
29 
18 
14 
12 
17 
20 
16 
IS 
20 
16 
27 
21 
15 
10 

i<; 
10 


12 

8 


11 

9 


34 
47 


18 
25 
16 


265 
202 
146 

168 
176 

140 

129 

164 

142 

123 

124 

137 

136 

135 

120 

113 

111 

102 

95 

94 

82 

86 

94 

99 

91 

93 


17 
24 


59 
37 


193 


102 

21 

8 

31 
26 

8 
9 

1 
8 


2 

3 

38 

21 
9 

11 
2 

15 


25 
21 


28 
43 
25 


30<; 
236 
209 


238 


77 


194 
207 
166 
156 
153 
164 
152 
14S 
145 
133 
127 
122 
118 
148 
10!) 
128 
118 
120 
109 
118 


54 


77 
46 


227 
214 


568 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Regiment.  Brigade.  Division. 

CHANCELLORSVILLE,  VA. — Continued. 

13th  North  Carolina Fender's  A.  P.  Hill's 

3d   North  Carolina Colston's  Trimble's 

22d   North  Carolina Fender's  A.  P.  Hill's 

17th  North  Carolina Lane's  A.  P.  Hill's 

4th  North  Carolina Eamseur's  D.  H.  Hill's 

5th  Alabama Eodes's  D.  H.  Hill's 

50th  Georgia Semmes's  McLaws's 

4th  Georgia Doles's  D.  H.  Hill's 

4th  Virginia Paxton's  Trimble's 

51st  Georgia Semmes's  McLaws's 

Cobb's  Legion Wofford's  McLaws's 

33d    North  Carolina  . . .  Lane's  A.  P.  Hill's 

23d    North  Carolina Iverson's  D.  H.  Hill's 

6th  Alabama  .  Eodes's  D.  H.  Hill's 

13th  Alabama Archer's  A.  P.  Hill's 

3d    Alabama Eodes's  D.  H.  Hill's 

16th  Georgia Wofford's  McLaws's 

42d    Virginia  _  J.  E.  Jones's  Trimble's 

1st  North  Carolina Colston's  Trimble's 

18th  North  Carolina  .  Lane's  A.  P.  Hill's 

34th  North  Carolina Fender's  A.  P.  Hill's 

14th  North  Carolina  .  Eamseur's  D.  H.  Hill's 

10th  Virginia-..  .„_  Colston's  Trimble's 

10th  Georgia Semmes's  McLaws's 

30th  North  Carolina  .  Eamseur's  D.  H.  Hill's 

53d    Georgia  _       Semmes's  McLaws's 

EAYMOND,  Miss. 

May  12,  1863. 

3d   Tennessee . .  Gregg's  

7th  Texas Gregg's 

10th  Tennessee Gregg's 


Killed.     *  Wounded.      Missing.      Total. 


JACKSON,  Miss. 

June  14,  1863. 

24th  South  Carolina  . 


Walker's 


CHAMPION'S  HILL,  Miss. 

May  16,  1863. 

1st  Missouri Cockrell's 

3d    Missouri Cockrell's 

MILLIKEN'S  BEND,  LA. 

June  C-8,  1863. 

17th  Texas 

16th  Texas  (dism't'd  cav'y)     


HOOVER'S  GAP,  TENN. 

June  24,  1863. 

20th  Tennessee 

37th  Georgia  - 


Bates's 
Bates's 


Bowen's 
Bowen's 


Walker's 
Walker's 


Stewart's 
Stewart's 


31 
38 
30 
37 
45 
24 
17 
29 
14 
30 
22 
32 
32 
24 
13 
17 
18 
15 
34 
30 
18 
15 
23 
23 
25 
15 


27 

22 

8 


11 


29 
13 


21 

19 


9 
3 


178 
141 
139. 
127 
110 
130 
153 
121 
149 
119 
135 
101 
113 
125 
127 
121 
115 
120 
83 
96 
110 
116 
101 
105 
98 
105 


90 
73 
37 


38 


94 
63 


68 
47 


24 
45 


7 

17 
15 

58 
121 

11 
3 

26 

66 
35 
14 
8 
16 


27 

20 

25 

1 


70 
63 

7 


56 


52 
44 


3 
1 


216 
196 
184 
364 
213 
275 
170 
161 
166 
175 
157 
199 
180 
163 
148 
154 
133 
135 
144 
126 
148 
131 
149 
128 
124 
120 


187 

158 

52 


105 


175 
120 


92 

67 


33 

48 


"•Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


<  iu:  \TKST  (.'UNTKM  KATE  LOSSES  IN  BATTLES. 


Regiment.  Brigade.  Division. 

LIBERTY  GAP,  TEN.N. 

Jutioii").  1803 

2d   Arkansas Liddell's  Cleburne's 

5th  Arkansas Liddell's  Clelmrne's 

YICKSBURG,  Miss. 

May  18  -July  4. 1863 

3d   Louisiana  ...  Hebert's  Forney's 

Oth  Missouri CockrelPs  Bo  wen's 

27th  Louisiana Shoup's  Smith's 

2d    Texas Moore's  Forney's 

36th  Mississippi  . .  Hebert's  Forney's 

35th  Mississippi  Moore's  Forney's 

2d    Missouri Cockrell's  Bo  wen's 

3d   Missouri Cockrell's  Bovven's 

38th  Mississippi  - Hebert's  Forney's 

26th  Louisiana Shoup's  Smith's 

HELENA,  ARK. 

July  4,  1863. 

7th  Missouri Parsons's  Price's 

3(')th  Arkansas  . .  McRae's  Price's 

GETTYSBURG,  PA. 

July  1-3,  18C3. 

26th  North  Carolina        . .  Pettigrew's  Heth's 

42d    Mississippi  . .  Da  vis's  Heth's 

2d   Mississippi  Davis's  Heth's 

llth  North  Carolina .  Pettigrew's  Heth's 

•15th  North  Carolina  .     . .  Daniel's  Kodes's 

17th  Mississippi  .  Barksdale's  McLaws's 

14th  South  Carolina  .  Gregg's  Fender's 

llth  Mississippi  ...  Davis's  Heth's 

55th  North  Carolina  .  Davis's  Heth's 

llth  Georgia  . .  G.T.Anderson's     Hood's 

38th  Virginia Armistead's  Pickett's 

6th  North  Carolina .  Hoke's  Early's 

13th  Mississippi .  Barksdale's  McLaws's 

8th  Alabama Wilcox's  Anderson's 

47th  North  Carolina  .     . .  Pettigrew's  Heth's 

3d    North  Carolina  .  Stewart's  Johnson's 

2d   N.  C.  Battalion . .  Daniel's  Rodes's 

2d    South  Carolina  _.  Kershaw's  M<-LaWB*fl 

52d   North  Carolina Pettigrew's  Heth's 

5th  North  Carolina Iverson's  Rodes's 

32d    North  Carolina Daniel's  Rodes's 

43d    North  Carolina Daniel's  Rodes's 

Oth  Georgia G.  T.  Anderson's    Hood's 

1st  Maryland  Battalion.  Stewart's  Johnson's 

3d   Arkansas  Robertson's  Hood's 


Killed.    *  Wounded.     Missing.      Total. 


14 
5 


49 
33 

58 
39 
28 
20 
17 
18 
35 
28 


16 
21 


86 
60 
49 
50 
46 
40 
26 
32 
39 
32 
23 
20 

•J- 

22 
21 
29 
29 
27 
33 
31 
26 
21 
28 
25 
26 


35 
10 


119 

133 

96 

65 

72 
82 
89 
83 
37 
44 


124 

70 


502 
205 
I-:: 
159 
173 
100 
220 
170 
159 
162 
147 
131 
137 
139 
140 
127 
124 
125 
114 
112 
116 
126 
115 
119 
110 


10 

7 


53 


f!20 


0 


21 


59 

22 


I7f> 
Kit! 
154 
104 
101 
102 
106 
101 
72 
72 


193 
158 


708 
205 
232 
209 
219 
200 
252 
202 
198 
194 
170 
172 
105 
101 
161 
150 
153 
154 
147 
143 
142 
147 
143 
144 


•Includes  the  mortally  wounded. 


1  These  uiisslujc  ones  were  lost  in  I'ickett's  c 


570 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


56 
3 

52 

2 

22 


Regiment.  Brigade.  Division.  Killed.  *  Wounded.    Missing. 

GETTYSBURG,  PA.—  Continued. 

57th  Virginia Armistead's  Pickett's  35  105              4 

23d    North  Carolina Iverson's  Rodes's  41  93 

CHARLESTON  HARBOR.  S.  C. 

July  10— Sept.  C,  1863. 

21st  South  Carolinaf Graham's  Eipley's  14  112 

25th  South  Carolina Colquitt's  Ripley's  16  124 

1st  South  Carolina  Art'y.  Hagood's  Ripley's  18  50 

-  Charleston  Battalion  %  Hagood's  Ripley's  13  70 
51st  North  Carolina  \ Taliaferro's  Ripley's  17  60 

1st  S.  C.  (3d  Artillery ):{:__  Taliaferro's  Ripley's  10  32 

31st  North  Carolina Clingman's  Ripley's  13  32 

CHICKAMAUGA,  GA. 

Sept.  19-20, 1863. 

18th  Alabama Clayton's  Stewart's  41  256 

22d    Alabama Deas's  Hindman's  44  161 

16th  Alabama  ..  Wood's  Cleburne's  25  218 

19th  Alabama  .  Deas's  Hindman's  34  158 

38th  Alabama  _  _  Clayton's  Stewart's  37  151 

5th  Georgia .  _  Jackson's  Cheatham's  27  165 

63d  Tennessee . .  Grade's  Preston's  16  184 

1st  Arkansas ...  Folk's  Cleburne's  13  180 

37th  Georgia ..  Bate's  Stewart's  19  168 

33d  Alabama..  Wood's  Cleburne's  19  166 

6th  Florida   . .                  . .  Trigg's  Preston's  35  130 

2d  Tennessee..  Folk's  Cleburne's  13  145 

41st  Alabama  ..  Helm's  Breckenridge's  27  120 

19th  Louisiana Adams's  Breckenridge's  28  114 

18th  Tennessee  ._  Brown's  Stewart's  20  114 

24th  Mississippi..  AYalthall's  Liddell's  10  103 

BRISTOE  STATION,  VA. 

Oct.  14,  1863. 

27th  North  Carolina  .  Cooke's  Heth's  30  174 

48th  North  Carolina  ..  Cooke's  Heth's  8  115 

15th  North  Carolina  ..  Cooke's  Heth's  14  87 

26th  North  Carolina  .  Kirklaiid's  Heth's  16  83 

WAUHATCHIE,  TENN. 

Oct.  27,  1863. 

5th  South  Carolina  . .  Bratton's  Jenkins's  9  84 

-  Hampton  Legion  Bratton's  Jenkins's  8  65 
MINE  RUN,  VA. 

Nov.  27,  1863. 

3d    North  Carolina  .  Steuart's  Johnson's  7  65 

4th  Virginia..  Walker's  Johnson's  7  48 
OLUSTEE,  FLA. 

Feb.  20,  1864. 

}2d    Georgia  .  Harrison's  Finnegan's  15  149 

64th  Georgia  Harrison's  Finnegairs  17  88 

2d    Florida  Battalion.  Harrison's  Finnegan's  12  95 

*  Includes  the  mortally  wounded.  t  Morris  laland,  July  10th.  \  Fort  Wagner,  July  18th. 


12 

5 

2 

1 

7 


1 

11 
11 

1 
19 


9 
12 


2 
2 


Total. 

144 
134 


182 

143 

120 

85 

77 

64 

45 


297 
205 
243 
204 
193 
194 
200 
194 
194 
185 
165 
159 
158 
153 
135 
132 


204 

123 

101 

99 


102 

85 


72 
59 


164 
107 
109 


CONFEDERATE  (IK\KK.M.  OI-TICI.KS   KILI.KD  IN    ACTION. 


571 


There  are  no  miMer  out  rolls  of  tlie  Confederate  regiments.     There  are  partial  sets  of 

muster -rolls  and  monthly  returns  at  Washington  in  the  Bureau  of  Confederate,  Archives ; 
hut  they  a i-i'  deteetive  and  inrmnplete.  There  is  no  way  of  determining  accurately  the 
mortuary  loss  of  each  ( 'on  ft -derate  regiment  during  its  entire  service. 

The  total  los-«  -  of  a  few  regiments  have  been  ascertained  from  other  sources.  The  His 
tory  of  Gregg's  South  Carolina  Brigade  states  the  number  of  deaths  in  each  regiment,  and, 
judging  from  the  casualty  lists  given  for  each  action,  the  statistics  are  substantially  correct. 


i?'s  Brigade. 

1st  South  Carolina 

1 2th  South  Carolina. 

13th  South  Carolina 

14th  South  Carolina. 

1st  South  Carolina  Rifles. 

Total. 


, — Killed  and  DifJ  of  Wounds. — . 
Officers.        En.  Men.          Total. 


21 
17 
17 
16 
19 

90 


260 
213 

203 


3(15 


281 
230 
220 
224 
324 


(>///.,  '/ 


5 
4 
3 


-Died  of  Disease. 


1,180          1,279 


14          1,115 


1,129 


But  the  loss  in  action  of  this  famous  brigade  was  largely  in  excess  of  other  commands. 
The  average  number  of  killed  in  the  Confederate  regiments  was  something  less  than  150. 

The  desperate  character  of  the  fighting  entailed  a  large  loss  of  life  upon  the  general 
officers.  The  following  list  has  been  compiled  from  the  official  reports,  but  some  names  may 
possibly  have  been  omitted. 

CONFEDERATE  GENERALS  KILLED  OR   MORTALLY  WOUNDED  IN  BATTLE. 

ARMY'  COMMANDERS. 
General  Albert  Sydney  Johnston .  .Killed  at  Shiloh. 

CORPS  COMMANDERS. 

Lieutenant-General  Thomas  A.  Jackson*  .Killed  at  Chancellorsville. 

Lieutenant-General  Leonidas  Polk  ..  Pine  Mountain. 

Lieutenant-General  Ambrose  P.  Hill  Fall  of  Petersburg. 

DIVISION  COMMANDERS. 

Major-General  William  D.  Pender*  .Killed  at  Gettysburg. 

Major  General  J.  E.  B.  Stewart*  Yellow  Tavern. 

Major-General  W.  H.  Walker.  Atlanta. 

Major-General  Robert  E.  Rodes Opequon. 

Major-General  Stephen  D.  Ramseur*  . .  Cedar  Creek. 

Major-General  Patrick  R.  Cleburne...  Franklin. 

Brigadier-General  John  Pegram Hatcher's  Run. 

BRIGADE  COMMANDERS. 

Brigadier-General  Robert  S.  Garnett.  Killed  at  Cheat  Mountain. 
Brigadier-General  Barnard  E.  Bee  . .  First  Bull  Run. 

Brigadier-General  Francis  S.  Bartow.  First  Bull  Run. 

Brigadier  (ieneral  Felix  K.  Zollicoffer.  Mill  Springs. 

Brigadier-General  Ben.  McCulloch  „ .  Pea  Ridge. 

Brigadier-General  Jame^  Mdntosh  ...  Pea  Ridge. 

•Mortally  wounded. 


. . 


.. 


. . 


. . 


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572  REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Brigadier-General  William  Y.  Slack*  .  . .  .Killed 

Brigadier-General  Adley  H.  Gladden* 

Brigadier-General  Robert  Hatton 

Brigadier- (general  Turner  Ashby 

Brigadier- General  Richard  Griffith* 

Brigadier-General  Charles  S.  Winder  .  _ 
Brigadier- General  Samuel  Garland,  Jr  .  _ 
Brigadier-General  George  B.  Anderson*  _. 

Brigadier-General  L.  O'B.  Branch  

Brigadier-General  William  E.  Starke  . 

Brigadier-General  Henry  Little 

Brigadier-General  Thomas  R.  Cobb 

Brigadier-General  Maxcy  Gregg 

Brigadier-General  James  E.  Rains 

Brigadier-General  Roger  W.  Hanson 

Brigadier- General  E.  D.  Tracy 

Brigadier-General  E.  F.  Paxton 

Brigadier-General  Lloyd  Tilghman 

Brigadier- General  Martin  E.  Green . . . 

Brigadier- General  William  Barksdale 

Brigadier- General  Lewis  Armistead 

Brigadier- General  Richard  B.  Garnett. 

Brigadier- General  Paul  J.  Semmes* 

Brigadier-General  J.  J.  Pettigrew  * 

Brigadier- General  Preston  Smith 

Brigadier-General  Benjamin  H.  Helm* . . 

Brigadier- General  James  Deshler 

Brigadier-General  Carnot  Posey* 

Brigadier-General  Alfred  Mouton .  ..... 

Brigadier  General  Thomas  Green 

Brigadier-General  W.  R.  Scurry 

Brigadier-General  John  M.  Jones 

Brigadier-General  Micah  Jenkins 

Brigadier-General  L.  A.  Stafford  . . 

Brigadier-General  Abner  Perrin 

Brigadier- General  Julius  Daniel 

Brigadier-General  James  B.  Gordon  . 
Brigadier- General  George  Doles  .  - 

Brigadier- General  W.  E.  Jones 

Brigadier-General  C.  H.  Stevens, .  - 
Brigadier- General  Samuel  Ben  ton 
Brigadier-General  John  R.  Chambliss,  Jr 

Brigadier-General  J.  C.  Saunders 

Brigadier-General  Robert  H.  Anderson. 

Brigadier-General  John  Morgan . 

Brigadier-General  Archibald  C.  Godwin., 

Brigadier-General  John.  Dunnovant 

Brigadier-General  John  Gregg 


. . 


Ct 


. . 


at  Pea  Ridge. 
Shiloh. 
Fair  Oaks. 
Harrisonburg. 
Savage  Station. 
Cedar  Mountain. 
South  Mountain. 
Antietam. 
Antietam. 
Antietam. 
luka. 

Fredericksburg. 
Fredericksburg. 
Stone's  River. 
Stone's  River. 
Port  Gibson. 
Chancellors  ville . 
Champion's  Hill. 
Vicksburg. 
Gettysburg. 
Gettysburg. 
Gettysburg. 
Gettysburg. 
Falling  Waters. 
Chickamauga. 
Chickamauga. 
Chickamauga. 
Bristoe  Station. 
Sabine  Cross  Roads. 
Pleasant  Hill. 
Jenkins  Ferry. 
Wilderness. 
Wilderness. 
Wilderness. 
Spotsylvania. 
Spotsylvania. 
Yellow  Tavern. 
Bethesda  Church. 
Piedmont. 
Peach  Tree  Creek. 
Ezra  Church. 
Deep  Bottom. 
Weldon  Railroad. 
Jonesboro. 
Greenville,  Tenn. 
Opequon. 
Vaughn  Road. 
Darby  town  Road. 


*Mortally  wounded. 


LOSSES  ix  THE  CONFEDERATE  NAVY. 


673 


Brigadier-Genera]  Stephen  Elliott,  Jr*. 
Brigadier-General  Victor  J.  Girardey  . . 
Brigadier-General  Archibald  Grade,  Jr. 
Brigadier-General  John  Adams 

Brigadier-General  Oscar  F.  Strahl 

Brigadier-General  S.  R.  Gist 

Brigadier-General  H.  B.  Granberry 

Brigadier-General  James  Dealing 


Killi-d  at  Petersburg. 


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Petersburg. 

Petersl/g  Trenches. 

Franklin. 

Franklin. 

Franklin. 

Franklin. 

High  Bridge. 


The  record  of  casualties  in  the  Confederate  Navy  is  not  a  startling  one.  Nevertheless, 
the  Confederate  seamen,  in  every  action,  fought  their  ships  to  the  last  extremity,  and  made  a 
record  which,  for  heroism,  skill,  and  enterprise,  will  challenge  the  attention  of  the  historical 
student  as  long  as  the  story  of  the  war  is  told. 

With  crippled  resources,  and  under  discouraging  circumstances,  vessels  were  constructed 
which  revolutionized  the  entire  system  of  naval  warfare,  and  although  the  flag  of  the  Con 
federate  Navy  went  down  in  ultimate  ruin  and  defeat,  it  will  survive  in  the  history  of  the 
world's  navies  as  the  flag  which  waved  over  the  first  iron-clad. 


LOSSES  IN  THE  CONFEDERATE  NAVY.    -  1861-05. 


Date. 

Vessel. 

Commander. 

1862 

Mch.  2- 

-19 

Virginia  f  

Buchanan 

April 

24 

Gov.  Moore  .  . 

Kennon 

May 

10 

General  Price  . 

Hawthorne 

May 

15 

Marine  Corps  . 

Farrand 

July 

15 

Arkansas  .-  

Brown 

July 

22 

Arkansas  .  . 

Brown 

1863 

Jan. 

1 

Bayou  City  . 

Lubbock 

Jan. 

1 

Neptune  . 

Bayley 

Jan. 

11 

Alabama  

Semmes 

Feb. 

24 

Queen  of  the  West 

McCloskey 

Feb. 

24 

C.  S.Webb. 

Pierce 

June 

17 

Atlanta  

WTebb 

1864 

Feb. 

1 

Boat  Crews,  C.  S.  N. 

W^ood 

May 

31 

Boat  Crews,  C.  S.  N. 

Pelot 

June 

19 

Alabama  

Semmes 

Aug. 

6 

Tennessee  

Buchanan 

Auer. 

6 

Selma  . 

Battle. 


Killed.        Wounded.    Missing. 


9. 


Hampton  Roads 
New  Orleans  57 
Plum  Point,  Miss.  2 
Drewry's  .Bluff  7 
Yazoo  10 

Vicksburg  7 


Galveston ) 
Galveston  } 

Hatteras 
Indianola 
Indianola 
Warsaw  Sound 

Underwriter 
Water  Witch 
Kearsarge 
Mobile  Bay 
Mobile  Bay 


12 


2 


6 
6 
9 

2 


19 

17 

1 

9 

15 
6 

70 

1 

4 

l 

16 

22 
12 
21 
10 
10 


Total. 
21 

3 

1(5 

25 

§13 

82 

1 

6 

1 

16 

29 
18 
40 
12 
15 


But  any  recital  of  casualties  or  battles  would  fail  to  convey  a  projier  idea  of  the  extent 
and  activity  of  the  Confederate  Navy.  Important  and  successful  orations  were  carried  on 
by  privateers  and  swift  cruisers  flying  the  Confederate  flag.  These  cruisers  inflicted  an 
immense  damage  on  the  commerce  of  the  United  States.  The  Confederate  steamer  Alabama 
captured  or  dest  roved  69  vessels  ;«[  the  Florida,  37  ;  the  Tallahassee,  29  ;  the  Shenandoah,  36  ; 
the  Sumter,  18;  tln>  Olustee,  6  ;  the  Tacony,  15  ;  the  Georgia,  9  ;  the  Clarence,  8  ;  the  Jeff. 
Davis,  8  ;  the  Chi(  k;miauga,  4;  and  the  Nashville,  2.  There  were  other  privateers  which 
also  made  some 


*  Mortally  wounded. 
S  Out  of  a  crew  of  41. 


+  The  "  Mcrrlmac.' 
,  Drowned. 


t  Out  of  93  on  hoard,  aa  stated  by  Commander  Beverly  Kennon.  In  the  Century  Magazine. 
'Hist.  Confederate  Navy:  Scbarf. 


574  EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


IN  CONCLUSION. 

Every  story,  even  a  statistical  one,  has  its  moral,  and  some  suggestions  pertinent  to  the 
subject  seem  proper  here.  The  official  records  of  the  Civil  War,  though  voluminous  and  rich 
in  valuable  information,  are  too  often  deficient  in  the  facts  essential  to  a  proper  statement  of 
a  regimental  loss  in  action. 

Only  a  few  of  the  regiments,  comparatively,  made  official  reports  for  the  actions  in  which 
they  were  engaged.  After  a  hard-fought  battle  the  regimental  commandant  would,  perhaps, 
write  a  long  letter  to  his  wife  detailing  the  operations  of  his  regiment,  and  some  of  his  men 
would  send  to  their  village  paper  an  account  of  the  fight,  but  no  report  would  be  forwarded 
officially  to  headquarters.  Many  colonels  regarded  the  report  as  an  irksome  and  unnecessary 
task ;  something  to  be  avoided  if  possible,  something  to  be  attended  to  only  when  compelled 
by  the  repeated  urging  of  a  superior.  They  were  evidently  not  aware  that  their  only  chance 
to  gain  a  place  for  their  regiment  in  the  archives  of  history  was  through  the  medium  of  such 
returns. 

Of  the  official  battle  reports  which  were  made  by  regimental  commandants,  but  few  gave 
the  figures  for  their  casualties.  Hard  fighting  and  heavy  losses  were  often  claimed,  but  as 
these  terms  were  used  without  discrimination  they  became  meaningless.  Sometimes  allusion 
was  made  to  a  nominal  list  of  casualties  appended,  but  its  totals  were  not  included  in  the 
report,  and  so  when  the  accompanying  list  was  lost,  as  was  often  the  case,  there  was  nothing 
to  show  what  the  colonel's  idea  of  a  heavy  loss  was. 

Again,  mention  was  seldom  made  of  the  number  of  men  taken  into  action,  without 
which  any  statement  of  casualties  was,  to  a  large  extent,  meaningless,  and  for  purposes  of 
comparison  was  worthless. 

In  the  nominal  lists  of  wounded  men  no  distinction  was  made  between  the  mortally, 
seriously,  or  slightly  wounded  ;  and  the  list  of  missing  failed  to  show  whether  the  men  were 
captured  or  belonged  to  the  class  whose  fate  was  unknown.  Too  often,  no  return  of  cas 
ualties  whatever  was  made.  As  a  result  the  statistics  of  our  last  war  are,  in  many  instances, 
meager  and  unsatisfactory  ;  and,  in  some  cases  are  wanting  entirely. 

At  the  close  of  a  war  the  Government  should  be  able  to  publish  the  regimental  losses  in 
form  similar  to  Dr.  Engel's  "  Verluste  der  deutscheii  Armeen  irn  Kriege  gegen  Frankreich, 
1870  und  1871,"  an  admirable  official  work  which  was  given  to  the  public  by  the  German 
Government.  The  Staff  of  the  German  Army  directed  successfully  the  operations  of  a  great 
war,  but  they  still  found  time  to  supervise  carefully  the  items  of  the  "  butcher's  bill." 

In  a  conversation  with  the  late  Colonel  Robert  N.  Scott,  U.  S.  A.,*  concerning  these 
matters,  that  officer  remarked,  "We  will  do  these  things  better  in  the  next  war."  The 
question  arises,  will  the  "we"  of  the  future  do  these  things  any  better?  In.  the  turmoil  and 
excitement  will  not  "these  things"  be  again  overlooked,  and  gallant  regiments  be  again  dis 
banded  without  leaving  scarcely  a  trace  to  show  how  well  they  fought  ?  Will  not  History  be 
again  neglected  or  despoiled  ? 

Is  it  asking  too  much  that,  now,  in  time  of  peace,  the  National  Military  Academy 
provide  in  its  course  of  instruction  against  any  repetition  of  such  neglect.  Or,  if  such 
provision  belongs  within  the  province  of  the  Adjutant -General's  department,  let  the  Blue 
Book  containing  the  United  States  Army  Regulations  include  the  blank  forms  and  paragraphs 
of  instruction  necessary  to  such  end. 

•Editor  of  the  Official  Records  of  the  Union  and  Confederate  Armies,  as  published  by  the  War  Department. 


IN  CON<  i.rsioN.  575 

In  future  wars  the  rule  requiring  regimental  commandants  to  hand  in  an  official  report 
after  each  battle,  should  be  rigidly  enforced.  Each  colonel  should  he  instructed  to  order  a 
count  made  of  his  men  just  before  going  into  action,  instead  of  referring  to  the  morning 
report  for  information  regarding  the  strength  of  his  command.  Commandants  should  not 
only  hand  in  a  casualty  list,  but  should  see  that  it  is  properly  classified,  and  that  a  copy  is 
promptly  transmitted  to  the  proper  bureau  or  to  some  place  of  safety.  The  totals  of  the 
casualty  list  should  be  included  in  the  official  report,  accompanied  by  an  accurate  statement 
of  the  number  of  officers  and  men  in  line  or  actually  engaged. 

In  each  regiment  there  should  be  some  officer,  attached  to  the  non-commissioned  staff, 
who  should  be  entrusted  with  the  care  and  preparation  of  the  regimental  statistics  and 
casualty  lists  ;  and  this  person  should  be  exempted  from  all  liability  to  accidents  in  battle, 
and  should  not  be  allowed  to  go  into  action.  During  such  times  as  the  regiment  was  not 
engaged  in  an  active  campaign,  this  officer  would  find  ample  employment  in  ascertaining  tin- 
fate  of  missing  men,  and  of  the  wounded  and  sick  who  were  absent  in  hospital  or  on 
furlough.  All  statements  of  casualties  in  battle  made  by  him  should  be  accompanied  by  a 
report  of  the  number  engaged,  and  such  statements,  together  with  all  other  mortuary  i'e|K>rts, 
should  be  made  in  manifold,  one  copy  to  be  forwarded  to  the  War  Department  and  one  to  the 
Adjutant-General  of  the  State  to  which  the  regiment  belonged.  There  should,  also,  be  a 
definite  agreement  between  belligerents  that  all  captured  records  of  this  class  should  not  be 
destroyed  ;  and,  that  a  full  record  should  be  carefully  made  of  the  fate  of  all  prisoners  within 
their  respective  lines. 

To  all  this  some  may  sneer  and  some  will  say,  "  Cut  bono  /"  If  so,  let  it  be  remembered 
that  there  are  other  reasons  than  money  or  patriotism  which  induce  men  to  risk  life  and 
limb  in  war.  There  is  the  love  of  glory  and  the  expectation  of  honorable  recognition.  But 
the  private  in  the  ranks  expects  neither.  His  identity  is  merged  in  that  of  his  regiment. 
To  him  the  regiment  and  its  name  is  everything.  He  does  not  expect  to  see  his  own  name 
on  the  page  of  history,  and  is  content  with  a  proper  recognition  of  the  old  command  in  which 
he  fought.  But  he  is  jealous  of  the  record  of  his  regiment,  and  demands  credit  for  every 
shot  it  faced  and  every  grave  it  filled. 

The  bloody  laurels  for  which  a  regiment  contends  will  always  be  awarded  to  the  one  with 
the  longest  Roll  of  Honor.  Scars  are  the  true  evidence  of  wounds,  and  the  regimental  scars 
can  be  seen  only  in  the  record  of  its  casualties.  In  our  last  war  many  a  noble  regiment  lost 
the  place  in  history  to  which  it  was  entitled  through  a  failure  to  file  the  proper  records  of  its 
gallant  deeds.  Will  it  always  be  so  ? 


576 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


ADDENDA.. 
To  the  table  of  Maximum  Percentages  of  Casualties  on  page  37,  add  : 


Regiment. 


53d    Pennsylvania  . 

10th  U.  S.  Inf.  (3  co's.) 

5th  Vermont 

7th  U.S.  Inf.  (4  co's.) 

88th  New  York  . 
1st  Wisconsin 

87th  Indiana 

69th  Pennsylvania  . . . 

73d    New  York . 


Battle. 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 

Savage  Station 

Gettysburg 

Fredericksburg 

Chaplin  Hills 

Chickamauga 

Gettysburg 

Gettysburg 


Corps. 

Third 

Engaged. 

135 

Killed. 

7 

Wounded. 

67 

Missing-. 

6 

Per  ct. 
59.2 

Fifth 

93 

16 

32 

3 

54.8 

Sixth 

400 

31 

147 

31 

52.2 

Fifth 

116 

12 

45 

2 

50.8 

Second 
Fourteenth 

252 
407 

17 

58 

97 
132 

13 
14 

50.3 
50.1 

Fourteenth 

380 

40 

142 

8 

50.0 

Second 

258 

40 

80 

9 

50.0 

Third 

324 

51 

103 

8 

50.0 

To  the  tables  (pp.  426-461)  showing  regiments  which  sustained  the  greatest  losses  in  each 
battle,  add  : 

Regiment.  Division.  Corps.  Killed.       Wounded.     Missing     Aggregate. 

ROANOKE  ISLAND,  N.  C. 

Feb.  8, 1862. 

10th  Connecticut  .  Burnside's          Ninth  6  49  ..  55 


BACHELOR'S  CREEK,  N.  C. 

Feb.  1, 1864. 

132d    New  York. 


6 


MERIDIAN  RAID,  Miss. 

Feb.  3— March  5,  1864. 

47th  U.  S.  Colored  (8th  La.) 
llth  Illinois  . . 
7th  Indiana  Cavalry 


CLOYD'S  MOUNTAIN,  W.  VA. 

May  9,  1864. 

14th  West  Virginia 

12th  Ohio  . 


SHENANDOAH  VALLEY,  VA. 

Aug.  1-31,  1864. 

3d    New  Jersey  Cavalry.  _  _ 
6th  New  York  Cavalry . 
17th  Pennsylvania  Cavalry. 
1st  New  York  Dragoons  . . 

5th  Michigan  Cavalry 

2d    Massachusetts  Cavalry 
9th  New  York  Cavalry 

DABNEY'S  MILLS,  VA. 

Feb.  5-7,  1865. 

llth  Pennsylvania 

16th  Maine  . 


WISE'S  FORKS,  N.  C. 

March  7-10,  1865. 

120th  Indiana 

25th  Massachusetts 


Crook's 
Crook's 


Wilson's 
Merritt's 
Merritt's 
Merritt's 
Merritt's 
Merritt's 
Merritt's 


Crawford's 
Crawford's 


Ruger's 
Carter's 


Army  W.  Va. 
Army  W.  Va. 


Cavalry  A.  P. 
Cavalry  A.  P. 
Cavalry  A.  P. 
Cavalry  A.  P. 
Cavalry  A.  P. 
Cavalry  A.  P. 
Cavalry  A.  P. 


Fifth 
Fifth 


Twenty-third 
Twenty-third 


13 

9 


62 

68 


9 
3 


7 
6 


70 
59 


30 
19 


80 


13 
10 


9 
11 


91 


11 

66 

2 

79 

10 

40 

16 

66 

11 

37 

36 

84 

88 
87 


11 

73 

47 

131 

10 

43 

—  _ 

53 

10 

41 

1 

52 

11 

31 

7 

49 

23 

15 

5 

43 

10 

28 

23 

61 

11 

32 

2 

45 

88 
73 


37 

27 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


Absentees,  large  number  of,  in  Union  Army 532 

Accidents,  deaths  from 50,  528,  529 

Ages  of  soldiers,  Union  Army 62 

Aggregate  of  deaths 525 

Aggregate  enrollment,  Confederate 554 

Aggregate  enrollment,  Union 526,  527,  532,  533 

American  soldiers,  heights  and  ages  of 505 

Andersonville  prison,  number  of  deaths  in 51 

Antietam,  the  bloodiest  battle  of  the  war 540 

Anthropological   statistics 62 

Army  corps,  histories  of 64 

First 65 

Second 67 

Third 70 

Fourth 72 

Fifth  74 

Sixth 76 

Seventh 79 

Eighth    80 

Ninth Si 

Tenth 84 

Eleventh 86 

Twelfth 87 

Thirteenth 90 

Fourteenth 92 

Fifteenth 94 

Sixteenth 96 

Seventeenth 97 

Eighteenth 99 

Nineteenth 101 

Twentieth   103 

Twenty-first 105 

Twenty-second 106 

Twenty-third 106 

Twenty-fourth  108 

Twenty-fifth  109 

Cavalry no 

Army  of  the  Potomac,  strength  of  at  Wilderness. . . .  540 

Arm  of  the  service,  deaths  in  each 48 

Attucks,  Crispus 52 

Average  strength  of  regiments 466 

Addenda 576 

Badges  of  the  different  corps 64 

Baltimore  Riot 470,  488 

Bates,  S.  P. ,   quoted 27,  57,  488,  489 

Battles  and  engagements,  number  of,  during  the  war,  542 


Pa*r«. 

Battles,  list  of,  with  Union  loss  in  each 543 

Battles,  list  of,  with  Confederate  loss  in  each 549 

Battles,  chronological  list  of,  with  greatest  regimen 
tal  losses  in  each  battle 561 

Bayonet  and  sabre  wounds 24,  78 

Bering,  Major  John  A.,  quoted 45 

Black  Brigade  of  Cincinnati 52 

Bloodiest  battle  of  the  war 540 

Border  States,  number  of  men  furnished. . .  .537,  552,  554 

Border  States,  loyalty  of 536 

Brigade  losses,  Confederate 558 

Brigade  losses,  Union 116,  117,  118 

Captured  and  missing 23,  424 

Casualty  returns,  deficiencies  in 574 

Cause  unknown,  deaths  from 530 

Cavalry  regiments,  formation  and  strength  of 6 

Cavalry  regiments,  maximum  losses  in 6 

Census  of  1860,  military  population 535,  536,  537 

Chaplains  killed  in  battle 43,  44 

Chronological  list  of  battles,  with  greatest  loss  in 

each 426,  543 

Classification  of  deaths  in  Union  Army 48 

Color  of  hair  and  eyes  of  volunteers 62 

Colored  troops,  number  of  deaths  in 48,  49 

Colored  troops,  history  of  organization 52 

Colored  regiments,  tabulated  losses  in 521 

Colored  troops,  number  enrolled,  by  States 532,  535 

Colored  troops,  number  enlisted  in  Southern  States. .  535 
Colored  regiments,  extraordinary  mortality  from 

disease 524 

Commutation  money,  number  who  paid 533,  534 

Confederate  casuality  reports 542,  559 

Confederate  army,  strength  of 552,553 

Confederate  army,  number  killed  in 554 

Confederate  army,  deaths  in,  by  States 554 

Confederate  army,  percentage  killed  in 555 

Confederate  army,  enrollment  of 553 

Confederate  enlistments  in  Union  Army 531 

Confederate  generals  killed,  list  of  571 

Confederate  prisons,  number  of  deaths  in 539 

Confederate  regiments,  number  from  each  State 553 

Confederate  regiments,  extraordinary  losses  in.. 555,  556 
Confederate  regiments,  losses  in  particular  battles.  . .  560 
Confederate  regiments,  remarkable  percentages  of 

loss  in 556 

Confederate  Navy,  losses  in 573 


578 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Page. 

Confederate  Navy,  captures  by  privateers  ...........  573 

Confederate  States,  military  population  of,  in  1861.552,  554 

Connecticut  regiments,  list  of,  with  loss  in  each  .....  473 

Conscription  Act  ...................................  532 

Consolidation  of  regiments  ........................  9 

Corps  badges  ......................................  64 

Corps  organizations  in  Union  Army,  history  of  ......  64 

Craven,  T.  A.,  Commander  U.  S.  N.,    mentioned.  .  .  .  537 

Custer  massacre,  loss  at  ............................  27 

Custer's  Cavalry  Brigade  .......................  ...  120 

Conclusion,  suggestions  in  .........................  574 

Cowtan,  Capt.  Chas.  W.,  quoted 


Davenport,  Alfred,  quoted  .........................     28 

Deaths  from  all  causes  classified     ..................      50 

Deaths  from  miscellaneous  causes  ..................   530 

Deaths,  total  of,  from  all  causes  .................  526,  532 

Deaths  in  Confederate  armies,  by  States  ...........   554 

Deaths  in  Confederate  prisons  .................  50,  529 

Deaths  in  each  arm  of  the  service  .................     48 

Defeats  and  victories,  lists  of  ......................   541 

Delaware  regiments,  list  of,  with  loss  in  each  ........  489 

Denny,  Capt.  A.  W.,  quoted  ...    ..................     27 

Desertions,  number  of  .............................   531 

Disability,  exemptions  for  ........................   552 

Disease,  total  of  deaths  from  ............  48,  49,  528,  530 

Disease,  deaths  from,  in  U.  S.  Navy  ...............   537 

Disease,  minimum  of  deaths  from,  in  regiments.  .471,  482 
Discharged  for  disability,  number  of  soldiers  .......   531 

Division-generals,  names  used  in  designation  .......   466 

Doctors  killed  in  battle  ...........................  43,  44 

Drafted  men,  number  of,  in  service  ................  532 

Drafted  men,  number  of,  rejected  on  examination..   552 
Drowning,  number  of  deaths  from  ..........  50,  528,  529 

Drum,  General  R.  C.,  mentioned  ...................   525 

Duryee  Zouaves  at  Manassas  .....................       27 

Eighth  Census,  military  population  of  ......  535,  536,  537 

Elmira  military  prison,  deaths  in  ...................     51 

Enlistments,  total  of,in  Union  Army,  526,  532,  533,  535,  536 
Enlistments,  number  of,  from  each  State   ...........   534 

Enlistments  reduced  to  a  three  years'  basis.  .525,  526,  534 
Enlistments  in  U.  S.  Navy,  number  of  ..............   537 

Enrollment,  percentage  of,  killed  ..................       8 

Enrollment  of  Confederate  armies,  aggregate  of  ....   552 

Engel,  Dr.,  quoted  ...............................     24 

European  wars,  as  compared  with  American.  ........     46 

Executions  by  courts-martial,  number  of  ............   530 

Excelsior  Brigade  .................................    119 

Exemptions  for  disability  .........................   552 

Famous  divisions  and  brigades  .....................  114 

Ferrero's  Division  (colored)  .........................  55 

First  regiment  organized  under  second  call  .........  480 

Final  battles  of  the  war,  date  of  ....................  462 

Formation  and  strength  of  a  regiment  ..............  5 

Fort  Fisher,  casualties  in  navy  at  ..................  539 

Franco-Prussian  war,  losses  in  German  armies.  .24,  46,  47 

Franco-Prussian  war,  heaviest  loss  in  ..............  37 

Franco-Prussian  war,  percentage  of  officers  killed.  .  .  38 


Page. 

Formula  for  computing  proportion  of  wounded,  etc. .  24 

Foster,  John  Y.,  quoted ". . , 27 

Fry,  General  James  B. ,  report  of,  quoted 554 

Generals  killed  in  Union  Army,  list  of 40 

Generals  killed  in  Confederate  Army,  list  of 571 

General  Lyon,  loss  of  steamer 507,  529 

General  order  of  Gen.  Lee  as  to  casualty  reports 559 

German  armies,  total  losses  of  in  Franco-Prussian  war  24 

Gettysburg,  the  greatest  battle  of  the  war 540 

Gettysburg,  Union  loss  at 25 

Gettysburg,  strength  of  Union  Army  at 25 

Graybeard  Regiment 518 

Greatest  battle  of  the  war   440 

Greatest  battles  of  the  war,  with  loss  at  each 541 

Greatest  regimental  loss  in  killed 3 

Greatest  regimental  percentage  of  killed 26,  27 

Gregg's  South  Carolina  Brigade,  deaths  in 571 

Gould,  Dr.  B.  A.,  quoted 5°5 

Hancock's  Division 115 

Hancock's   Division  at  Fredericksburg,  casualties  in.  35 

Hancock's  Veteran  Corps,  total  enrollment  of 527 

Hancock's  Veteran  Corps,  organization  of 66 

Harker's  Brigade 121 

Harrow's  Brigade,  loss  at  Gettysburg 121 

Heavy  artillery  regiments,  size  and  strength  of 5,  39 

Heavy  artillery  regiments,  maximum  losses  in 6 

Heckman's  "  Star  "  Brigade I2O 

Height  of  American  volunteers 62 

Higginson,  Colonel  T.  W. 53 

Hodge,  Wm.  Barwick,  quoted 24 

Horses  killed  in  light  batteries 463 

Humphreys,  Gen.  A.  A.,  quoted 541 

Illinois  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  deaths  in  each  504 

Illinois  regiments  in  the  Mexican  war 505 

Illinois  regiments,  synonyms  of ...  506 

Indian  regiments,  U.  S.  A 61,  522 

Indian  Nations,  enrollment  of  troops 533 

Indian  fighting,  atrocities  committed 517 

Indiana  "  minute  men  "  in  the  war 501 

Indiana  generals 504 

Indiana  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  deaths  in  each  500 

Indiana  regiments,  synonyms  of 501 

Indiana  regiments,  reenlistments  in 503 

Indiana  soldiers,  heights  and  ages  of 504 

Indiana  volunteers  in  the  Mexican  war 501 

Infantry  regiments,  their  size  and  formation 5 

Irish  brigade 118 

Iron  Brigade 117 

Iowa  Brigade 119 

Iowa  brigades 518 

Iowa  regiment,  tabulation  of,  with  deaths  in  each. ..  514 

Iowa  regiments,  heavy  losses  in 520 

Tersey  Brigade 119 

Jones,  Dr.  Joseph,  quoted 552 


"  •*"'  every  unit  of  which  stands  for  ike  fale,  upturned  fate  of  a  dead 

.  REGIMENTAL   LOSSES  '""• 


GENERAJL  »  _    _ 

NLW  YORK  CITY 

THE  AMERICAN  CIVIL  WAR, 

1861-5. 

BY  WILLIAM  F.  FOX,  Lr.  COL.,  U.  S.  V. 

President  of  the  Society  of  the  Twelfth  Army  Corps;    late  President  of  the  loyth  New  York  Veteran  Voluntee 

Association  ;    and    member   of  the    New   York    Historical   Society. 

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How  many  men  did  your  regiment  lose?     How  many  men  did  your  neighbor's  regiment  lose?' 

An  answer  to  these  and  similar  questions  will  be  found  in  this  admirable  historical  work.  The  number  of  deai 
in  each  regiment  of  the  Union  Armies  is  stated  clearly,  accurately,  and  for  the  first  time.  In  addition  to  t 
number  killed  or  mortally  wounded  in  action,  the  deaths  from  disease  or  other  causes  are  also  stated  for  ea 
regiment,  officers  and  men  separately.  The  figures  are  authentic,  having  been  compiled  from  the  muster-out  re 
on  file  at  the  Military  Bureaus  of  the  various  State  Capitals,  and  carefully  revised  by  comparison  with  the  offic 
records  at  Washington.  The  work  is  the  result  of  the  patient  and  conscientious  labor  of  years. 

The  tables  containing  the  list  of  regiments  and  their  losses  are  furnished  with  additional  columns,  showing  t 
date  of  organization  of  each  regiment  and  the  division  and  corps  to  which  it  belonged. 

In   addition   to  the   pages  which   show    the    loss   of  each   regiment,   Chapter  X    (Three   Hundred    Fighti 
Regiments)  is  devoted  to  the  300  regiments  which  sustained  the  heaviest  losses  in  action  during  the  war.     Each 
these  commands  is  accorded  a  full  quarto  page,  in  which  the  losses  are  given  in  detail,  —  by  companies,  —  togetb 
with  a  list  of  battles  in  which  the  regiment  was  engaged,  showing  its  loss  in  each,  and  a  short  historical  sketch 
the  regiment. 

Chapter  XIV  gives  a  complete  chronological  list  of  battles,  with  the  official  figures  for  the  casualties  in  each, 
lately  revised  and  corrected  at  the  War  Department. 

Chapter  XI  contains,  also,  a  complete  list  of  battles,  but  shows  the  particular  regiments  which  sustained  t 
heaviest  loss  in  each  battle,  and  the  figures  for  their  respective  losses,  together  with  the  division  and  corps. 

Chapter  II  gives  a  list  containing  every  regiment  which  sustained  a  loss,  in  killed  or  mortally  wounded,  of  ov 
fifty,  in  any  one  engagement,  with  the  statement  of  loss,  battle,  division,  and  corps.  Similar  lists,  show! 
percentages  of  loss  as  based  on  the  number  present  in  action,  also  form  a  prominent  and  important  feati: 
of  the  work. 

Chapter  VIII  gives  a  complete  historical  sketch  of  each  corps  ;  and  Chapter  IX  treats  of  famous  divisio 
and  brigades,  with  statements  of  their  total  losses  during  the  war. 

Among  the  many  other  interesting  topics  treated  in  this  work  are  :  The  colored  troops,  the  histc 
of  their  organization,  with  complete  and  official  figures  for  their  losses,  by  regiments  and  engagements.  T 
greatest  battle  of  the  war.  The  bloodiest  battle  of  the  war.  Losses  compared  with  those  of  Europes 
wars.  Losses  in  the  Navy,  with  list  of  naval  engagements,  showing  loss  on  each  vessel.  Number  of  deaths 
military  prisons.  Percentage  of  deaths  from  wounds.  Proportion  of  wounded  to  killed.  Loss  in  officers,  wi 
proportion  of  loss  to  that  of  enlisted  men.  List  of  Union  generals  killed.  Losses  among  Surgeor 
Quartermasters  and  non-combatants.  List  of  Chaplains  killed  in  battle.  Number  of  deaths  in  each  ai 
of  the  service  —  cavalry,  artillery  and  infantry.  Losses  in  the  Regular  Army,  by  regiments.  Ag 
height  and  weight  of  American  soldiers,  with  other  important  anthropological  statistics.  Aggregate  < 
deaths  during  the  war,  with  classified  causes.  Total  number  of  enlistments.  Strength  of  the  army  at  vario 
dates,  present  and  absent.  Number  of  men  furnished  by  each  State.  Percentage  of  military  populatic 
furnished  by  each  State.  Loss  of  each  State,  by  battle,  and  by  disease  or  other  causes.  Percentage  of  k 
in  each  State.  Number  of  drafted  men  and  substitutes.  Number  of  commutations,  etc. 

Chapter  XV  deals  with  the  losses  in   the  Confederate  Army  and  Navy.     Leading  Confederal 
regiments  in  point    of    loss,  at  each  battle.     List  of  Confederate  generals  killed.     Strength  of  Confederal 
Armies.      Number  of  Confederate  regiments  from  each  State.     Total  Confederate  loss.     Military  population 
Confederate  States  in  1861.     Losses  in  Confederate  Navy,  by  vessels  and  engagements,  etc. 


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From  General  William  T.  Sherman  :  "  I  have  just  concluded 
a  perusal  of  the  volume  of  statistical  tables  and  other  data 
entitled  '  Regimental  Losses  in  the  American  Civil  War,' 
and  want  to  assure  you,  even  at  this  early  moment,  of  the 
great  value  I  place  on  the  same.  The  volume  bears  every 
evidence  of  a  laborious  task,  and  you  are  certainly  to  be 
complimented  for  the  great  zeal  which  has  characterized  you 
in  this  connection.  *  *  *"  Very  sincerely  yours, 

W.  T.  SHERMAN,  General. 


From  Major-General  Henry  W.  Slocum:  "  I  have  examined 
with  great  interest  the  excellent  work,  '  Regimental  Losses 
in  the  Civil  War.'  I  am  confident  that  it  will  be  regarded 
by  those  who  participated  in  the  struggle  as  the  most  valua 
ble  historical  work  issued  since  the  close  of  the  war.  I  wish 
to  express  my  sincere  thanks  to  you  for  the  many  years  of 
labor  you  must  have  spent  in  collecting  and  placing  in  such 
compact  form  such  a  great  mass  of  valuable  information 
relative  to  the  war."  _____ 

From  Mr.  J.  W.  Kirkley  (ist  Md.  Vols.),  Statistician  of  the 
War  Department,  Washington,  D.  C.:  "  I  am  delighted  with 
it.  *  *  I  shall  prize  it  highly." 

From  Major-General  Daniel  E.  Sickles  :  "  It  is  a  very  valuable 
contribution  to  the  annals  of  the  Rebellion,  and  will  be 
perused  with  deep  interest  by  students  of  history,  by  those 
who  took  part  in  the  war,  and  by  their  descendants." 


From  William  Todd,  author  of  "  The  Tgtli  New  York 
Highlanders :"  "  '  Fox's  Book  of  Martyrs'  is  a  success.  The 
coming  historian  will  find  it  the  best  book  to  steal  from  of 
any  yet  published." 

From  Major-General  Russell  A.  Alger,  of  Michigan:  "A 
work  of  this  kind  should  lie  in  the  library  of  every  Grand 
Army  post,  and  I  am  sure  every  old  soldier,  who  is  able,  will 
want  a  copy  of  it  in  his  own  home." 

From  Hon.  George  Bancroft,  the  Historian  :  "  1  find  it  excel 
lent  in  its  completeness  and  accuracy." 


From  General  JV.  M.  Curtis,  the  "Hero  of  Fort  Fisher :"  "  I 
especially  commend  the  work  because  it  corrects  many  of 
the  fallacious  ideas  regarding  this  matter  of  losses  in  action. 
At  the  same  time  justice  is  rendered  to  many  regiments 
hitherto  unnoticed,  and  attention  called  to  their  brilliant 
records.  This  whole  subject  of  regimental  losses  has,  up  to 
the  appearance  of  Colonel  Fox's  book,  been  an  unwritten 
chapter  of  the  war,  and  I  esteem  it  fortunate  for  the  cause 
of  history  that  the  work  has  been  so  ably  done." 


From  General  Francis  A.  Walker,  autlior  of  History  Second 
Army  Corps ;  Supt.  of  Tenth  U.  S.  Census  ;  Prest.  of  American 
Statistical  Association,  Boston,  Mass.:  "I  have  received  the 
work,  'Regimental  Losses  in  the  Civil  War,'  and  have  gone 
through  it  again  and  again,  always  with  more  and  more 
satisfaction  at  the  excellent  service  rendered  to  military  his 
tory  and  military  statistics." 


From  Benson  J.  Lasting,  the  Historian  :  "  When  the  future 
historian  of  the  Civil  War  shall,  in  the  earlier  decades  of 
the  2oth  century  —  with  all  the  accumulated  information 
concerning  that  stupendous  and  beneficent  event  —  under 
take  his  easier  task,  he  will  find  among  his  treasure  no  work 
more  accurate,  impartial,  sadly  suggestive  and  instructive 
than  this  volume." 

From  Gtii.  C/ias.  J'.  Mattocks  (late  Colonel  I7th  Maine): 
"  I  have  never,  since  the  war,  read  a  book  with  greater 
interest.  I  consider  it  one  of  the  most  valuable  contribu 
tions  to  war  literature  which  we  have  had." 


WAR  DEPARTMENT,  WASHINGTON,  March  21,  1889. 
Albany  Publishing  Co. 

GENTLEMEN  :  Please  send  to  this  department  a  copy  of 
"  Regimental  Losses  in  the  Civil  War,  by  Wm.  F.  Fox,  Lt.- 
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Very  respectfully,  JOHN  TWEEDALE,  Chief  Clerk. 

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S  OFFICE,    ) 
BOSTON,  April  12,  1889.         f 

GENTLEMEN  :  You  will  please  consider  this  department  a 
subscriber  to  "  Regimental  Losses  in  the  Civil  War,"  and  on 
receipt  of  the  volume  in  half  morocco  the  cost  ($7.50)  will  be 
remitted.  Respectfully,  SAMUEL  DALTON, 

Adjutant-General. 


From  the  Philadelphia  Press:  "Regimental  Losses  in  the 
Civil  War,"  by  Colonel  William  F.  Fox,  is  an  exhaustive 
compilation  from  official  records  of  the  casualties  on  both 
sides  of  the  war.  The  labor  has  taken  many  years.  The 
result  is,  perhaps,  the  most  valuable  history  of  the  war  that  has 
been  published.  Here  are  not  opinions,  but  facts.  Many  of  the 
revelations  of  this  important  book  will  astonish  the  reader. 

From  the  Army  and  Navy  Journal :  Especially  interesting 
are  the  figures  of  the  regular  regiments,  commands  which 
have  hitherto  been  overlooked  and  well-nigh  forgotten  in 
the  mass  of  volunteer  records.  The  pages  devoted  to  these 
gallant  regiments  attest  the  heroism  with  which  they  faced 
the  enemy's  musketry,  and  the  record  of  casualties  indicates 
plainly  the  hard  fighting  which  they  encountered. 


From  the  New  York  Tribune :  This  is  a  remarkable  and 
valuable  book,  and  will  be  read  by  any  American,  especially 
by  every  old  soldier,  with  deep  and  pathetic  interest.  It  is 
the  result  of  patient  and  conscientious  labor  for  years  on  the 
part  of  the  author.  Its  value  as  a  military  work  has  been 
indorsed  by  Generals  Slocum,  Sherman,  Sickles,  Alger, 
Curtis,  and  other  prominent  soldiers;  as  a  history,  it  has  re 
ceived  the  warm  approval  of  Lossing  and  other  historians  ; 
while  its  statistics  have  been  highly  praised  by  General 
Francis  A.  Walker,  Joseph  W.  Kirkley,  and  other  noted  sta 
tisticians.  Furthermore,  the  authenticity  of  its  figures  is 
evidenced  by  the  purchase  of  copies  by  the  War  Department 
at  Washington,  and  by  the  Adjutant-Generals  of  the  various 
States.  The  number  of  deaths  and  of  the  killed  and 
wounded  in  action,  and  the  mortality  from  disease  and  other 
causes,  are  given  in  this  book,  for  every  regiment  in  the 
Union  Army.  They  are  given  clearly,  accurately  and  for 
the  first  time. 


From  the  Albany  Argus  :  Chapter  III,  in  which  the  losses  of 
our  regiments  in  particular  engagements  are  compared  with 
the  losses  of  European  regiments  is  one  of  the  most  interest 
ing  and  instructive  chapters  in  the  book. 


From  the  Grand  Army  Review  :  Availing  himself  of  every 
attainable  source  of  information,  and  the  cordial  cooperation 
of  the  Adjutant-Generals  of  the  United  States  Army  and  the 
various  States,  he  has  boiled  down  and  carefully  sifted  his 
material  till  the  result  is  a  monument  to  his  patience,  ability, 
and  judicial  fairness.  He  has  given  admirable  brief  histories 
of  "  Three  Hundred  Fighting  Regiments,"  not  necessarily 
the  bravest,  as  he  says,  but  those  which  the  fortunes  of  war 
caused  to  endure  the  heaviest  losses  and  to  serve  through 
most  battles. 


From  the  Syracuse  Herald :  Colonel  William  F.  Fox,  of  the 
State  Forestry  Commission,  has  just  published  one  of  the 
most  valuable  statistical  works  that  has  yet  been  put  in 
print  relative  to  the  late  Civil  War.  The  publication  of  the 
official  records  of  the  Union  and  Confederate  Armies  by  the 
Adjutant-General's  office  at  Washington  has  been  going  on 
for  many  years,  and  it  will  be  many  years  more  before  the 
work  will  be  completed.  As  every  one  knows  who  has  seen 
this  work  as  far  as  it  has  progressed,  it  is  altogether  too  large 
and  bulky  for  individual  possession.  What  Colonel  Fox  has 
done,  in  a  word,  is  to  reduce  this  ponderous  publication  to 
what  might  be  called,  in  comparison,  a  hand-book. 


From  the  Nation :  The  treatise  is  absolutely  free  from  all 
discussion  of  battles  or  campaigns  in  any  tactical  or  strate 
gical  sense.  It  deals  with  no  might-have-beens,  but  confines 
itself  strictly  to  a  recital  of  facts  without  expression  of  opin 
ion  upon  the  facts.  This  self-control  is  the  more  remarkable 
because  of  the  author's  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  fam 
ily  history  of  the  army,  developed  by  the  years  of  study  that 
have  gone  into  this  book.  This  silence  adds  greatly  to  the 
value  of  the  work.  But  it  is  a  soldierly  reticence,  not  the 
dullness  of  ignorance  or  indifference.  He  simply  does  not 
wander  beyond  his  self-appointed  lines. 


From  the  Grand  Army  Gazette :  A  very  important  feature  of 
the  work  is  the  chapter  containing  the  Corps  histories,  which 
cannot  fail  to  interest  every  old  veteran  who  wore  a  corps 
badge,  or  belonged  to  any  one  of  those  famous  organizations. 


From  the  Detroit  Free  Press :  The  book  is  a  large  quarto, 
handsomely  bound,  an'd  the  typographical  treatment  is  of 
the  best. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


5T9 


r,.-.- 

Kansas  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  losses 519 

Kansas,  quota  of,  filled  toexcess 522 

Kentucky  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  losses 498 

Kentucky  regiments,  severe  losses  of 499 

Kentucky  troops,  complimented  by  Gen.  McClernand.  500 

Kentucky  generals    prominent  in  the  war 499 

Killed  in  action  or  mortally  wounded,  number  of. . . .  526 
Killed,  wounded,  and  missing  in  casualty  reports.  . .  424 
Kirkley,  Joseph  W.,  quoted 24,  525,  530 

Last  battle  of  the  war,  date  of 462 

Light  Artillery,  maximum   of  losses  in 7,  462,  463 

Lee,  Gen.  Robert  E.,  order  concerning  casualty  reports  559 

Light  batteries  of  Regular  Army 

Light  batteries,  average  strength  in  action 462 

Light  batteries,'  loss  in   horses 463 

Light  Brigade,  at  Balaklava,  loss  of 37 

List  of  regiments  in  Union  Army,  with  losses 467 

Longstreet's  Division,  loss  at  Seven  Days'  Battle....  558 
Love,  William  D.,  quoted 44 

Maine  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in  each. .  . .  467 
Maryland  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  ii«  each.  489 

Maryland  regiments,  duplication  of  titles 49(5 

Mahan,  Alfred  T.,  quoted 5-^7 

Manning,  Colonel  V.  H.,  official  report  at  Gettysburg.   559 

Masonic  Lodge,  Tenth  New  York 478 

.  Massachusetts  regiments,  tabulation   of,  with  loss  in 

each 469 

Maximum  of  killed  in  regiments 3 

Maximum  size  of  regimental  organization 5 

Maximum  of  regimental  loss  in   battles 17 

Maximum  percentage  of  casualties  in  regiments 36 

Maximum  percentage  of  enrollment  killed 8 

Michigan  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in  each.   510 

Michigan  Engineers,  mention  of 511 

Michigan  generals  in  the  war 512 

Michigan  Cavalry   Brigade 120 

Military  executions,  number  of 530 

Military  population,  percentage  of  enlisted 533,  535 

Military  population    of  Confederate  States 552 

Minnesota  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in  each.    514 

Minnesota  First,  at  Gettysburg 26 

Minimum  of  loss  from  disease,  in  regiments 471,  482 

Minimum  of  size  in  regimental  organization 5 

Miscellaneous  regiments 524 

Missing  and  captured 23,  424 

Missouri  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in  each.    516 

Missouri  regiments,  small  enrollment  of 520 

Missouri  regiments,  State  Militia 521 

Mobile  Bay,  casualties  in  Navy  at 539 

Morning  reports  34 

Mortally  wounded  or  killed  in  action,  number  of....   526 

Mortality  in  Department  of  the  Gulf 468 

Murdered,  number  of  soldiers 530 

Musicians  killed   45 

Muster-out  rolls 57,  59 

Muster-out  of  volunteer  forces,  date  of 525 

Mutiny  in  ist  La.  Cavalry 472 


1 

•Nativity  of  soldiers  in  Union  Army 62 

Navy,  casualties  on  vessels,  1861-65 538,  539 

Navy,  total  of  deaths  in,  1861-65 537 

Navy,  deaths  from  disease  in  late  war 537 

Navy,  number  of  enlistments  in,  1861-65   533,  537 

Navy,  Confederate,  list  of  actions,  with  losses 573 

Navy,  Confederate,  number  of  vessels  captured 573 

New  Hampshire  regiments,  tabulation  of,   with  loss 

in   each 468 

New  Jersey  nine-months'  men,  record  of 483 

New  Jersey  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in  each  483 

New  Jersey  Brigade,  First 482 

New  Jersey  Brigade,  Second 482 

New  York  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in  each  474 

New  York  State  National  Guard 474 

New  York  Light  Batteries,  tabulation  of 475 

New  York  Seventh,  State  Militia 475 

New  York  two-years'  regiments 477 

North  Carolina  troops,  number  enrolled 553 

Occupation  of  volunteers  in  Union  Army 63 

Official  reports,  lack  of 574 

Officers  killed,  proportion  of,  to  enlisted  men 38,  48 

Officers  killed,  greatest  regimental  loss  in 39 

Officers  killed,  greatest  loss  in,  by  brigades 480 

Officers,  deaths  among,  from  disease 40,  48 

Ohio  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in  each 491 

Ohio  regiments,  regnlistmcnts  in 494 

Ohio  quota  of  troops 4^2 

Ohio  generals,  prominent 495 

Ohio  "  squirrel  hunters  " 494 

Ohio  State  National  Guard 49^ 

Organization  of  regiments,  size,  strength,  etc 5 

Palfrey,  Gen.  F.  W.,  quoted    34 

Paine's  Division,  colored 55 

Pennsylvania  Reserves 114 

Pennsylvania  nine-months'  regiments,  casualties  in..  488 
Pennsylvania  regiments,  tabulated  list  of,  with  loss 

in  each 483 

Pennsylvania  regiments,  peculiar  numbering  of 484 

Pennsylvania   regiments,  synonyms  of 485 

Pennsylvania  soldiers,  first  to  arrive  at  Washington.  487 

Pennsylvania  soldiers   at  Gettysburg 488 

Pennsylvania,   highest  percentage  of    killed   of  any 

State 484 

Percentage  of  killed  from  each  State 526 

Percentage  of  killed  in  Union  Army 555 

Percentage  of  killed  in  Confederate  Army 555 

Percentage  of  killed  by  regiments 10 

Percentage  of  killed,  greatest  regimental  loss  in 28 

Percentage  of  deaths  in  troops  from  each  State 596 

Percentage  of  deaths  from  sundry  causes. ........   528 

Percentage  of  military  population  from  each  State. .  533 
Percentage  of  total  enrollment  killed,  by  regiments.  8 
Percentage  of  substitutes  and  conscripts  rejected.  .  . .  552 

Philadelphia  Brigade 119 

Prison,  Andersonville,  number  of  deaths  in   51 

Prison,  Elmira,  number  of  deaths  in 51 


580 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Page. 

Prisons,  Confederate,  total  of  deaths  in 50,  529 

Prisons,  Confederate,  maximum  of  regimental 

losses  in 524 

Prisons,  Union,  total  of  deaths  in , 50 

Proportion  of  wounded  to  killed 22,23 

Provost  Marshal  General's  report  of  strength  of 

Union    armies 526 

Quotas  of  troops  required  from  each  State 534,  535 

Ratio  of  wounded  to  killed 22,  23,  24 

Railroad  accidents,  casualties  from ...   508 

Railroad  Raid,  capturing  a  locomotive 496 

Reenlistment  of  veterans,  number  of 526 

Regiment  sustaining  greatest  loss  in  battle. 2 

Regimental  formation  and  strength 5 

Regimental  percentages  of  killed,  tabulation  of 10 

Regular  Army,  losses  in 520 

Regular  Army,  period  including  deaths 525 

Regular  Army,  strength  of,  at  various  dates. .  • .  .527,  528 

Regular  Army,  desertions  from 531 

Regular  Army,  at  Stone's  River 523 

Regular  Army,  at  Gettysburg 523 

Rhode  Island  batteries,  special  mention  of 472 

Rhode  Island  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in 

each 472 

Sabre  and  bayonet  wounds 24,  78 

Sailors  and  marines,  number  from  each  State 532 

Scharf,  John  T.,  quoted 573 

Scott,  Col.  Robert  N.,   quoted. 574 

Seven  Days'  Battle,  strength  of  Lee's  army  at 540 

Sickles's  Brigade 119 

South  Carolina  Brigade,  Gregg's 571 

Southern  Historical  Society  Papers,  quoted 552 

Star  Brigade,   Heckman's 120 

Steedman's    Brigade   120 

Steamer  "  General  Lyon,"  losses  on     . .    507 

Steamer  "  Sultana,"  losses  on 496,  503,  529 

Strength  and   formation  of  a  regiment 5 

Strength  of  regiments,  average 466 

Strength  of  Union  Armies  at  various  dates 526 

Substitutes  in  the  army,  number  of 532 

Substitutes,  number  of,  rejected  on  examination....   552 

Suicide,  number  of  deaths  from 530 

Sultana,  losses  on  Steamer 496,  503,  529 


Page. 

Sunstroke,  number  of  deaths  from 530 

Surgeons  killed,  number  of 43 

Sykes's  Division 115 

Sears,  Lieut.  Cyrus,  quoted 462 

Table  A. — Total  of  deaths  with  percentages,  by  States  526 

Table  B. — Total  of  deaths  from  disease,  accidents, etc.  528 

Table  C. — Classification  of  deaths  from  minor  causes  530 
Table  D. — Number  of   white  troops,   colored   troops 

and  sailors 532 

Table  E. — Number  of  enlistments,  three-years' stand 
ard  534 

Table  F. — Percentage    of    military   population   from 

each  State  536 

Tennessee  regiments,  mortuary  statistics  of 519 

Terms  of  enlistment,  various  lengths  of  . .' 525 

Three  Hundred  Fighting  Regiments 122 

Torpedoes,  casualties  in  Navy  from 537,  53^,  539 

Total  enlistment.  .9,  15,  466,  526,  527,  532,  533,  534,  535,  536 

Total  enrollment  of  Confederate  armies 552 

Total  enrollment  in  Union  regiments 9 

Total  of  killed  and  wounded  in  the  war,  Union  armies  24 

Unassigned  recruits •  465 

United  States  regiments,  tabulated  losses  in 521 

Union  Army,  strength  of,  at  various  dates .   526 

Union  Army,  list  of  regiments,  with  loss  in  each. . . .  467 

Vermont  regiments,  tabulation  of ,  with  loss  in  each  .  469 

Vermont  Brigade,  losses  of 1 16 

Veteran  ree'nlistments,  number  of 526 

Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  total  enrollment  of 527 

Victories  and  defeats,  list  of 541 

Volunteers,  number  of  deaths  in  Union  Army 49 

War  Department,  statistics  of 4,  465,  525,  529 

Walker,  Gen.  Francis  A.,  quoted 26 

Waterloo  as  compared  with  Gettysburg 47 

Weight  of  American  soldiers 62 

West  Virginia  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in 

each 490 

White  troops,  number  of,  by  States 532,  535 

Wilder's  Brigade 503,  507 

Willich's  Brigade 121 

Wilderness,  strength  of  Union  Army  at  the 540 

Wisconsin  regiments,  tabulation  of,  with  loss  in  each  512 


REGIMENTAL    INDEX. 


UNION  REGIMENTS. 


PAGE. 

1st  Conn.  Cav'y 473 

ist  Conn.  H.   A 473 

2d   Conn.  H.   A.,   6,    10,    17,  178,  450 

455.  457,  473 

ist  Conn.   Battery 473 

2d   Conn.   Battery 473 

3d   Conn.   Battery 473 

ist  Connecticut 473 

2d   Connecticut 473 

3d   Connecticut    473 

4th  Connecticut 473 

5th  Connecticut 28,  90,  453,  473 

6th  Connecticut 441.  473 

7th  Connecticut,    10,  28,  179,  280,  447 

473 
8th  Connecticut,  22,  432,  445,  447,  473 

gth  Connecticut 473 

loth  Connecticut,  44,     180,     434,    454, 
457,  46o,  473,  576 

nth  Connecticut 181,  447,  451,  473 

I2th  Connecticut 457,  473 

I3th  Connecticut 473 

I4th  Connecticut,    3,     10,     22,  39,  182, 
442,  444,  455,  473,  524 

I5th  Connecticut 473 

i6th  Connecticut 19,  432,  473,  524 

I7th  Connecticut 28,  473 

i8th  Connecticut  ......  .438,  450,  473 

igth  Connecticut 473 

2oth  Connecticut 460,  473 

2ist  Connecticut 447,  473 

22d   Connecticut 473 

23d   Connecticut 473 

24th  Connecticut 474 

25th  Connecticut 435,  474 

26th  Connecticut 438,  474 

27th  Connecticut 28,  35,  474 

28th  Connecticut 474 

2gth  Connecticut. ...    56,  458,  474,  523 

ist  Colorado 524 

ist  Del.  Cav'y 489 

Del.  H.  A 489 

ist  Del.  Battery 489 

ist  Delaware 20,  307,  432,  489 

2d    Delaware 35,  489 

•jd   Delaware 451,489 


PAGB. 

4th  Delaware 449,  45  *,  4§9 

5th  Delaware 489 

6th  Delaware 489 

7th  Delaware 489 

8th  Delaware 489 

9th  Delaware 489 

ist  111.  Cav'y 504 

2d    111.  Cav'y 504 

3d    111.  Cav'y 504 

4th  111.  Cav'y 504 

5th  111.  Cav'y 505 

6th  111.  Cav'y 504 

7th  111.  Cav'y 504 

8th  111.  Cav'y 504 

gth  111.  Cav'y 504,  507 

loth  111.  Cav'y 504 

nth  111.  Cav'y 504 

I2th  111.  Cav'y 504 

I3th  111.  Cav'y 504,  507 

I4th  111.  Cav'y 504 

I5th  111.  Cav'y     504 

i6th  111.  Cav'y 504,  524 

1 7th  111.  Cav'y 504 

ist  111.   L.   A 505 

Battery  A 7,  463,  505 

B 505 

C 464,  505 

D 505 

E 505 

F 505 

G 505 

H 505 

I 505 

K 505 

L  505 

M 505 

2d    Hi.  L.  A 505 

Battery  A 505 

B 505 

C 505 

D 505 

E 505 

F  505 

G 505 

H 505 

I 505 

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PAGE. 

Battery  K 505 

L 505 

M 505 

Illinois  Batteries 505 

"Cogswell's" 505 

"Stokes's" 505 

"White's" 505 

*'  Vaughn's  " 505 

"Renwick's" 505 

"  Henshaw's  " 505 

"  Bridges's  " 464.  505 

"Colvin's"  .." 505 

7th  Illinois 28,  456,  506 

8th  Illinois,  18,  28,  353,  355.  427,  461 

506 

9th  Illinois,    3,   10,   17,  21,  28,  36,  354 
427.  428,  432,  506,  507 

loth  Illinois 506 

nth  Illinois,    17,   26,  28.  37,  355,  427 

433,  SO6.  576 

I2th  Illinois 10,  28,  356,  506 

I3th  Illinois 434,  443,  506 

1 4th  Illinois 22,  506 

I5th  Illinois 18,  428,506 

i6th  Illinois  460,  506 

1 7th  Illinois 353,  506 

i8th  Illinois 18,  427,  506,  509 

igth  Illinois 506,  508 

20th  Illinois 10,  357,  437,  506 

2ist  Illinois,  18,  60,  358,  372,  434,  441 

506 
22d.  Illinois,  10,  28,  121,  359,  427,  435 

506 

23d  Illinois  453,  506 

24th  Illinois  506 

25th  Illinois 37, 121,  441,  506 

26th  Illinois 443,  506 

27th  Illinois  10,  121,  506 

'  28th  Illinois,  20,  28,  428,  433,  440,  506 

2gth  Illinois 506 

30th  Illinois 360,  506 

3ist  Illinois 20,  361,  427,  453,  506 

32d  Illinois 19,  506 

33d  Illinois  506 

34th  Illinois 28,  362,  506 

35th  Illinois 10,  28,  37,  121,  441 

506 


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PAGE. 

36th  Illinois,    3,   to,   19,   120,   363,  435 

458,  506 

37th  Illinois    427,  506 

38th  Illinois 21,  28,  435,  507 

39th  Illinois,  61,  364,  447,  454,  467,  461 

506,  507 

40th  Illinois 10,  18,  365,  428,  507 

4ist  Illinois. .  .10,  28,  36,  440,  507,  508 
42d    Illinois,    10,   22,  42,    121,  359,  366 

458,  506,  507 

43d    Illinois,  18,  28,  40,  42,  43,  428,  507 
44th  Illinois,  10,  120,  367,  435,  506,  507 

45th  Illinois 428,  506,  507 

46th  Illinois 20,  355,  507 

47th  Illinois 433,  507 

48th  Illinois 368,  507 

4gth  Illinois 507 

50th  Illinois 507 

5ist  Illinois,  28,  36,   121,  458,  506,  507 

52d    Illinois 5°7 

53d    Illinois 28,   433,  440,507 

54th  Illinois 507 

55th  Illinois,    10,    17,    28,    37,  369,  428, 

506,  507 

56th  Illinois 507 

57th  Illinois 506,  507 

58th  Illinois 448,  506,  507 

5gth  Illinois. . . .  373,  459,  506,  507,  522 

6oth  Illinois    507 

6ist  Illinois    507 

62d    Illinois   507 

63d    Illinois    507 

&4th  Illinois 453,  506,  507 

6sth  Illinois 506,  507 

66th  Illinois 42,  453,   507 

6?th  Illinois 507 

68th  Illinois 507 

6gth  Illinois 507 

7Oth  Illinois 507 

7ist  Illinois 507 

72d    Illinois 458,  507 

73d    Illinois 10,  120,  370,  507 

74th  Illinois 120,  452,  507 

75th  Illinois 18,  28,  433,  508 

7&th  Illinois 452,  461,  508 

77th  Illinois 437,  508 

78th  Illinois 455,  508 

7gth  Illinois 28,  121,  439,  508 

8oth  Illinois 507,  508 

8ist   Illinois 508 

82d    Illinois 10,   28,  371,  436,  508 

83d    Illinois 508 

84th  Illinois...  10,  19,  28,  372,  435,  508 

Ssth  Illinois 508 

86th  Illinois 452,  508 

87th  Illinois 507,  508 

88th  Illinois 10,  120,  507,  508 

8gth  Illinois.  10,  121,  373,  448,  507,  508 
goth  Illinois 441,  443,  508 


PAGE. 

gist  Illinois 508 

g2d    Illinois 61,507,508 

g3d    Illinois,    10,  ig,  28,  374,  437,  443 

456,  508 

g4th  Illinois 508 

95th  Illinois 437,  508 

g6th  Illinois 19,  37,  508,  509 

97th  Illinois 508 

g8th  Illinois 507,  508 

ggth  Illinois 437,  508 

looth  Illinois 508 

loist  Illinois 508 

iO2d    Illinois 508 

io3d    Illinois -443,  452,  508 

Illinois 10,375,433,    508 

Illinois   508 

io6th  Illinois 508 

io7th  Illinois 508 

io8th  Illinois 508 

logth  Illinois 508 

i  loth  Illinois 508 

mth  Illinois 453,  508 

U2th  Illinois  .  .  .  .5g,  442,  454,  507,  sog 

ii3th  Illinois sog 

i  I4th  Illinois 

H5th  Illinois 441, 

ii6th  Illinois 437, 

ii7th  Illinois 

n8th  Illinois 507, 

ngth  Illinois   

i2Oth  Illinois sog 

I2ist  Illinois sog 

I22d    Illinois 434,  sog 

Illinois 433,  507, 

Illinois 507, 

Illinois 20,  43,  452,  509,  510 

I26th  Illinois 

I27th  Illinois 

i28th  Illinois 

I2gth  Illinois 

Illinois 444, 

Illinois 

Illinois    

i33d    Illinois 

I34th  Illinois   

I35th  Illinois 509 

I3&th  Illinois   sog 

i37th  Illinois 

i38th  Illinois 

i3gth  Illinois sog 

i4Oth  Illinois sog 

14151  Illinois 

I42d    Illinois 

I43d    Illinois 

I44th  Illinois 

I45th  Illinois 

I46th  Illinois sog 

I47th  Illinois sog 

i48th  Illinois 509 


PAOE. 

I4gth  Illinois sog 

I5oth  Illinois 510 

iSist  Illinois 510 

i$2d    Illinois 510 

I53d    Illinois 510 

I54th  Illinois 510 

155th  Illinois 510 

i56th  Illinois 510 

ist  Ind.  Cav'y 60,  500,  501 

ad    Ind.  Cav'y 500,  501 

3d    Ind.  Cav'y 440,  500,  501 

4th  Ind.  Cav'y 500,  501 

5th  Ind.  Cav'y 68,  500,  501 

6th  Ind.  Cav'y 500,  501,  502 

7th  Ind.  Cav'y 500,  501,  576 

8th  Ind.  Cav'y  460,  500,  501,  502,  503 

gth  Ind.  Cav'y 500,  501,  503 

loth  Ind.  Cav'y 500,  501 

i  ith  Ind.  Cav'y 4sg,  500,  501 

I2th  Ind.  Cav'y    500,  501 

i3th  Ind.  Cav'y    500,  501 

ist  Ind.  H.  A 500,  501,  503 

ist  Ind.  Battery 500 

2d    Ind.  Battery  500 

3d    Ind.  Battery 500 

4th  Ind.  Battery 464,  500 

5th  Ind.  Battery 464,  500 

6th  Ind.  Battery  500 

7th  Ind.  Battery 500 

8th  Ind.  Battery  500 

gth  Ind.  Battery 500,  503 

loth  Ind.  Battery 500 

nth  Ind.  Battery 464,  500 

i2th  Ind.  Battery 500 

I3th  Ind.  Battery 500 

I4th  Ind.  Battery 500 

I5th  Ind.  Battery 500 

:6th  Ind.  Battery 500 

I7th  Ind.  Battery 500 

iSth  Ind.  Battery 500,  503 

igth  Ind.  Battery 464,  500 

2oth  Ind.  Battery  500 

2ist  Ind.  Battery 501 

22d    Ind.  Battery 501 

23d    Ind.  Battery 501 

24th  Ind.  Battery 501 

25th  Ind.  Battery 501 

26th  Ind.  Battery     501 

6th  Indiana   ...10,  42,   340,  443,  501 
7th  Indiana.  .  .  .60,  117,  42g,  448,  501 

8th  Indiana 437,    501,  503 

gth  Indiana 341,    501,  503 

loth  Indiana 427,   441,  501 

nth  Indiana 437,    501,  503 

I2th  Indiana 431,  501 

X3th  Indiana 426,  445,  448,  501 

I4th  Indiana 10,  28,  37,  342,  432 

501 


K'KiilMl.NTAL    I.NDKX. 


PAGE. 

I5th  Indiana,  21,  28,  29.  36,  435,  443 

501 

i6th  Indiana 431,  501,  503 

i;th  Indiana 439,  461,  501,  503 

iSth  Indiana 436,   501,  503 

igth  Indiana,    10,   20,   29,  36,  37,  117 

341.  343,  431,  439.  501 
2oth  Indiana,  3,   10,  22,  344,  429,  439 

501,  503 

2ist  Indiana 430,  501,  502 

22d    Indiana,   20,  29,  37,  60,  120,  345 

433.  501,  503 

23d    Indiana 437,  501,  503 

24th  Indiana 22,  437,  501,  503 

25th  Indiana 433,  501,  503 

26th  Indiana- 21,  29,  433,  501 

27th  Indiana,  8,  10,  22,  29,  44,  62,  156 
346.  432,  436,  501 

2gth  Indiana 501,  503 

30th  Indiana 10,  347,  435,  502 

3ist  Indiana 348,  459,  502,  503 

32d    Indiana 10,121,349,502 

33d    Indiana 435,  453,  502,  503 

34th  Indiana 502,  503 

35th  Indiana 502 

3&th  Indiana 10,  503 

37th  Indiana 435,  502 

38th  Indiana 350,  502 

39th  Indiana 435,  501,  502,  503 

40th  Indiana,     10,  352,  443,  452,   458 

502 

42d    Indiana 502 

43d    Indiana 502 

44th  Indiana 428,  502 

46th  Indiana 502 

47th  Indiana 22,  437,  502,  503 

4Sth  Indiana 29,  432,  502,  503 

49th  Indiana. 502 

5Oth  Indiana 502 

5ist  Indiana 459,  502,  503 

52d    Indiana 60,  61,  502,  503 

53d    Indiana ...433,   502,503 

54th  Indiada 434,  502 

55th  Indiana 503 

57th  Indiana 458,  502 

58th  Indiana 502 

5gth  Indiana 437    502 

6oth  Indiana 502 

63d    Indiana 447,  502 

6sth  Indiana 444,  502,  503 

66th  Indiana 502 

6~th  Indiana 431    502 

68th  Indiana 42,   121,  340,  502 

6gth  Indiana 436,  502,  503 

70th  Indiana 447,  502 

7ist  Indiana 21,  501,  502    503 

72d    Indiana...  .43,  44.502,503 

73d    Indiana 29,  502,  503 

74th  Indiana 441,  455,  503 


PA  (lit. 

75th  Indiana  

503 

76th  Indiana  .  .  .  . 

503 

78th  Indiana  

503 

7gth  Indiana  .  .  .  . 

503 

8oth  Indiana  .  .  .  . 

.  447,   503 

8ist  Indiana  .  .  .  . 

503 

82d    Indiana  .  .  .  . 

503 

83d    Indiana  .  .  .  . 

503 

S4th  Indiana  .  .  .  . 

503 

Ssth  Indiana  .  .  .  . 

503 

S6th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

87th  Indiana  20, 

29,  40,  441,  503,  576 

88th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

8gth  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

gist  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

o3d    Indiana.  .  .  . 

450,  5<>3 

97th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

ggth  Indiana  .  .  . 

•••    503 

looth  Indiana 

•443.  503 

loist  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

ii5th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

i  i6th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

i  i7th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

nSth  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

I2oth  Indiana  .  .  . 

503,   576 

i23d    Indiana  .  .  . 

5°3 

I24th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

I28th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

I2gth  Indiana  .  . 

503 

i3oth  Indiana    .  . 

503 

i32th  Indiana  .  . 

503 

I33d    Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

I34th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

I35th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

i36th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

I37th  Indiana  .  .  . 

503 

I38th  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I3gth  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I40th  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

142(1    Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I43d    Indiana  .  .  . 

•    504 

I44th  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I4^th  Indiana    .  . 

504 

I46th  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I4~th  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I48th  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I4gth  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I5oth  Indiana  .  . 

504 

i  =  ist   Indiana  .    . 

•    504 

i^cid    Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I53d    Indiana    .  . 

504 

i  =;4th  Indiana  .  .  . 

504 

I55th  Indiana  .  .  . 

•    504 

I56th  Indiana 

504 

ist  Iowa  Cav'y 

5M 

2d    Iowa  Cav'y 

••428,   5M 

3d    Iowa  Cav'y 

29,  514,  517 

4th  Iowa  Cav'y 

5M  : 

PAGE. 

5th  Iowa  Cav'y 405,  514 

6th  Iowa  Cav'y 515,  517 

7th  Iowa  Cav'y 515,  517 

8th  Iowa  Cav'y 515 

gth  Iowa  Cav'y 515 

ist  Iowa  Battery 515 

2d    Iowa  Battery 515 

3d    Iowa  Battery 515 

4th  Iowa  Battery    515 

ist  Iowa 515 

2d    Iowa,   21,  403,404,427,433,515 

5»9.  520 
3d    Iowa,     10,   29,  403,  404,  433,  440 

515.  520 

4th  Iowa  .    .  .  .427,  434,  443,  515.  519 
5th  Iowa,     lo,    19,    29.   405.  432,  5»5 

520 

6th  Iowa. .  .10,   19,  406,  428,  515,  520 
7th  Iowa,     18,   29,  407,  427,  433,  515 

519.  520 

8th  Iowa 19,  461,  515,  519 

gth  Iowa,     10,    18,    29,  408,  427,  515 

5'9.  520 

loth  Iowa 20,  437,  515,  520 

nth  Iowa,    21,  119,  409,  428,  453,  515 

5'8,  520 

I2th  Iowa 453,  515,  519 

1 3th  Iowa,     ii,   21,   2<).    IK),  409,453 

515.  5i8 

I4th  Iowa 444,515,519 

I5th  Iowa,  119,  409,  410,  428,  453,  515 

518 

i6th  Iowa 119,  409,  515,  518,  520 

I7th  Iowa 437,  515 

i8th  Iowa 435.  5>5 

igth  Iowa l8,  433,  442,  515,  520 

2Oth  Iowa 515 

2ist  Iowa -.-437.  515 

22d  Iowa,  ii.  19,  411,437,456,515 

519.  520 

23d  Iowa 54.  437,  438.  515,  520 

24th  Iowa,  ii,  18,  412,  437,  515.  519 

520 

25th  Iowa 435.  5*5,  5>9 

26th  Iowa 435,  5'°,  5'9.  52O 

2?th  Iowa 5'G 

28th  Iowa .444,  457.  5'6,  5'9 

2gth  Iowa 444,  5*6 

30th  Iowa  51°.  5'9 

3tst  Iowa 51°,  5'9 

32d  Iowa 17,  29.  444.  5'<>,  52o 

33d  Iowa 440,  444.  5 16 

34th  Iowa  ••  5J6 

35th  Iowa 5'6.  519 

36th  Iowa 516 

37th  Iowa 5>°.  5'8 

38th  Iowa 5'6 

39th  Iowa 29,456,516,520 

40th  Iowa 5J6 


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PAGE. 
44th  Iowa 

45th  Iowa 

46th  Iowa 5*6 

47th  Iowa S1^ 

48th  Iowa 5*6 

2d    Kansas  Cav'y. 5J9 

5th  Kansas  Cav'y 5*9 

6th  Kansas  Cav'y 519 

7th  Kansas  Cav'y 5:9 

gth  Kansas  Cav'y 5J9 

nth  Kansas  Cav'y 5r9 

I4th  Kansas  Cav'y 5T9 

I5th  Kansas  Cav'y 519 

i6th  Kansas  Cav'y 5J9 

ist  Kan.  Battery 519 

2d    Kan.  Battery 5J9 

3d    Kan.  Battery S19 

ist  Kansas,  17,  29,  417,  427,  519,  522 

2d   Kansas 5J9 

8th  Kansas,  20,   29,  37,  121,  441,  519 

522 

loth  Kansas 433,  5T9 

I2th  Kansas 519 

I3th  Kansas  519 

I7th  Kansas 519 

Kansas  Indian  H.  G.,  61,  62,  522 
527,  529,  53i,  533,  535 

ist  Ky.  Cav'y 61,  498,  524 

2d    Ky.  Cav'y 49s 

3d    Ky.  Cav'y .  498 

4th  Ky.  Cav'y 61,  498 

5th  Ky.  Cav'y   498 

6th  Ky.  Cav'y    498 

7th  Ky.  Cav'y    498 

8th  Ky.  Cav'y    498 

gth  Ky.  Cav'y    498 

loth  Ky.  Cav'y    498 

nth  Ky.  Cav'y 498,524 

I2th  Ky.  Cav'y 499,  524 

I3th  Ky.  Cav'y 499 

I4th  Ky.  Cav'y    499 

I5th  Ky.  Cav'y    499 

i6th  Ky.  Cav'y    499 

1 7th  Ky.  Cav'y    ....    499 

Ky.  Battery  A 499 

B 499 

C 499 

E 499 

Simmonds's  Bat'y 499 

ist  Kentucky 493,  499 

2d    Kentucky 499 

3d    Kentucky 11,121,335,499 

4th    Kentucky,   337,    427,    441,     499 

500,  524 

5th  Kentucky,    8,    n,    29,    336,   443 

448,  499 

6th  Kentucky n,  337,  499 

7th  Kentucky 499 


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8th  Kentucky  89,  499 

gth  Kentucky 499 

roth  Kentucky    441,  499 

nth  Kentucky 499 

I2th  Kentucky 499 

I3th  Kentucky 499 

I4th  Kentucky 499 

I5th  Kentucky..  .11,  18,  338,  433,  499 

i6th  Kentucky 499 

i7th  Kentucky 29,  339,  499 

i8th  Kentucky 19,  431,  499 

igth  Kentucky 499 

2oth  Kentucky 440,  499 

2ist  Kentucky 4gg 

22d   Kentucky 91,  434,  499 

23d   Kentucky 4gg 

24th  Kentucky 442,  499 

25th  Kentucky 339,499 

26th  Kentucky 459,  499 

27th  Kentucky 499 

28th  Kentucky 499 

30th  Kentucky 499 

32d    Kentucky 499 

33d    Kentucky 499 

34th  Kentucky 499 

35th  Kentucky 499 

37th  Kentucky 4gg 

3gth  Kentucky 4gg 

4oth  Kentucky 4gg,  500 

45th  Kentucky 499,  500 

47th  Kentucky 499,  500 

48th  Kentucky 4gg,  500 

4gth  Kentucky 4gg 

52d    Kentucky 499,  500 

53d    Kentucky 499,  500 

54th  Kentucky 4gg,  500 

55th  Kentucky 4gg,  500 

ist  Louisiana    438,  524 

2d    Louisiana 438 

ist  D.  C.  Cav'y 452 

ist  Maine  Cav'y,   6,  43,  44,  124,  438 
452,  440,  454,  457,  461,  467,  524 

2d    Maine  Cav'y 467 

ist  Maine  H.  A.,  5,  6,  8,  g,   u,  16, 
17,  2g,  36,  39,  40,  125,  447,  451,  467 

ist  Me.  Battery 7,  463,  464,  467 

2d    Me.  Battery  , 467 

3d    Me.  Battery 467 

4th  Me.  Battery 467 

5th  Me.  Battery.    .  .  .7,  463,  464,  467 

6th  Me.  Battery 467 

7th  Me.  Battery 467 

ist  Maine  S.   S 467 

ist  Maine  Vet'n 129,  457,  467 

2d    Maine 132,  467 

3d   Maine,  29,  36,  126,   133,  418,  448 

467 


PAGE. 
4th  Maine,  11,  29,  127,  134,  445,  467 

5th  Maine 78,  467 

6th  Maine,    n,    20,   29,   77,   128,  268 
436,  442,  446,  467 

7th  Maine,  n,   29,    77,   I2g,  446,  467 

480 

8th  Maine 29,  130,  447,  448,  467 

gth  Maine,   22,  2g,  131,  280,  458,  467 

loth  Maine 430,  467 

nth  Maine 453,  454,  461,  467 

I2th  Maine  . . 455,  467 

I3th  Maine 467 

I4th  Maine 430,  467 

I5th  Maine 467,  468 

i6th  Maine,   18,  2g,  37,    132,  434,  446 

467,   576 
I7th  Maine,   3,    8,   g,    11,   21,    2g,  126 

133,  443,  445,  451,  467 

i8th  Maine 467 

igth  Maine,  9,   11,    19,  2g,    121,   127 

134,  439,  445,  467 

2oth  Maine 2g,  135,  456,  467 

2ist  Maine 467 

22d    Maine  -. . . .  468 

23d    Maine 468 

24th  Maine 468 

25th  Maine  468 

26th  Maine 468 

27th  Maine  468 

28th  Maine 468 

2gth  Maine 457,  468 

3Oth  Maine 444,  468 

3ist  Maine,   n,   39,   60,   136,449,461 

468 
32d    Maine 468 

ist  Md.  Cav'y 454,  48g 

ist  Md.  Cav'y,  P.  H.  B 489 

2d   Md.  Cav'y 489 

3d    Md.  Cav'y 489 

Purnell  Legion  Cav'y 489 

Md.  Art'y   "A" 489 

"B" 489 

"D" 489 

Baltimore  Bat'y   489 

ist  Maryland,  43,  308,  429,  455,  459 

461,  489,  49° 

2d    Maryland 489 

3d    Maryland 489 

4th  Maryland 308,  489,  490 

5th  Maryland 458,  489 

6th  Maryland,  308,  309,  443,  445,  489 

490 

7th  Maryland 308,  455,  489,  490 

8th  Maryland 308,  489,  490 

gth  Maryland 489,  524 

loth  Maryland 489 

nth  Maryland 489 

I2th  Maryland 490 


KKC  n  MENTAL  INDEX. 


586 


PAGK. 

ist  Maryland  E.  S 49° 

2d    Maryland  E.  S 49° 

ist  Maryland  P.  H.  B 49° 

2d    Maryland  P.  H.  B 49° 

3d    Maryland  P.  H.  B 49° 

Purnell  Legion  (Md.)449-  455,49° 

ist  Mass.  Cav'y 438,  4°9 

2d   Mass.  Cav'y 457.  469.  57& 

3d    Mass.  Cav'y 444,  455,  4°9 

4th  Mass.  Cav'y 4^9 

5th  Mass.  Cav'y •   4&9 

1st  Mass.  H.  A.,  6,  17,  154,  447,  45' 

469,  524 

2d    Mass.  H.  A 4<>9.  47',  524 

3d    Mass.  H.  A 4&9 

4th  Mass.  H.  A 4&9 

ist  Mass.  Bat'y ...   47" 

2d    Mass.  Bat'y 464.   47<> 

3d   Mass.  Bat'y 47" 

4th  Mass.  Bat'y 47° 

5th  Mass.  Bat'y 7.  47°,  47' 

6th  Mass.  Bat'y 47" 

7th  Mass.  Bat'y 47° 

8th  Mass.  Bat'y 47" 

9th  Mass.  Bat'y,    7,  30,  462,  463,  470 

loth  Mass.  Bat'y 47° 

i ith  Mass.  Bat'y     47° 

I2th  Mass.  Bat'y 47° 

I3th  Mass.  Bat'y 47° 

I4th  Mass.  Bat'y 47° 

1 5th  Mass.  Bat'y 47° 

i6th  Mass.  Bat'y 47° 

ist  Mass.  S.  S 161,  470 

2d    Mass.  S   S 47° 

ist  Massachusetts,  155,  172,  426,  470 
2d    Massachusetts,   n,   14,20,29,90 

156,   399.   423,   429.  43°.  436,  44° 

470 

3d    Massachusetts   47° 

4th  Massachusetts 470 

5th  Massachusetts 470 

6th  Massachusetts    470,  488 

7th  Massachusetts 436,  470 

8th  Massachusetts    470 

gth  Massachusetts,  3,  11,  17,  157,  '7"  | 

430,  445,  470 

loth  Massachusetts. .  .11,  29,  158,  470 
nth  Massachusetts,  42,    155,  159,  162  ! 

47°  j 

1 2th  Massachusetts,   n,  18,  29,  36,  39 

160,  170,  432,  470 

I3th  Massachusetts    ....  170,  470,  471 

I4th  Massachusetts 154,  470 

1 5th  Massachusetts,    3,    n,    17,  29,  36 

37,   121,  161,  427,432,  47° 

i6th  Massachusetts,  n,  39,  43,  44,  159 

162,  47<> 
I7th  Massachusetts    470 


iSth  Massachusetts, 
19th  Massachusetts, 

2oth  Massachusetts, 
30,  36,  39,   i°4, 

zist  Massachusetts, 
22d    Massachusetts, 

23d    Massachusetts  . 
24th  Massachusetts 
25th  Massachusetts, 
120,  167, 

26th  Massachusetts 
27th  Massachusetts, 

28th  Massachusetts, 
42,  81,  118,  169, 
29th  Massachusetts 
3oth  Massachusetts 
3ist  Massachusetts 
32d  Massachusetts, 
33d  Massachusetts, 
34th  Massachusetts, 

35th  Massachusetts, 


PAGE. 

21,   30,    170,   431 

471 
30,  44,  163,  385 

471 

2,  3,  4,  II,  14,  22 
385,  427,  434,  445 

471 
n,  59,  165,  427 

43L  471 

3,   8,   n,  17,  166 
170,  293,  430,  471 
.120,  434,  471,  5?6 
........  454,  471 

11,  18,  27,  30,  36 
447,  449-  451.  47' 
......  20,  455,  471 

120,  168,  447,  471 

524 

3,    11,   20,  22,  35 
431.  434,  4°°,  47i 
1  18,  471 
.....  440,  457,  471 

.............  471 

170,  446,  449,  471 
331,  442,  44$,  47* 
n,    171,  447,  45° 
455,  457,  47i 
18,   172,  432,456 


36th  Massachusetts 
37th  Massachusetts, 

38th  Massachusetts 
39th  Massachusetts, 

4oth  Massachusetts 
4ist  Massachusetts 
42d  Massachusetts 
43d  Massachusetts 
44th  Massachusetts 
45th  Massachusetts 
46th  Massachusetts 
47th  Massachusetts 
4Sth  Massachusetts 
4gth  Massachusetts 
5oth  Massachusetts 
5ist  Massachusetts 
52d  Massachusetts 
53d  Massachusetts 
54th  Massachusetts, 

55th  Massachusetts 
56th  Massachusetts, 

57th  Massachusetts, 

175, 
58th  Massachusetts, 


5gth  Massachusetts 


II,  165,  471 

u,  21,    173,   456 

461,  471 

.........  435,  471 

160,  170,  446,  455 

47',  524 

47  l 

47° 

.........  471 

............  471 

............  47  l 

.........  434,  471 

.........      .  47* 

...........  471 

............  471 

........  438,  471 

............  471 

............  471 

............  471 

438,  471 

20,  53,  54,  85,  423 

441,  471,  523 

......  56,  458,  471 

11,   174,  448,  472 
523 

3,  8,  9,  II,  17,  30 

445,  448,  460,  472 

11,   176,449,472 

524 
45'.  472 


PAOB. 

6oth  Massachusetts   472 

6ist  Massachusetts   472 

62d    Massachusetts   472 

ist  Mich.  Cav'y,  6,  120,  376,  378,  440 
447,  45°,  456,  457,  5>° 

2d    Mich.  Cav'y 377,  5'O,  512 

3d    Mich.  Cav'y    510 

4th  Mich.  Cav'y 452,  5'° 

5th  Mich.  Cav'y,  6,  30,  120,  377,  440 
449,  -156,  51°,  524 

6th  Mich.  Cav'y,  6,  30,  120,  377,  378 

440,  449,  510  524 

7th  Mich  Cav'y,  120.  377,  440, 510, 524 

8th  Mich.  Cav'y   510,  524 

gth  Mich.  Cav'y 510 

loth  Mich.  Cav'y 510 

nth  Mich.  Cav'y 510 

ist  Mich.  L.   A 510 

Battery  A 462,  464,  510 

B    510 

C 510 

D    5'° 

E 510 

F 464,  51° 

G   51° 

H 51° 

I 5'° 

K 51° 

L 5'° 

M 51° 

I3th  Mich.  Battery 5" 

i4th  Mich.  Battery 5" 

ist  Mich.  Engineers  511 

ist  Mich.  S.  S.,  il,  21,  379,  446,  45» 

Si  I 

ist  Michigan,    u,  21,  30,  37,  40,  380 

431,  51' 

2d    Michigan,    3,    11,    19,  3°,  60,  379 

381,  44°,  442,  451,  5" 

3d    Michigan,   11,   30,    382,  384,429 

5" 

4th  Michigan,    11,     21,    30,    383,430 

5" 

5th  Michigan,  2,   3,   4.  n,   22,  30,  39 
384,  428,  429,  451,  457,  511,  576 

6th  Michigan 438,  5'°,  5* » 

7th  Michigan,    3,   8,    n,  20,    30,164 

385,  432,  5" 

8th  Michigan,   3,  11,  20,  30,  386,  429 

5" 

gth  Michigan 43°,  5" 

10th  Michigan 444,  455,  5" 

nth  Michigan 51 1 

I2th  Michigan 51 ' 

i3th  Michigan 30.  460,  511 

I4th  Michigan . .  460,  5" 

I5th  Michigan 51  T 

i6th  Michigan,  3,   n,   18,  30,  387,430 

456,  511 


586 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


Michigan, 


iSth  Michigan, 
igth  Michigan. 
2oth  Michigan, 


2ist  Michigan. 

22d  Michigan 
23d  Michigan 

24th  Michigan, 

25th  Michigan 
26th  Michigan 
2/th  Michigan, 

28th  Michigan 
2gth  Michigan 
3<Dth  Michigan 


PAGE. 

II,    30,    338,    432,  442 
5" 

5" 

435,448,511 

ii,   389,  442,  446,  451 
5" 

120,  460,   511 

..!?•  30,  441,  5".  524 

, 442,  5" 

8,    ii.    17,   30,   36,  40 

"7,  39°.  436,  439.  5" 
44°,  512 

II,  21,  446,    512 

3,  ii,  20,  301,  442,  446 
449,  451,  454,  512 

512 

512 

512 


1st  Minn.  Cav'y 514 

2d    Minn.  Cav'y 514 

1st  Minn.  H.  A 514 

1st  Minn.  Bat'y    514 

2d    Minn.  Bat'y 514 

3d    Minn.  Bat'y 514 

1st  Minnesota,  8,    12,   18,   26,  27,  30 

36,  68,  121,  402,  426,  439,  514 

2d    Minnesota  .  .22,  60,  441,  514,  516 

3d    Minnesota 514,  516 

4th  Minnesota 374,  514 

5th  Minnesota 459,  514,  516 

6th  Minnesota 514,  517 

7th  Minnesota 453,  459,  514,  517 

8th  Minnesota 458,  514,  517 

gth  Minnesota  .  . .  .459,  514,  517,  524 

loth  Minnesota 459,  514,  517 

nth  Minnesota 514 


ist  Mo. 

sd   Mo. 

3d    Mo. 

4th  Mo. 

5th  Mo. 

6th  Mo. 

7th  Mo. 

8th  Mo. 
loth  Mo. 
nth  Mo. 
I2th  Mo. 
I3th  Mo. 
I4th  Mo. 
I5th  Mo. 
1 6th  Mo. 

ist  Mo. 

2d   Mo. 

3d   Mo. 

4th  Mo. 

5th  Mo. 

6th  Mo. 

7th  Mo. 


Cav'y . .  . 
Cav'y . . . 
Cav'y . .  . 
Cav'y... 
Cav'y . . . 
Cav'y... 
Cav'y . . . 
Cav'y . . . 
Cav'y... 
Cav'y... 
Cav'y  .  .  . 
Cav'y... 
Cav'y .  . . 
Cav'y. . . 
Cav'y. .  . 
Cav'y,  S. 
Cav'y,  S. 
Cav'y,  S. 
Cav'y,  S. 


516 


459, 


M 
M 
M 
M 


Cav'y,  S.   M 


Cav'y,  S.  M 
Cav'y,  S.  M 


516 
516 
516 
516 
516 
516 
516 
516 
516 
516 
517 
517 
517 
517 
517 


PAGE. 
8th  Mo.  Cav'y,  S.  M  ...........   51? 

gth  Mo.  Cav'y,  S.  M  ...........   5*7 

ist  Mo.  Cav'y  Batt'n  ..........   517 

2d    Mo.  Cav'y    Batt'n  ..........   517 

ist  Mo.  L.  Art'y  .......  464,  517,  522 

2d    Mo.  L.  Art'y  ...............   51? 

Backof's  Art'y  .............   5J7 

ist  Mo.   Battery  ...............   517 

Kowald's  Battery  ..........   517 

ist  Mo.  Engineers  ............   517 

ist  Missouri  ............  17,  427,  517 

2d    Missouri  .......  42,  120,  370,  517 

3d    Missouri  ...............  435,  517 

4th  Missouri  ..................   518 

5th  Missouri  .................   518 

6th  Missouri  ...............  434,  518 

7th  Missouri  ..........  437,  518,  522 

8th  Missouri  ...............  428,  5  1  8 

gth  Missouri  ...............  518,   522 

loth  Missouri  .......  12,  437,  443,  518 

nth  Missouri.  .  .  12,  413,  432,  459,  518 
I2th  Missouri.  .12,  22,  30,  414,  437,  518 
I4th  Missouri  .................     518 

I5th  Missouri  .......  12,   120,415,  518 

I7th  Missouri  ...............  429,  518 

1  8th  Missouri  .................   518 

2ist  Missouri  ..................   518 

23d    Missouri  ..................   518 

24th  Missouri  ..............  444,    518 

25th  Missouri  ...........  42,  518,   522 

26th  Missouri  ...  12,  42,  416,  432,  443 


27th  Missouri  ..................  518 

2gth  Missouri.    ............  434,  518 

3Oth  Missouri  ..................  518 

3ist  Missouri  ...............  434,  518 

32d    Missouri  ................  518 

33d    Missouri     .........  440,  459,  518 

35th  Missouri  ..................  518 

3gth  Missouri  ..............  518,  522 

4Oth  Missouri  ..................  518 

4ist  Missouri  ..........  ,  .......  518 

42d    Missouri  .............      ...  518 

43d    Missouri  ..................  518 

44th  Missouri  ..............  458,  518 

45th  Missouri  .      ...............  518 

4&th  Missouri  ................  518 

47th  Missouri  ..................  518 

48th  Missouri  ..................  518 

4gth  Missouri  ..................  518 

50th  Missouri  ..................  518 

Sist  Missouri  ..................  519 

ist  New  Hamp.  Cav'y  .........  468 

ist  New  Hamp.  H.  A  ........  468 

ist  New  Hamp.  Bat'y    ........  468 

ist  New  Hampshire  ...........  468 

2d    New  Hampshire,  22,  30,    37,  137 

.  468 


PAGE. 

3d   New  Hampshire,   12,  19,  30,  138 

447,  454,  4°8 

4th  New  Hampshire 43,  454,  468 

5th  New  Hampshire,  2,  3,  4,  5,  15,  19 

22,  30,  35.  36,  39,  42,  59,  "5,  *39 

302,   429,  434,  449,  46i,  468 

6th  New  Hampshire,  ig,  30,  140,  431 

456,  468 

7th  New  Hampshire,  12,  18,  22,     30 

39,  40,  42,  141,  441,  444.  4f>8 

8th  New    Hampshire,  433,   438,   468 

469 

gth  New    Hampshire,     19,     30,     142 
446,  454,  45",  468 

loth  New  Hampshire 4°8 

nth  New  Hampshire,    143,    434,    454 

468 

i2th  New  Hampshire,  12,   18,   19,    30 
37,  43,  144,  436,  449,  4«8 

I3th  New  Hampshire 456,  4°8 

I4th  New  Hampshire,  20,  40,  455,  468 

469 

i5th  New  Hampshire 468 

i6th  New  Hampshire 468,  469 

i8th  New  Hampshire 4°8 


ist  New  Jersey  Cav'y,    6,    242, 

449,  461, 

2d    New  Jersey  Cav'y 60, 

3d    New  Jersey  Cav'y 

ist  New  Jersey  Bat'y 

2d    New  Jersey  Bat'y 

3d    New  Jersey  Bat'y 

4th  New  Jersey  Bat'y 

5th  New  Jersey  Bat'y 

ist  New  Jersey,  12,  59,  119,  243, 

445, 
2d  New  Jersey,  30,  ng,  244, 

3d  New  Jersey,  12,  20,  119,  244, 

430,  446, 
4th  New  Jersey,  21,  60,  119,  244, 

430, 
5th  New  Jersey,  246,  247,  248, 

436, 
6th  New  Jersey,  20,  246,  247,  248, 

7th  New  Jersey 246,  248, 

8th  New  Jersey,    30,     246,    247, 
249,  251,  428,  436,  457,  459, 
gth  New  Jersey,    60,    120,    434, 

447, 

loth  New  Jersey ng, 

nth  New  Jersey,  30,  37,  250,  436, 

I2th  New  Jersey 251,  436, 

I3th  New  Jersey 436,  482, 

I4th  New  Jersey,  12,  20,  30,    252, 

449-  452, 


445 

482 
482 
482 
482 
482 
482 
482 
482 

244 
482 


482 

253 
482 

245 
482 
252 
482 
428 
482 
482 
248 
482 

445 
482 
482 
440 
482 
482 
483 
443 
482 


K'KtJlMKNTAL  INDEX. 


PAGE. 

I5th  New  Jersey,  3,  12,  17,  27,  30,  36 
78,  119,  253,  436,  446,  457,  482 

2ist  New  Jersey 482 

22d    New  Jersey 482 

23d    New  Jersey 482 

24th  New  Jersey 21,  482,  483 

25th  New  Jersey 43,  482 

26th  New  Jersey  .....' 116,  482 

27th  New  Jersey 482 

2Sth  New  Jersey 434,  482,  483 

29th  New  Jersey 482 

3oth  New  Jersey   482 

3ist  New  Jersey 482 

321!    New  Jersey 483 

33d    New  Jersey 450,  483 

34th  New  Jersey 483 

35th  New  Jersey 483 

36th  New  Jersey 483 

37th  New  Jersey 483 

3Sth  New  Jersey 483 

3gth  New  Jersey 460,  483 

4Oth  New  Jersey 483 

ist  New  York  Dragoons,  6,  183,  445 

450,  474,  481,  576 

ist  New  York  Cav'y 474 

2d  New  York  Cav'y,  6,  184,  438,  461 

474.  524 

3d  New  York  Cav'y 42,  474 

4th  New  York  Cav'y 450,  474 

5th  New  York  Cav'y,  60,  61,  439,  445 

474,  524 

6th  New  York  Cav'y 474,  576 

;th  New  York  Cav'y 474,  481 

8th  New  York  Cav'y  .  ..185,  438,  474 

gth  New  York  Cav'y  441,450,474, 576 

loth  New  York  Cav'y,     59,     186,   438 

449,  456.  458,  474 

nth  New  York  Cav'y 474 

I2th  New  York  Cav'y 474,  524 

1 3th  New  York  Cav'y 474 

I4th  New  York  Cav'y 474 

1 5th  New  York  Cav'y   474 

i6th  New  York  Cav'y 474 

1 7th  New  York  Cav'y 474 

i8th  New  York  Cav'y 474 

igth  New  York  Cav'y 474,  481 

20th  New  York  Cav'y 474 

2ist  New  York  Cav'y 474 

22d   New  York  Cav'y 474,  524 

23d   New  York  Cav'y 474 

24th  New  York  Cav'y,   186,  451,   474 

479 

25th  New  York  Cav'y 474 

26th  New  York  Cav'y 474 

1st  N.  Y.  Vet.  Cav'y 474,  479 

2d   N.  Y.  Vet.  Cav'y 474,  47^ 

ist  N.  Y.  M.  Rifles 474 

2d   N.Y.  M.  Rifles,  451,454,474,  479 


PAOE. 
2d    New  York  H.  A.,  6,  17,  449,  450 

451,  455,461,  475 
3d    New  York  L.  A  ........  475481 

4th  New  York   H.  A.,   118,  451,  455 

460,  475,  524 
5th  New  York  H.  A  ............  475 

6th  New  York  H.  A.,   446,  448,   475 

481 

7th  New  York  H.  A.,  6,    17,   42,    118 
187,   449,  450,  451,  465,  475,  481 

524 

8th  New  York  H.  A.,  6,   12,   17,  39 
40,   iSS,  241,  450,  451,  452,   455 

457,  475,  481,  524 
gth  New  York  H.  A.,  6,  17,  189,  450 

452,  457,  461,  475,  48i 
xoth  New  York  H.  A  ............  475 

I3th  New  York  II.  A  ............  475 

I4th  New  York  H.  A.,   6,  17,  190,  449 

45i,  454,  455,  4<*>,  475 
i5th  New  York  H.  A.,  446,  455,  460 

475 
i6th  New  York  H.  A  ........  457,  475 

ist  N.  Y.  Marine  Art'y  ........  475 

ist  New  York  L.  A  ............  475 

Battery  A  .....    ...........  475 

B  ............  7.  4<>4,  475 

C  .................  475 

D  ................  475 

E  ...............   475 

F  .................  475 

G  .................  475 

H  ................  475 

I  .................  475 

K  ................  475 

L    ................   475 


M 


475 

ist  New  York  Bat'y  .....  7,  464,  475 

2d    New  York  Bat'y  ..........    .  475 

3d    New  York  Bat'y  ...........  475 

4th  New  York  Bat'y  ............  475 

5th  New  York  Bat'y  ...........  475 

6th  New  York  Bat'y  ............  475 

7th  New  York  Bat'y  ............  475 

8th  New  York  Bat'y  ..........  476 

gth  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

loth  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

nth  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

I2th  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

1  3th  New  York  Bat'y  ........  ____  476 

14th  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

1  5th  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

i6th  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

1  7th  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

i8th  New  York  Bal'y  ............  476 

igth  New  York  Bat'y  .......  464,  476 

2oth  New  York  Bat'y  ........  ...  476 

2ist  New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 

23d   New  York  Bat'y  ............  476 


PAOE. 

24th  New  York  Bat'y 476 

25th  New  York  Bat'y 476 

26th  New  York  Bat'y 476 

27th  New  York  Bat'y 476 

28th  New  York  Bat'y 476 

2gth  New  York  Bat'y 476 

30th  New  York  Bat'y 476 

3ist  New  York  Bat'y 476 

32d    New  York  Bat'y 476 

33d    New  York  Bat'y 476 

34th  New  York  Bat'y 476 

ist  New  York  Eng's 385,  476 

I5th  New  York  Eng's 476,  481 

5Oth  New  York  Eng's  . .  385,  476,  481 

ist  New  York  S.  S 117,  476 

ist  New  York 430,  476 

2d    New  York 176 

3d    New  York 476,  478 

4th  New  York 19,  31,  432,  476 

5th  New  York,  12,  16,  17,  21,  27,  31 
36,  75,  115,  IQI,  236,  426.  430 

43',  477,  470 
5th  New  York   Vet'n.,   .    . .  .449,  455 

477 

6th  New  York 477 

7th  New  York.  . .  .21,  31,  35,  40,  223 
434,  460,  477,  479 

8th  New  York  . .  .19,  31,  61,  429.  477 
gth  New  York,    21,   31,  36,   428,  432 

477 
roth  New  York 477 

nth  New  York 477,481 

I2th  New  York 238,  426,  477,  478 

I3th  New  York 31,  477 

I4th  New  York 430,  477 

I5th  New  York 477 

i6th  New  York 430,  431,  436,  477 

I7th  New  York 455,  460,  477,  479 

i8th  New  York 477 

igth  New  York 477,  479,  481 

2oth  New  York 22,  77,  477 

2ist  New  York 21,  477 

22d    New  York,  31,   39,  40,    117,  477 

2jd    New  York 477 

24th  New  York 18,  117.  431,  477 

25th  New  York 31,  429,  477 

26th  New  York,  22,    31,   37,   431,  434 

477,  479 
2?th  New  York 477,  479 

28th  New  York 31,  477 

29th  New  York 477 

3oth  New  York 19,  31,  117,  477 

3ist  New  York 428,  477 

32d    New  York 477 

33d    New  York 43",  477,  479 

34th  New  York 31,  477,  479 

35th  New  York 477 

36th  New  York.    477 

37th  New  York 192,  436,  477 


588 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


PAGE. 

38th  New  York 31,  *92,  477 

39th  New  York 223,  477,  524 

4oth  New  York,    3,   21,    31,    i92,    227 

439.  445,  477 

4ist  New  York 4?8 

42d    New  York,    20,   31,   42,   193,  432 

478 

43d    New    York,    194,    445,    453,    478 

480 

44th  New  York,   12,   22,    31,    195,    282 

429,  478 

45th  New  York 478 

46th  New  York 4?8 

47th  New  York 444,  478 

48th  New  York,  3,  12,  18,  31.  39,  196 

441,  444,  478 
4gth  New  York,  12,  21,  31,  J97,  224 

478,  480 

5oth  New  York 4?8 

5ist  New  York,  3,  12,  22,  43,  198,  270 

427,  478 
52d  New  York,  35,  199-  223,  44&,  4&I 

478,  524 

53d    New  York 478,  481 

54th  New  York 478 

55th  New  York 478>  48z 

56th  New  York 60,  478 

57th  New  York 31,  35,  223,  478 

5Sth  New  York 478 

5gth  New  York,    18,    31,    36,    40,    200 

213,  432,  478 

6oth  New  York 42,  443,  478 

6ist  New  York,  12,  22,  31,  35,  3g,  201 

203,  478 

62d    New  York 478 

6sd    New  York,    20,    31,    35,    36,    118 

202,  432,  478 

64th  New  York,    12,    22,    31,    35,    115 
203,  429,  442,  478 

6sth  New  York 457,  478 

66th  New  York 31,  35,  42,  44,  478 

67th  New  York 19,  31,  429,  478 

68th  New  York 478 

6gth  New  York,  3,  8,  12,  18,  31,  35,  36 

37,  118,  204,  426,  432,  478,  576 

70th  New  York,  8,  12,  17,  31,  119,  205 

428,  441,  478 

7ist  New  York 31,  ng,  478 

72d    New  York,  12,    18,    119,   206,428 

478 

73d    New  York,  12,  19,  31,  39,119,  207 

430,  439,  478,  576 

74th  New  York  ...  .119,  192,  208,  478 

75th  New  York 478 

76th  New  York,    12,    31,   209,  237,  439 

478 

77th  New  York 478,  480 

78th  New  York 478 


PAGE. 

79th  New  York,      210,    386,    426,  429 

474,  479 

8oth  New  York,    22,    31,    36,    61,211 
43i,  439,  474,  479 

8ist  New  York 18,  212,  449,  479 

82d    New  York,     12,    14,    19,    31,  I21 

193,  213,  439,  442,  474,  479 

83d    New  York,    12,    14,    31,   214,  446 

474,  479 

84th  New  York,   12,  117,  215,  237,  440 

446,  474,  479 

8sth  New  Xork 479-  48°,  524 

86th  New  York 12,  205,  216,  479 

8?th  New  York 192,  479,  481 

88th  New  York,  12,  31,  35,  42,  118,  217 

479,  576 

8gth  New  York 451,  458,  479 

goth  New  York 456,  4?g 

gist  New  York 438,  460,  479 

g2d    New  York 479 

93d    New  York,    18,   31,   36,  218,   445 

448,  479 

94th  New  York 461,  479 

95th  New  York 215,  461,  479 

g6th  New  York 31,  456,  479 

97th  New  York 219,  479 

g8th  New  York 447-  45O,  479 

ggth  New  York 435,  479 

looth  New  York,    12,    19,   31,     220441 

479 

loist  New  York 31,   36,  479,481 

io2d    New  York 479 

iO3d    New  York 479 

iO4th  New  York 479 

losth  New  York 31,  479 

io6th  New  York  221,450,452,  461,  479 
io7th  New  York,   31,  go,   448,  460,  479 

480,  481 

io8th  New  York 432,  479 

logth  New  York,  12,  222,  446,  451,  479 

noth  New  York 479 

iiith  New  York,  3,    12,    17,  20,  31,    32 

36   223,  439,  445,  461,  479,  524 

H2th  New  York,  21,    42,    45,    224,  449 

458,  459,  479 

ii3th  New  York 481 

H4th  New  York,    12,    32,    36,  225,  455 

457,  479 
H5th  New  York,  12,   21,   226,  444,  454 

459,  479 

n6th  New  York 437,  438,  461,  479 

H7th  New  York,  227,  235,  456,  458,  459 

480 

n8th  New  York 20,  447,  480 

i  igth  New  York 480 

I2oth  New  York,  21,  119,  228,  439,  457 

460,  480 
I2ist  New  York,  3,  12,  17,  20,  32,    36 

78.  229,  436,  446,  457,  480 


PAGK. 

I22d  New  York •  480 

I23d  New  York 436,  480,  481 

i24th  New  York,  12,  20,  32,  230,  436 

480 
i25th  New  York,  42,  223,  231,  440,  442 

480 

i26th  New  York,  12,  19,  32,  36,  39,    42 
223,  232,  431,  439,  442,  480 

i27th  New  York 458,  480 

i28th  New  York 42,  438,  480 

I2gth  New  York 48i 

I30th  New  York 435,  481 

I3ist  New  York 438,  456,  480 

I32d    New  York 480,  57& 

I33d    New  York 438,  480 

1 34th  New  York  .  .20,  32,  43g,  44&,  480 

I35th  New  York 481 

1 36th  New  York 448,  480 

I37th  New  York,    12,    21,   32,    233,  44° 

442,  480 

I38th  New  York •  481 

T3gth  New  York 449-  48o 

I40th  New  York,  21,  234,  445.  480,  524 

i4ist  New  York,  26,   32,   447,   453,  480 

I  i42d    New  York,  235,  240,  447,  448,  458 

459,  480 

I43d    New  York 480 

I44th  New  York 480 

I45th  New  York 480,  481 

I46th  New  York,  ig,   191,  236,  480,  524 
147th  New  York,    19,  32,  209,  237,  439 

480 

I48th  New  York,   12,  220,  450,  451,  480 
I49th  New  York,   12,  238,  436,  443,  480 

I50th  New  York 480,  481 

I5ist  New  York 443,  452,  480 

1 52d    New  York 480 

I53d    New  York 457,  48<> 

1 54th  New  York 44&,  480,  524 

i55th  New  York,  12,    21,   241,  449,  45* 

480 

1 56th  New  York 455,  48<> 

I57th  New  York 20,  439,  460 

I58th  New  York 220,  456,  461,481 

159th  New  York 61,  435,  481 

l6oth  New  York 45^,  481 

i6ist  New  York 44°,  444,  481 

i62d    New  York 61,  444,  481 

i&3d    New  York 48i 

i64th  New  York,   12,  21,  239,  241,  44? 

450,  481 

i6sth  New  York 48i 

i66th  New  York 481 

i.67th  New  York 4§i 

i68th  New  York 481 

i6gth  New  York 240,  459,  481 

I70th  New  York,  13,  241,  448,  451,  48 1 

17151  New  York 481 

i72d   New  York 481 


REGIMENTAL  INDEX. 


589 


PAOK. 
I73d    New  York   ..  ,  ......  481 

1  74th  New  York  ..............  440,  481 

i75th  New  York  .................  481 

I7&th  New  York  .................  481 

I77th  New  York  ................  481 

1  78th  New  York  ................  481 

I79th  New  York  ......  61,  451,  461,  481 

iSoth  New  York  .................  481 

iSist  New  York  .................  481 

i8ad    New   York,    241,   448,   451,   481 

576 
iSsd    New  York  .................  481 

iS4th  New  York  ................   481 

i8sth  New  York  .............  460,  481 

i86th  New  York  ..............  461,  481 

i87th  New  York  ...........  -.457!  481 

i88th  New  York  .............  457,  481 

iSgth  New  York  ................  481 

igoth  New  York  ................  481 

igist  New  York  .................   481 

ig2d    New  York  ................  481 

ig3d   New  York  ...............  481 


ist  Ohio  Cav'y 

2d   Ohio  Cav'y  ----  44g,  4gi, 

3d   Ohio  Cav'y  ................ 

4th  Ohio  Cav'y  ................ 

5th  Ohio  Cav'y  ................ 

6th  Ohio  Cav'y,    449.    452,    456, 

7th  Ohio  Cav'y  ................ 

8th  Ohio  Cav'y  ........  4gi,  4g2, 

gth  Ohio  Cav'y  ................ 

loth  Ohio  Cav'y  ................ 

nth  Ohio  Cav'y  ................ 

I2th  Ohio  Cav'y  ............  450, 

I3th  Ohio  Cav'y  .............  454, 

ist  Ohio  H.  A  ..............  4gi, 

2d   Ohio  H.  A  ................ 

ist  Ohio  L.  A  ................ 

Battery  A  .............  464, 

B  ............   464, 


4gi 
4g6 
4gi 
4gi 
4gi 
458 
4gi 
4gi 


4gi 
4gi 
491 
4gi 
4gi 


4gi 
491 
491 

491 


C 

D 

E 

F 

G 

H 

I 

K 

L 

M 


464, 


491 
4gi 

491 
491 
491 
49* 
491 


ist  Ohio  Battery 
2d  Ohio  Battery 
3d  Ohio  Battery 
4th  Ohio  Battery 
5th  Ohio  Battery 
6th  Ohio  Battery 
7th  Ohio  Battery 


4gi 
492 
4g2 
492 
492 
492 
4g2 
492 


PAOF. 

8th  Ohio  Battery 4g2 

gth  Ohio  Battery 492 

loth  Ohio  Battery 492 

nth  Ohio  Battery,  7,  32,  462,  463,  492 

i2th  Ohio  Battery 318,  492 

I4th  Ohio  Battery 463,  492 

I5th  Ohio  Battery 492 

i6th  Ohio  Battery 492 

1 7th  Ohio  Battery 492 

iSth  Ohio  Battery 492 

igth  Ohio  Battery 492 

20th  Ohio  Battery 492 

2ist  Ohio  Battery 492 

22d   Ohio  Battery 492 

24th  Ohio  Battery ...  492 

25th  Ohio  Battery 492 

26th  Ohio  Battery    492 

ist  Ohio  S.  S 492 

ist  Ohio 13,  443,  448,  4g2 

2d   Ohio    61,492,496 

3d   Ohio 19,  32,  433,  492.  497 

4th  Ohio 32,  492 

5th  Ohio 32,61,311,312,492 

6th  Ohio 22,  32,  435,  492 

7th  Ohio,   13,   21,   32,  36,   42,  go,  312 
428,  430,  443,  4g2 

8th  Ohio 13,  32,  313,  4g2 

gth  Ohio 18,  441,  4g2, 

loth  Ohio   18,  32.  427,  433, 

nth  Ohio 4g3,  497 

I2th  Ohio 493.  4g7,  57& 

i3th  Ohio 4g3 

I4th  Ohio,  13,  ig,  32,  37,  314,  441,  455 

493,  495 
I5th  Ohio,   13,  22,    121,  315,  43g,  448, 

493 

i6th  Ohio 90,  434,  493 

i7th  Ohio 439,  493,  495 

i8th  Ohio 435,  45g,  4g3 

igth  Ohio 435,  493 

2oth  Ohio  437,  493 

2ist  Ohio,  13,  22,   316,   435,    441,   452 

4g3,  49° 

22d    Ohio   493,  497,  522 

23d   Ohio   317,  432,  447,  493 

24th  Ohio 4g3 

25th  Ohio,   32,   318,  427,  428,  436,  458 

4g3 

26th  Ohio 21,  36,   441,  493 

27th  Ohio 453,    493,495 

28th  Ohio 450,  493.  497 

2gth  Ohio 319,  446,  493 

30th  Ohio 13,  320,  432,  493 

3ist  Ohio 4g3 

32d   Ohio 44.  431,  453.  4g3 

33d   Ohio 13.  321,448.  493.  49& 

34th  Ohio 322,  431,  493 

35th  Ohio 44i.  493 

36th  Ohio.  .322,  323.  443.  453.  493.  495 


PAOW. 

37th  Ohio 428,  431,  493.  497 

38th  Ohio,  18,  21,  32,  61,  324.  454,,  455 

493.  495 
3gth  Ohio 453,  493 

4oth  Ohio 443,  493 

4ist  Ohio  ...  13.  32,  325,  443.  448,  493 

42d    Ohio 436,  493 

43d   Ohio 433,  493.  4gs 

45th  Ohio 4g3,  524 

46th  Ohio 13,  19,  326.  428.  493 

47th  Ohio 494 

48th  Ohio 45,  494 

4gth  Ohio,   3,   13,  18,  32,  121,  327,  448 

45g.  4g4,  495 

50th  Ohio 494 

5ist  Ohio 435.  452,  494 

52d    Ohio  .  ...  453,  494 

53^    Ohio 494,  495 

54th  Ohio   494 

55th  Ohio 13,  328,  436,  448,  494 

56th  Ohio  ...  437,  494 

57th  Ohio 494 

58th  Ohio 434,  494 

5gth  Ohio 494 

6oth  Ohio 451.  494 

6ist  Ohio. .     453,  494 

62d   Ohio 441,454,494 

63d    Ohio 32,  432,  494,  495 

(>4th  Ohio 121,  446,  494 

6sth  Ohio,  13.  21,  32,  59,  121,  329,  435 

494 
66th  Ohio 42g,  4g4,  4gs 

6?th  Ohio,  330,  445,  448,  457,  458,  461 

494 

6Sth  Ohio 

6gth  Ohio 4g4, 

7oth  Ohio 458,  494,  495 

7ist  Ohio 459,  4g4,  4gs 

72d    Ohio 5g4 

73d    Ohio 13.  32,  33',  43g,  442 

4g4 

74th  Ohio 4g4.  4gs 

75th  Ohio ..455,  4g4,  497 

76th  Ohio  .  .435,  443,  494 

77th  Ohio 18,  428,  494 

?8th  Ohio.    ..  453,494 

7gth  Ohio 494 

8oth  Ohio 494 

8ist  Ohio 494 

82d   Ohio 32.  39.  332,  428,  494 

83d  Ohio 495 

84th  Ohio 495 

8sth  Ohio 495 

86th  Ohio     495 

87th  Ohio 495 

88th  Ohio 495 

8gth  Ohio 4gs,  524 

goth  Ohio 495 

gist  Ohio 453,  455.  4g5 


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REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL      WAR. 


PAGE. 

g2d   Ohio 443,  495 

93d    Ohio 13,  443,  495 

94th  Ohio 495 

95th  Ohio 495 

g6th  Ohio 442,  495 

97th  Ohio 443,  452,  495 

gSth  Ohio 13,  20,  42,  333,  433,  495 

ggth  Ohio 495 

louth  Ohio 454,  495,  524 

loist  Ohio 22,  32,  358,  435,  495 

io2d    Ohio 496,  495 

iO3d   Ohio 448,  495 

iO4th  Ohio 495 

losth  Ohio 19,  433,  495 

io6th  Ohio 495 

loyth  Ohio 440,  495 

io8th  Ohio 495 

Iioth  Ohio 13,  444,  445,  452,  495 

mth  Ohio 458,  495 

H3th  Ohio 13,  452,  492,  495 

i I4th  Ohio 495 

H5th  Ohio 495,  496 

n6th  Ohio 450,  495 

uSth  Ohio 444,  447,  495 

I2oth  Ohio 495 

I2ist  Ohio 452,  495 

i22d    Ohio 444,  445,  495 

I23d    Ohio 438,  495 

i24th  Ohio 496 

1 25th  Ohio 121,  370,  496 

I26th  Ohio 13,  334,  445,456,  496 

I28th  Ohio 496 

I2gth  Ohio 496 

I3oth  Ohio 496 

I3ist  Ohio 496 

I32d  Ohio  496 

I33d  Ohio 496 

I34th  Ohio 496 

I35th  Ohio  466 

I36th  Ohio 496 

I37th  Ohio 496 

I38th  Ohio 496 

I39th  Ohio 496 

I40th  Ohio 496 

14151  Ohio 496 

I42d  Ohio 496 

I43d  Ohio  : 496 

I44th  Ohio 496 

I45th  Ohio 496 

I46th  Ohio 496 

I47th  Ohio 406 

I48th  Ohio 496 

I49th  Ohio 496 

I50th  Ohio 496 

I5ist  Ohio 496 

i52d  Ohio 496 

I53d    Ohio 4Qf> 

1 54th  Ohio 496 

1 55th  Ohio 496 


I56th  Ohio  

PAGE. 
....   496 

I57th  Ohio  

...   496 

iSgth  Ohio  

496 

i6oth  Ohio  

496 

i6ist  Ohio  

496 

i62d    Ohio  

....   496 

i63d    Ohio  

..    .497 

i64th  Ohio  

,  .  .  .   497 

i6sth  Ohio  

497 

i66th  Ohio  

497 

i67th  Ohio  

..    .497 

i68th  Ohio  

497 

i6gth  Ohio  

.  .  .  .   497 

i7Oth  Ohio  

497 

i7ist  Ohio  

....   497 

I72d   Ohio  

497 

i73d   Ohio  

497 

I74th  Ohio  

497 

I75th  Ohio  

....   497 

i76th  Ohio  

....   497 

i77th  Ohio  

497 

I78th  Ohio  

.  ...   497 

i7gth  Ohio  

.  ...  497 

iSoth  Ohio  

497 

iSist  Ohio  

497 

i82d    Ohio  

497 

i83d    Ohio  

497 

i84th  Ohio  

....   497 

iSsth  Ohio  

....   497 

i86th  Ohio  

...   497 

i87th  Ohio  

.  .  .  .   497 

i88th  Ohio  

.  .  .  .   497 

iSgth  Ohio  

.  .  .  .   497 

igist  Ohio  

.  ...   497 

ig2d    Ohio  

-62,  497 

Ig3d   Ohio  

.  .  .  .   497 

ig4th  Ohio  

497 

igSth  Ohio  

.  .  .  .   497 

ig6th  Ohio  

•  •  •     497 

ig7th  Ohio  

497 

igSth  Ohio  

497 

ist  Penn.  Cav'y  449, 

483,  485 

2d    Penn.  Cav'y  454, 

483,  485 

3d    Penn.  Cav'y  444, 

483,  486 

4th  Penn.  Cav'y  483, 

486,  524 

5th  Penn.  Cav'y.  .  .457,  483, 

486,  524 

6th  Penn.  Cav'y.  .  .441,  450, 

483,  486 

7th  Penn.  Cav'y  254, 

483,  486 

8th  Penn.  Cav'y  461, 

483,  486 

gth  Penn.  Cav'y  

483,  486 

nth  Penn.  Cav'y,  6,  255,  452, 

483,  486 

I2th  Penn.  Cav'y  

483,  486 

I3th  Penn.  Cav'y.  ..454,  483, 

486,  524 

I4th  Penn.  Cav'y.  .  .441,  483, 

486,  524 

I5th  Penn.  Cav'y  

483,  486 

i6th  Penn.  Cav'y,   440,  453, 

458,  461 

483,  486 

I7th  Penn.  Cav'y  483 

486,  576 

PAGE. 

i8th  Penn.  Cav'y,    439,  440,   456,  483 

486,  524 

igth  Penn.  Cav'y 483,  486 

20th  Penn.  Cav'y 483,  486 

2ist  Penn.  Cav'y,    449,   451,  45^,  483 

486 

22d    Penn.  Cav'y 483,  486 

Ringgold  Batt'n 483 

Anderson  Troop 483 

2d    Penn.  H.  A.,  617,    451,   454,  456 

484,  486,  524 

3d    Penn.  H.  A 484,  486 

5th  Penn.  H.  A 484,  486 

6th  Penn.  H.  A 484,  486 

ist  Penn.  L.  A 484,  485 

Battery  A 7,  463,  484 

B 7,  464,484 

C 484 

D 484 

E 484 

F  .  .        .  .  7,  464,  483, 484 

G 7,  464,  484 

H 484 

I   484 

Schaffer's  Battery 484 

Muehler's  Battery 484 

Thompson's  Battery 484 

Durell's  Battery 484 

Knap's  Battery  .  .  .  .442,  464,  484 

Hampton's  Battery 484 

Young's  Battery 484 

Nevin's  Battery   484 

Kevin's  (R.  J.)  Battery  ....  484 

Keystone  Battery 484 

ist  Penn.  Reserves. . .  .430,  484,  485 

2d    Penn.  Reserves 484,  485 

3d    Penn.  Reserves 484,  485 

4th  Penn.  Reserves 484,  485 

5th  Penn.  Reserves,  13,  256,429,  430 

434,  484,  485 

6th  Penn.  Reserves 13,  484,  485 

7th  Penn.  Reserves.  .  .  .484,   485,  524 
8th  Penn.  Reserves,  13,  32,  257,  484 

485 

gth  Penn.  Reserves,  13,  258,  430,  485 

loth  Penn.  Reserves  .    ...  13,  259,  485 

nth  Penn.  Reserves,  8,  13,  18,32,  245 

260,  430,  434,  485 

I2th  Penn.  Reserves 485 

I3th  Penn.  Reserves,  13,  261,  427,  434 

4«5 
nth  Pennsylvania,  3,  13,  18,  262,  431 

445,485,  487,  57^ 

23d    Pennsylvania.  ..18,  449,  485,  487 
26th  Pennsylvania,     19,    32,      37,  263 

439,  485,  488 

27th  Pennsylvania 429,  443,  485 

28th  Pennsylvania,     19,    90,    264,  432 

443,  485 


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PAGE. 

sgth  Pennsylvania 

4?th  Pennsylvania... 3,  13,  22,  32, 

265,  302.  432.  442,  445.  44'),  4M> 

485.  524 

4&th  Pennsylvania..  13,  21,  22,  32,    59 
266,  430,  453,  485 

47th  Pennsylvania 20,  433,  457,  485 

4Sth  Pennsylvania.  ..267,  449,  451,  461 

485 

49th  Pennsylvania..  13,   17.  32,  37,  268 

446,  461,  485 

50th  Pennsylvania 269,  446,  485  ; 

5ist  Pennsylvania   270,455,485 

521!    Pennsylvania 32,  485 

53d    Pennsylvania. .  .3,  22,  32,  35,  271 
434,  446,  461,  485.  576 

54th  Pennsylvania 451,  461,  485 

55th  Pennsylvania.  .  3,  13,  20,  120.  272 
447.  449,  450,  485 

56th  Pennsylvania. .  ..32,  237,  485,  488 

489 
57th  Pennsylvania.. 273,  283,  445,  485 

58th  Pennsylvania 32,  456,  485 

6ist  Pennsylvania. ..  3,  13,  17,  32,    37 

39,  42,  274,  429.  446,  485 

62d    Pennsylvania,   13,  32,  39,  275,  440 

446,  485 
63d    Pennsylvania,  13,  39,  276,  445,  485  ! 

67lh  Pennsylvania 438,  485  j 

6Sth  Pennsylvania 33.  485  ' 

6gth  Pennsylvania,  13,  21,  33,  119,  277  : 

440,  485,  576  ' 

7ist  Pennsylvania 42,  119,  278,  485 

72d    Pennsylvania,  13,  19,  33,  119,  279  , 

430,  432,  439,  485  ! 

73d    Pennsylvania. . .  42,  443,  485,  486  | 

74th  Pennsylvania 485 

75th  Pennsylvania 33,  50,  485 

76th  Pennsylvania.  . .  20,  280,  433,  441 

447,  454,  485 

77th  Pennsylvania 439,486 

?8th  Pennsylvania 435.  486 

79th  Pennsylvania  ...  21,  433,  460,  486 

8ist  Pennsylvania,  3,  13,  22,  33,  35,    36 

39,  42,  281,  4co,  430,  434,  486 

82d    Pennsylvania 449,  460.  486 

83d   Pennsylvania. .  .2,  3,  4,  8,  13,    20 
22,  33,  282,  430,  446,  456,  486 

84th  Pennsylvania 13,  33.  273,  283 

421,  428,  486 

85th  Pennsylvania 454,  486 

87th  Pennsylvania 486 

88th  Pennsylvania 486 

9Otb  Pennsylvania 43,  44,  486 

gist  Pennsylvania 457,  486 

93d  Pennsylvania. .  .284,  445,  460,  486 
95th  Pennsylvania. .  .285.  286,  436,  486 
96th  Pennsylvania,  13,  20,  78,  286,  431 

44''.  486 


PAGE. 
97th  Pennsylvania,  19,  33,  287,448,486 

gSth  Pennsylvania 453,  457,  486 

99th  Pennsylvania.  .263,  276,461,  486 

looth  Pennsylvania,   3,   13,  22,  39,  288 

446,  449,  454,  4&°,  486 

loist  Pennsylvania 486,  524 

io2d    Pennsylvania.  .289,  445,  457.  486 

I03d    Pennsylvania 434,  486,  524 

iO4th  Pennsylvania 429,  486 

105th  Pennsylvania,  3,    13,    21,  33,    43 
290,  429,  445,  486 

io6th  Pennsylvania 13,  119,  486 

1 07th  Pennsylvania 33,  459,  486 

1091)1  Pennsylvania 291,  486 

I  loth  Pennsylvania 453,  486 

uith  Pennsylvania  ..33,  291,  442,  486 

ii4th  Pennsylvania 436,  486 

H5th  Pennsylvania 33,  486 

ii6th  Pennsylvania,    33,    35,    118,  292 

486 
iiSth  Pennsylvania,  13,  18,33,293,  432 

456,  486 
iigth  Pennsylvania,    13,    21,    268,  294 

446,  486 
I2ist  Pennsylvania  ...14,  33,  295,  486 

I22d    Pennsylvania 486 

I23d    Pennsylvania 486 

I24th  Pennsylvania 487 

I25th  Pennsylvania 20,  487,  488 

I26th  Pennsylvania 60,  487 

i27th  Pennsylvania 478 

i28th  Pennsylvania 487 

I2()th  Pennsylvania 487 

I3oth  Pennsylvania   .  .  .    .432,  487,  488 

I3ist  Pennsylvania 434,  487,  488 

I32d    Pennsylvania 33,  487,  488 

I33d    Pennsylvania 434,  487,  488 

I34th  Pennsylvania 487,  488 

i35th  Pennsylvania   487 

I36th  Pennsylvania 487 

i37th  Pennsylvania 487 

I38th  Pennsylvania 443,  487 

I39th  Pennsylvania,    14,   296,   445,  456 

487 
i4Oth  Pennsylvania,   8,    14,  20,  33,  115 

297,  439,  446,  487 

I4ist  Pennsylvania,   S,    14,    20,  27,   33 

36,  298,  436,  487 
I42d    Pennsylvania,   8,    14,  19,  33,  299 

434,  439,  487 
I43d    Pennsylvania,     14,    20,  300,  439 

445,  487 

I45th  Pennsylvania,  3,   14,  17,  33,    35 
39,  40,  301,  434,  446,  487,  524 

I47th  Pennsylvania 264,  487 

I48th  Pennsylvania,  3,   8,    14,   19,  433 

36,  302,  436,  446,  455,  487 

I49th  Pennsylvania,  14,  19,  33,  303,  304 

439,  448,  487 


I50lh 
15  ist 

I53d 

i54lh 

155111 

157th 

158th 


1  66th 
1671)1 
i68th 


17151 
i?2d 
1  73d 
1  74th 
1  75th 
1  76th 
i77th 
178th 
i79th 
1  33d 


1  86th 


PA  OK. 
Pennsylvania.    20.    33,    303,   304 

439,  487 
Pennsylvania,    19,    33,    439.   487 

488.  555 

Pennsylvania 439.487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 305,  487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 487 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 446,  488 

Pennsylvania  .  .  14,  450,  452,  488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 451,  488 

Pennsylvania,     14,   21,   306,  449 

488 
Pennsylvania,    114,  260,  488,  524 

Pennsylvania 114,488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania   488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 460,  488 

Pennsylvania 460,  488 

Pennsylvania 460,  488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 19,  459,  488 

Pennsylvania 460,  488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 460,  488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 4f.o,  488 

Pennsylvania 4^0,  488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 

Pennsylvania 488 


1st  Rhode  Island  Cav'y 472 

2d    Rhode  Island  Cav'y 472 

3d    Rhode  Island  Cav'y 472 

3d    Rhode  Island  H.  A 472 

5th  Rhode  Island  H.  A 472 


i88th 
igoth 

I  ilM 

i92d 
1  93d 
1  94th 
i95th 
1  96th 
1  97th 


1  99th 
2ooth 
20  ist 

202d 

203d 
205th 
2o6th 
207th 
208  th 
2091  h 

2  loth 
2iith 


2  1  4th 


EEGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


PAGE. 

ist  Rhode  Island  L.  A 472 

Battery  A 463,  4^4,  472 

B 464,  472 

C 7,  472 

D 464,  472 

E 7,  463,  472 

F 464,  472 

G 464,  472 

H    472 

ist  Rhode  Island 177,  472 

2d    Rhode  Island     177,461,  472 

4th  Rhode  Island 82,  454,  472 

7th  Rhode  Island   434,   473 

gth  Rhode  Island 473 

loth  Rhode  Island 473 

nth  Rhode  Island 473 

I2th  Rhode  Island 473 


ist  Tennessee 
2d  Tennessee 
3d  Tennessee 
4th  Tennessee 
5th  Tennessee 
6th  Tennessee 
7th  Tennessee 
8th  Tennessee 
loth  Tennessee 
I2th  Tennessee 
ad  Tennessee 
ist  Tennessee 
2d  Tennessee 
3d  Tennessee 
5th  Tennessee 
6th  Tennessee 
8th  Tennessee 


Cav'y '.  .-444,   5*9 

Cav'y 519,   523 

Cav'y 519,   524 

Cav'y 520 

Cav'y 61,   520 

Cav'y 520,   524 

Cav'y 520,  523,   524 

Cav'y 520 

Cav'y 459,   520 

Cav'y 61,    520 

M.  Inf 520 

.    520 

520,    524 

447,   520 

448,   520 

520 

60,  6r,  454,   520 


ist  U.  S.  Sharpshooters. .  14,  418,  442 

443 
2d    U.  S.  Sharpshooters.  ..  14,  44,  419 

ist  U.  S.  Cav'y 445,  450,  453,  456 

520 

2d    U.  S.  Cav'y 438,  441,   520 

3d    U.  S.  Cav'y  .    .  .450,  463,  520,   523 

4th  U.  S.  Cav'y 520 

5th  U.  S.  Cav'y 520 

6th  U.  S.  Cav'y     520 

ist  U.  S.  Artillery 7,  464,   520 

2d    U.  S.  Artillery 520 

3d    U.  S.  Artillery 464,   520 

4th  U.  S.  Artillery 7,  35,  463,  464 

520 
5th  U.  S.  Artillery.  .  ..7,  463,  464,    520 

Tst  United  States 520 

2d    United  States 115,  520 

3d    United  States..  115,  253,  520,  523 

4th  United  States 115,  521 


PAGE. 
5th  United  States  521,  523 

56th  U.  S. 

6th  United  States      115,   521 

6ist  U.  S. 

7th  United  States  34,  521,   576 

6sth  U.  S. 

8th  United  States  521,   523 

68th  U.  S. 

gth  United  States  521,   523 

73d    U.  S. 

loth  United  States.  .  .  34,  115,  521,   576 
nth  United  States.  .  .  34,  115,  446,  455 
456,   521,   523 
I2th  United  States.  .  .  18,  115,  430,  521 

523,   524 
i3th  United  States  437,   521 

76th  U.  S. 
7gth  U.  S. 

83d    U.  S. 
looth  U.  S. 

I4th  United  States..  115,   181,  440,  455 

52i,   523 
i5th  United  States  121,  521,   523 

ist  Verm 

i6th  United  States.  .  .37,  121,  434,   521 

523 
I7th  United  States  34,  36,  115,  439 

455,   521 
i8th  United  States.  .  .3,  17,  21,  34,    121 
[20,  434,  441,  521,   523 
igth  United  States  121    521     523 

ist  Verm 

ist  Verm 
2d    Verm 
3d    Verm 
ist  Verm 
2d    Verm 

2d    U.  S.  Colored  Cav'y  521 

3d    Verm 

3d    U.  S.  Colored  Cav'y  521 

5th  U.  S.  Colored  Cav'y  521 

4th  Verm 

5th  U.  S.  Colored  H.  A.  .  .36,   54,  438 
52i,   524 
ist  U.  S.  Colored  450,  45§    521 

5th  Verm 
116 

2d    U    S.  Colored  459   521     524 

6th  Verm 

4th  U.  S.  Colored.  .  .55,  451,  456,   521 
5th  U.  S.  Colored.  19,  34,  55,  451,  456 

493,   52i 
6th  U.  S.  Colored..  20,  34,  37,  55,     56 

456,   52i 
7th  U.  S.  Colored  ig   456    521 

7th  Verm 
8th  Verm 

gth  Verm 
loth  Verm 

8th  U.  S.  Colored.  .  .  .17,  54,  421,  444 
521 
gth  U.  S.  Colored  454    521 

nth  Verm 
I2th  Verm 

1  2th  U.  S.  Colored  459,   521 

i3th  Verm 

I3th  'U.  S.  Colored.  .  .  .  18,  56,  459,   521 
i7th  U.  S.  Colored   459 

I4th  Verm 
I5th  Verm 

igth  U.  S.  Colored  55,  454    521 

i6th  Verm 

22d    U.  S.  Colored.  .  .  55,  451,  458,   521 
23d    U.  S.  Colored...     18,  55,  454,   522 
26th  U.  S.  Colored  521 

I7th  Verm 
ist  West 

27th  U.  S.  Colored  55    454 

2d    West 

28th  U.  S.  Colored..          ..55,  454    =122 

3d    West 

2gth  U.  S.  Colored  55    454    522 

4th  West 

3oth  U.  S.  Colored.  ,          .  zz,  4^4    C22 

5th  West 

list  U.  S.  Colored              .  «;<;    4^4    $22 

6th  West 

32d    U.  S.  Colored  522 

7th  West 

35th  U.  S.  Colored  444    458    522 

1st  West 

36th  U.  S.  Colored  55    456     522 

ist  West 

38th  U.  S.  Colored  55    456    522 

4th  West 

39th  U.  S.  Colored..           .  55    4^4     $22 

5th  West 

43d    U.  S.  Colored.  .  .  55,  454,  457,   522 
47th  U.  S.  Colored  522    576 

6th  West 
yth  West 

49th  U.  S.  Colored  .             .  54    4^8     ^22 

gth  West 

5  ist  U.  S.  Colored..                                ZA 

zoth  West 

PAGE. 

U.  S.  Colored 522 

U.  S.  Colored 522 

U.  S.  Colored 522,  524 

U.  S.  Colored 56,  461 

U.  S.  Colored. . .  52,  53,  438,   522 

524 

ored 56 

U.  S.  Colored.  .8,  14,  34,  53,  422 

522 

U.  S.  Colored 444,  522 

U.  S.  Colored. .  .  .  459 

Vermont  Cav'y.. 6,  145,  440,  445 
469,  470,   524 
Vermont  H.  A 116,   146,  450 

452,  455,  457,  469,   524 

Vermont  Bat'y 469 

Vermont  Bat'y 469,  470 

Vermont  Bat'y 469 

Vermont 469,  470 

Vermont,  3,   14,    18,  33,  116,   147 
436,  445,  461,  469,  470 
Vermont,   3,  14,  19,   33,   116,   148 
150,  445,  469,  470 
Vermont,    17,    33,   116,    149,  445 

469,  470 

Vermont,    3,   14,    18,   19,   33,     76 
116,  150,  430,  445,  469,  470,  576 
Vermont,  3,   14,  19,   33,    116,   151 
438,  445,  469,  470 

Vermont 469,  470 

Vermont,    33,    36,  438,  457,  469 

470 

Vermont 469,  470 

Vermont,    14,    21,     33,     152,  449 

457,  469 
Vermont.  ..60,  116,  146,  455,  469 

Vermont 469 

Vermont 469 

Vermont 469 

Vermont 469 

Vermont 469 

Vermont 14,   153,  469 

Va.  Cav'y   490 

Va.  Cav'y. . .  .441,  461,  490 

Va.  Cav'y 441,   490 

Va.  Cav'y 490 

Va.  Cav'y 490,  491 

Va.  Cav'y 490,  491 

Va.  Cav'y 490,  491 

Va.  L.  A 490 

Virginia 43,  490,  491 

Virginia 437,  490,  491 

Virginia 490 

Virginia 490 

Virginia 14,   310,  490 

Virginia 447,  490,  491 

Virginia,  442,  453,  455,  490 


IXI:<;IMKNTAL  INDKX. 


593 


PAOE. 

i  ith  West  Virginia 461,  490 

I2th  West  Virginia 490 

I3th  West  Virginia 453,  490 

I4th  West  Virginia 453,  490,  576 

1 5th  West  Virginia 490 

i6th  West  Virginia 490 

I7th  West  Virginia 490 


1st  Wisconsin 
2d  Wisconsin 
3d  Wisconsin 
1st  Wisconsin 
ist  Wisconsin 
2d  Wisconsin 
3d  Wisconsin 
4th  Wisconsin 
5th  Wisconsin 
6th  WiM-nnsm 
7th  Wisconsin 
8th  Wisconsin 
gth  Wisconsin 
loth  Wisconsin 
i  ith  Wisconsin 
I2th  Wisconsin 


Cav'y 43,  512,  513 

Cav'y 512 

Cav'y 512,  513 

H.  A 512 

Bat'y 512 

Bat'y 512 

Bat'y 512 

Bat'y 512 

Bat'y      512 

Bat'y 464,  512 

Bat'y 

Bat'y.... 

Bat'y 

Bat'y     . . 
Bat'y.... 


512 
512 
5" 
5" 

5'5 
Bat'y 464.  512,   513 


.512, 


jst  Wisconsin 14,  18,  33,  392,  433 

4-41,   512,   576 
2d    Wisconsin,  3,  8,  9,  14,  18,  33,     36 

60,  117.  393.  43',  439.   5'2 

3d    Wisconsin,    14,  33,  36,  43,  44,     90 

394,  432,  436,  448,  512 


PAGE. 
4th  Wisconsin  ..........  33,  438,   512 

5th  Wisconsin.  .  .  .22,  59,  77,   128,  268 

395.  436.  442.  445.  446.  46o,   5>2 
6th  Wisconsin,    3,  14,  22,  39,  117,  215 

393,  396.  4°o.  432,  439.  455.  459 

460,  512 
7th  Wisconsin.  .  2,  3,  4,  8,  14,  20,     59 

60.  117,  397,  431,  432,  445,  45i 

461,  5" 
8lh  Wisconsin  .........  4;9,  5*2,  513 

9th  Wisconsin  ......  432,444,  512,  515 

loth  Wisconsin  ........  21,  33,  433,  443 

513 
i  ith  Wisconsin  .............  461,  513 

I2th  Wisconsin  ......  22,453,513,  515 

i3th  Wisconsin  ..................    513 

I4th  Wisconsin  ......  33,    433.513.   5M 

I5th  Wisconsin.  .  .33,  42,  121,  448,   513 

515 
i6th  Wisconsin  .  .  .  18,  61,  398,  428,  453 

513 
I7th  Wisconsin  ...............    513 

i8th  Wisconsin  .............  61,   513 

I9th  Wisconsin  .......  34,  oo,  458,   513 

2Oth  Wisconsin  .....  17,  433,  513,   515 

2ist  Wisconsin,    14,    19,    60,   392,   433 

513.  5'5 

22d    Wisconsin  ..........  448,513,  515 

23d    Wisconsin  .............  442  513 

24th  Wisconsin  .......  14,  120,  513,  514 

25th  Wisconsin  ............  59,  61,  513 


PAOK. 
,   8,   14,   20,  21.34,  399 

43<>.  439.  513 
..............   5'3 

513 

••436,  437,  513,  5»5 
61,  4°i,  5'3 
448,  460,  5»3 
459.  513 
513 
513 


26th  Wisconsin 

27lh  Wisconsin 
28th  Wisconsin 
29111  Wisconsin 
3oth  Wisconsin 
3ist  Wisconsin 
32d  Wisconsin 
33d  Wisconsin 
34th  Wisconsin 
35th  Wisconsin 
36th  Wisconsin,  8,  14,  18,  34,  36,  42 
400,  449,  451,  513,  524 
37th  Wisconsin,  14,  20,  21,  34,  59,  401 

45',  454.  513 

46o,  513 

513 


38th  Wisconsin 
39th  Wisconsin 
40th  Wisconsin 
4ist  Wisconsin 
42d  Wisconsin 
43d  Wisconsin 
44th  Wisconsin 
451)1  Wisconsin 
46th  Wisconsin 
47th  Wisconsin 
48th  Wisconsin 
49th  Wisconsin 
5oth  Wisconsin 
Sist  Wisconsin 
52d  Wisconsin 
53d  Wisconsin 


513 
513 
513 
513 
513 
513 
513 
513 


513 
513 
513 
513 
513 


CONFEDERATE    REGIMENTS 


(Includes  only  such  commands  as  have  a  place  in  Chap.  XV.) 


ist  Alabama 556 

3d    Alabama 557,   563,  568 

4th  Alabama 560.  563 

5th  Alabama 558,  561,  568 

6th  Alabama 557,  561,  568 

8th  Alabama 562,  569 

gth  Alabama 561,  563 

loth  Alabama 560,  563 

i  ith  Alabama 557,   562,  563 

I2th  Alabama 561 

I3th  Alabama 568 

i4th  Alabama 563 

i  ?th  Alabama 562,  563,  564 

i6th  Alabama 557,   567,  570 

1 8th  Alabama 557,  561,  570 

igth  Alabama 570 

22d    Alabama 557,  570 

24th  Alabama 567 

26th  Alabama 558 

32d    Alabama 567 

33d   Alabama 570 

jSlh  Alabama 570 

4ist  Alabama 557,  567,  570 


48th  Alabama 
58th  Alabama. 


564  !     3d 


ist  Arkansas 558, 

2d  Arkansas 567, 

2d  Arkansas  Rifles 

3d  Arkansas 560,  565, 

5th  Arkansas 

6th  Arkansas 

7th  Arkansas 

8th  Arkansas 

gth  Arkansas 

1 3th  Arkansas   

2ist  Arkansas 

36th  Arkansas 

Jones's  Ark.  Battalion  

2d    Florida  Battalion 

2d    Florida 561, 

4th  Florida 

6th  Florida 


557 

570 
569 

567 
569 
567 
567 
567 
567 


566 
569 
566 


57° 
564 
567 
570 


2d  Georgia 563 


4th 

5th 

6th 

7th 

8th 

gth 

loth 

nth 

I2th 


I4th 
I5th 
i6th 
I7th 
i8th 


20th 

2ISt 
22d 

24th 
26th 
27th 


Georgia 563 

Georgia 565,  568 

Georgia 556,   570 

Georgia 562 

Georgia 560,  563 

Georgia 560,   563 

Georgia 557,  564,  569 

Georgia 557,  563,  565,  568 

Georgia 564,  569 

Georgia   560,  561 

Georgia 565 

Georgia 566 

Georgia 557 

Georgia 565,  568 

Georgia 557 

Georgia 557.563.  5°4 

Georgia 565,  566 

Georgia 564 

Georgia 556,  564 

Georgia 562 

Georgia 565 

Georgia 564 

Georgia 561,  565 


594 


REGIMENTAL  LOSSES  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


PAGE. 

28th  Georgia 562 

3ist  Georgia 562,  566,  567 

32d    Georgia 570 

35th  Gtorgia 566 

37th  Georgia 557,  568,  570 

38th  Georgia 562,   566 

4ist  Georgia 566 

42d    Georgia 567 

44th  Georgia 556,  557,  562 

50th  Georgia 565,  568 

5  ist  Georgia 568 

53d   Georgia 568 

6oth  Georgia 564 

6ist  Georgia 565,   566 

64th  Georgia 570 

Phillips's  (Ga.)  Legion 566 

Cobb's  (Ga.)  Legion 568 

4th  Kentucky 561 

gth  Kentucky , 558 

ist  Louisiana 562 

2d    Louisiana    563,   564 

3d    Louisiana 569 

4th  Louisiana. . .       561 

6th  Louisiana 561,  562 

7th  Louisiana 562 

8th  Louisiana 565 

gth  Louisiana 565 

i3th  Louisiana 567 

I4th  Louisiana 563 

i6th  Louisiana  567 

igth  Louisiana 570 

2oth  Louisiana 567 

25th  Louisiana   567 

26th  Louisiana 569 

27th  Louisiana 569 

28th  Louisiana 567 

Crescent  Reg't  (La.) 561 

ist  Maryland 557 

ist  Maryland  Battalion 569 

2d    Mississippi • 565,  569 

4th  Mississippi 567 

6th  Mississippi 556 

8th  Mississippi 557,  567 

loth  Mississippi 565 

nth  Mississippi 562,  569 

I2th  Mississippi 561,  563 

I3th  Mississippi   563,  569 

1 5th  Mississippi 560 

i6th  Mississippi 556,  562,  565 

1 7th  Mississippi 565,  569 

i8th  Mississippi 558,  560,  563,  565 

igth  Mississippi 561,  563 

2ist  Mississippi 563 

24th  Mississippi 570 

26th  Mississippi 560 


PAGE. 

2gth  Mississippi 557,567 

3Oth  Mississippi 567 

35th  Mississippi 566.   569 

36th  Mississippi 569 

37th  Mississippi 566 

38th  Mississippi 569 

4Oth  Mississippi 565 

4ist  Mississippi 567 

42d    Mississippi   569 

43d    Mississippi 566 

ist  Missouri 568 

2d    Missouri 566,  569 

3d    Missouri 568,  569 

3d    Missouri,  S.  G 560 

6th  Missouri 566,  569 

7th  Missouri   566 

ist  North  Carolina 562,  565,  568 

2d    North"  Carolina 567 

2d  N.  C.  Battalion 556,  569 

3d  North  Carolina,  557,  565,  568,  569 

570 

4th  North  Carolina,  556,  557,  561,  568 

5th  North  Carolina 569 

6th  North   Carolina 565,  569 

7th  North  Carolina 557,  564,  566 

nth  North  Carolina. .......    .555,  569 

i2th  North  Carolina 564 

i3th  North  Carolina 565,  568 

i4th  North  Carolina 568 

i5th  North  Carolina,  563,  565,  566,  570 

i6th  North  Carolina 566 

i7th  North  Carolina 568 

i8th  North  Carolina,  557,  564,  566,  568 

2Oth  North  Carolina 562 

2ist  North  Carolina 561 

22d   North  Carolina 568 

23d    North  Carolina 561,568,  570 

25th  North  Carolina 563,  566 

26th  North  Carolina,  555,  556,  560,  569 

570 

27th  North  Carolina 556,  565,  570 

28th  North  Carolina 564,  566 

3Oth  North  Carolina 568 

3ist  North  Carolina 570 

32d    North  Carolina 569 

33d    North  Carolina 558,  560,  568 

34th  North  Carolina 568 

35th  North  Carolina 563 

37th  North  Carolina 564,  566,  567 

43d    North  Carolina 567 

45th  North  Carolina 569 

47th  North  Carolina. ...    569 

48th  North  Carolina,  562,  565,  566,  570 

4gth  North  Carolina 563,  565 

5ist  North  Carolina 570 

52d    North  Carolina 569 

55th  North  Carolina 569 

57th  North  Carolina 566 


PAGE. 

ist  South     Carolina,     557,    563,  564 

566 

ist  S.  C.  Rifles 557,  562,  564,  566 

2d    S.  C.  Rifles 564 

ist  S.  C.  Artillery 562,  570 

ist  S.  C.  Infantry    (3d  Art'y). . . .  570 

ist  S.  C.  Battalion 562 

2d    South  Carolina 565,  569 

3d    South  Carolina 563,  566 

5th  South  Carolina 570 

6th  South  Carolina,  557,  560,  561,  564 

7th  South  Carolina,  557,  563,  564,  565 

7th  S.  C.  Battalion 566 

loth  South  Carolina 567 

nth  South  Carolina 566 

I2th  South  Carolina 557,  564 

I3th  South  Carolina 564 

I4th  South  Carolina,  558,  562,  565,  569 

I5th  South  Carolina 565 

i7th  South  Carolina 556,  564 

2tst  South  Carolina 570 

23d    South  Carolina 556,  564 

24th  South  Carolina 568 

25th  South  Carolina 570 

Hampton    Legion,   558,    560,  562 

570 

Palmetto  Sharpshooters,  556,  563 

Holcombe  (S.  C.)  Legion. . . .  564 

Nelson's  (S.  C.)  Battalion 566 

Charleston  Battalion 570 

ist  Tennessee 566 

2d    Tennessee 556,564,  57° 

3d   Tennessee 560,  568 

4th  Tennessee 561 

5th  Tennessee 566 

6th  Tennessee 557,  566 

8th  Tennessee. , 556,  567 

gth  Tennessee   557,  566 

loth  Tennessee 556,  568 

I2th  Tennessee 557,  567 

I3th  Tennessee 560,  564 

I5th  Tennessee 556 

i6th  Tennessee 557,  566 

I7th  Tennessee 567 

iSth  Tennessee 567,  570 

igth  Tennessee ,  567 

2oth  Tennessee 557,  560,  568 

23d    Tennessee 557 

25th  Tennessee 560 

26th  Tennessee 560 

2?th  Tennessee 557,  561,  566 

2gth  Tennessee ;  .  . . .  567 

3ist  Tennessee 566 

32d    Tennessee 557 

33d   Tennessee   561 

37th  Tennessee 556 

44th  Tennessee 567 

&3d    Tennessee 557 

i54th  Tennessee 561 


REGIMENTAL  INDEX. 


PAGE. 

ist  Texas 556,  565 

ist  Texas  Legion 565,  567 

2tl   Texas 569 

3d   Texas  (dism't'd  cav'y) 565 

4th  Texas 557.  562,  565 

5th  Texas 564 

6th  Texas 566,  567 

7th  Texas 557,  568 

gth  Texas 567 

loth  Texas  (dism't'd  cav'y) 567 

i6th  Texas  (dism't'd  cav'y) 568 

I7th  Texas 568 

24th  Texas 567 


PAOK. 

4th  Virginia 557,  560,  568,  570 

5th  Virginia 561,  562 

7th  Virginia 561,  563 

loth  Virginia 568 

i  ith  Virginia 561 

I3th  Virginia 563 

i5th  Virginia 557 

I7th  Virginia 557,  563 

l8th  Virginia 563 

2ist  Virginia 564 

24th  Virginia 561,  562 

25th  Virginia 561 

27th  Virginia 560 

3oth  Virginia 565 


PACIE. 

3ist  Virginia 562 

32d   Virginia 557 

33d   Virginia 560,  561 

37th  Virginia 561,564 

38th  Virginia 562,  569 

4oth  Virginia 564 

42d    Virginia 561,   564.568 

44th  Virginia 562 

47th  Virginia 564 

49th  Virginia 557,  561 

52d    Virginia 562 

57lh  Virginia 563,  570 

58th  Virginia 561,  562 

both  Virginia 564 


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